What Makes A Good Relationship

To many people, a good relationship is one that makes you happy or that lasts a long time. We are quick to judge a relationship as failed when it is not as long-lived as we’d like, or if we weren’t happy in it. Instead of judging and labelling our relationships, perhaps we should just accept [...]

What are Your Relationship Expectations?

Many of us enter romantic relationships hoping that they will last forever. Therefore when a decision is made to move on, we feel that we have failed in the relationship. Yet the failure is in living up to our own expectations, rather than anything to do with the relationship itself. Here’s a way of looking [...]

Why Letting Go is Hard and How to Let Go

When a relationship ends, why do we find it so hard to let go? We think that we’re trying to let go of the other person. The reality is that we’re not clinging on to the other person, but to something else – the past, the future, or our ego. This post focuses on relationships [...]

How Original is Your Faith?

Is your faith your very own, or is it borrowed from some other person or system? Paul Maurice Martin challenges us to ask ourselves this question in his book Original Faith: What Your Life is Trying to Tell You. Paul discusses faith intelligently both from an intellectual perspective and from his personal viewpoint as someone [...]