Anger in the Age of Entitlement

Cleaning up emotional pollution.
Steven Stosny, Ph.D., treats people for anger and relationship problems. Recent books: How to Improve your Marriage without Talking about It, and Love Without Hurt. See full bio

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Emotional Reality

Emotional reality, unlike physical reality, is created rather than observed. By and large, people create the emotional reality in which they live. Unfortunately the choice of which reality we create is usually made by default, a kind of habitual automatic pilot derived from temperament, metabolism, and experience. Read More

i love this new perspective

i love this new perspective for dealing with emotional problems, i wish that you write another article covering the same topic and giving more details about it

OK, so you're making the world a better place....

And I'm just blogging about leaving Palin & Obama action figures lying around the house in compromising position over at at www.naughtybrideguide.com. You know, in case anyone wants a laugh. So... ok, you're better than The Naughty Bride. But more to the point, you're better than the Naughty Bride's marriage therapist, who totally counseled improved communication and "archaic" issue resolution when what we really needed was a redo on the whole what-have-you-done-for/to-me-lately paradigm. Now, that doesn't mean TNB has it all wired now -- far from it -- but the challenge to stay connected is the biggest and best question for brides and grooms everywhere. Someday TNB hopes Dr. Stosny will blog about ways to seek change -- rather than accomodation, real change -- while maintaining the "thank you for being you" position. As David Schnarch writes so elegantly, normal marital sadism cuts direct request Right Out. Dr?

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