Posts Tagged ‘commitment’

The Consuming Corrosion of Fear

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

I have come to believe that there are actually two types of fear. The one – healthy caution – provides us with the protection that we need against rash decision-making. There is another type of fear, however, that arises from insecurity and self-doubt.

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Confronting Change — Opportunity or Opposition?

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

If we’re going to be successful at navigating the many life-altering transitions that we have to face at midlife, we’re going to have to be prepared to be fierce about it. As in all things worth doing, “Half measures avail us nothing.”

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Every day, someone leaves his or her life partner to find or to acquire someone ‘better’. And very often, some of these people discover that the relationship they created was as bad or worse than the one they left. If patterns of dysfunctional behavior are following you around, take a look at the common denominator: it’s YOU!

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Taking Our Anniversary All the Way to Happy

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Once you’ve accepted the fact that you can define ‘adulthood’ as ‘childhood without the parental constraints,’ you begin to see the seeds of the problem right away: too many people go into marriages that are founded upon little more than hopes, feelings, and wishful thinking.

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