Question My wife and I just had a big blow-up was put on hold because it was considered unclear. I have been through a similar situation and had posted an answer. There's a comment from sphennings that since the question isn't clear, it's impossible to judge if my answer is useful. I assume th...

I encountered a strange situation with my roommate and I'm not sure if I'm the problem and need to change, or if he is just being unreasonable. The context is this: We are living in a house which has 6 people and 3 dogs living in it. There is an upstairs and downstairs which are not connected, ...

I'm not sure if this is a question that can be asked here (or even answered) but I'd like to try. My grandpa is almost 80 and has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's a little over a year ago. Since then I feel like he is loosing interest in life. He used to be a self-employed and managed his busine...

I recently came across an idea of a psychological phenomenon that is called "the hero instinct". Basically what it says is that for a man to want, and feel desire for a woman, his 'hero instinct' needs to be evoked by her. I haven't got much into it, but from the little i did, and from my own lif...

This has been bothering me for sometime now. My Dad has multimorbidity, i.e. numerous health issues that can be treated by being a self-advocate, and not giving up (it's easy to feel discouraged with lot of pain from illness, medication side-effects, etc). 66% of Americans over 60 and 25% of Am...

Grit is good and measurable but most every project I pursue appears to be short-term at the start and quickly blossoms into an alarming number of revisions. How does, are there?, any strategies for self-monitoring when grit becomes obsession? (or in more layman's terms - how does one know when t...

My husband and I have never liked cut flowers, although we always accepted them graciously when they were given to us. It seemed a shame for people to spend money on something we don't like, but we appreciated the intent and didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings or be demanding. Now that we have...

My friend and I went to a nice restaurant the other night (about $20 per entree). It was busy and we had to wait a good 15 minutes and there were people waiting behind us as well. The host took us to our table but it turned out to be right next to the bathrooms and I really don't like that so I ...