Your relationships with your spouse, partner, children, family, friends, and colleagues are so critical to your happiness and success in life. Learn healthy communication and conflict resolution strategies and how to best nurture your relationships to help them thrive.
You’ve done everything you know to do to save your relationship, but you feel it slipping away each day. You can only control so much, after all. And not all relationships are meant to last forever. Still, you’d like to know for certain whether it’s time to let go of your partner. These 13 red flags are clear signals it's time to move on.
Is his disrespectful and rude behavior making you feel unloved and neglected? If he's dismissing your feelings, saying unkind things to you, or ignoring your needs, it's time to take action before things go from bad to worse.
Here are 13 marriage-saving tips to help you deal with your husband's disrespect.
No matter the nature of your relationship, setting boundaries is a critical component to maintaining a healthy connection with your partner.
Seeking a close partnership should not have to conflict with your needs.
Becoming one as a couple means holistically knowing yourself, understanding your personal and emotional needs, and being able to communicate them to your significant other effectively.
It isn’t always easy to understand what your boundary issues are and how to communicate them.
We've created a relationship boundaries guide to help you on your path to a loving and healing cohabitation.
Thanks to social media, the boundary between public and private information is blurred. Sharing your confidential information and problems has become more socially acceptable. Almost everyone has overshared at a point in their lives.
But oversharing is more than just being friendly. It is an attempt to reach out to others, looking for a sympathetic ear or words of advice. Rather than making friends, oversharing can negatively affect our reputations and relationships.
To manage chronic oversharing, you must first understand what it is and why you overshare so that it does not wreak havoc in your life.
“His conscience was the strongest element of his nature. His affections were tender and warm. His whole nature was simple and sincere – he was pure, and then was himself.”
“Such a nature was admirably constituted to direct an heroic struggle on the part of a people proud enough to prefer a guide to a leader, a man commissioned to execute the popular will but, as in his case, strong enough to enforce his own.”
If you haven't guessed yet, these good attributes were written about the character of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
President Lincoln was a role model for integrity and honesty.
He offers us so many examples of good character traits.
These good qualities stayed with him throughout the trials and tribulations of leading a country during one of the worst periods of its history.
Of course, Lincoln was president during the 19th century when the character of a person was a highly-regarded quality.