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Your Truth vs. The Truth: can two conflicting realities both be true?

It used to really bug me when people would use the phrase, “your truth.” It always seemed to me a convenient evasion from the hard work of sober thinking, of confronting difficult truths about life and self, a denial of Truth itself. What I discovered is that many people indeed use it for these purposes,…

October 26, 2020 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Musings, Psychology Corner.

Text fighting with your spouse is a bad idea

Mutual understanding is the lifeblood of successful marriages. Take any successful relationship you know of and you can bet they succeed because they’ve learned the art of communicating. Without it even the best relationships shipwreck. But as every man who has ever tried to argue with a woman, and every woman who has ever tried…

December 9, 2019 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Musings, Psychology Corner.

“Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh”

  The primordial man says of his wife, “This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” (Gen 2:23) St. Nikolai of Ohrid on this verse repeats a familiar consensus of the church saying, “this is the foundation and reason for the mysterious attraction and unity of husband and wife.” As with…

November 25, 2018 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Musings, Uncategorized.

One thing you may want to avoid if you discover your child is cutting

“She just does it for attention,” is the statement I hear most often from parents with children who self-mutilate, and forgive me but this is often a wholly inadequate take on the situation, a judgment used by parents as a quick-fix diagnosis to relieve them of the mental shock brought on by this bizarre and…

February 29, 2016 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Psychology Corner, Uncategorized.

The most important thing when talking to your kids about death

Think that children don’t think about death? Think again. An abundance of research has shown that death can often be a pervasive concern for young kids. If you are a parent who has not had dreaded ‘death discussion’ with your child just wait, it’s coming. And it will probably come at a completely unexpected moment.…

February 12, 2015 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Psychology Corner.

3 Tips for New Dads: things that will make you a better man, if they don’t kill you first

Some men look forward to having kids all their life. Not me. The thought almost never crossed my mind for 35 years. At 25 I was married and content with life. The wife and I traveled a ton and went where we wanted when we wanted, spending ungodly amounts of money doing it, and answering…

November 21, 2014 in Husband-Dad Stuff, Musings, Psychology Corner.

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