These are just a few quotes I live by, regarding keeping/maintaining good relationships: Don’t play the “blame game”; nobody wins. Just because you did not cause the problem, doesn’t alleviate you from any responsibility to solve the problem. All parties are still responsible. Rather than focusing on what we can do to change our partner, […]

Here is another load of mental and emotional baggage the best of us often carry: Responsibility for other peoples happiness.   Outside of our immediate families, this is not our burden to bare; and even then, our responsibility only goes so far. In the end it is up to the individual. I myself have taken […]

We all have heard, and possibly even said the phrase “Life is complicated.” We stress over the pressures of work deadlines, family obligations, property upkeep, raising children, and future planning. These are the things, the elements, that we have determined constitute a “normal” life. I repeat: These are the elements that we have determined constitute […]