'Relationships' Category
Three Benefits of Being Childlike
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We carry our childhood with us. Often we focus on the wounds that we have left over from then. This is probably because it is mostly therapists who write about this kind of thing and they tend to see wounded people. For most of us our childhood also contains lots of good stuff [...]Domestic Violence: considering leaving
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Last week I wrote a post about the sado-masochistic relationship. I pointed out in this post that the sado-masochistic relationship was different to domesitc violence. This left hanging the question of domestic violence, so this post is a sort of follow-on from that post. If you have strong feeling about domestic [...]S & M
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A couple of posts ago I asked for questions - and I sure got one. Here is a part of it: “I’d like to know what you know about abused and abuser, masochist and sadist. The thing that most interests me, is the possibility of one person understanding [...]Intimacy: how to get more of it
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I think we can get more intimacy in our lives - but indirectly. When I say “indirectly” I don’t mean sneakily. To explain this strange situation I need to explain what I mean by intimacy. Our intimate moments are those where we feel that we are close [...]Your Neighbour and Your Self: Which First?
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Jesus said (summarising the law concerned with people rather than focused on God):
You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Here’s my guess about what Jesus meant. We naturally want to be healthy: we spit out what tastes bad. If we see a projectile heading for us we dodge. [...]Finding a Free-er Place
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This post started as a friend and I talking about our childhoods, which were a bit unusual for Australians. I won’t talk about theirs, because I haven’t asked their permission, but I’ll explain a little bit about mine. I grew up in Evangelical Christianity. This was unusual in Australia - [...]Being Negative about Being Negative
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I read a post on a blog a couple of days ago (which had best remain nameless). The writer told us he was tired of negative people - he didn’t want to hear their complaints or listen to their whining. He (you guessed it was a he [...]
