Tag: marriage
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30 Ways Perception Impacts Your Decisions, Relationships, and Success
Perception is the meaning we assign to what we experience — our own interpretation of reality. So why spend time understanding it? Because perception shapes nearly everything: the way you see yourself. The way you read others. The decisions you make. The opportunities you pursue. The risks you avoid. The future you create. And that’s…
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Navigating the Challenges of Falling Out of Love
Several of you have asked me to address falling out of love. While I don’t have all the reasons or answers for that eternal question, I do have some thoughts. I think falling in love is relatively easy. There’s joy, bliss, physical attraction, the urge to nuzzle, the discovery and newness of another, the unity…
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Understanding Love: Navigating Relationships However Complex
By this stage of our lives, many of us have married, divorced and married again or opted for singledom. Every year that passes, relationships change whether with spouses, “significant others,” children, friends, coworkers—and ourselves. The Bible and every religious text, regardless of religious persuasion, tells us to “Love one another.” We all know this is not…
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How Conditioning Shapes Our Self-Worth and Connections
Let’s talk about mental conditioning. We all share a common experience-we have been conditioned. The socialization process begins soon after birth. As we arrived without instructions, those in charge of our care had to try to figure out something unknown: a human. There were no directions, little guidance, or understanding as to how their choices…