Tag Archives: fights

Maybe It’s Your Fault Your Parents Don’t Like Your Spouse

There must be millions of in-laws stories or jokes like if you look up the word Satan in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of my mother-in-law holding a pitchfork, with horns growing out of her head. But the reality is not humorous. Many a marriage counselor has heard stories about how the in-laws are ruining their clients’ marriages. “If only they weren’t around, we would have a wonderful life, but . . .” And many a husband or wife …

Children of Divorce

A couple of years ago, I saw an interview with a single man and a single woman who had decided to have a child together but they didn’t want to enter into a conventional relationship. They weren’t attracted to each other, nor did they want to have sex with one another or marry each other. What they wanted was to have a child together by IVF, and be totally committed to the child rather than being committed to one another. …

Do You Like Your Partner?

We always hear people talking about falling in love, falling out of love, looking for love, looking for love in all the wrong places, or not wanting to be in love for fear of getting hurt. What we don’t hear too often is falling in like. Falling in like doesn’t give you the same sizzle as falling in love but there is still a chemistry that has to take place for the relationship to succeed. For one thing, you have …

Teen Bullying Reaches New Low

Up until now, bullying in the schools has been downplayed, regardless of the number of suicides that have resulted from it. Hopefully, that will soon come to an end. A Florida sheriff arrested two girls, ages 14 and 12 for their part in the cyberbullying of a 12-year-old girl that led to her suicide. Her diaries detailed how she had been tormented online and at school by as many as 15 girls before she climbed a tower at an abandoned …

California Gives Teenagers Another Chance

I applaud Gov. Jerry Brown who just signed a bill into law that allows children under eighteen to delete their dumb mistakes from their online accounts. California is the first state to require websites to allow minors to delete their own postings and to clearly inform them how to do so. Teenagers don’t have the emotional maturity to evaluate the consequences of their online actions and they may carry the stigma of rash postings all the days of their life. …