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Terry and Jimmy had already gone through their church’s program to save their marriage, and had already filed and signed divorce papers when Jimmy wanted to try one more thing — Relationship Coaching

Why would someone like Jimmy want to try Relationship Coaching? Glenn Cohen, of “I-TO-WE” in Charleston explains it like this. When people make the life-altering decision to follow a career path, there is a built-in structure. People who want to become accountants, for example, make a commitment to study books and other materials to gain awareness of the intricacies of their field. They then find a job and receive a manual to learn the specific skills. Finally, they are trained in the techniques to be successful accountants.

For another life-altering decision, marriage, there is no path, though, so Cohen provides one. As a relationship coach, he teaches clients to gain awareness of themselves and their relationship’s dynamics. They then learn the skills essential for success in all areas of their relationships. Finally, they practice the techniques to give them the best chance for success in those relationships.

Jimmy and Terry traveled down Cohen’s path. “Glenn gave us real hands-on, nuts-and-bolts skills to use for communication; we desperately needed these tools,” Terry says. “After working with him for a few months, it seemed like our relationship just might have a chance after all.” It turns out that they reconciled and went on a second honeymoon. Cohen claims that if more couples work through his program, the divorce rate would definitely shrink.

Cohen is the founder of “I-TO-WE”™ Relationship Coaching, based in Charleston. In his private practice, he coaches couples and individuals, both locally and from around the country via telephone. He also presents lectures, seminars, and workshops for religious groups, corporations, and the general public.

The casting of a love spell is a powerful thing. The combination of words and action can lead to magic and change your life forever. Spell casting has been used for centuries by love struck individuals wanting to take charge of their destiny and alter the course of their lives. The power of a love spell is not to be taken lightly. Before attempting to cast a spell on the one you love, learn the basics of spell casting.

The first step in spell casting is to think about what it is that you would like to see happen. It is crucial that you be very clear about what changes you would like to create. It is reckless behavior to cast a spell on an innocent person for the wrong reasons, and your harmful actions can in turn bring about bad karma. To avoid this, examine your reasons for wanting to cast a spell and know exactly what outcome it is you are looking for.

The second stage in spell casting involves eliminating what it is that is blocking you from your love. Perhaps the one you love has been hurt before and is wary of falling in love again? Or perhaps the person you have always adored is simply blind to your affection and needs to be given the chance to see you in a different light. The elimination stage allows you to proceed with your spell casting, but be aware that it is not always easy to move past this stage. In order to discover your barriers, you can use one of two techniques: meditation or pendulum work. Both techniques involve quieting your mind and accessing a means of communication with your inner self. To achieve either of these states, practice a simple meditation technique by sitting calmly with your legs crossed and concentrate on one small part of your body. As you concentrate on the tip of your nose, for instance, your mind will drift away from the immediate and conscious world and will move beyond, to your subconscious mind. Whether you meditate quietly in this fashion or use a pendulum to will yourself into a state of near hypnosis, your aim is to delve into your subconscious to find the true cause of what is preventing you from being with your great love.

Before deciding on which basic love spell to use in your quest for love, go through the necessary cleansing process. This involves finding a room that can symbolically serve as your special place, and with only candlelight to guide you, rinse your hands clean of any potential negative energy and residue. To prepare a cleansing mixture, simply mix warm water with salt.

As you learn more about how to cast a powerful love spell, know that there are many spells that may be the perfect way to change your life. As mentioned, do not attempt to cast a spell without first taking these few measures. Also know that a spell is given its strength through the sheer power of your mind. You must believe in the spell you are casting and you must concentrate in order to successfully find love. Good luck and may you find true and everlasting love!

Recently a friend asked me, “Is it possible to revive lost feelings?” And my answer was, “It depends.” Since many other people have also wondered if love can be revived, it’s worth considering the possibilities:

1. If the feelings are true feelings, and if they were lost because one or the other partner was immature (causing fear and/or poor treatment), and if they are both willing to work on those immaturities, then the answer is “Yes, the feelings can be revived.”

2. If the feelings were a result of infatuation, and they were not really true feelings, then the answer is “No, they cannot be revived.”

3. If there was some degree of infatuation which has worn off, and if the remaining feelings are true feelings but not as strong as the original feelings, then the answer is “Maybe they can be revived to some degree.” In other words the feelings cannot be revived to their original state, but if the true feelings are good, they can be polished and made to shine at their true (good but not great) levels, provided both partners want to accept such a compromise and work to overcome the immaturities that keep them from enjoying this level of love.

