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Practice is important in learning boundaries and responsibility. Our mistakes are our teachers.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
Stay integrated morally and don’t get caught in the saint/sinner split. Remember that you’re both good and bad.
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
Intervention specialists caution the family to think hard about whether they are ready to
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
The Wayward Mind by Guy Claxton.
Joe Vitale • Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
perception different from mine?
Les Parrott • Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts: Nine Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Remarry
But married people make each other practice saving, investment, and delayed gratification. Nothing can mature character like marriage.
Timothy Keller • The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Ickes finds that the longer many couples are married, the less accurate they are at reading each other. They lock in some early version of who their spouse is, and over the years, as the other person changes, that version stays fixed—and they know less and less about what’s actually going on in the other’s heart and mind.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
In relationships, you get what you tolerate.