Emotional Openness

Emotional Openness

Those of you who are married, are you able to have an intimate conversation with your spouse? And when I say, “intimate,” I’m not using a code word for talking about sex, although the conversation may be about that. I’m talking about any conversation that involves a...
Embrace the Positive

Embrace the Positive

In family life, it’s really easy to point out the flaws of the other people in your house. Part of the reason for this is that the flaws are so easy to see! The fact that home is where people are letting their guard down combined with the sheer amount of time that you...
Don’t Push Your Agenda

Don’t Push Your Agenda

We all know someone who is a super-sized college football or basketball fan. That person who bleeds their school colors, has at least one room decked out in their school’s paraphernalia, and wouldn’t think about driving without their alma mater’s flag flapping in the...
Downplaying Drama

Downplaying Drama

We live in a society that seems to love drama. Have you noticed? People will pick sides and then fight about any issue with people who don’t agree with them. We’ve all seen plenty of people yelling and screaming at each other because they don’t agree about something....
Don’t Editorialize, Just Listen

Don’t Editorialize, Just Listen

I recently listened to a contentious exchange between a news anchor and an interviewee. The anchor asked a question and did a little editorializing of their own that really put the person they were talking to on their back foot immediately. As I listened, it struck me...