Archive for November, 2005

Do You Think With Your Head Or Your Heart?

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

What do you trust your head or your heart? As I said in a previous post Dr. Carl G. Jung, who developed this theory of personality type, said that there were two ways for people to observe the world, either with their five senses or with intuition, which focuses on the inspiration which arises to […]

This’ll make you feel better about yourself, although you may have to lie down

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Greetings, Steve here, welcoming you to the second in a series of When Reality Knocks columns hopefully helping us all feel better about ourselves. I wrote one column about feeling better about ourselves a few months back, just offhand, and it’s turned out to be extremely popular. Feeling better about themselves, apparently, is something many […]

Nothing Men Do Impresses Me

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Greetings, Steve here. I just wanted to drop a quick line and say that nothing men do impresses me anymore. I know I’m a man and should probably therefore stand up for my gender a bit more, but I’m just not feeling it right now guys, sorry. It seems like every female friend I have […]

Review of Celtix

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Greetings all, Steve here. Time to get your film on: Just a quick post to point those who are interested towards my good friend Doug Johnston’s blog called, imaginaively, www.douglasjohnston.net and his review of the film and media pre-production software Celtix. Anyone who works in film knows that scriptwriting and pre-production organisation can make you […]

5 Stages Of Grieving For A Buddy Who’s Getting Married

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Greetings, Steve here. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross defined many years ago the 5 stages of grief and stated that they were often exerienced by people in all sorts of stressful situations. I’m 28 years old and this is the age when many people get married and many of my friends are rashly doing just that. I’m […]

How To Successfully Talk To Your Boyfriend About Marriage

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Greetings, Steve here, welcoming you once again to When Reality Knocks Lifestyle and Technology Guide. Today’s topic: How to talk to your boyfriend about marriage without killing him.

Now, some of you ladies out there may think that this is over-stating the case and it is certainly true that men are capable, as reasonable, responsible adults, […]

The Cause Of Relationship Problems

Friday, November 11th, 2005

I appreciated D’s comment this week on my post. She touched of the following reflections in me.

One of the most tragic processes I continue to see is that two people who fall in love and marry end up in a few years almost hating each other. Alice and Bill’s wedding and early years are marked […]

Opposites Attract And Then They Hate Each Other

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

In my last post, I described how introverted Alice and extroverted Bill the ideal couple moved from being ideal to having difficulty with the characteristics that they had first fallen in love with. How could this happen?

How it happens is very simple. Each of us has all the characteristics of psychological type. That is, we […]