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Dysfunctional Relationships
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Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can be worked out in the development of unhealthy denial, workaholism, perfectionism, chameleon-type behavior, and sadl
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― Growing a Passionate Heart
― Growing a Passionate Heart
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[Silent Messages]
I’ve lost track of all the times
I have passed by married couples or lovers
Dinning at fancy upscale restaurants in foreign cities
When the woman sitting across the table from her lover
Gives me that quick look
Conveying in a painful silence
That she no longer loves him,
That she wishes she were elsewhere…
And each time, I respond with an equally silent look:
Why are you there?
Why don’t you turn this dinner table of triviality on him,
And on everything that happened and is ha
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Sad, Scared, Confused is a conversation between a nine year old boy and his parents about sexual…more
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