Category: Lifestyle
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Fabrication
We are all a fabrication. Even if we try to get down to the bare bones of who we are in our souls, we are still just pieces and parts of different elements. We are made of our fears, desires, words around us our entire lives, our perceptions about reality and our experiences. Our fears…
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Overthinking Is Way Too Easy
Why do we do it? We know it is ridiculous, yet we go there every time. Let someone say something positive or negative, we over analyze and pick it apart. Let that someone be our spouse or significant other and we go in to overthinking over drive. We examine methodically and in detail every word…
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Our Red String
“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.”- an ancient Chinese belief It is that once in a lifetime person that you find that you share a heart and soul with. Now a lot of…
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Skunk Fallacy?
I miss understood when I heard someone say sunk cost fallacy. Skunk what? I was soon corrected. I found out that there are no cute black and white fuzzy critters involved at all. Sunk Cost Fallacy is is the tendency for humans to continue investing in something that clearly isn’t working in the hope that…
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The Prince Charming Myth
Why is it that wives/girlfriends expect their husbands/boyfriends to be like Prince Charming? Romantic, gallant and faultless. Instead of comparing him to some unrealistic standard appreciate your man for who he really is. If he likes to play video games instead of sweet talking you into a kiss, don’t nag him to spend time with…
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Love by the Numbers
I have been in more relationships and marriages than the average person, so I thought. I recently read a couple of studies that say statistically the average person falls in love 3 or 4 times in a life time. Theses magical studies also say that you will have 7 to 10 serious relationships, with men…
Lori O'Gara, Author 