jewelz

July 16th, edited to say:

I'll be going off the radar for a little while. It's been a pretty difficult six weeks for me, and I just need to do some reading for awhile and work some things out non-publically. If you have my RW contact information and there is anything that I can do for you, please feel free to contact me. I may be lurkin' around, and will be back soon.

Much loves to everyone who's been so supportive and encouraging for me here lately, it means a great deal to me.

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I've learned a great deal from reading John Gray over the last few years... this basically being the main philosophy behind most of his work:


There are always two perspectives in any given relationship, and that in order for a relationship to thrive you have to be willing to at least try to see where the other person is coming from, and where the differences lie. Understanding our differences can save us from a lot of heartache, as people often mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways, the ways we react and behave when we love someone. This idea sets us up for disappointment time and again. Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate and react the way men do; women mistakenly expect men to feel, communicate and respond the way women do. Somewhere along the way we forget that men and women are supposed to be different, and as a result it causes us conflict.

There's much, much more to what he teaches and I am working towards learning new things all of the time. I've read and re-read about five of his books now, what I've learned has been invaluable.