Connecting IRL: Realistic Expectations If you are a rule person or a numbers person, this is going to make your day. There is a formula that expresses how to experience satisfaction in your relationships. Here it is: Satisfaction with Relationships = Reality – Expectations S = R – E Let me flesh…
Let’s Talk About Boundaries! Personal boundaries are limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships. This includes our bodies, property, emotions, preferences, opinions, time, and spiritual beliefs. Boundaries define where you stop and others begin – like a property fence shows where your yard ends and your neighbor’s yard begins…
Connecting IRL (In Real Life) Have you found that binging on social media is not fulfilling? Social media is like the junk food of relationships. Junk food fills an urge: reducing hunger, but the underlying need (nutrition) is not met. Social media seems to fill an urge: reducing aloneness or feeling unknown. But in…
Thinking of Having an Affair? Most of us don’t actually think about having an affair, really. I mean, we know we’re not supposed to wander. We’re not jerks. Until a few things happen, that is. First, our relationship with our spouse gets a little neglected – there are about an infinite amount of reasons…