In the real world of relationships, all three of the above scenarios can be found with great regularity. The problem is how to decide which one applies to your own situation. The best way to find out is for both partners to take the “Romantic Attraction Questionnaire” and the “Emotional Maturity Questionnaire” developed by my collaborating psychologist Harold Bessell, Ph.D. These questionnaires measure the degree of true feelings (romantic chemistry) and the degree of willingness/ability to work at a relationship (emotional maturity).

Someone confronted with the question of reviving old feelings needs to have insight. Recall the “Serenity Prayer”:

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

This advice is highly applicable to love relationships. In situation #1 (true chemistry) it takes a lot of courage to face the fears and immaturities in order to revive old feelings. In situation #2 (infatuation), there is no real choice but to accept that they cannot be revived (and move on). In situation #3 (mixed feelings) you must have real wisdom to know if you can truly live with the compromises, and then constructively work to create a good love relationship.

I think many relationships fail just at the point where they could succeed if only the partners had more insight (“the wisdom to know the difference”), and more patience.

In the situation with my friend, the relationship had lasted for 3 years. She wanted it to continue, but he wasn’t sure. He said he still felt “warm” towards her, but not like it was at the beginning. He displayed a variety of signs of immaturity, such as failure to call when he promised, missing dates, making her wait, disappearing, etc. Also, after 3 years he may have been feeling an internal pressure to decide “yes or no” about this relationship. Given his immaturities and inexperience, this may have been causing a lot of anxiety and it was easier for him to run away than to stay and face the very real difficulties of a more serious relationship.

All-in-all he did not treat her well, and this caused her pain. She wanted to know if love could be revived, and I said “it depends.” To me it looked like she was probably up against situation #3 (mixed feelings). It will not be easy for him to change (grow up), and there’s no guarantee he will. Neither will it be easy for her to deal with the continuing pain (she will have to grow up also). Insight (and patience) will help.

Copyright 2005, Randy Hurlburt

The worst reason in the world to marry a

prostitute is because you feel sorry for her and want to `rescue’ her from her condition.

Yes, as difficult as this may be for many of you to believe at first, many Asian prostitutes greatly enjoy the money they make if not how they make it. Don’t kid yourself.

Some of them make more money than you do even though you might well hate your job no less than they do. They don’t want to be rescued.

Many also enjoy the sex, or at least some of it, depending on the customer, so they actually enjoy their work more than many of you do.

So it is more likely you’ll be better off with a woman who has not worked as a prostitute for very long, a year at the most.

Remember that very few go into it with the intention of making it a permanent career. Most want to earn a lot of money in a short time (Which is certainly possible), then get out.

If they don’t, there may be a hang-up in their minds or lives you don’t want to deal with.

Some do like the life very much — never forget that. Don’t fall in love with one of those.

The ultimate test is your own heart, but that’s extremely vulnerable in these situations. How do you tell how experienced she is? How experienced does she act? Is she shy or does she love to shake her tits around in the bar?

Does she smoke and drink alcohol? Cuss, especially in

English? Is she wearing a lot of gold jewelry, expensive clothing and makeup? How much English does she speak? If she seems to enjoy her life, she probably does.

Spend as many nights with her as you please, but don’t let go of your heart.

However, you must still be careful.

It’s naive to confuse inexperience with vulnerability to love. Jane, the Filipino prostitute I’m going to tell you more about in Lesson 26, had been `working’ for only two weeks when I met her.

She was inexperienced but certainly not lacking in greed and `bar smarts.’

In Thailand you may run into a situation, especially in massage parlors, where the woman is a contract worker.

That is, her employer paid her or — more likely — her parents a large sum of money upfront for her services for a specified period of time. I’ve heard six months to four years, so I suppose it’s for whatever time and amount they agree on.

The parlor then makes money off charging customers for her sexual services. She keeps the tips.

Make no mistake, however — that is a far above average sum of money in Thailand. Generous foreigners have been known to hand out large amounts to women who

treated them nicely.

But the woman is bound to the parlor for that specified period of time. She cannot leave it earlier unless her contract is bought out. If you fall in love with a 134 woman in that situation you will have to buy her contract.

How much it is will depend on what it originally cost and how much time remains on it. Technically, you then own her exclusive sexual services.

