As family business consultants, we are often asked, “How do you know if a family in conflict can be helped, or if they are headed toward either litigation or stagnation?” While there is no test of absolute certainty, we have identified a predictor of how likely a family might be to manage conflict in new and constructive ways.
We call our predictor the “Family Factor.” It is a group of observed family characteristics that serve to answer the question, “Is the family bond strong enough to weather the storm of conflict?” Families with a strong Family Factor can generally tolerate conflict better, respond more resiliently, negotiate compromises, and maintain a commitment to change.
In addition to using our Family Factor for assessment, we also strive to shore it up in our work with families in conflict. The characteristics that make up the Family Factor are qualities that can often be strengthened and/or moderated in order to raise the overall chances of success in family conflict management.
The Family Factor is composed of three key components:
Shared vision for a future as family
What, if anything, do the stakeholders agree upon as their shared history? How might they be inspired to co-create a narrative that everyone feels invested in?
From Rashomon to SpongeBob, our cultural narrative is rife with stories of how different people recount the same event differently. In a family, each person’s experience is unique. While siblings who grew up in the same home, or cousins who regularly attended family events, likely have a shared history, they will often perceive that history differently. Often an individual’s memory of a conversation or an event varies tremendously from that of another participant in the same conversation.
Even siblings with difficult histories together may see those histories as part of who they are. The shared history can be important and worthy of preserving, even if it is a negative history. The familiarity of the relationship itself may have worth to a stakeholder, despite the fact that the relationship has been a difficult one.
Being close relatives does not guarantee a shared history. Consider the situation where siblings are 15 years apart in age and may not have any common childhood experiences, since the older sibling may have left home before the younger one can remember. Similarly, family circumstances may have changed during that time so that the home environment was very different for the two siblings. For example, if the family became affluent after the elder sibling left home, the younger child may have participated in a more luxurious lifestyle that was not available to the elder sibling. This would make for a distinct lack of shared history between the two siblings. However, time spent talking together about their childhoods and their parents would most likely lead them to find areas of agreement and shared experience.
If the family disagrees or does not have an awareness of their narrative, it will become apparent as members try to tell stories. A cohesive narrative will often have punch lines that family members wait for with bated breath, as well as a sense of togetherness (seen through body language and harmonious interruptions to pick up the narrative) when the tale is being recounted. This is also apparent in tales of trial and hardship—the family sees itself as having weathered the storm together.
When family members’ story lines are conflicted or even cancel each other out, we see impasses that overshadow or even obliterate a shared history. The stakeholders can see each other as alien and not someone they agree with.
We encourage stakeholders to:
Embrace and accept the totality of their diverse experience as one family.
Explore more nuanced versions of their history.
Talk through past misunderstandings and misdeeds with a view toward achieving a genuine forgiveness.
Such coaching can help strengthen the shared history and, thus, the Family Factor.
SHARED VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Do the individuals involved share a common vision as a family in the future?
Inquiring into how individuals see the future for their family can open up conversations about shared identity and vision and help to assess the strength of the family’s commitment to an ongoing relationship.
One might ask: If they encountered their family in three generations, how might they know and recognize them? What traditions would they see being observed that would tell them who it was? Would they be in a certain geographic location? Would they convene at certain times or in certain places?
Indicators of a strong, shared vision of the future include the family agreeing on things their descendants would be doing generations ahead. If, on the other hand, family members’ vision of togetherness tends to evaporate upon the death of a patriarch or a generation, there is a limited vision for a continued relationship in the future. This will often present as “The house on the Cape will have to go when Mom dies.” Or, “Thanksgiving is really Mary’s gig—nobody else could take that on.”
Sometimes the hard work and conflict that go with a family business can make the prospect of maintaining a connected family in the long-term feel like a burden. In our experience, when families no longer see a purpose or value to continued involvement with each other, they feel they have nothing to gain by compromising or exerting effort to change for the sake of the family. Fortunately, with good conflict management, it is possible to alleviate some of the tension and stress associated with conflict, and enable the family to brainstorm on their future in a more positive and liberated way.
Identifying and nurturing the sense that a family has something to gain by staying connected as a family can directly improve the Family Factor, making compromise and a commitment to change more likely. This can be as simple as reviving or starting a family tradition, or creating a newsletter to enrich and strengthen the family narrative about its identity and shared future.
Do family members have a mutual sense of trust?
Trust is a critical component of family relationships and it is especially so when it concerns shared economic or business interests. The concept of trust is often misunderstood. In our work, we like to encourage families to look at trust through the lens of predictability, or being true to one’s word.
When there is predictability in a relationship, one can feel confident making decisions because one would be fairly certain of an outcome, even if it depended on the other person. This kind of trust is acquired through gaining an understanding of the other person and how they operate. When people do not know and understand each other’s roles and motives in the family business well, their actions are perceived as unpredictable, unreliable, and untrustworthy.
This kind of trust is not necessarily a belief that another will act in your best interests; it is a basic sense that you know who the other person is and how they might react to a given situation. Characteristics need not necessarily be positive, just consistent. For example, if Mike always gets depressed and gambles the petty cash at Christmas time, it would be a predictable quality that could be dealt with in a number of ways. Strangely, there is a sense of trust in this relationship, even though the trust is in negative behavior.
Trust, for our purposes, can be broken down into four basic components to determine if someone can be counted on to follow through with a particular behavior or course of action.
Communication—Are an individual’s behavior or intentions clearly communicated?
Commitment—Is there a commitment to follow through—despite unexpected obstacles—to achieve the promised outcome?
Concern—Is there concern regarding the impact of the promise? Sometimes adjustment of the outcome is needed to achieve the desired impact. Slavishly attending to the outcome rather than the intended impact may actually be passive aggression.
Competence—Is the individual in question capable of carrying out the expected behavior?
In the context of managing conflict when continuing relationships matter, it is important that we determine who trusts whom and who does not. Without trust or predictability, it’s far more difficult for people in conflict to feel safe enough to agree to compromise or commit to change, much less support it long-term.
USING THE FAMILY FACTOR
Understanding the Family Factor as a combination of the above-described, observable components is a useful framework for determining the ability of a family to successfully manage conflict. In assessing the Family Factor we inventory:
An important shared history—they have something to lose.
A vision for the relationship in the future—they have something to gain.
An ability to trust one another—they can rely on a compromise agreement and on a commitment to change.
Families who exhibit these characteristics are more likely to manage conflict and remain resilient in the face of adversity and hardship. More importantly, the Family Factor can be increased when stakeholders are coached to identify opportunities to repair or rekindle the spark of their shared history, identify the benefits of a shared vision for remaining connected as family, and build trust.
To learn more about conflict and the Family Factor, check out Blair and Doug’s insightful book, Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth and Power.


