Category: relationships (page 4)

Are you feeling sad today? I can empathise. I have been feeling sad lately too. Someone who had made me feel like they cared for me, left me suddenly and I have had feeling sad thoughts ever since. I am starting to come good, but I thought I would share some of the things that helped me.… Read the rest

Have you ever had the experience of someone pushing past you in the street, and them saying ‘sorry’, as they push past? Or have you ever experienced a situation in the world where someone needed you to move out of the way and they say ‘sorry’ to get your attention?… Read the rest

How are you going? It is an important question to ask during this very unusual and challenging time of the coronavirus pandemic and all the quarantine conditions that we are all subject to at the moment. It is a curious phenomenon actually, because it is a global event, and so we are all alike in our isolation at the moment.… Read the rest

I think it is true that the time we waste on people who don’t even like us, much less feel romantically interested in us, could be so much better spent on real life relationships that have actual potential. It can be interesting to consider what on earth you were doing in that toxic relationship in the first place?… Read the rest

Really interesting article today in the Wall Street Journal: ‘The Math Behind Successful Relationships‘ regarding a study by psychologist John Gottman and mathematician James Murray. I have read about this research previously. It is an interesting study, because from what I can gather, the biggest ENEMY to long-term relationship health, is ‘contempt’.… Read the rest