October 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
Are you dealing with a passive-aggressive friendship, or wondering if you have one but aren’t quite sure? Or perhaps someone called you passive-aggressive and you want to know what it means. The truth is, we all exhibit passive-aggressive behavior at…
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October 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
There’s an old saying, the best things in life are free. That isn’t true about one of life’s greatest gifts, friendship. Friendship is not free, though it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, really none at all. We…
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October 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
When deciding to strike up a friendship with someone new, it’s impossible to know what hidden demons they may possess. We all have issues, so it should be no surprise that our friends have issues as well. If you find…
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October 2, 2015 Friends and Peers
In June of 2004, my dearest friend told me she was moving to Nevada to be with her man. I suspected this was coming and I was happy for her, but that didn’t give me strength or comfort. When I…
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September 22, 2015 Friends and Peers
The telephone rang. It was a close friend calling to “break up” the friendship. She did not use those words, but that is exactly how it felt. Her voice was clearly saying, “I feel a sense of a need for closure.” The writer…
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September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
Think of your best friend. Why are you friends? Your answer can be anything from a long description of what you like about each other, to something as simple as “I am me, He is he.” We can’t say what…
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September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
“He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.” Eleanor Roosevelt The most popular sayings about friendship remind us to be honest and loyal, to value our friends, and…
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September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
When two people of the opposite sex start spending time together, some of it alone, in activities that could appear as dating, someone invariably asks the question, “Are you two, you know, together?” “No, we’re just friends.” Just friends. The…
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September 17, 2015 Friends and Peers
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” G. Randolph The best quotes on friendship are the ones that inspire us to be better friends. Reading them re-warms a place in our heart and…
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September 14, 2015 Friends and Peers
It’s been said that good friends are good listeners, but listening is only one part of the communication equation. All communication, by definition is two way. It requires someone to send a message, verbally, non-verbally, voice message, or text and…
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September 13, 2015 Friends and Peers
I have been in love and I have had friends. I have been in love with my friend, and had friends that I wished I could love, but didn’t. I have never failed to sense the difference between love and…
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September 9, 2015 Friends and Peers
Healthy friendships are like a healthy body. You have to take care of it if you want it to last through the years. It is so easy to let our friendships slip away through the years as our lives become…
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September 9, 2015 Friends and Peers
Some people have no trouble making friends. They never go a day without a call from a friend and they never spend a Friday night at home alone. Then there are the rest of us. Making friends is not so…
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Negative or positive, our thoughts create our attitude, and in turn, how we experience the world. It can be a bright place full of the promise of tomorrow, or a drudge to be tolerated until something better finally comes along….
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You pass an idle Sunday afternoon in the bookstore with your new love, the person you think might be “the one” when suddenly someone you think is much better looking than you walks up to your lover and says hello….
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I never want anyone to say I’m too old to learn anything new, as I used to say about the older workers when computers became common in the workplace. I remember how sorry I felt for the plump secretary just…
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My mother earned her lines, veins, spots, and wrinkles by years of worrying. In my youthful grace, I didn’t understand these medals she wore. My mother’s family was shaped by the Great Depression, an era when no part of the…
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Every woman knows the meaning of a gorgeous bouquet of a dozen red roses delivered to the office in the middle of the day. Everyone waits to see who the lucky woman is, and all the rest cannot deny at…
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We commonly say that “blood is thicker than water,” but is it? The original phrase, “Blood is thicker than water,” was first attributed to John Lygates in his “Troy Book” c. 1492. The phrase commonly means that people will do…
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