Let this pack of conversation cards provide the framework for listening to – and for sharing – some of life’s most important stories with your loved ones. Be curious as you listen to stories from your parents or grandparents – or create a different and more intimate conversation with your friends about life.
Listen carefully as cards like these are turned: Talk about your first friendship. Talk about a significant turning point in your life. Or: What do you sometimes have to remind yourself of?
How to play: The conversation cards can be played as a game or used as a form of interview. Whoever draws the card asks the question.


Molecular mediators of the association between child obesity and mental health Does childhood obesity hinder human capital development?
31 August 2022
Published journal: Frontiers in Genetics-Epigenomics and Epigenetics
The association between obesity and depression is well established, with bi-directional associations widely reported in observational studies (Milaneschi et al., 2019). Recent Mendelian Randomization (MR) studies have confirmed a causal relationship between obesity and depression (Tyrrell 2019). Poor mental health has been proposed as one mechanism through which obesity during childhood may lead to poorer social and economic outcomes in later life (Segal et al., 2021). It was recently shown in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort that depressive symptoms mediated approximately 11% of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) scores in girls, demonstrating the importance of mental health to human capital development (Bowman et al., 2022). Both psycho-social and biological mechanisms appear to be important in the causal chain from obesity to depression. The role of psycho-social mediators such as bullying and social stigma has been relatively well-described in population studies (Gini and Pozzoli, 2009; Moore et al., 2017). However, biological mechanisms may explain a significant proportion of the association between obesity and depression in children, which may have implications for policy interventions to improve mental health.
Proposed biological pathways in the causal pathways between obesity and mental health include alterations to the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, immuno-inflammatory activation, neuroendocrine regulators of energy metabolism, and the microbiome (Marazziti et al., 2014; Milaneschi et al., 2019). Biological mechanisms may be traced using biomarkers such as DNA methylation, an important regulator of gene expression, and metabolites, small molecules that reflect metabolic alterations. Obesity induces widespread changes in methylation levels across the genome (Wahl et al., 2017; Campanella et al., 2018) that may play a role in mood disorders. Differential methylation of a handful of the same genes involved in inflammatory pathways has been identified across separate studies of obesity and mood disorders (Gharipour et al., 2020). In addition, evidence shows BMI-associated DNA methylation predicts diseases, including T2D and cancers (Wahl et al., 2017). Similarly, as a metabolic disorder, obesity leads to widespread perturbation of the metabolome, which may influence mood. For instance, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) may influence brain function by modifying large, neutral amino acid transport at the blood–brain barrier, interfering with neurotransmitter synthesis (Fernstrom, 2005) (Gruenbaum et al., 2019). Recent reviews of the effects of obesity on the epigenome and metabolome in children identified consistent increases in both BCAAs and aromatic amino acids (AAAs) (Handakas et al., 2021) and methylation at multiple CpGs (sites of DNA methylation), albeit with less consistency between studies (Alfano et al., 2021).
In this study, we investigated the role of obesity-related metabolic and epigenetic signatures (measured through nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and DNA methylation array, respectively) in the onset of poor mental health in childhood in the ALSPAC cohort. We aimed to test the role of metabolites and differentially methylated CpGs as mediators of the relationship between childhood obesity and subsequent poor mental health or depression, assessed through the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ).


Song of Solomon (the whole thing)
If you were raised in the church, you probably grew up with Song of Solomon being treated as something of a legend (if you didn’t, it’s kind of like when your parents said “I’ll explain it to you later” about a joke or movie or something, except with your pastor and the Bible!). You might wonder why this is even in the Bible. After Wade’s sermon, hopefully you can see the problems with calling it an allegory to God’s love for us. Ok, so what’s the point then? We can find this kind of racy stuff all on our own, right? I think it was included to show that God wants us to be in relationship with each other. He made us to be both in community, and in romantic relationships (remember how it was bad for Adam to be alone?). You’ve heard all week about waiting. But I want to go back to Logan’s point of how avoidance should not be mistaken for waiting. God gave us the desire to love one another. He never condemned it! Yet we live in a culture of embarrassment, unnecessary shame, and some of us live stuck in middle school mindsets towards romantic love… It is okay to experience attraction. It is okay to ask somebody out. It is okay to talk about stuff like this with one another. This is why (I believe) Song of Solomon was included– to show us that love is natural and a good part of life; and above all, God-given.
Lord, this stuff is uncomfortable. We’ve been taught to be careful, to be respectful, to be appropriate. Help us not to confuse these valid morals with unhealthy avoidance. Help us to embrace the uncomfortable, and to be okay with romantic love. Remind us that You are in everything we do, in all parts of our lives. Amen


