Category: Relationships
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Exploring Five Conflict Styles – Which Ones Are Yours?
By Rachel Puryear In life, conflict is an inevitable part of human relations. However, that doesn’t mean it has to be inherently destructive – or that we cannot pretty often resolve it with some mutual effort, and a willingness to do so constructively. Improving one’s conflict resolution skills is a worthy goal for anyone, and…
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On Loving a Highly Empathic Person
By Rachel Puryear If you’re in a relationship with a highly empathic person, consider yourself very lucky. These folks, making up around 20% of the population, come equally in all genders, and from all walks of life (a similar proportion of many other animal species also have a corresponding trait like this). They also love…
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Seeing Others, and Being Seen Ourselves
By Rachel Puryear One of the deepest universal needs people have is to be seen – and heard – in our relationships with others. This need is so important that it helps make or break the success of, and mutual satisfaction with, just about any kind of human relationship. Basically, seeing others means just getting…
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What is Emotional Labor, and Why Does it Matter?
By Rachel Puryear We all have a pretty good sense of what it means to perform physical labor. We perform physical labor in workplaces – that might include, depending upon your occupation; building houses, serving food, or shuffling lots of paper; as examples. At home and in everyday life; physical labor could include cleaning house,…
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