Category: How to deal

When you first start dating someone, the situation is exciting. It can also be a bit nerve-wracking. You’re still working to figure out if there’s a connection that could lead to something long term. As part of that process, you might, at least once, get ‘ghosted’ by someone that you …

Do you ever get angry and lose your temper? I’ve done this, and it can be embarrassing. Especially if the level of anger is disproportionate to what triggered it. Looking silly is never fun, and I always regret it later.  Being controlled by one’s emotions is just bad. Anger can be a great …

Respect is something we don’t really think about, until we experience the lack of it.  I wrote this post to help others with issues I’ve gone through in both my personal and professional lives. Respect is something to be given to others, and to be both expected and earned from them in …

‘So are you ready to go your separate ways?‘ I looked at the divorce lawyer, and thought seriously about my answer.  We had had no contact in over a year, but this was a serious question to me. After all, no one gets married with the idea that they will …

  8 years ago, I got bad news about my health. ‘It’s lupus.’ The only time I had heard of lupus was in a movie I watched in the 1980’s, ‘Gross Anatomy’. The mentor of the main character, after being unavailable during multiple big events, revealed that she had lupus.  In …