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Tag: Choice

How to Make Positive Choices in Your Relationships

Phil and Maude Jul 12, 2026 Tagged with Choice, Honesty, Peaceful relationships, Truth
How to Make Positive Choices in Your Relationships

Each week, we jam about a topic and record it. This week, the conversation was so on point that we cleaned up the audio and turned it into the dialog below. PHIL: Two or three weeks ago, I found myself …

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Why Peaceful Relationships Depend on What You Do and Don’t Do

Phil and Maude Mar 2, 2025 Tagged with Choice
Why Peaceful Relationships Depend on What You Do and Don’t Do

MAUDE: It was recently our 20th anniversary of meeting (and a joyous celebration it was!), and Phil and I were talking about the components of our relationship and other deep relationships with friends and family. The flavor of those peaceful …

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Embracing Acceptance: How to Let Go of Annoyances in Relationships

Phil and Maude Feb 16, 2025 Tagged with Acceptance, Choice
Embracing Acceptance: How to Let Go of Annoyances in Relationships

MAUDE: Phil shared a thought last night: “Why get cross with anyone? You will only have to fix it later. It’s like knocking over a vase of flowers because you don’t like the arrangement. You’ll just have to mop up …

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It’s Important to Know You Can Choose Peaceful Relationships

Phil and Maude Oct 20, 2024 Tagged with Choice
It’s Important to Know You Can Choose Peaceful Relationships

MAUDE: In our post last week, we wrote about the struggles we have all been going through in the tense situation before this country’s election, the raging wars in the world, climate change, and the overall uncertainty and anxiety caused …

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Chance or Choice?

Phil Jun 26, 2012 Tagged with Chance, Choice, Luck

Sometimes I think that we put out such a strong message of how well we relate that people are discouraged and think that we are lucky to be so specially matched. But it’s not what we are, what lottery tickets …

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