Archive for the ‘Relationships’ Category
Encouragement and Courtesy - Relationships Ireland
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
When we are struggling what do we need? Lots of encouragement that’s what we need. We need the reassurance that we can get through the problems that life throws at us all. One of my great heroes, Tony Benn, a former British MP, died a few weeks ago. He was a very controversial ‘left wing’ […]
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Domestic Violence Goes Further Than The Front Pages…
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
The pictures in the media of Charles Saatchi with his fingers around Nigella Lawson‘s neck has brought the subject of intimate partner abuse into the spotlight. I fear that society’s prurient interest in the lives of the glitterati is much more the reason for this spotlight than the subject itself. Domestic abuse happens behind closed doors […]
Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Is Social Media Making us More Anti-Social?
Friday, July 5th, 2013
Maybe it’s me but I am beginning to suspect that ‘tekkys’ are taking over the world. Over the past couple of weeks here in Relationships Ireland we have been inundated with requests asking us to discuss the impact technology, and particularly social media, is having on relationships. Like most things technology can have both a […]
Tags: facebook, relationships, social media, technology, twitter | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Sunshine of Your Love
Monday, June 10th, 2013
When the sun shines and the wind doesn’t blow, and the rain is absent, as in the last few days, our inner selves emerge. The majority of us are in better form and we feel better when the sun shines and we are warm. As a counsellor I really enjoy seeing people throw off the […]
Tags: Feel Good, marriage, relationships, Sunshine | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
What Did I Ever See in You?
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
So often in Relationships Ireland we hear at least one person in the room say ‘I don’t know what the hell I saw in you’. This is usually followed by a barrage of criticism and destructive abuse. What the person ‘saw’ was someone who was like them. They recognised traits or even beliefs that mirrored […]
Tags: attraction, Love, marriage, relationships | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Love is Blind…
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Most of us at some point in our lives wonder what life is all about. We spend a great deal of our time ‘searching’. Often we are not aware we are doing this and when we do realise what we have been doing we ask ourselves about the purpose of our lives. Our purpose, dear […]
Tags: Love, relationships | Posted in Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Waiting for something to happen
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
We wait and we wait, and still nothing happens! He doesn’t say sorry, and she doesn’t reach out a hand in friendship. I ask you, and yes, challenge you, who will do something to break the atmosphere if not you.
Posted in Marriage Counselling, Relationships, Relationships Blog |
Disposable relationships / Disposable people
Monday, February 6th, 2012
We are living in an age where almost everything is disposable. It appears, even in these cash strapped days that we dispose of more items than we save. Can the same be said of our relationships?
Posted in Blog, Relationships, Relationships Blog, Separation |
The adult children of separating parents
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Was on The Late Lunch on LMFM last Friday to talk about ‘When a relationship ends – overcoming the emotional rollercoaster of separation’ which was published last November. Separation is such a complex issue to discuss in such a short time and anyone who has gone through it will say it takes a lot longer to get over than they thought possible. Although I have done a number of interviews on the topic, this interview was different because it touched on the experience of the adult child/children of separated parents.
Posted in Blog, Marriage Counselling, Relationships, Relationships Blog, Separation |
A new year .. a new start
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Today is the first day back at work for many people. Although the break was welcomed by most at the end of a particularly difficult year for this country, the media was full of news of relationship breakups over the past week - the marriages of Sinead O’Connor and Barry Herriedge, Russell Brand and Katie […]
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