My parents are fanatic Christians. They don't have any rationality and lived in medieval mentality, destroying family relationship along with many other things. They were self-righteous, failed to hear other people, and only regard themselves as the pious believers. I don't go to church anymore a...

Frequently, when trying to make a morning tea at the office, people will say "I can't do anything without my morning coffee!" - currently I just smile, and say "Yeah, me too!". Even though I don't care much for coffee, and can't understand why people can't function without it. And why they need t...

Note: At first glance, this seems to be a "should I do this or that" question, which I know isn't appropriate here. I am asking instead for guidance on how I can make the decision myself in a reasoned (instead of emotional) way. I welcome philosophical arguments about privacy and trust, possible ...

What do you think about creating an imaginary person in one's mind? I remember one movie with Ryan Gosling 'Lars and the Real Girl' where he treated mannequin like his girlfriend, after being for some time in such relationship he have experienced something that I would call catharsis and has beco...

I am in US local government organization. Most of my team are middle-age men who busy with their families, and are looking towards retirements. They are nice folks to collaborate, talk to at work, and try to help each other out Now we are getting team-members who are young like me. I'm unsure ho...

For a background, I'm 24, just out of college, and I just got a job doing something I really love (scientific computing) but the starting pay is kinda low ($45k), but it's at a university so I'm able to take classes for free and keep learning. My parents got divorced a few years ago pretty amicab...

I’m asking this because, I have my best friend in a Romanian high school and he keeps call me “Abood” and I keep asking him to stop calling me like this, I want to be called as “Alex” and he calls me as “Rex” or “Rexes”. And also, I have other friends whom I meet with them in park, and some of...

Are there any tactics of interpersonal relations which involve abrupt ending of the friendly behavior and shifting to cold responses and the minimum of communication? If they exist, can they be inferred from Erich Fromm's "The art of loving", if the person fully supports the opinions stated in t...

TL;DR: My dad is calling my sister an embarrasment while I'm the "golden child" that seems to do most things right in his eyes. My dad seems to not realize that me and my sister talk often, and she expresses her frustrations to me often about his words. Related to this question: What to say to ...

So, this is about my brother. He is super quick to feel treated disrespectfully. He's in his early twenties. I'll just take something recent as an example: Our mother forgot to lock the door when in the bathroom, my brother went in and about whatever he saw (-it is not known-) he must have gott...