Find your love or romantic partner, take her to an island, beach or a boat on the water; choose a sunny day when it is over 75 degrees, and spend the day making love! You’ll be so happy you did!
How do you usually respond to your partner when the emotions are intense or negative? Most likely you become defensive, or you feel a flood of your own emotions. This is natural, and it is overcome by developing the skill of reducing your defensiveness.
The higher the self-esteem, the less materialistic the child will be. The lower the self-esteem, the more materialistic the child will be. Materialism becomes the coping mechanism for insecurity, low self-worth, and self-loathing.
“You slowly realize you’re in a relationship with your mother, in a sense” – Johnny Depp said comparing the abuse he says he experienced by his mother to Heard’s alleged abuse.
There are 8 key categories of abusive behaviors. They are not in any specific order, but neither are they random or arbitrary abusive tactics. Rather, they are purposeful and systematic strategies to further reinforce power and control over the woman.
No matter how toxic, dysfunctional or manipulative a woman is, the man chooses his responses and actions; he makes his choices. And the moment you blame a woman or anyone else for a man’s actions, not only do you rob the man of all accountability and responsibility, you emasculate him – you label him as weak, powerless, and controlled by women and others.
Will Smith cried during his entire acceptance speech. But he was crying because he felt guilty and ashamed because he slapped Chris Rock. He ran from those emotions. He could have faced them and told the audience, ‘I feel guilty and ashamed of my actions – for I have let myself down, I have wronged others – including Chris Rock and everyone here and watching this show.’
in this moment, I am overwhelmed by what God is calling me to do and be in this world.
Will Smith chose to cry, display narcissism, make excuses for his actions, and use words that perpetrators of domestic violence often use to justify their attacks and abuse: “But love will make you do crazy things.”
Unconditional love does not imply there are no consequences for bad behavior. Instead, it means that the child knows he/she is loved and supported no matter what – even when doing something wrong or when mom or dad is angry. As I have written in other articles, it is critical for the healthy development of a child to know he/she is seen, heard, understood, validated, wanted and celebrated.