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It’s somewhat of a given that most people do not have the ability to see their own faults. This, of course, makes relationships and conflict resolution even more difficult. Let’s call this ‘the cake.’ What complicates this even further is that most relationships lack truly great communication. Let’s call this the ‘icing on the cake.’…

Seems like a juicy column, right? I’m guessing my high school friends are hoping it is. The teenage years! What a ride! I knew even back then I didn’t want to grow up. Only, even I was smart enough to realize that at least in the area of relationships – I needed to! My high…

I am in the local coffee shop. It is what my friends call my real office. I run into two of my favorite people in the world. “How are you?” I ask. My one friend, who I will name “Sunshine” (an alias as I always do) responds, “I am tired.” “Sunshine” is with our friend…

I hope to find love again one day. I hope it’s an ego-less love. The kind of love that makes us not breaks us. I hope the guy I meet: Believes that love is so much more important than being right. Believes that being gentle is a signature of strength. Believes in living a life…

The easy part of love is love. The hard part of love is people. People come from all different types of families. People come with all types of communication styles. People come with baggage. It’s not that love is difficult per say, but that great communicators are rare and disrespectful communicators far too common. This…

There are disrespectful personalities and there are disrespectful communicators. It is logical that a disrespectful person would also be a disrespectful communicator. However, an individual does not necessarily have to be disrespectful person to be a disrespectful communicator. There are many individuals who are otherwise polite and respectful, until conflict occurs. The conflict is what…

My friend and I are chatting. “Why do people think they can say whatever they want to us?” she asks. “I would never say some of the critical things people tell me to another person. Do you think it is because we are the type of people that share our lives with others? Do you…

I am chatting with one of my roommates from college. I will call her “Marlena.” A nod to the “Days of our Lives,” soap opera, college watching spree. “Col,” she says in her New Jersey-ease. “Don’t you remember the first year that you two started dating?” I know that she is right. There were red…

I hear from so many people about their relationships or about their divorce. Actually, I hear from many people just about life in general – their hopes, their dreams and often their mistakes. I always thought it was one of my better qualities to be self-reflective. To be able to admit to my mistakes and…

“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she had always been. But she had wings.” – Dean Jackson “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” – Winnie the Pooh “Today you are…
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