Category: Relationships
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What They Don’t Tell You about the Empty Nest Syndrome
Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder What they don’t tell you about the Empty Nest Syndrome is that there are generally two ways it plays out. Most often, I see the kids trying to leave home and start new lives for themselves while their parents become very controlling. By the time the kids leave, the kids…
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When You’re Older…and Everyone Disapproves of Your New Love
Self-portrait; one very happy afternoon, preparing for guests and the evening’s Life-Death-and-the-Universe conversations. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder. Granddaddy’s been gone for over 15 years, but if he were alive tonight at 105, I’d want to ask his relationship advice. Not about a romantic relationship but about how to deal with disapproval of a…
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If You Don’t Trust Him, Marry Him?
I am conducting experiments with Trust. Or rather, it is conducting experiments with me. What I cannot believe is how women who don’t trust their men marry themas quickly as they can, as if that’s some sort of guarantee that behaviors will change after the vows. Do they really believe that? I’m guessing not,…
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The Dark Night of the Soul
Sparklers on the Fairy Tree, a fav of neighborhood children. Photo copyright by Lorna Tedder. The Dark Night of the Soul is a rather ominous term for something that happens in some lives, but not all. I believe that some people actually make it through their entire existence on the planet without encountering anything as…
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The Biggest Epiphany of All: Attracting Love–and More–into Your Life
My back patio at sunset, on a beautiful October day. The last six weeks have been full of epiphanies, but I’ve kept them mostly to myself or shared them with a very limited number of people rather than here. They’ve been mainly for me, just me–at least while I’ve been sorting through them to find…