A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to intense physical, mental, and emotional trauma. Recuperation from a TBI – if full recuperation is even possible – is often a slow and arduous process for the sufferer. A TBI patient’s significant other will no doubt feel the sting of this life-altering injury too, whether the TBI came from an auto accident, sports injury, fall, or otherwise.
Here are just some of the ways your relationship could change after you or your partner suffers a traumatic brain injury:
1. New relationship roles.
While your relationship was ideally you and your partner as friends, lovers, and supporters of each other, after a TBI the weight in a relationship is no longer evenly distributed. One of you needs much more care than the other, and the default caregiver often becomes the healthier spouse who is suddenly faced with roles of nurse and even parent, doing jobs like bathing their partner, feeding him, dressing him, and helping him get around.
2. Changes in responsibilities.
If the breadwinner of the household is suddenly unable to work because of a TBI, the financial burden falls to the other spouse, particularly if worker’s compensation is meager, unemployment benefits run out, or their job is not as high-paying. The TBI sufferer can feel anger and frustration at being unable to provide, and the caregiver can feel stress attempting to maintain their family’s typical lifestyle while taking on caregiver responsibilities at the same time, as well as caring for the children solo, managing bills, yardwork, grocery shopping, cleaning, and so much more. Resentment at handling the bulk of everything can settle in quickly.
3. Difficulty communicating.
Some TBIs leave one partner unable to communicate as before, whether their speech has been impacted or whether their memory has taken a toll. They may find themselves grasping for words and unable to communicate the thoughts that once easily found their voice. Having a meaningful conversation with your spouse, reminiscing about the past, or planning for the future could all be difficult – which can be stunting to the relationship.
4. Personality shifts.
Brain injury survivors often discover that they have new personality traits after their injury – these can be positive and, more often than not, they can be negative. But their partner can quickly realize that the person they once loved is no longer the same. Dark mood shifts are a common side effect of a TBI and this can lead a person to behave and even feel differently in their relationship, leaving the healthier spouse feeling like they’re married to a stranger.
5. New relationship with the kids.
A TBI can alter a person so dramatically that they may seem unrecognizable to the people who love them most. A parent who was once loving and demonstrative with their love may suddenly be listless, angry, or distracted, leaving a child – especially small children – confused and heartbroken. This new dynamic can permanently change the relationship a child has with their parent, even if he or she recovers fully from the TBI, and their partner can feel burdened by what their children are experiencing.
6. Lack of intimacy.
Physical intimacy can take a hit after a TBI, not only because the physical aspect of intimacy can be compromised by the TBI as well as other injuries. Hormone levels could be affected. The TBI sufferer’s self-confidence in their appearance or attractiveness can be compromised. Significant changes in your typical sexual relationship, combined with the uncertainty of recovery, can affect intimacy. The exhaustion that the caregiver can experience with their new responsibilities, and the discomfort or fatigue the TBI sufferer can feel also compounds the problem.
Making a point to focus on the positives that remain in the relationship rather than focusing on the negatives can help a couple through the challenges that inevitably arise after a traumatic brain injury.
About: David Christensen is a personal injury attorney and brain injury expert at Christensen Law in Southfield, Michigan. The team at Christensen Law helps brain injury victims obtain the benefits they need for long term care after a TBI.


There was happiness and love between the couple, particularly in the early years; despite his increasingly Talibanic public stance about even conjugal sex, they kept making love into old age. But from the beginning their marriage was punctuated by mutual jealousy, by fights by a sense that they were suffocating each other, by Sofya Andreyevna's fear that he was withholding both his mind and his heart from her, and that, if she withheld her mind and heart from him, he wouldn't care.I'm not actually sure what Sofia means by that statement--unless that the act of murdering her husband would be pleasing if it could be undone--but its impossibility, following as it does here Meeks's succinct account of the basic, intractable problem of their marriage, seems emblematic.
"If I could kill him and create a new person exactly the same as he is now, I would do so happily," she wrote a few months after they were married.
And then there's the fundamental sadness--and crazy, curdled idealism--of the couples' mutually shared diaries:
Sofia Andreyevna’s voice as she writes about the Kreutzer episode indicates the evolution of her idea of her audience; that she might be addressing posterity, or her husband’s audience, as well as herself and her descendants. From the beginning, she was addressing Tolstoy. As a prelude to their marriage, Tolstoy asked if she kept a diary and, when she said she had kept one since she was 11, asked if he could read it. She refused, and let him read a short story she had written instead. In the week between his proposal and their wedding, he gave her his diaries to read. She read of his drinking, gambling and sexual adventures and of the child he’d fathered with a peasant woman. She was, she wrote later, ‘shattered’ by his ‘excess of honesty’.Any ground would do for the site of a battle between the two, so I suppose had they not shared their diaries, they'd likely have found another way to score all the points and mount all the defenses contained therein. But what must it do to a relationship--to a self--to have to actively reconstruct and shape it retrospectively, day by day, as part of a never-ending offensive? To pretend to openness yet know, even as you deny it to yourself, that you're mounting an argument at least as much as you're recounting events?
So the idea was set in motion of the mutual reading of supposedly personal diaries, and at times the entries in the diaries of husband and wife reflect the fact that they are speaking to each other while pretending to have secret thoughts. As relations between the couple became stale and formal, Sofia Andreyevna valued free, exclusive and continuous access to Tolstoy’s diaries as a surrogate for the great man’s love and friendship.
Oh, 'tis a good thing the Tolstoys aren't with us in the age of the blog. Now that would get ugly, fast.


Bruce and Emma Welcome a Daughter!
Bruce Willis and wife Emma Hemming are pleased to announce the birth of their newest addition. On Sunday, April 1st, the couple welcomed a baby girl. Before you continue reading, this is not an April Fools!
Baby Mabel Ray Willis weighed in at a stunning 9 lbs., 1 oz. and is joined by 3 half-siblings, Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 18 from Willis’s previous marriage with wife Demi.
At 57-years-old, Willis, who is overjoyed about his newest addition with the love of his life, told The Sun, “I’d like to have a thousand more children, or zero more children. It doesn’t matter. Emma makes me feel great.”
The couple tied the knot in 2009 which, in Willis’s words, “Filled a void in my life.” He also went on to say, “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been and this comes after a long period of being kind of lonely, even though I tried to convince myself I was enjoying life. Before I met Emma I was very pessimistic about finding that special woman with whom I would want to spend my life with. I thought it would be difficult for someone like me, who is well known, to find a woman who didn’t have an agenda and who just wanted to be with me because they loved me, pure and simple.”
Congratulations to the Willis family on welcoming a healthy baby girl


