Hope: A Commitment to Staying in Relationship

Hope: A Commitment to Staying in Relationship

Hope: A Commitment to Staying in Relationship Hope is often understood as a wish for a specific future outcome, as in “I hope it won’t rain tomorrow during our hike.” In this sense, hope and wish are similar; both express a passive stance in which the subject has...
Lessons from Beethoven’s Late Quartets

Lessons from Beethoven’s Late Quartets

    Lessons from Beethoven’s Late String Quartets Andante from quartet 131 The composer Ludwig Van Beethoven wrote 17 string quartets during his life. Six of them in a span of two years, 1825-26, just before his death in March 1827. These quartets were...
Love the One You are with…

Love the One You are with…

Love the One You are with… Outside the realm of the fairy tales, committed-relationships come with difficulties and challenges. That is at least what I have learned from my personal and professional experience.Cinderella and Prince Charming seem so sweet together, yet...
Safe Place and Bomb Shelter

Safe Place and Bomb Shelter

Safe Place and Bomb Shelter Where do you feel safe? Some people feel safe by the sea watching the waves and smelling the salt and the foam. Feeling the soft sand under their bare feet might add comfort and calmness for some. Others feel safe in the dimmer light of a...
When you are unhappy, I am unhappy…

When you are unhappy, I am unhappy…

WHEN YOU ARE UNHAPPY, I AM UNHAPPY… When you are unhappy, I am unhappy… Does this phrase sound familiar? Unfortunately, many couples relate to each other from this assumption. They might or even consider it a mutual commitment, namely, to mirror each other’s bad...
Of the Terrible Doubt

Of the Terrible Doubt

Of the Terrible Doubt Of the terrible doubt of appearances,Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all…~Walt Whitman~ The majority of people are yearning for more intimacy and affection in their...