At our first appointment, I learned that Billy had stopped drinking about two years earlier, for health reasons. His doctor had bluntly told him that if he continued to drink he was a dead man.
Kathy was furious with Billy for his years of alcohol abuse, and for the first three sessions she angrily described to me how awful their life had been during his drinking years. She filled the room with complaints about his parenting and his irresponsible behavior. Continue reading »
“Homesick”. If you live far away from your house, most of us often you feel homesick. When college students just start their college life and live separately from their parents, they often feel homesick at the beginning. When you are being assigned to do business trip for one week, you already miss your spouse and children since the first day you leave the house. Continue reading »
Everybody thinks they know what it is to forgive, but the truth is that many people are unclear about what forgiveness actually is. They form their understanding of forgiveness from old church sermons or from snippets of information in magazines or movies. Continue reading »
The keys:
If you answered yes to:
0–2: You are doing a good job of keeping resentment at bay and can successfully manage the normal disagreements of a relationship. You need this book only if you are in a new relationship to prepare for issues that have yet to surface. Or you need this book if you are going through a particularly good patch but have had some issues in the past. There is no bad time to learn the skills of forgiveness. Continue reading »
Please answer yes or no to the following questions.
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