This money now for sexual services later is not slavery, for none of them are forced to enter the arrangement.

But once they accept that upfront money, they’re tied to the parlor for the specified time, unless a foreign white knight in shining armor rescues them earlier.

You may be a wealthy Sir Galahad, but don’t let having

lots of money at your disposal tempt you into forgetting your common sense. Don’t buy the contract of a woman who doesn’t care as much about you as you do about her.

Don’t use money to pay for a wife either with a woman’s family or in these indirect situations until you’re sure she loves you too. First of all, unlike the massage parlor owner, you’re won’t hire thugs to hunt her down if she runs away — I hope.

If she doesn’t like you but she stays with you because you are supporting her family, she will still be unhappy.

Just as happy Asian women make their husbands very very happy, unhappy Asian women make their husbands very very unhappy.

She may be so beautiful you’re overwhelmed, but don’t try to buy a woman who’s not already attracted to you. Money doesn’t buy hearts.

If you love her and she loves you, do buy her contract if you can afford to. If you can’t, you’re asking for heartbreak. Yes, that’s something else I know from experience.

Five of the happiest days of my life were spent with a woman under a contract I could not afford to buy.

Unlike my old Filipina friend Jane, she did not want to remain as a prostitute and I still feel guilty for

disappointing her.

I know she cared for me very much,

saw how much I cared for her and did hope I would buy

her out.

My advise is, get so rich you can afford any and all women you like. I’m not there yet, but I’m doing my own best to follow this advice.

Think about the time when you were single before. What you used to do, how you used to land dates, and how you dressed up for a particular occasion. Appearance counts a lot when you are single. When you have found someone who is willing to spend the rest of their life with you, you often start overlooking the basic matters that helped you win their heart in the first place.

Be confident about your desires. Women normally go after men who are self-sufficient and have no worries of their work, home or family. Try to make yourself emotionally available and express your feelings as often as you can. If you liked a colleague or friend wearing a particular dress, make sure you tell them so. After all you don’t have to worry about your partner now until you find someone again.

Try to forget your previous partner’s habits and interests. Trying to look for the same elements in another person is only going to make matters worse. Keep in mind that now you have to adjust yourself with someone you like, instead of asking them to change their ways. Remember the way your partner used to react to the things you said and did. Avoid the ones that triggered anger. Also try to remember the compliments and good remarks you received from your previous partner when you wore something for the first time. Dress up the way you think you will look the most attractive.

Seeing someone for the first time, having feelings for them in your heart, and asking them out are all different things. Before asking anyone out, make sure you’re emotionally ready and that you would not burden them with sorrows of your past or the shattered relationship you’ve just had. Try to be honest, cheerful and straight forward when you ask someone out for a date. Women tend to like men who are sure about their wants and desires and who don’t try intentionally to hide certain facts.

Lastly, if you are afraid to confront someone in real life, you always have the choice of using online dating services. Make a profile on one of these sites and express yourself completely in words. Then wait for responses or make some first moves of your own to see if someone you have found attractive thinks the same about you. You will have to search the Internet for a few popular sites; some of them might not be for free. These sites have so many features and applications to offer to its members that you will not regret being a part of these online communities.

Re-entering the singles’ world after being in a relationship for a long time is something difficult for a lot of people but always remember that you have to move on with life no matter what happens. Just follow these easy tips and make yourself available once again.

An innovative program called Community Support Advisory Council (CSAC), an initiative of the Illinois Department of Corrections, is helping hundreds of ex-offenders learn how to become productive citizens while providing loving support to their families.

The work begins at the Sheridan Correctional Center, dedicated solely to drug treatment in the state of Illinois. Through CSAC, the formerly incarcerated meet with community and block leaders on a weekly basis right in their community, to find ways to re-enter society without returning to crime.

James Coleman, Project Director for CSAC’s Prisoner Re-Entry Services program, is an African-American minister, former chef and a formerly incarcerated individual himself. He helps former prisoners see the possibilities of a new life, from both inside and outside the Sheridan prison. Through his work with CSAC, Coleman serves as a liaison between the corrections system and the community, visiting men while they are in prison, and helping them with support when they return home. He also makes policy recommendations to the Department of Corrections and helps develop best practices which can be duplicated throughout Illinois prisons.

