There is no need to fear the future—the prospect of loneliness and hopelessness—if, apparently through no fault of your own, it becomes necessary to go through a divorce.
When the emerging adult in your family resents your advice or guidance, rebels against your authority, questions your judgment, or rejects your standards with verbal attack, you may feel there is a knife in your heart.
Now and then I've wondered why people tend to admire, sometimes enviously, the "stars" of today, those in the limelight in the areas of stage, music, screen, sports.
It is said that a noted conductor once admonished a budding young singer, "To be a great artist, you must have the sensitivity of a mimosa as well as the skin of a rhinoceros.
Today it is hardly possible to read a newspaper or listen to a news program without learning of some new instance of upheaval, unrest, or violence resulting from racial prejudice.