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In marriage counseling, couples are helped to work on the different issues in their relationship that are threatening to break the marriage up. Therapists seek to determine the areas that are causing the rift in the relationship.
Before getting married and throughout your married life, you can participate in marriage counseling. In premarital counseling you are being prepared to go through difficult times together. It prepares the couple to understand that when they are married, they will certainly face times of conflict and difficulties.
Married couples should consider marriage counseling since the divorce rate in the world is rising on a daily basis. These married couples that ended up in divorce had no desire to work out their problems and had completely abandoned the relationship. It is the easy way out. Only people who desire to have their marriages work will look into marriage counseling.
However, denver counseling is not a guarantee that your marriage will actually work. It actually takes a concerted effort to put the marriage back together again. While the marriage counselor can give good advice, and help you sort your differences out, if there is no willingness is both parties to make it work, then it won't.
If you are determined to make your marriage work and you believe that marriage counseling is for you, then by all means find the best marriage counselor near you. Seek someone who has gone through the hurdles in marriage. If a counselor has never experienced difficulties in his married life, then he cannot give you the best advice. A good marriage counselor has experienced the difficulty himself but has found ways to deal with it successfully. Know more about counseling at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counselor.
Most couples spend their day away from each other. In time, if there is no close communication developed between the couple, the spouse becomes a stranger and the person at work seems to be the only person who understands you. There are many affairs born in the office setting in this manner. A good marriage counselor will see this problem and find solutions to encourage communication between spouses. They will be given time to sort of their problems on their own during counseling sessions.
If you find a good denver therapists, there is still a chance for your marriage relationship to improve. The very important thing is that you should both be willing to work hard on this issues. Otherwise, there is no chance for it to work out.


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In the appliance retail industry, establishing strong partnerships with appliance fulfillment services can significantly impact your business's success. Delivery and installation are critical components of the customer experience, and effective collaboration with your fulfillment partner is essential. In this article, we will explore the importance of communication and collaboration in fostering successful appliance fulfillment partnerships and enhancing the overall customer experience.
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“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”
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Three Vital Tips for Managing Client Relationships to Avoid Business Breakups
During my sophomore year of high school, I met a girl named Julie, who was a senior. We dated for a couple of months at the start of the school year, and as high school dating goes, we eventually got bored with each other and mutually agreed to breakup. I felt like we were still friends and our relationship ended on good terms.
Fast forward to the end of the school year when yearbooks were published. I was flipping through mine when a feature caught my eye. Graduating seniors were asked about memorable moments like, “Who was your favorite teacher?” or “What class did you enjoy most this year?”
At the bottom of the page I saw Julie’s picture and next to it the question, “What is the biggest mistake of your life?” Notice that it was not specific to this school year, or even high school, but to her entire life. Julie responded with three words.
“Dating a sophomore.”
Customer relationships work very much the same as our interpersonal relationships. If a customer breaks up with you, they may turn around and say bad things behind your back, even when you think things ended on good terms. Following are three common mistakes that businesses make in their customer relationships.
You need to know what it means to be in a relationship. While phrases like customer service, customer experience, and customer relationship are sometimes used interchangeably, they are quite different. Imagine going to your favorite restaurant—customer service is specific to the interpersonal interactions you may have with a host, a server, or the restaurant manager.
The experience includes the totality of everything that happens from when you arrive at the restaurant to when you leave. Things like restroom cleanliness, quality of food, or a promotion on the menu all contribute to the experience but have little to do with service.
In the same way that service is a smaller part of the overall experience, repeated experiences build a lasting relationship. Service interactions have a start and an end as do experiences. Relationships have a start, but they don’t have to end if they are adequately maintained.
You need to know what kind of a relationship you have with your customer. There is a spectrum of customer relationship stages. Consider that to your customer you may be a(n)…
Stranger – Your desired customer has never heard of you.
Prospect – Your customer has heard of you, and is interested in your product or services, but has yet to do business with you.
Rumor – Your customer has heard of you, but only in a negative way from their friends. This customer passively avoids your business.
Fling – Your customer did business with you once or twice, but you haven’t taken the steps to show them that you are ready to take things to the next level.
Acquaintance – Your customer is more than a fling, but still not a solid relationship. Your customer does business with you out of an occasional necessity for your product or because of a high-quality promotion.
Friend – Your customer likes you and does business with you often. They trust you and are very loyal. However, an unresolved bad experience or two could still lead to a breakup.
Ex! – Your customer broke up with you. As a Fling, Acquaintance, or Friend, you disappointed your customer, and didn’t fix the problem. Your customer tells their friends about how they regret their relationship with you (also making you a Rumor) and actively avoid doing business with you.
Best Friend – Your customer knows thrives in a loyal business relationship with you. They believe you have proven yourself time and again. When you have done things that disappointed your customer, you immediately fixed the problem. Now when you experience problems in your relationships, your customer knows that you will resolve their concern, and they give you the opportunity to do so.
You need to know how to move to the next stage of the relationship. Every business wants to be in a Best Friend relationship with every one of their customers, and they should. However, most companies don’t understand that different customers are at different stages of the relationship, and each must move along the spectrum to arrive at Best Friend.
How do you move your customers from one stage to the next?
There’s no single answer.
Every customer is different. Each service interaction or customer experience is an opportunity to learn more about what your customer likes, needs, and wants—and then make it happen to build your relationship.
I can go more in-depth on this, but I know you’re busy so let’s keep it short. The next article will be a deeper exploration of how you can move customer relationships to the next stage.


