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Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

Is Your Love Account Full Enough?

If you are bickering with your spouse a lot, odds are that you get on edge fairly frequently.

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Traffic is horrible, and you’re yelling in your car at the jerk who pulled right in front of you. You hate your f#$&%@$ job, and your boss is such a jerk. Then you get home, hoping to find some peace and rest. Not today. Here we go again and the fight starts, usually for some utterly unimportant reason.

Then your son comes with a request.

But the poor kid isn’t aware what’s going on. So he feels your wrath too as you snap at him.

So what do you do?

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Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

What Does Doing a Good Job and Giving Your Best Really Mean?

Most people think that if you do a poor job, you get poor results. You do a good job, you get good results. If you do an excellent job, well, then you get excellent results.

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To me, this is plain wrong. This is not how the world spins, though I wish it did.

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How Much Time Together is Enough?

When you’re in love with someone you’re going to organize your schedule to make them a priority. Then you get married and you kind of get accustomed to having each other around.

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Gradually, everything else seems more important, and the relationship drifts to the bottom. Then one or the other partner (or both!) get dissatisfied, and they start looking for excitement and adventure elsewhere.