Successful Relationships Reading Corner
This week, we wrote about how important is is to make fairness a foundation of all your relationships. Here are some other posts we’ve written that speak to different aspects of this topic.
This week, we wrote about how important is is to make fairness a foundation of all your relationships. Here are some other posts we’ve written that speak to different aspects of this topic.
PHIL: Maude posted a meme on Facebook: “Be loving today – you can be right tomorrow” that generated an unusually enthusiastic response. Why were people so taken with this attitude? Let’s first consider why we like to be right. We …
This week, we wrote about how important is is to make fairness a foundation of all your relationships. Here are some other posts we’ve written that speak to different aspects of this topic.
This week, we wrote about how important is is to make fairness a foundation of all your relationships. Here are some other posts we’ve written that speak to different aspects of this topic.
There are multiple ways to solve a problem. Once you share the same values with someone, you can deal with decisions and disagreements without generating rancor, and by exploring, you can find a solution that works for both of you.
Your core values affect everything that you do and decide, including how you feel and respond to other people. Having matching or complementary core values with another person is necessary for a peaceful relationship.
For the last few weeks, we have been writing about subtle aspects of peaceful relationships. It is now time to describe the five principles for creating peaceful relationships, of which these subtle aspects are a part. These are: Knowing and …
Formulating your values and having an ever increasing awareness of what they are gives you a strong tool to move toward inner peace and peace within your relationships. The more you know your values, the easier you will find it to build relationships that bring satisfaction and fulfillment.
Peace is sometimes regarded as an absence or a state of inertness, like the peace of the dead, but thinking that way obscures that it is an actual experience. Just as you can be in a state of agitation, worry or panic, you can also be in a state of peace.
How do you develop trust in a relationship? Regardless of how another behaves, there is always an important option open to each of us, and that is to be trustworthy. We can bring the behavior of how it is when someone can be trusted into each and every relationship.