When Christchurch started it came out of a homegroup and homegroups are an important part of church life. We currently have three 'Growth Groups' which meet in various homes in Harborough and neighbouring villages.
In growth groups we study the Bible and pray together in a relaxed, informal way. Growth groups help us build stronger, caring relationships and to develop our spiritual gifts. We can encourage each other in the faith and seek to share Jesus with others in our communities.
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Her husband had encouraged her to enter therapy because of his concern about how much she was drinking.
In reality, marriages tend to unravel after a prolong period of malaise and even denial. Generally, couples attempt to stick it out by placing additional emphasis on counseling and communication. That said, most couples can point to a moment or moments when things really reached the point of no return.
Sometimes partners step away from healthy relationships. Do any of these apply to you?
Perceived Lack of Trust There are times in which partners have their trust challenged by miscommunication and seemingly small disagreements. Surprisingly, the vitality of an otherwise happy marriage can hinge on a moment.
If a woman feels as if an infraction is an indicator of a deeper trust issue, she may walk away without looking back. For good or bad, an otherwise healthy marriage may be discarded because of a hunch. However, there are times in which our mental health issues reach far beyond depression.
Diagnosable mental illness can not only derail the best intentions of the individual, but can sully the entire trajectory of the existing relationship. Women — and men for that matter — can leave a marriage when mental illness disrupts healthy, positive thinking.
However, there are times in which partners discern that their visions are competing visions. Inasmuch, a drifting apart make occur in the relationship.
If a woman or her partner feel that their vision for the future is not compatible with the overall trajectory of the marriage, the marriage may come to an end.
However, women often feel the tug of parenthood when their significant others do not. When there is this sort of incongruence in the relationship, a marital parting may be on the horizon.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Woman in otherwise strong relationships may leave the relationship if they feel that their intimate partner is more attune to the extramarital affair than the marital bond. Boredom As the human condition evolves, our discretionary time expands. Because technology and medicine often give us more time to devote to leisurely pursuits, we may choose to travel or engage in a variety of hobbies.
Some women, as well as men, may feel like that their partner is not interesting or active enough to compel a long-term commitment. We may never fight with our partner, but we may become very bored with them. Hence, some women move on with life without their current significant other. When a woman or man acknowledges sexual attraction to a person of the same gender, it may mean the end of the current relationship.
Although the separation and potential divorce may be quite difficult, it may also be necessary. We all seek authenticity if we are healthy.Finding out why we cheat, however, might help save some relationships from the chopping block. And it turns out, men and women stray for different reasons, according to a recent survey by U.K.
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It can shatter trust and breed insecurity and resentment from which some. Go to the front page of any mostly male discussion site like initiativeblog.com and see how many inches you can browse before finding several thousand men bemoaning how all women are gold-digging whores (7, upvotes) and how crazy and irrational women are (9, upvotes) and how horrible and gross and fat women are (4, upvotes).
But experts say that a large majority of the time, motivations differ by gender, with men searching for more sex or attention and women looking to fill an emotional void.
As a marriage counsellor, there's one thing I wish every man understood: Women leave men they love. Women leave for many reasons, but there's one reason in particular that haunts me, one that I want men to understand: Women leave because their man is not present.
It's obvious as a nation, we don't like effort. We want to work less and have more, eat more and weigh more, etc. Add one more to that list; It takes effort to have a sex life with your spouse, and even more effort to have a good one.


Do you know what one the most dangerous things in the world is? I think it’s to love someone who doesn’t love you back.
You feel so much joy and compassion, especially when you think of your love, and in return you get moments. Some of the moments you can hold to your heart knowing that this is the closest you will get to this person. Other times you wake up with your heart pounding feeling incredibly lonely and foolish.
You can’t force someone to love you who doesn’t, but you can show them you love them or tell them. It usually won’t change the outcome of the situation which has likely been pre determined before you ever even met the person.
When I was younger I watched the TV show Clueless. One of the lines in the opening song was ‘she wears her heart on her sleeve and she’d give it to you in a second.’ This probably wasn’t the show I was meant to get my dating advice for the future from, but the line has always stuck with me and as I’ve gotten older, I believe it is important more and more.
If you hide your feelings and are trying to protect yourself then you will never know how the other person feels. You’ll never get to experience the pure emotion, unhindered by expectations and projections. Even if the other person doesn’t feel the same, shouldn’t you have the pleasure of experiencing the love yourself? I try and make myself an open book and often that scares people, especially my romantic partners, but I would rather have that experience and share those feelings than not.
In my favorite poem ‘The Lesson of the Moth,’ the moth is having a conversation with a cockroach about why moths are attracted to fire, which will eventually incinerate them. The moth explains, ‘it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.’
The cockroach then explains why he is a bit more pragmatic, but I don’t disagree with the moth, especially when it comes to love.
When you approach things from love whether romantic or not, it changes everything.
I got kinda dumped the other day, and I say kinda cause we only kinda dated for over the past nine months, it’s complicated, but what in life isn’t? Before we had the inevitable conversation some of my friends seemed concerned about what I would say and how I would react and I’m sure that the person I was speaking to was also really scared, but for me it was never going to be an angry conversation. I wanted them to leave it knowing how much I cared about them. I didn’t want there to be drama, I just wanted him to feel good about the time we spent together and not see it end in a dramatic heart breaking way, even if it felt like my heart was breaking.
I don’t have any regrets about loving him, even though from the start it was pretty clear he wouldn’t be able to show me that love as well. In fact if anything, I wish I had the balls to express it earlier on. It might have ended sooner had I done that, but I could have been more honest about how I feel and had the chance to be in that space of love sooner.
And that’s really what it comes down to, that when you love someone you create that loving energy and it inspires and uplifts you in all areas of your life. It’s a beautiful creative force that drives you to do amazing things. And we try to harness it and control it, beat it down and drag it back in to the depths of our hearts. We are embarrassed and intimidated by it. It’s cliche and ‘too much’ and all the while not enough.
Love is so powerful and so necessary in the world we currently live in, that if we can’t approach our romantic partners with this love than how will we ever be able to love the people we aren’t close to? How will we show compassion when someone with a mental health problem yells at us on the street? What’s out first thought when we get cut off when we’re driving? How will we react when we learn about the next bombing in Syria? The world needs more love and it needs more people to express it.


