Is Passive Aggression Harder to Bear at the Holidays?

Conflict can be almost inevitable when interacting with someone who uses passive aggression to control all of his relationships.  This can be very trying and frustrating at any time of the year.  But at the holidays it often feels worse.  Many people … [Read more...]

A Healthy Response to an Anger Attack

   Very often, people express their anger by “venting” so releasing their boil of unhappy emotions by verbally exploding.  The explosion makes the angry person feel good temporarily by decreasing the pressure inside and making the angry person feel a … [Read more...]

How to do Relationship Repair for this “Marriage Contract” ?

  Sharing what Mark Waller, The Dance of the Lion and the Unicorn, says in page 111, we have: “The subconscious agenda behind the wedding is that this other person will finally heal our pain. Of course, we are completely unaware of our pain … [Read more...]

Trusting Yourself after Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is meant to hurt  emotionally, of course, but it also hurts intellectually.  It begins to make the victim wonder if the words and actions are warranted.  Always questioning whether the abusive behavior is deserved. Eventually this … [Read more...]

How to Make Your Marriage More Sustainable

Plenty of marriages survive for the sake of children, religious expectations, or economic reasons. During this economic recession, this may be clear to you if you’re staying in a stale marriage because you can’t financially survive on your own right … [Read more...]