are you able to really open up in conversations with your partner? how often have you walked away from a conversation with your partner feeling angry, disappointed, or misunderstood? in the heat of the moment, we tend to forget how to be kind, patient, and loving. don’t bring up your bedroom issues at the beginning of the super bowl or launch into a serious talk on your way to a holiday party. and never start a conversation when you’re too …

how can we create more trust when we continue to lie to the people closest to us in countless ways? it’s important to differentiate ourselves from harmful influences on our personality that don’t reflect who we really are and what we really want. when we are true to ourselves in this way, we are better able to be honest with the people around us.

sharing life with someone, we are bound to notice some of their negative tendencies and defenses …

if you want to be with someone else, you shouldn’t be in a relationship in the first place. i think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. for me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my god, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. my girlfriend …

it is a violation of law in some jurisdictions to falsely identify yourself in an email. and it is the main way you can communicate to others that it is safe to join you in dialogue. if you have an outsized reaction in a family conversation, it’s the same type of indicator—something is going on inside you that needs to be explored. if the interaction becomes a debate about your spending, you can’t get into reflective dialogue about the real …

votes: 3 marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. it’s strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. votes: 1 for a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to …