Self Help: Who Is Jim Edwards and Why Is He One of My Mentors and Heroes?

Who Is Jim Edwards and Why Is He One of My Mentors and Heroes?

Written by Chris J Lloyd

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I love Jim's straight talking style and sense of humour, so when he announced that he was launching a program describing how he turned his life around from being bankrupt and living in a trailer to his present day success, I couldn't wait to get hold of a copy.

The Dating Scene - Signs of a Promising Relationship

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

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Title: The Dating Scene - Signs of a Promising Relationship Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2005 by Margaret Paul URL: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 848 Category: Relationships

The Dating Scene - Signs of a Promising Relationship By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Celine was just starting to date again after a difficult breakup. She was feeling anxious because she didn’t want to go through another unhappy relationship, but she didn’t trust herself to make good choices. She sought my help in learning how to discern a promising relationship from one that is bound to fail.

In Celine’s last relationship, she had been pulled in by Gary’s ardent pursuit of her. She had wanted to go slower but didn’t listen to herself. Instead, she gave herself up to Gary’s attention and compliments.

“Celine, my experience with men who come on strong right away is that they are often controlling and needy. Is that what happened with Gary?”

“Yes. He seemed so loving and open at repparttar 129230 beginning, but once we were in a committed relationship, he started to pull on me for time and attention. He became critical and angry and petulant when I didn’t give him what he wanted. How could I have known all this at repparttar 129231 beginning? What should I look for now that I’m dating again?” Celine had gone on one date with a man named Mark. After this first date, Mark emailed her, saying that he wanted to spend a lot of time with her and go on a trip with her.

“Shades of Gary,” she said. “This is a red flag, right?”

Celine and I explored some of repparttar 129232 red flags as well as some of repparttar 129233 signs of a promising relationship.

SOME RED FLAGS

• Comes on strong at repparttar 129234 beginning of repparttar 129235 relationship.

• Becomes angry, critical or withdrawn if you say no.

• Becomes logical and tries to talk you out of your feelings or your experience. Tries to make you feel that you are wrong for your feelings or your position.

• Talks on and on about himself or herself and doesn’t ask you much about you, or is uninterested when you do talk about yourself.

• An older man or woman who has never been married and has been in a series of broken relationships.

• Numerous broken marriages.

• Has an abusive background and has not had therapy.

• Has abandoned his or her children.

• Not open to learning from relationship conflict.

• Participates in addictions that are unacceptable to you – smoking, drinking, drugs, addictive eating, gambling, TV, and so on.

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