Low self-esteem living with an emotionally unavailable spouse
Is your self-esteem getting low and lower? Living with someone who is usually withdrawn and detached from you is heavy punishment to your self-esteem. Either you have selected this person to share your life because you need to compensate for past karma, or by sheer ignorance of his emotional availability, now it doesn’t matter. You […]
Fair Fighting at the Holidays Can be Fulfilling, Not Frustrating
Wait, you want to be fair fighting during the holiday season, right? Family tension, long to-do lists, in-laws, calendars packed with events and parties… the holidays are fraught with possibilities for conflict. Yet most people will tell you the last thing they want to do at Christmas is a fight, again. Everyone wants the holidays […]
Silent Treatment Turns to Anger at the Holidays
The Silent Treatment causing anger at the holidays is not an oxymoron! Holidays bring out emotions in many of us that we are not used to dealing with the rest of the year, often feelings that are unexpected or even confusing. The worst of those emotions anger that simmers or surfaces that can cause us […]