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While parents are naturally in a leadership role, strong families strive to share decision-making. They resolve differences by respecting other viewpoints and accepting compromise solutions. One family decided to spend money on a son's music lessons rather than replace worn carpeting. The compromise was to pitch in and clean the carpet. In another family, everyone but the youngest daughter loved to ski. They rented a vacation condo with plenty of activities for the daughter, and the skiers accepted an hour's drive to the slopes.
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A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can — and surely will at times — fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
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No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
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Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.
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"Our family comes first" Strong families support each other's dreams; they sacrifice to show support. A friend turned down a company trip to the Bahamas so he could attend his son's championship soccer game. "the beach will always be there," he said, "but my son won't always be 14 and team captain." this "family first" attitude begins with a bond of loyalty between marital partners. But single-parent families (28% of all families with children, according to the latest census) can be just as successful in raising strong children if they develop a "family first" attitude.
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There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
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I invented media psychology. I was the first. The founding mother.
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We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
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The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.
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When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.
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Born:
October 20, 1927
Died:
May 13, 2013
(aged 85)
Bio:
Joyce Diane Brothers was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013.
Known for:
Widowed (1990)
What Every Woman Should Know About Men (1981)
How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life (1978)
Positive plus (1994)
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