Is your relationship ready for Christmas? With just over seven weeks until Christmas, it’s a good time to evaluate the strength of your relationship. The new year often sees a rise in divorce and separation. The stress of the holiday season, as well as the pressure to be cheerful, can be overwhelming for a marriage […]
Blended families and stepfamilies are on the increase in the UK and the United States. With divorce rates increasing in the last fifty years, today’s children are often members of families that include both biological and step grandparents. The situation isn’t going to change any time soon therefore the number of step grandparents in western […]
Gathering our olive crop. This week we have been picking and harvesting our olive crop and it’s here in Italy each year that I realise our marriage is like our olive crop. Each October we make the journey with family and friends to the home of my mother-in-law. It is our annual pilgrimage where we […]
Life scripts and why they are important. A life script is an unconscious life plan that we make for ourselves from a very early age. We are forming this plan as small children and without awareness we are living this plan throughout our lives. Our parents, family and care givers (teachers, religious leaders, babysitters etc) […]
Imagine yourself in this scenario, you have been married for fifteen years and your marriage is ending. You have decided to separate from your spouse. Overall, it hasn’t been a bad marriage, the first eight years were very happy. The last few years were a bit ropey, and your soon to be ex has admitted […]
I delved into the internet and the general consensus is that hatred isn’t great for our body. It releases stress hormones into our brain and over stimulates our nervous system. Hate can cause both negative mental and physical symptoms in our body. I couldn’t find a lot of positive things relating to hate and overall […]
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