Category Archives: love and love gone awry

Oppression, suppression, repression, compression, depression:  what do these words have in common?  Pressure. Oppression, suppression and repression are words we often hear in conjunction with descriptions of frightening-sounding national regimes.  When we think of Oppression, images of dictators:  Hitler, Stalin, … Continue reading →

When an adult stays with her* abusive partner, in awareness that the relationship is destructive and that the limitations of her partner’s emotional control, ability to be objective, respectful and non-violent are plainly deeply problematic and painful; there enters into … Continue reading →

It all boils down to one thing really. Control. You will discover, in every single case of misery, whether the misery is found in the child, the spouse, the group, the business or enterprise, the institution or the nation; somebody is over-controlling somebody … Continue reading →

The Abuser is a Bully. An abuser can be an individual or an entity, like a hate group (KKK) or a country (America). What is a Bully exactly? Well, a bully doesn’t listen to others and take others’ feelings into … Continue reading →

forgiveness. When we are children, we learn about forgiveness (hopefully).  We learn to apologize and we learn to accept apologies (hopefully).  As children, we are taught that God is a personage, which allows a young mind to conceive a very … Continue reading →

life is so interesting. it is even more interesting when you have faith in the unseen and the unknown.  Perhaps it is just an act of imagination reaching into itself and seeing things that are not and never were there.  … Continue reading →