July 30th, 2009 by PatheticDad
Dating relationships, whether good or bad, can teach a person a lot about him or herself. New relationships can fill a person with confidence, inspiration, hope and love. However, relationships that turn negative can lead to uncertainty, shame and depression.
Therefore, it’s important to understand what constitutes sexual relationships and unhealthy relationships. When a couple feels they’ve “been through so much,” it can be difficult to decide when to cut ties and run free, until it’s too late, and one or both psyches are damaged.
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Communicating properly within romance relationships is often easier in theory than in practice, yet each partner should still strive for maintaining positive interaction. For instance, accusing someone with “you never listen to me,” or “you always forget to call me,” will automatically put the other person in a defensive position.
Instead, a positive partner will simply state how he or she feels. “Sometimes I feel that you don’t listen to me because…” would be a more appropriate way of communicating; or one could say, “I felt really disappointed when you didn’t call today and wondered why you didn’t do what you promised.”
Tone is also important. Couples should avoid sarcastic remarks, putting the other person down, blaming, name-calling, yelling or interrupting. Instead, a “How can we both work to fix this” approach should be taken to create more positive and effective interpersonal relationships.
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Marriage counseling therapists use tools that are also effective for dating relationships, such as a nine-step process called “Emotional Freedom Techniques.” When a couple arrives, the first step is to lay out the problems.
Most couples will fight over laundry or paying the bills, which are surface-level issues that may happen repetitively, but it’s the goal of the therapist to uncover the real relationship issues troubling them. The next step, then, is to realize the destructive cycle and the underlying needs/wants that fuel this negative pattern.
The third step is to understand what’s fueling one’s emotions. In the fourth step, partners become less combative and realize that no one is to blame, but rather, the cycle is the common enemy they must defeat. Partners become more honest and admit their deepest fears and desires in the fifth step.
In the sixth step, the partners should acknowledge each other’s feelings. In the seventh step, couples become closer because of the newfound realizations and the eighth step involves brainstorming and problem solving. Lastly, the partners vow to stay on-track and prevent relapses.
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Therefore, if the building relationships at home have been negative, then the child will have a skewed vision of what constitutes a “normal relationship.” Many people from broken homes find that they are always searching for what their family life has lacked.
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It is entirely possible to view an abusive upbringing as an example of what not to do. Some people in dating relationships can break out of these cycles and learn to live and love positively; although, many more people require some counseling to uncover negative behavioral patterns that have been adopted from childhood.
It’s important for the individual to do some soul-searching and remain honest about where one has been and where one is going. Otherwise, each relationship will be doomed to failure.
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July 30th, 2009 by PatheticDad
5 Tough Questions to Ask Yourself in a Relationship
OK. Here are a few quick ‘n dirty questions. Where exactly does your relationship stand?
If you are ready to be brutally honest, ask yourself these five tough questions.
1. Do you look at other relationships and feel you have settled?
This is the first big question you need to answer. Looking at other relationships and “wondering” or “longing” is not a good sign.
Why are you looking at other relationships?
Are you missing something is your relationship that you see in another one?
2. Do you really like and respect your partner?
This is crucial; without respect there is no substance.
And what about “liking” your partner? Do you find him interesting, and when she talks, do you want to listen to her?
In order to like and respect anyone, you have to ask yourself. “If I was not involved with this person, and met him on the street, would I like him?”
3. Do you want the same good things for your partner that you want for yourself?
This is real generosity of spirit.
Do you care as much for your partner’s feelings as you do for you own?
4. Do you feel this is where you “belong”?
“Belonging” is the same as being “home”.
It is being perfectly content where you are.
5. Ask yourself, if you could terminate the relationship without any inconvenience – financial or otherwise – would you?
We instinctively know that we will never again have the status quo once we terminate this relationship.
Are you brave enough to leave?
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July 11th, 2009 by PatheticDad
Using PLR or private label rights products is a good way to make the most of your limited time as these products give you great opportunities to improve your internet home based business, provided you use them wisely.
The main point to consider though is whether it is better to
promote them as they are, or would it benefit you more if you re-worked them in some way. In this article we will look at the advantages of re-working them as against leaving them as they are.
There are many different forms of PLR products and these include articles, software, CD’s and e-books, which give anyone with an online business opportunities a huge choice of products with which to work.
What you need to think about here is that the one disadvantage to these products is that they are also available to thousands of other internet marketers. So if you choose to use them as they are, you will not be differentiating yourself in any way from everyone else.
PLR products are usually marketed on the internet, either through a blog or a website. If you use this form of marketing them, you will have a great opportunity to re-work them to make them unique for your own site. It will also give you new content which is something that the search engines love.
You don’t necessarily have to sell a PLR product for it to be
valuable. There is always the option of using them as content for new web pages or blog articles which makes for great search engine bait.
It is not necessary to spend hours on re-working any PLR content, in fact in just a few minutes it is possible to make it unique. Just change a few words, sentences or paragraphs around add some of your own keywords and this will already make it different from the original.
If a section is numbered then change some of the numbered sections around and this will also help to make it different from the original.
Another alternative for anyone who is extremely busy is to outsource. There are many people on the internet looking for work and they will gladly change these PLR products for you to make them unique at very little cost.
Another thing to remember is that if you take the time to alter these PLR products and make them unique, you will then be able to sell them at a higher price, just another way to stand out from the crowd.
So to summarize, making changes to PLR products will definitely benefit your online business opportunities and is well worth the small amount of effort required to achieve a business that is different from every other one on the internet.
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July 1st, 2009 by PatheticDad
Hi, Welcome to Pathetic Dad.com Blog
You may be wondering why such a domain name being registered on this date – i.e., July 1st.
Well, there’s a reason behind this.
- First and foremost, a couple of months back my 16 years old son mumbled and said, I am “Pathetic”
- Since he’s 16 and grown up, doing his Secondary 3 Education, I believe, he has the freedom of speech or to voice up?
- My daughter, has no
comments and my wife scold him in-front of me but later laughs at my back.
- I wonder, How many dad’s are out there or am I the only one.
- Do parents have the right to scold their children if they are wrong? or What is taught in school about respect and obedience towards elders?
- Are the children being influence/learning it from their friends, who doesn’t give a damn about parents or elders?
- Is it too much of watching the TV sitcom or from chatting online with the friends which leads towards this behavior?
- Last but not the least, today being my birthday ~ as a Gift for myself and to remember it, I registered this domain name as “PatheticDad.com”
Here I will post happenings on the above subject as well as write articles on other matters too.
Will greatly appreciate, comments from all parents, children, teachers, counselors or anyone who would like to contribute or share their views.
Hope this will help similar parents or parents to be or to anyone deem fit.
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