February Prayers: For Love
Generally in the month of February, it is customary to celebrate love via Valentine's Day. However, let us shift our perspective and think: why only in February? The Scriptures tell us countless times of the Lord's love for us, both the saint and sinner, both the single and the married, both the rich and the poor, etc. Need help finding these references? Try these:
This month, we are encouraged to think on the love of God, to pray that we receive His love for us, that His love would be MORE THAN ENOUGH for each of us, that we could show the love of Christ to one another as a Church, and that we could show the love of God to the world as we show them His ways.
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This may be a backward way to begin this article, but I have to say it: I’ve never actually been that great at casual dating.
I tend to let my feelings, carried on the wings of my very vivid imagination, get away from me almost immediately when I meet a guy I like.
But most college-educated millennials say they have no plans to settle down in the near future.
Instead of seriously dating, they dabble in various kinds of casual encounters.I can’t seem to tie said feelings down anywhere in between “no” and “ahhh omg so much yes! chat kostenlos Fürth ”I’ve come to decide that this is both good and bad.Kids can learn how to program robots, play chess, speak Chinese or dance hip-hop style, among other enrichment options. But isn't it time to try a new sweet treat this year?The Holiday Cookie Finder has every winning recipe from our annual baking contest from the past 14 years.
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On the contrary, rates of sexual activity among university freshmen are similar to the rates in the mid-1980s.But the John Hughes-era of romance has changed in other ways.“Going on a date now has more significance, when the option of hooking up or just hanging out in a group-friend setting is more prevalent,” Hull said. “When people say they’re dating someone, it usually means they’re in a relationship.” After college, millennials who are finally ready for a serious relationship might be surprised to learn that they don’t know how to go about it.Katie Bolin started seeing her boyfriend in December of 2013.


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True - adjective: That which is accurate or exact.
I dare you to try.
I think you’re my truth.
Four years ago, Logan Mitchell walked into Tate’s life and challenged him to see it differently.
He dared Tate to try a kiss, when normally he wouldn’t have.
He begged him to take a chance, when he probably shouldn’t have.
But most importantly, he asked Tate to trust that he would love him, and he did. From that moment on, Tate realized exactly what his life had been missing—Logan.
Happily-ever-afters come in many different forms. But for Tate Morrison, there’s only one ending he wants. The one where the guy marries the guy and true love conquers all.
Now all he has to do is tell Logan.
Join Logan and Tate as they finally realize what the rest of us knew all along. That they belong together for better or worse—always.
Releases: December 21, 2017
I am the author of the Exquisite Series, including Exquisite, Entice and Edible. I also released my first Erotic Novel, Blind Obsession in March 2013.
I'm a happily married woman and mother to a crazy cat. I've been writing ever since I fell in love with falling in love and I credit that to my Nan who handed me my first romance novel.
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Romantic Tips For When Have Got A Chronic Illness
Doing the right thing for Valentine's Day depends upon the type of woman a person. Some women love all of the romantic actions that Valentine's Day offers -- chocolates, short love poems, love words, flowers, stuffed bears, romantic messages, romantic dinners, such like. Other women don't like any of these stuff on Valentine's Day.
If make use of your imagination, you possess some fun with now this. Create anticipation by extending an invitation for an immensely special romantic evening. Test slip an example of love poems in a car CD player or load a love poem right onto their iPod assistance warm your own special someone before they even get home based. Make sure the kids are at Grandmas expected time personal. Create a romantic mood with candles and a sexy new outfit.
You also write all around the day you bought married and also the day you have engaged. Doable ! write about when you were given down 1 hand knee and proposed. Both my wife and Going our engagement vividly.
Let your contact the simple enough like "Hi, how are things doing?" Avoid sending very love poems for him simply because it is self defeating. A simple approach yields a greater result.
Some people settle, they do not believe that there is such something as love of his life. They look for love all their lives and these never seemingly find it, so they believe that it ought not to be real. So one of these find a person that in infatuated with those. And although they do not love the part of return, they'll marry them anyway. They test their relationship on the love meter and it proves average results, but they think average is useful. They figure it is pretty much it will ever get. After all, the equivalent of the person loves the company. However, over time they may find they despise the person more plus more.
Friendship poems make someone i know feel uncommon. Friendship gifts also include short poems to give a smile or a chuckle to your mates face. This Valentine's Day send chocolate hugs rrn your friend or even perhaps a friendship ring will a person are friends forever.
It's genuine that many people are usually jaded about romantic writing as it is previous designed. After I'm writing a poem, I hardly consider its contemporary context. Writing a poem is a voyage of discovery. Besides, a poem could actually cover something -- pets, household, mates, stuff you prefer strive and do. Your poem shouldn't be an editorial. Your poem is superb and spectacular. Read it out loud, slowly!
As up to it hurts, your pain provides all of the keys in the healing and also that don't must be return to where you might be at at the moment. You can decide to apply the lessons now or linger while using the consequences.


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I know I’ve tried and tried and tried and just flopped at being a Christian. Or I tried and tried and tried to be really successful and I’m just really tired. I want something deeper. I want to know you personally. Lord, please come in my heart and make me new and help me understand you better and better. I need a real relationship with you, a covenant relationship with you. Enlighten me and open my eyes. Make me a new creature. Give me a new heart. I pray in Jesus’ name.


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Here you get 7 pointers for a happy marriage. Are you ready to work on your marriage?
- Ask God to be your marriage counselor. Eff 4:2,3
- Put Love FIRST Col 3:14
- Be the BEST cheerleader you can. Ecclesiastes 4:9 Hebrews 10:24-25 spur him on. Stimulate (NASB) Motivate HCB Promote Consider him.
- Forgive your husband when he is being a man. (Col 3:13)
- Tell your husband you appreciate him. Use words, use deeds. 1 Peter 4:8:“Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.”
- Be respectful to your husband. (Respect is a man’s candy bar) 1 Peter 3:1
- Speak kindly: Proverbs 16:24


definition symbiosis: Is a close relationship between two species
types of symbiosis:
Mutualism in this relationship both species benefit one another for example bees and flowers the flowers need the bees because they polonaise the flowers so that they can reproduce and the bees need the flower because the flower gives them nectar to make honey.
Commensalism in this relationship one species benefits and the other is not helped by no one but not harmed. like for example the a person cooks meal for someone and that person eats it the cooker is not getting harmed or helped but the consumer is getting helped.
parasitism in this relationship one species is benefited and the other is harmed for example mosquitoes and humans the mosquitoes bite humans and use blood for energy and humans get harmed because they can get a sickness.


