Relationships

Observations on the sociological landscape of parenting, what makes us feel guilty as parents, and why we have kids in the first place.

Parenting observations on what makes us think we are bad parents and why we should be okay with being good enough.

What causes loneliness? Is it a natural part of being human? Can we overcome loneliness? Dealing with loneliness offers a constructive approach to being alive.

Centered-Set parenting and family system leadership.

Should you have rules for your kids or should you let them do whatever they want? While those two extremes don’t convey all of the available options, what should a parent/child relationship be like? What does that require of parents? And how will that affect kids?

Taking cues from leadership techniques, a modern perspective of raising children involves examining the three overall approaches to parenting, centered versus bounded set philosophy, and intrinsic motivation.

Dealing with the loss of something that is still there. Sometimes physical death is easier than existential death. The home I grew up in and the family I was born into no longer exists. I'm still learning how to mourn that death.

The phenomenon of proximity. We are mean to the people we love because proximity reveals everything, we expect too much from our partners, we feel safe with the people we love, and antagonism is a means of control.

You’re relationships just aren’t what they used to be? Of course not. That’s not the problem. How you respond and move forward could be.

Because our sense that a relationship is over is actually just the experience of a relationship evolving.

If you don’t know everything, you ought to give this conflict resolution technique a try. Meet in the woods, pull out a piece of paper, learn everything you can about the woods from the other, and leave with a fuller map of reality than when you started.

The best way to turn a disagreement into a constructive possibility.

Women are the mothers who bear forth the possibility of the world.

Six argumentative approaches and why you need to know them.