The magic ingredient: Curiosity
I am again sharing one of my favorite posts.
Mending Fractured Relationships
How you can mend relationships that have been severed by politics (or anything else!).
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Used with permission from Today’s Hope, a 12 step website/app for those in relationships with alcoholics or addicts.
VUCA
The military developed a term to summarize what happens during war, VUCA.
How money affects relationships
I have been noticing how many ways that differences about money can derail a relationship. Stories about inheritances going to one person instead of being split equally, how to split the cost of dates or rent or group dinners, whether to let someone live in your house rent free, the cost of participating in a wedding, all become issues that can derail a relationship.
How do we deal with a chronic liar? Or with someone we don’t trust?
I think we have all had the experience of finding out that someone has broken our trust.
Five phrases to help you in a difficult conversation
These are from Barb Nangle, who guest posted on my newsletter a while ago. Here is a link to her podcast where she talks about these in more detail.
Give someone a compliment
I’ve been practicing giving compliments.
Repost: What team are you on?
I am recovering from being away on vacation, so I am reposting one of my favorites.
The opposite of a truth may also be true
As someone trained in analytical thinking, I would sometimes find information that didn’t fit into what I thought was true, that didn’t fit into the narrative I had been developing, given the data I had already collected.
Repost: How do you know whom to trust?
I was going to write a new newsletter on Trust, but I found I wrote this one a year ago.