Marriage, friendship, parenting and living at peace with others.
“Which people are advising you about your relationship? They may be your friends, but are they in good relationships? Are they secretly envious? Are they in relationships that you will want your relationship to be like?…”
“…Is there something you can avoid and you will have a good working environment? Please do. Is there something you can avoid and live happily in your marriage and family? Please do. Is there something you can avoid and you will enjoy meeting neighbors and family members? Please do!”
“Fault finding can be trouble shooting of a problem in a system. However, we want to focus on faultfinding as an obsession to highlight what is wrong to the extent of being petty and trivial. A faultfinder gains satisfaction in showing that there is a fault.”
“A reputation is different from self-assessment. A reputation is what others think about you and would affirm it behind your back. What people say about you when they know you are not listening and you will never know that they said it. Self-assessment mis what you think about yourself.”
“If you fail on the how, even if the what is correct, it will never matter. Mind how you express the good and the bad. Many married couples and people in relationships go through the same struggles but some succeed and some fail because of how…”
“A taste of your own medicine refers to being treated in a bad way the way you treated others in a bad way. When we treat others in a bad way and we give excuses that we are teaching them hard lessons, some day we will also be treated in a bad way with the same excuse. A taste of your own medicine!”
“Better than fasting means fasting is good and still recommended. Better than fasting means fasting has not been dismissed as being useless, only that there is something better…”
“There is a limited period of time when anger is justified. After that, it is wrong and ungodly. Your partner will not get better nor improve because of your prolonged anger. Your prolonged anger may introduce feelings of…”
“Your excitement over my misfortune may cause you a worse punishment from God. I am down but I am not out. Though I have fallen, I will also rise!”