Marriage or close interpersonal relationships are the advanced study begun in early family life. We ‘cleave’ unto our wife or husband or partner and through them a mirror into ourselves is offered and true growth can take place.
Leave the World Alone
June 19, 2018
If my own life experience is any kind of indication, we live in a constant state of mental comparison to others. As in, how do I measure up in the estimation of my parents or children, or perhaps by the standards of my culture or race or socioeconomic grouping? Who am I, relative to them? It’s a brutal weight to bear, and across the hours of any given day, we’re rarely aware of its influence. Except in those times when…
