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The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

…the source of destructive behavior and how it manifests itself in personal relationships between men, women, couples, and families, and in the social arena. We present a position that offers a hope of altering the destiny of humankind’s unethical behavior through better psychological understanding and education. Understanding the source of a person’s aggressiveness in defending the fantasy bond and learning to cope with the voice process have stro…

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Love

…re an expression of his/her nature and his/her sensitivity to your nature. Couples hurt each other by overlooking these acts as love. However when you acknowledge them, you are accepting the love your partner is offering to you. 2. Be grateful and express appreciation Once you have acknowledged what is being given to you and have then accepted it, the next step is to be grateful and express gratitude to your partner. Your gratitude would not be co…

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The Destructive Ways We Self-Parent as Adults

…elf-parent, we repeat patterns from our childhood, especially in our adult relationships. One woman I spoke to described having a mother who tore her down and often felt jealous of her. On the other hand, her father built her up for being “adorable” and showered her with attention until she got older and was no longer a “little girl.” Throughout her teen and young adult years, her mother remained critical and emotionally hungry, while her father b…

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Sabotage You

…l Inner Voice, which limits our lives and undermines our relationships? When we know ourselves, we’re able to make conscious, informed decisions about our lives. By taking action to challenge the thoughts that lure us into the same bad habits, the same troublesome interactions and the same destructive relationships, we can have integrity in our choices. We can reshape our self-perception and understand who we really are and what we really want in…

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Sibling Rivalry, brothers and sisters

Siblings: Retaliation or Sadistic Pleasure

…their emotional reactivity and have difficulty seeing the cause and effect relationship between their reactions and the consequences. Other diagnosis such as Bipolar disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder and Anxiety Disorder to name a few are clinical conditions that are also associated with difficult behaviors. If a child has a clinical condition, the demand on parents to manage the sibling relationship is much more challenged. Parenting childre…

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Destructive Relationships

…gical tension and emotional anxiety in us. This is where we usually get in trouble. Instead of adjusting to the new positive emotional environment, we try to readjust our current circumstances to recreate the early environment that we are accustomed to. There are three ways that we typically go about accomplishing this. 1. Selection: The easiest way to duplicate the emotional climate that we grew up in is to pick a partner who is similar to signif…

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Want to get help now?

…and understanding toward you. This therapist would utilize the therapeutic relationship to help you recover your feelings for yourself and to implicitly teach you to value yourself as a unique individual. The ideal therapist would be sensitive to the ways in which people have been hurt early in their lives. He/she would be skillful in helping you to reconnect to yourself and to your life. To achieve this goal, a therapist must be sensitive to your…

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Who Do You Think You Are? And Why You May Be Wrong

…our lives. For example, a man who had struggled with developing a romantic relationship wanted to break his pattern and be in a serious, loving relationship. Time and time again, he had found himself being most drawn toward women who were self-focused, aloof, and distant. When a woman he dated showed a real interest in him, laughed at his jokes, and outwardly expressed attraction, he’d pull away and lose interest. Yet, when a woman paid him interm…

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Quiz: Are You Open with Your Partner?

…nness and honesty are integral parts of making a relationship work. When a relationship stops working, you often hear of couples arguing or ignoring each other to an extent in which it no longer seems possible for them to communicate clearly. Common communication hazards in couple relationships include: the surfacing of critical attitudes, harsh, insensitive statements, talking over each other, failing to listen to each other or look for truth in…

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Addiction: The Causes of Abuse and Dependence And How to Break the Cycle

…ervations and studies involving human beings support the view that healthy relationships and absence of trauma foster recovery from addiction and resilience to prevent it. During the Viet Nam war, about 20 per cent of soldiers developed an addiction to heroin, according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. People stateside were worried about an influx of addicts returning to America. Instead, 95 per cent of the addicted sold…

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