The Viable Alternative

In my last message, I shared with you what to do when you feel trapped by your circumstances.

A few days ago, I got a message from a friend asking me for advice because everything his child was doing was making him angry.

Some years ago, I was on the phone with a good friend of mine who was dating this girl he was very much in love with. Through this, and a succession of other conversations before this one we had about this girl and the problems they had in their relationship, it became glaringly apparent that this girl had a ton of baggage. She had been in an abusive marriage before and been through some other childhood trauma, and this was indirectly reflected in the problems the two of them were having. Read more…