Simon and Marc’s Wedding
Location: Perranporth, Newquay, Cornwall
Marriage is a beautiful time when two souls start to share one heart. Wishing two very special men a lifetime of happiness. May you always find in each other the love, laughter and happiness that only partners in life share. May your life together keep you flying high on the wings of love! Congratulations SIMON and MARC on finding your one true, cool mate. You guys make an amazing couple! Cheers! Loads of love! xoxox
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To equip men and women to make Christ the center of their marriage and experience the blessing of a union under God’s grace and authority.
- Premarital Discipleship - Learn to approach marriage from God’s perspective in areas such as communication, finance, responsibility, and intimacy.
- Marriage Discipleship - For couples who would like to strengthen communication, grow in marriage, and seek practical biblical solutions to issues that hinder companionship.
- Marriage Core Groups - short-term small group marriage enrichment meetings where couples can go through an interactive DVD series aimed at enhancing their marriage.
All marriage Bible studies are offered as part of our CORE Small Groups ministry. View all available Marriage small groups
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Contested child custody situations and parenting plans for non-residential parent in a variety of contexts: divorce, non-married cohabitants, same sex relationships and paternity (parentage).
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Oregon child support guideline calculations, income issues, support for children attending school between the ages of 18-21 years, health insurance and life insurance.
Also known as alimony, this support depends on a number of factors which must be applied to a client’s particular situation to arrive at an amount and duration of support.
This includes division of the assets and debts of the parties such as real property, personal property, business and retirement accounts.
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These involve court orders to be in effect which the divorce case is pending including temporary custody and parenting time, temporary support, and use of the family home.
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Most cases are resolved by the parties reaching an agreement on all divorce issues. Carefully drafted divorce settlement agreements, and the advice and guidance of an experienced attorney, facilitate an amicable resolution of the case.
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This can involve child custody, parenting time and child support issues as well as division of assets and debts.
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By Aaris A. Schroeder
It isn’t a matter of heartbreak for German-based singer-songwriter KELS whose ‘move on’ requiem “Just Let Me Go,” is all about getting back to yourself and not relying on someone to make you or break you. KELS neo-soul-styled lyrics seemingly plead with a man whose belief in their relationship staying together is the meaning of life and she just wants to be let go already.
“Baby you know exactly how
To grind my gears and start my tears
And fill my ears with shit I don’t need to hear
Let’s just let go
Of all the stupid plans and flat romance and lack of understanding”
She started singing as a child and putting her words to tune on her keyboard by 13-years-old – now KELS is all grown up and her music career is being shaped by the sounds she creates. Much of KELS music is about love.


A perfect love
Something I read that Mother Teresa wrote, it clearly made me realize how much we are loved.
“Suffering has to come because if you look at the cross, he has got his head bending down— he wants to kiss you— and he has both hands open wide— he wants to embrace you. He has his heart opened wide to receive you. Then when you feel miserable inside look at the cross and you will know what is happening. Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you come so close that he can kiss you. Do you understand, brothers, sisters, or whoever you may be? Suffering, pain, humiliation— this is the kiss of Jesus. At times you come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you. I once told this to a lady who was suffering very much. She answered, “Tell Jesus not to kiss m— to stop kissing me.” That suffering has to come that came in the life of Our Lady, that came in the life of Jesus— it has to come in our life also. Only never put on a long face. Suffering is a gift from God. It is between you and Jesus alone inside.”


Happy 7th Anniversary
I have to say that 7 years, 2 kids and some crazy health problems I love him so much more and grateful and lucky to have forever with him.
I love Jackson in so many ways, selflessness, hardworking, adventures we love to vacation and not in the same spot. We love New York but we love the beaches in Brazil we absolutly love everything of Alaska. I love how we never do the same thing for example for the majority of our marriage we have never went longer than 3 months in between a vacation and I LOVE that.
great dad, loves family, never speaks mean of people, respects his family, really Ive never heard him ever talk bad about his family EVER, very spiritual, Im 100% sure he is the most humble person I know, makes me feel like Im amazing( which Im not even close ask my family), I always think how lucky I am that heavenly father gave me him, funny, never ever complains about anything, he is by far one of the busiest people I know and Ive never heard him say that he is busy, he is always willing to help people out and he does it because thats how he is not because he wants people to know that he did it, doesnt get mad when I dye his hair a little to dark, we can play games for hours, Ive never ever heard him raise his voice EVER, always calls me at work to see how my day is going, always comes home and helps me with anything Im doing, loves being a husband and dad,
I love you babe


The fearless genius who ensures a calm force of intelligence guides their every mission. But look deeper and you will see an outsider who does not belong, a man of two worlds. This tears him apart, the constant battle between what he thinks and what he feels. What does he do? Does he follow his head, embracing logic and the path of reason? Or does he follow his heart, knowing the emotions he cannot control may destroy him?
AU- Khan’s Commander, his First Officer…. and the very first person he releases.
She’s learnt that she can really trust him on an amazing level. And he, I think, knows that, after having gone through that, she appreciates his situation a lot more. They’re seeing each other differently at the end of it. They’re much closer at the end. —Paul Cornell