Block leaders and other interested community residents can attend a monthly meeting, where they meet with parole officers, police, social service providers and formerly incarcerated individuals, to discuss ways to help the returning inmate keep from returning to a life of crime. At these meetings, formerly incarcerated men are often given awards and citations for staying clean and “doing the right thing.”

CSAC also assists ex-offenders with housing, job leads and other immediate needs. Weekly Overcomers Group Meetings offer ex-offenders and their families an opportunity to share their troubles and find support from each other and the broader community.

“It’s really about relationship building,” explains Coleman, with a ready smile. “Sixty percent of the population in the Sheridan prison is from the Chicago area. Some are ready for change, and some aren’t. About 80% of ex-offenders from Sheridan come to our offices.” Most are African-American, like himself.

“I work by teaching the job preparedness and training classes,” says Coleman. “I talk with every individual. I inform them of changes in their community during their incarceration and what services are available to them upon their release. They’re invited to our office after their release for whatever they need.”

Sheridan Prison uses the Gateway Foundation and the Safer Foundation to assist inmates with developing social, life and job skills while they are incarcerated, but the role of the community in providing an infrastructure for the returning inmates cannot be minimized. Coleman has witnessed miracles happen through CSAC’s Overcomers group meetings. “The meetings are faith-based; and all are welcome,” says Coleman. “When I started the meetings in 2004, I wanted to teach from the Bible, but that’s not what God wanted. People needed to talk…to understand that the power to change was within themselves. It’s just awesome to see how people are beginning to understand their own capacity through their own faith.”

Coleman reflects on the progress of CSAC over the past two years with satisfaction. “We’ve made a great difference. About 60% of the Austin’s residents are directly impacted by someone in their family who has been incarcerated.” Yet the impact of the change is difficult to measure. He relates a story of a young girl, who considered suicide while her father was incarcerated. Through the support from the CSAC’s Overcomers meetings, she gained hope and strength to overcome her suicidal thoughts, and now attends meetings with her father at her side.

Walter Terry, 34, an ex-offender, who now is drug-free and holds a full-time job at Streetwise says, “You have to be active, positive. My job is my foundation. In my spare time, I make meetings. It all plays a part. It’s good to talk about your feelings. If you don’t deal with your feelings, your feelings will deal with you.”

“It’s inspirational,” says Sedrick Waller, 45, an ex-offender whose life has totally turned around. “The meetings feed the body, mind and spirit. People come from all walks of life… looking for a way out. It helped me to keep my commitment to a new way of life, and made me feel like I belonged to someplace. People embrace you for who are you. It’s my family outside of my family… they let you know you’re not alone.” Waller, now employed as an ambulance driver, got married and pays rent. “God makes a way out of no way. Now, I’m giving back to others.” Waller was in and out of the penitentiary eight times, and encourages others to have hope. He has also connected six ex-offenders to employment opportunities.

Stanley Owens, 27, a student in the last stage of getting his truck-driving license, looks forward to the weekly meetings. “Anytime I have questions, I can go to the CSAC meetings for support. You can get good advice; you can’t go wrong.”

Reginald Banks, 39, one of the original members of the Overcomers meetings, now serves as an Outreach Workers at CSAC. “It gave me a whole lot of different outlets. I learned how to stay out of prison, and not go back to the old routines, like using and selling drugs. If you have the mindset to do it, anything’s possible.”

It’s a known fact that men and women are different. No one has put it more eloquently as John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. He has taught us so much about how each sex ticks emotionally and we have really benefited from his insights.

What we haven’t yet embraced is our similarities, like our feelings as loving, giving and sometimes fearful, scared and lonely human beings. Behind the Venus and Mars metaphor, how really different are we when it comes to love? On the surface we face the same love-dilemmas, we just process them differently. So if that is the case, what can we do as women to improve the relationships we have now and create loving and lasting relationships in the future?

Here’s the thing, we know we are emotional creatures. Our emotions are so powerful that they can develop or destroy relationships at the drop of a tear. But, and it’s a big but…we can change this so that our emotions no longer hold us to relationship ransom. How? Well funnily enough it’s all about love. Love is the answer, remember?!

Love and your relationships should adhere to one simple rule and that is, if you want to have great and lasting relationships with anyone (and this includes family and friends), you have to love yourself first.

Go back and read that paragraph again.

It is the truth and we all secretly know this but we still look outside ourselves for real love. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying romantic relationships cannot be filled with earth-shattering love. I am saying that without self-love these relationships cannot and will not last.

