When Your Relationship Is On Life Support: 5 Things To Consider Before Pulling The Plug

Being in a long term relationship always has its ups and downs but what if you’re feeling like you can’t hang on anymore? Here are a few things to consider that may help you gain clarity before you decide to end it. 1. Have You Examined All the Solutions To Your Issues? When a relationship is in danger of coming to an end, it often boils down to just a …

50 Life Lessons Everyone Should Know By The Age Of 50

These gems of knowledge are courtesy of Regina Brett 1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone. 8. It’s OK to …

Fear

From September 3, 2010 “I’m so afraid. Please, god help me.  I fear I’ve made some terrible mistakes and that I am somehow heading for a disaster of huge proportions.” Believe it or not, these are the first few lines of a recent journal entry of mine. When I wrote this, I was battling an episode of fear that was so crippling, I could not go 5 minutes without feeling …

Deserving

It’s after 2:00 am and, even though I am dead tired and really should get my rest these days, I am compelled to write tonight. To begin to capture the feelings I have about this chapter in my life would be like trying to breathe in every molecule of oxygen surrounding our planet. I don’t know who reads this exactly, but it really doesn’t matter. I’m offering this to whoever …