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Why Do We Get Married?
Last weekend we drove to Bend, Oregon, an eight hour drive from our home on the Olympic Peninsula, for my older daughter’s wedding. I was excited because she has waited so long to find the right person, someone with her … Continue reading
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Caring, Care-taking, Enabling: Which Is Which?
In all my friendships over the years I have tried to be a caring, committed friend. It wasn’t until I had been in Alanon for awhile that I began to see that sometimes what I thought of as caring was … Continue reading
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Tagged care-taking, Caring, enabling, friendship woes, my problem or yours? life mistakes
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Failure: What Is That, Anyway?
Writing about success last week started me thinking about failure. For years after each of my two marriages collapsed, I felt shame because of what I perceived as my failure. I no longer feel shame, and I don’t think I … Continue reading
Success: What It Means To Me
After I started blogging for the Huffington Post, several friends wrote to congratulate me on my success. Which made me start thinking about what ‘success’ means to me. And I was kind of surprised. I wanted to demur, and not … Continue reading
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Healing2
A young friend of mine was talking to me about Melody Beattie, and that she found her work on co-dependence very interesting, especially her list of co-dependent characteristics. That interested me as well, so I asked her to email the … Continue reading
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Tagged co-dependence, healing, self care, self-awareness, setting boundaries
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Healing: When We Feel Helpless
I always blog in the morning on Mondays, but today I forgot. My grandson has been wheezing in an odd sort of way, has been given steroids twice, but is still wheezing. Question this AM: is it a tumor or … Continue reading
Coping With The Unexpected
When I sat down to write my blog this morning, I expected to be writing about healing, which I fell asleep thinking about. Before I write, I always check my emails. There were quite a few from people I had … Continue reading
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Sports, Women, and Femininity!
When my daughters were little, they both played soccer with a vengeance. The younger followed her older sibling into the sport, and eventually was invited to play competitively in China when she was in high school. Their Dad, politically left, … Continue reading
The Power Of Memory
Last night I watched “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”, which I hadn’t seen in years. Its relevance for today was both surprising and overwhelming to me. For those of you who don’t remember, or have never seen it, Jimmy Stewart … Continue reading
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Love and How Little We Know About It
Yesterday I saw a movie entitled, “Beginners.” The protagonist discovers that his father is gay when his mother dies. His parents were married for 45 years. The revelation explains lots about his parents’ unhappy marriage, but nevertheless leaves him with … Continue reading
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Tagged excitement, intimacy, love, vulnerability
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