My parents got divorced when I was twelve years old. Between the ages of twelve and twenty-six, I saw my father six times. Thereafter, I saw him approximately once a year until two years before he died when he moved to the same town I was living in. I saw him about three or four…
Most of the time, as we go through the day, we are not aware that the ideas underlying our internal narratives originally came from our childhoods. Yet, these are ideas that influence virtually every judgment we make. They shape our assumptions, beliefs, and expectations, which, in turn, determine not only our views of events and…
My wife has a knack for being painfully honest. A few months ago I came home from work and was telling Christi about my day—who I talked to, what I did, and quite a bit about the projects I had cooking. Visibly irritated, and nearly in tears, Christi looked at me and was—well, painfully honest….
If you do an internet search with the phrase “the art of,” you’ll come up with countless results. The top ones include: the art of war, the art of getting by, and the art of seduction. But what is the one result that doesn’t come up? Mind-reading. Despite what some books and movies may portray,…
John came into marriage counseling ready to bolt from his relationship with his wife because he claimed either she never seriously listened to him or she dismissed the importance of his feelings about almost everything. “What’s the point of being married, if two people are merely living one person’s life!”, he said. His wife cried…