This is how men and women are very alike. We both require a reasonable amount of self-love in order to fully enjoy any type of worthy relationship (please note the use of the word ‘worthy’). As women from a different planet, we lack the necessary anti-bodies for that well-known disease ‘low self-esteem.’ OK, plenty of men suffer from it too, heck who doesn’t? But because we are more emotional we tend to look to our relationships to make us feel better. They soon become bad-tasting dishes made from our low self-esteem mixed with the subsequent unworthy relationships. It can go and on like this forever if we don’t stop the cycle with the one simple rule…love yourself first.

If loving ourselves first is the answer to all our relationship issues, how do we achieve that? It is not as difficult as you may think. In fact I have broken it down for you into the two following exercises:

1. The ‘I Forgive Me’ Exercise

2. The ‘If Only’ Exercise

The ‘I Forgive Me’ Exercise

Forgiving yourself for whatever you may have said, done or thought in the past is the first step towards loving yourself. Freeing yourself from past mistakes, or what I call ‘learning opportunities,’ allows you to make a fresh start with a clear conscious. Take time to go through this exercise thoroughly. Go back into your past and dig out all the things you have never forgiven yourself for. Fill in the blanks:

I forgive myself for thinking that……………………

I forgive myself for believing that…………………..

I forgive myself for saying that………………………

I forgive myself for doing…………………………….

I forgive myself for being…………………………….

I forgive myself for having……………………………

I forgive myself for not thinking that……………………

I forgive myself for not believing that…………………..

I forgive myself for not saying………………………

I forgive myself for not doing…………………………….

I forgive myself for not being…………………………….

I forgive myself for not having……………………………

Always forgive yourself. It leaves you open for developing into a more loving person. You can only truly love yourself when you have no bad feelings about yourself. Forgiveness clears the way for you to be happy. Forgiveness, like most things in life, is a choice. Choose to forgive and see how different your outlook on life becomes. Actively forgive all the time. Do not pre-condition forgiveness, just forgive because you can. It is self-healing and an act of self-love.

If you have complete the ‘I Forgive Me’ exercise you have given yourself a gift of freedom. Sounds overly dramatic butin realty by forgiving yourself you open up new opportunities and free yourself from past mistakes or unhappy times. I urge you to go back to this exercise from time to time to see if there are any other issues you want to forgive yourself for. Practice forgiveness, master forgiveness…it is one of the most powerful things you can do and enables you to love yourself more readily.

I want you to get the most out of this article and so I have another important exercise for you. Read the following introduction and then complete the exercise as honestly and as completely as you can.

Unconditional love is the greatest gift there is. To some it may seem unreachable and so I want to help you understand two things: 1. That it IS obtainable. 2. That I can show you how to overcome the obstacles to it.

The irony is that we put obstacles to unconditional love in our way. We actually stop ourselves from loving ourselves unconditionally! It’s no one else’s fault but ours. So here’s the thing, if you could clear away all those barriers to love, would you? Some barriers are bigger than others, but most of them boil down to one thing, self-loathing. This is a very strange emotion because it too can come in different sizes. Let me explain; as women we often put conditions to loving ourselves, these are sometimes expressed as our ‘if only’ phrase. For example, look at the following list and be honest, do any of these resonate with you?

If only I were….

taller, smarter, prettier, shorter, funnier, more confident, thinner, bigger-breasted,less like me, stronger, quieter,louder, more like her…

…then I would accept and love myself more!

There should be no barriers at all to loving yourself. Women need to understand that they are perfect as they are. Enjoy being yourself, stop worrying about your looks, age, being single, being divorced or being right. We are all perfect despite our flaws! Embrace it and relax!

Master self-acceptance and self-love, make it a big part of your journey in life. Forget struggling – look for support and guidance whenever you feel you need it, but always be moving towards love.

In her bestselling book “Mr. Right, Right Now, How a Smart Woman Can Land Her Dream Man in 6 Weeks,” author E. Jean Carroll lists 119 great places to meet eligible men. Her list includes #9 Mountain Bike Trails, #28 NASCAR races, #41 yacht clubs, #64 guitar class, #85 Home Depot, #95 cooking class and #115 weddings. Her Number One #1 way to meet men is online dating sites. She says that online dating is now cool, something that smart couples brag about to their friends, and is the most effective way to meet your future husband.

In the book Jean provides a set of sensible rules for online dating.

