Melody Beattie is a great author to read when you’re having boundaries problems and are letting all sorts of people and their opinions into your core. The following excerpt is from her book, “The Language of Letting Go”: “There’s a good trick that people in dysfunctional relationships use,” said one recovering woman. “The other person…

I apologize to all Beyond Blue readers who took offense to my post, “40 Ways to Keep Your Lover.” I should have provided a qualifier that I was merely having fun with Paul Simon’s idea of linking directives to a list of female names. Some of them are important – laughing and praying—but I was…

Who would have thought friendship would be so difficult once you leave your cozy college campus when you can catch up with friends on the way to class or in the dining hall over a cup of Jo. Now, like everything else in life, friendships require work and effort, sometimes even therapy (if you’re like…

Dear God, I have to be honest. I understood this week’s gospel about as well as I comprehended Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” and Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” back in college, so I’m grasping at literary themes much like an engineering major thrown into English Lit 101. This part I get: a woman can’t keep her husband happy.…

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