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Trouble is part of life!

This week’s QUOTE FOR STRESS:

“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”
Dinah Shore

How often do you hear people say “I don’t want to trouble you”, or “I don’t want to be any trouble”.

The 3 stages of Dependence:

Dependence: As we are growing up we’re dependent on others, parents etc. At that point in life we’re not conscious that we could be causing anybody ‘trouble’.
Think Terrible Two’s!

Independence: Adolescence is the time we start fighting for independence. At this stage many a parent has cried buckets of tears for the trouble their wayward teenage kids have caused them!

Interdependence: Once we’ve attained adulthood and independence, we move on to interdependence, the realization that we’re all connected and we all need each other, we are interdependent. We’re meant to share our lives with each other which means sharing our good times as well as the bad.

Romans 12:15 says “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn”.

When you share your trouble with me and make yourself more vulnerable, you are actually giving me the opportunity to truly love you more. You are doing me a favor – now that’s a different way of looking at trouble, isn’t it?

Selfless love

This week’s QUOTE FOR STRESS

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” Anthony Robbins

I can’t live without you!!

Isn’t this so often the cry of young people newly in love. But take a moment to listen to those words – it’s all about ME. “I want you to make me feel fulfilled, to make me feel worthwhile about myself”! A relationship is more likely to last if you stop putting yourself first and rather see how you can better love your partner, what you can put into the relationship.

A relationship is like a bank account.
You can’t keep on withdrawing without making any deposits. You have to keep your bank account in the black if you want to avoid huge bank charges. Same with a relationship, make sure the emotional “bank account” is always in the black. That way you can make some “withdrawals” as you do when you’re self-centered and selfish. But make sure to put in a “whole lotta love” to keep the account healthy.You want to avoid those “huge bank overdraft charges!”

Anthony Robbins
Early in his career, Robbins learnt that “happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.” Robbins is an extremely successful “peak performance coach” and helps people “find breakthrough strategies and solutions for overcoming the problems that confront us all.”