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handling jealousy

So, what's this big problem that jealousy creates? Jealousy keeps your heart closed. That's right-- when you're dealing with jealousy issues in your life, jealousy keeps your heart closed to that other person who you have directed the jealousy onto. The big relationship problem that is created when jealousy forces you to close your heart is that when you close your heart to others, it's impossible to truly get the love that you really want in your life. As you know, we're relationship coaches and in our experience in working with hundreds of individuals and couples to help them overcome jealousy, this idea of jealousy causing someone to "close their heart" to others is very common. It's one of the big problems that jealousy creates that prevents us from having the love we want and deserve in our lives. It's been our experience that if you truly want love in your life-- that you have to live with an open heart. Jealousy cause...

This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in Africa...

This beautiful story was written by a doctor who worked in Africa...   One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died leaving us with a tiny premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter.   We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive; as we had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator). We also had no special feeding facilities. Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts.   One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in. Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates). "And it is our last hot water bottle!" she exclaimed.   As in the West, it is no good crying over spilled milk, so in Central Africa it might b...

A blind gal

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry you.' One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them for the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.. Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine." This is how the human brain often works when our status changes. Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the m...