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Into the Arms of My Lover…..Sweet, Sweet Porn
Porn will never turn you away. Porn does not demand your vulnerability or accountability for your behavior. Or for you to simply communicate. Or to stop and listen to acknowledge the other being who is part of the relationship. Porn is always there for you and does not demand any risk or intimacy.
The Power of Powerlessness
From a very young age I was being trained by my father, my schoolmates, and the media to be powerful and to not respect those, including myself, who showed any sign of weakness.
Working to Make a Life
One fact seems to be clear: Life will not just give you work-life balance. If you passively wait for it to happen, you’re relying on sheer luck. It is in the discipline and the constant failing to achieve balance that I have found its value. There will never be a perfect balance. Life simply doesn’t work that way.
Time Out….for Daddy
James Baldwin said, “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” I hated the hypocrisy of adults when I was growing up – do as I say, not as I do. I will do my best not to be that kind of example to our daughter.
Practice Not Perfection
So at the beginning of this current season I hit bottom. I was at a place where I had lost all confidence in my serve.
Table for One
I sat in the mostly empty dining room and noticed my fellow travelers sprinkled throughout the room also eating by themselves – and every single one of them had a smart phone. Nobody was simply eating their dinner.
Narcissism is Bad for YOUR Health
Men in recovery have been successfully chipping away at the hard shell of narcissism for decades now – and quite successfully
Please Unubscribe! Blog Change – Feedblitz to Feedburner
And then PLEASE RE-SUBSCRIBE, OF COURSE! Greetings! I have a favor to ask some of you. I have switched from Feedblitz to Feedburner. If you currently receive my blog and the subject heading says “Feedblitz” in it, please “unsubscribe” and then go to my website at www.dangriffin.com/dans-blog and down on the right you can subscribe .. read more
D.I.Y?
Almost all of us have things that we used to love as kids and we gave them up. We gave them up because someone told us that we weren’t any good at them.
Jan
Addiction in Buckingham Palace?
Similar to Princess Diana, Kate Middleton is following her heart but she is also following the stats – where one study says that 1 in 3 Britons will have a problem with addiction in their lifetime
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