Tag Archives: rejection

So you believe to be a rational decision-maker? How wrong can you be?

New research is turning our old assumptions on human nature on their heads…like the belief that humans are rational decision-makers. They are emotional decision-makers…and this new framing opens a world of new possibilities for understand our behavior.

Being Excluded by Others: A Real Pain in the Brain

When and how is our need for love and connection denied?
In the interpersonal relationship field, we are always doing this dance of connecting and isolating ourselves, going between togetherness and individual action.
But what about group interaction?

Destroying love, one bit at the time

There is a slow way of killing the reciprocal love we all begin our married life with….composed of small, daily disappointments that will end up destroying reciprocal respect.
What are they? Here is the list of all communication activities that enforce the idea that one spouse is better than the other:

interruption of spouse’s explanation or story;
correcting [...]

How to Deal with Difficult People

What does it mean, that someone is difficult?
Every day, we come into contact with people that are walking emotional bundles. They carry the weight of past experiences with them, framing their present experiences as well as whatever wrong assumptions about life they have gained from those hurts.
Their previous experiences have conditioned them, from childhood on, [...]

Learning from Conflicts Creates Resilience!

What is the connection between being able to manage conflict, our own and others’ anger, and confront negative attitudes such as passive aggression and this wholesome character trait named resilience?
Very easy:
Resilience is what you develop when you learn to confront all those interpersonal obstacles with good solutions.
It is very easy to use “fighting fire with [...]

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