Category Archives: Relationships
Not Getting Your Concerns Heard? Try These 5 Tools
Want to become more effective when someone you love, or someone you work with, keeps doing something that bugs you?
On Whom Can I Depend? How Relationships Support Well-Being
"If I should get sick, who would take care of me?" It's a good question—and one that could lead to positive life changes.
Oy, The Holidays: Anticipating An Emotional Rollercoaster?
Use this guide to managing negative feelings if you are expecting that emotional challenges lie ahead.
Mother’s Day Dread
I dread Mothers Day because I deeply miss my Mom. That's her with me in this picture. If your mom has a borderline personality disorder, however, there's other reasons why Mothers' Day may be no fun.
Marriage: 8 Dangerously Wrong Conventional Wisdoms
Mistaken advice about marriage can have potent impacts. Beware especially of these relationship-wreckers.
Marriage: the Ultimate Collaborative Venture
Love may find its ultimate expression in the decision of two people to live their lives in permanent collaborative partnership. Why does this decision sometimes lead to misery instead of joyful collaboration?
Mending a Broken Family; Strengthening a Healthy Family
Families can be fountains of strength. At the same time, all families are fragile. Internal factors like a parent with mental health issues, and also outside factors like job loss or economic stresses, can overwhelm a couple's abilities to cope in good humor. One temporarily fractured couple has written profound advice relevant to all parents.
Mom Loved You Best! The Rise and Fall of Sibling Rivalry
When and why did you experience sibling rivalry? With hindsight, what do you know now that you didn't understand then that makes the rivalry vanish?
More Info for Adult Children of Borderline Mothers
These comments from readers of my earlier postings on borderline personality disorder have useful suggestions for understanding and coping with family members who rage.
Loneliness: a Temporary State or a Vulnerable Way of Life?
Needing to break free of social isolation and to begin forming gratifying connections?