Her Rule #1 of online dating is, “Put Up a Peachy Picture.” She advises ‘hiring a professional makeup artist and spend an afternoon having a friend take pictures of you.’ This is excellent advice, if you and your skilled photographer friend have the time. If not, the next best thing is to have your non-professional photo subtly enhanced so that it looks professional.

Jean’s Rule #2 is “Create a Bewitching Screen Name.” Unless you are looking for “sex sixty or seventy times a day with dozens of strapping young rakes,” she advises against screen names like Miss Behavin, Boobalicious or The Naughty Professor. For the ordinary woman, she recommends references to poetic or literary characters like “Lady-Chat-Early” and “HalleBerryTwin.”

Rule #3 of online dating is to spin a story for your profile. Instead of merely describing yourself, write a few sentences about something that happened to you and how you responded to it. A real-life example from the book: “I love behind the scenes of movies. I walked onto the set of Julia Roberts’ new movie and the director walked over and thanked me ‘for smiling at (him) so dimly.’ Made my week!” A guy reading this figures out that you are eye-catching, spontaneous, bright and witty, without your having said any of those words.

Let’s return to Rule #1, the one that Jean says is the most important, “Put Up a Peachy Picture.” According to the book, “It takes less than 2 seconds for a man to suck in every detail of your hair, your clothes, your shape, your style, your status, your walk. Men absolutely lose their brains over novelty and beauty. ‘The [first] impression is anchored,’ says Dr. Frank Bernieri, the Harvard Ph.D. world’s leading authority on the subject. When a guy sees an attractive woman, he wants to find her interesting. He wants to discover she’s intelligent.” Guys can’t help themselves when they see an attractive woman, or an attractive photo of a woman. In fact, later when they meet her in person they don’t even care if she doesn’t look exactly like her photo. They were hooked by the first impression, and they stay hooked.

Every photo of “beautiful people” that you see in a magazine has been retouched. In the frozen time of a camera flash, actual people just do not look that perfect. They have skin blemishes, their eyes are not even and fully open, the angle of the light makes their noses look too long. The stars all have their photos retouched, and for online dating sites you should also. Many companies do photo retouching, to correct the minor problems in a snapshot and transform it into a professional portrait. Retouching can remove blemishes, smooth skin, eliminate crow’s feet, correct color balance and even make you a little slimmer.

So go ahead and sign up with an online dating company, or several. Submit a nice, enhanced photo of yourself. As soon as you do, you have taken the big #1 step toward “Landing Your Dream Man in 6 Weeks.”

We are all looking for the right person, the right person is someone who will respect you. What are signs of respect? Respect is someone paying attention to your desires in physical boundaries. Respect is someone not trying to hone in on your personal life, and take it over. Respect is someone treating you with empathy that you deserve. If you are not receiving these things, you need to cut that person out of your life and find someone who will respect you.

Physical boundaries can be something as simple as someone not standing to close to you and touching you all of the time. Think about teenages, and when they discover romance, they are always hanging on their partner, as an adult, we like our space most of the time. When someone constantly tries to stay so close they make you uncomfortable, it may be time to move onward. This can also be someone trying to push for physical intimacy before you are ready for it. People who respect you will respect the pace you want to have physical intimacy with them. Failure to do this it failing to respect your physical boundaries.

We all know that in the bloom of a new relationship people want to quickly become a part of each others lives. While we all want to incorporate a new person into our life, we may not want them to come in and take over. For example if you have a set boy/girls night, and your new romantic partner wants you to stop that, that is a warning sign they are not respecting you. You need to be on the look out for those who wish to rapidly dominate your life, those are individuals that are not healthy for you to be around.

If a person doesn’t give you empathy in your sad moments they aren’t likely to have the capacity to understand how you feel. This is the type of person you want to run away from. For example, say your having a horrible day, you have a flat, and your partner doesn’t understand why you may be running late. These people are likely not to be mature enough to understand what it takes to be in a relationship with someone else, and yes, that someone else includes you.

So, we all have to surround ourselves with others who respect us, this includes in both in romantic and non romantic relationships. We need to always surround ourselves with those of us who are healthy for us, and those who respect us. We have physical, emotional, and spritiual boundaries, being with someone that who can not respect your limits is not likely to be someone that will suddenly grow into having that ability. Limiting relationships with those who do not respect you is the better solution, rather than allowing unhealthy relationships grow and continue.