Tag Archives: friendships
Self Love
Don’t expect one person to meet all of your needs. Strong relationships are supported by friendships, interests and sources of meaning outside the partnership. Overreliance on a romantic partner for all of your emotional or social needs creates pressure no … Continue reading
Who am I to judge
The basis of a close friendship begins with trust, but the most difficult part of that is not judging your closest friends. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I had only two close friends. When one of them … Continue reading
life is not yer mother
Oooh. You have to Bone-Grow. Nobody is coming to hand you the missing pieces. If the friendships you crave don’t exist, you have to forge them. If the structure that would benefit you isn’t there, invent it. Same with the … Continue reading
Time for reflection: Aging
Write about someone — a friend, a pet, a spouse or a relative — whom you have known through different stages of life. How have you both changed over time? In what ways are you still the same? Positively … Continue reading
Aging
What are some other superpowers of old age? What are you capable of now that you weren’t in your youth?
Real Life of an MSW 