'Relationships' Category
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 [...]A Website for Listening and Support
One commenter on my last post (Connecting with the Emotion) pointed me to a website she has set up to provide a place of listening and mutual support.
It’s called bigwhitewall.com. Here is what she said.
I set up a dedicated emotional health website bigwhitewall.com to provide a space for listening and mutual support. It has [...]