How much do I need to inform this guy about myself on our next date? I like him therefore we clicked. I am separated, but my ex remains disruptive and meet lesbian near mean to the two young ones.
I am afraid if I tell extreme about us to this brand-new man, I’ll lose him. Exactly what must I do?
Those initial phases of dating feels like you’re on a roller coaster.
Along the way within the slope, you prefer the pleasure for the beginning therefore need to make sure he understands all whilst excitement lasts.
On route down, you fear the not known, so that you grasp that handrail and restrain in excess.
You are not by yourself. Most of us wish to be liked and accepted, nevertheless the ride can be really scary.
Here are some tips to obtain smart and courageous about those first couple of times.
In case you are a parent, then inform your big date. You cannot cover it.
Nevertheless don’t need to go into the reputation of your ex. Stay in the current moment and take pleasure in your time and effort collectively.
“you can tell him a lot more if
the partnership goes on.”
Make your own dates resemble everyday life. Visit your area’s events, run chores, go out with pals.
Observe how the guy treats other individuals and also you. Is actually he patient, or does the guy begrudge doing some things fancy?
Meal chat is inexpensive. Witnessing him interact explains whether you can rely on him with advice concerning your last.
Resist the urge to rush the closeness by advising your life story too soon.
You do not however discover how this new individual thinks. Advising most of the good and the bad into your life makes you look eager to be enjoyed.
Talk about your last typically terms. Supply the tip of this iceberg at the start.
You may display your divorce or separation ended up being crude but you’re much better at handling it now.
Be you. Leave him view you be indecisive or spill the beverage, and then note their responses.
Your own convenience with his convenience along with you shall help you decide what, whenever and when to reveal the a lot more personal area.
On different dates, if he requests additional information, consider exactly how daring and strong you were to go away your ex partner.
You can simply tell him more if the connection continues.
Women, I would like to know: How do you keep yourself from exposing excessively too soon?
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I had a plan for my life and I was working my butt off to achieve my goals. But things don’t always go according to my plan, and I’m happy God’s plan was bigger and better!
Alex is my destiny. The way the stars aligned to bring us together can’t be denied. The process started years ago, long before we ever knew of each other’s existence. We were on completely different paths, and then one day in 2016 our paths finally crossed. It was fate.
I’ll never forget our first date. After dinner we went back to my apartment and sat and talked for hours. We had only had one conversation before our date, so I had no idea what to expect, but by the end of the night, I knew something was there. The memory of Alex walking out my door and turning right on the sidewalk will be etched in my memory forever. It was in that moment that I knew he was the one. He was my forever. And I wasn’t ready for it.
Over the next couple of weeks, I found myself grinning like a teenage girl when her crush talks to her every time Alex sent me a text. It drove me crazy that my face reacted that way because inside I was trying to fight my feelings for him. Alex was everything I had ever wanted, and that terrified me. He was a grownup, and I wasn’t used to dating grownups. I knew with him everything would be different. He went out of his way to show me he cared about me and every time I told him I wasn’t ready for a committed relationship, he said the way I look at him said otherwise. And he was right. The feelings were there but inside I felt so conflicted.
My gut was telling me to run and have some fun before I settle down, but my heart was telling me that this man is THE ONE and I better not let him go. The more I tried to fight my feelings for Alex, the more I fell for him. He’s the most charismatic, charming, confident man I have ever met. And the stars had aligned perfectly to bring us together.
Our relationship became special in a very short time. And six weeks after our first date, Alex proposed. Everyone thought we were bat shit crazy, but we didn’t care. We knew how we felt and we just went with that. We have made God the center of our marriage and He continues to bless us daily.
Shane is our biggest blessing. He is a product of true love and he brings us more joy than we ever thought possible. With Shane and Alex, I feel complete. I am the best version of me because of their love.
Alex and I talk often about the ironies of our fateful meeting and it always makes me smile. To hear him tell the story of how he felt the first time he laid eyes on me is magical.
I thank God every day for the path he put me on that led to Alex. He is my hubby. He is my destiny.


I was somebody's Wise Girl once
"A couple shouldn't tear each other down. They should make each other whole. Percy and Annabeth are a perfect example of that."
I'll find you one day Seaweed Brain. I love you.❤
Divergent,Demigod,Tribute and Cancer Patient


Day 3 - Your idea of the perfect first date.hmmm. This is a good question. I would love to say how romantic and lovey Mikey and my first date was, and it really was, I just wasnt feeling it our first time dating. This was 3 years ago. He picked me up looking nice and dressed up, brought me tulips, which he didnt know were my favorite flower, and we went to lunch. We had a good time, but I was hung up on another guy who really wasnt worth my thoughts, so I wasnt really open to feeling anything for Mikey. I kept thinking what an idiot I was, hes perfect, has good values, respectful, thoughful, sweet, not a lowlife. I just couldnt feel it.
Fast forward almost 3 years and the other guy is long gone from my thoughts, and so are a few other losers. I wasnt really looking for love, just feeling like I aughta be more social, so I joined Facebook and was hooked pretty quickly. Browsing for friends, I came across Mikey on a mutual friends list and sent him a message, I remembered what a good friend he was when we tried dating before and decided to start the friendship up again. It was in the back of my mind that I hope we can try the dating thing again, with less pressure. The first time, I knew how much he liked me and I felt pressured into liking him and that didnt work for me. This time, I was a happier, more open person and didnt feel any pressure. We went into the "dating thing" as more of a "hanging out with friends thing" we had some Pizza and watched a movie, my brother, his girlfriend and my sister were all there, so there wasnt any pressure. We hung out more and more and things fell into place and here we are, married and loving it!


For each new morning with its light
For rest and shelter of the night
For health and food
For love and friends
For everything Thy goodness sends.
We are truly thankful for each and every one of you and wish you and your families a wonderful day!
Words by Ralph Waldo Emerson and photos via Pinterest
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Wishing you both a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. Hope it’s a special day.
What a beautiful post. I hope you both have a lovely Thanksgiving. Thanks for all the beauty and inspiration you bring into our lives. XO
So lovely! Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday!
What a lovely tribute! Nicely done and Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving Carolyn! Warm holiday wishes to you and yours! xx
Happy + Thankful Thanksgiving to you and yours!xxx
Love them all : ) Happy thanksgiving to all of you and your families! So happy to have met you this past year! xxKelly
What a lovely post…Have a wonderful day with your family xo
Beautiful! Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving as well.
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