The real danger with venting is that you can use it to cope so well, that you cope yourself into accepting the status quo.
Why Divorce Is Always An Option
The Conversation to Avoid After an Affair
“The time following the disclosure of an affair is usually terrible. But it’s terrible whether you decide to leave or you decide to stay. You need to have time to gather information, process your own experience and reflect on what rebuilding the relationship would require of each person before you can make a thoughtful decision that usually has far-reaching implications.”
How Therapists Fight in Real Life
Forgiveness Defined
"Forgiveness is the process by which love and trust are reestablished in relationships. Forgiveness doesn't consist of simple platitudes or superficial statements that are expected to make the past go away. It is not forgetting about serious damage or letting someone off who caused hurt without taking responsibility. It is not about subjecting yourself to an untrustworthy or unloving person who will just hurt you all over again. What forgiveness is about is the coming together of at least two people, after there has been severe damage or hurt in their relationship, to rewrite the story of love and trust in a responsible way that will make their relationship and families stronger and healthier."
Forgiving the Devil, by Terry Hargrave
Making Life More Balanced for Both Partners
What's Normal in Relationships?
Why Self-Care is so Damn Hard
Feeling Disconnected from your Partner? Try this.
"Marriage as the badass, brave way to go forth"
Laughed and felt inspired watching this interview with Lake Bell, talking about not only her film, but how her perspective on marriage has evolved. "Coming from a person who did not believe in the institution, I actually see it (marriage) as the badass, brave way to go forth"
Theodore
For the moments when we're feeling timid or afraid:
"It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Don't Wait To Get The Help You Need
What are you experiencing that you don't know how to address? Are you experiencing an increase in anxiety and not sure why or what you can do about it? Are you feeling depressed and silently carrying it around by yourself? How is what you're experiencing impacting your relationship and how are your relationships impacting what you're experiencing?
How to Love your Partner Better
Good relationships that get better over time are those that can acknowledge they don't know everything about how to love their partner well. They are open to critiques, willing to share critiques so their partner isn't in the dark and eager to learn what kind of actions leave their partner feeling loved and understood.
The Benefits of Listening to our Discomfort
Infidelity Lives in the Silence
Dealing with Conflict and Getting Intimate with your Partner
Five Steps to Finding Your Therapist
Finding your voice
Relationship Tips for this Holiday Season
Amazing Tips On How We Unintentionally Parent
Gentle Parenting Answers with Paige http://www.parentinggently.com