When you feel like you don’t deserve love, you might feel as if love is something that everyone else gets, but you never will. It can be frustrating to watch all sorts of other people find love, keep love, and make it look easy. Some people even seem to take love for granted. Meanwhile, you […]
Falling for another’s “potential” is a common but dangerous trap in relationships. You meet someone and inside they are just so brilliant, creative, sweet, wonderful, talented- but sadly they just don’t seem to know it. You see something in them that they can’t see for themselves. You love them so much, and you just want […]
I like to look at my website statistics, to see how people find this site. The keyword phrases can be pretty interesting- I get many people looking for “Zacatecas ice cream.” Many people are also looking for help with finding love, keeping love, and navigating relationships. While I can’t really offer much help in the […]
One day, my husband and I were riding our bicycles around town. We arrived at a crosswalk that has a sensor for bikes, and when you ride over it, lights on the “Pedestrian Crossing” sign flash, and cars are expected to stop as you bike through. As we approached, the lights flashed, and we started […]
It is very difficult to find a Hollywood movie that depicts a truthful relationship. Most depict relationships in one of two ways. The first involves two people who fall madly in love, often portrayed through a montage of happy activities set to music (my husband calls this “The A-Team Sequence”). Inevitably, someone messes up, and […]
The other day, our dog Maude was walking around with a rawhide clenched in her teeth. She walked over to her water bowl, and clearly wanted a drink, but was unwilling to drop the rawhide to get the drink. She was holding on to it out of fear of losing it; a fear that comes […]
Fred Flintstone would always give Wilma a bowling ball on her birthday. Every single year, she’d get something that would make a better birthday gift for Fred. He never really figured out what she wanted, and repeatedly gave her what he would like to have for himself. In relationships, we all can be a bit […]
When I was in college, I loved jogging. I was like Forrest Gump; running and running and running. It got to where people recognized me, and asked if they could run with me, and most of the time, I said yes. Now, I was not a fast runner, but I could run very long distances. […]
If you have been involved with someone or something for a long time, there are words and actions that become habitual, due to their frequency. We may end up losing some of the meaning behind our words and actions. So, saying “I love you” to a partner can become something we say when we may […]
Mice easily enter a house that has openings, warmth, and easy access to food. Basically, they will come in as far as you let them, and take whatever you leave out for them, whether it is nesting material or food. To keep them out, you have to seal the cracks to the outside, and keep […]