emotional maturity

Do Women Ever Admit That They’re Wrong?

Mar 7, 2022

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Ron Johnson

in communication, Connection, Development, emotional maturity, family, feelings, love, marital, men’s issues, mindfulness, relationships, self-awareness, social esteem

Do Women Ever Admit That They’re Wrong? What an outrageous question, it must seem. I would never have thought of asking such a question, which of course, is not a question, but rather a rhetorical question suggesting that women don’t ever admit that they’re wrong. This rhetorical question came to me from the even more outrageous…
The Value of a Heart Attack

Jan 28, 2022

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, family, mindfulness, Personality, self-awareness

I had a heart attack a couple of months ago, and it has been a very good thing for me. Let me explain. I’m not saying that I’m “glad” that I had a heart attack, and of course I wish I hadn’t had this event, but as I look at the larger picture, I see…
Wanting it Both Ways

Nov 15, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in appreciation, Development, emotional maturity, feelings, grief, mindfulness, self-awareness

I have often “wanted it both ways” in many of life’s circumstances: I want to eat as much sugar as I want. I also want to have low glucose in my blood I want to lose weight. I also want to eat too much food at night I want to slim down my belly. I…
Love V: Love Problems

Nov 12, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in emotional maturity, feelings, grief, happiness, love, mindfulness, self-awareness, Spiritual

This is (probably) the last of the blogs on love. Previously, we looked at a bit of theory of love, “not being love right”, temperament-based love, and being “seen” so you could be loved. This blog will be devoted to a very basic concept that we have developed about feelings, emotions, and love. If you…
Love IV: I See You

Nov 11, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in emotional maturity, feelings, love, marital, mindfulness, relationships, self-awareness, Spiritual

Deb and I have many statements that occasionally comprise elements of our many conversations, some of which I noted in a previous blog called Racks and Cutters. Thinking and writing about love these days reminded me of a statement that we heard in a movie that has stuck with us. The movie is Avatar and…
Love III: Not Loved Right

Nov 7, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, feelings, love, mindfulness, Personality, positive psychology, relationships, self-awareness

This is the third of several blogs on love. Previously, I introduced this series noting that love is so important that it is undefinable, like other undefinable basic elements of life such as “feelings” which is so central to human existence and relationships, as well as time, distance, and mass, which are also undefined but…
Love II: Temperamental Love

Oct 30, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, feelings, love, Personality, relationships, self-awareness, Spiritual

Three quarters of a century ago C.S. Lewis wrote The Four Loves, a book that has been quite popular in Christian circles over many decades of the 20th century. Lewis suggested that there are four different kinds of love, three of them decidedly biblical and the fourth implicitly biblical. He suggested that there is empathy,…
Love I: Theory

Oct 30, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, feelings, love, love, mindfulness, self-awareness

This is the first of several blogs regarding this most important concept, most certainly one of the most important concepts, ideas, facts, feelings, and experiences in the human experience. In the following blogs we will be examining the following: You were not loved right (as a child) “Love problems” (the emotions associated with love) Temperamental…
Why Did She Leave Me?

Sep 12, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in Development, Discovery, emotional maturity, feelings, marital, men’s issues, mindfulness, relationships, self-awareness

My wife left me…again. Yesterday. Bummer? Not exactly. She has a tendency to leave me every now and then. She loves to go to “her canyons” in UT and hike. Sometimes she has dragged me along or allowed me to travel and hike with her. Once she left me and went to Portugal to hike.…
The Deep Hole Phenomenon

Aug 18, 2021

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Ron Johnson

in Development, emotional maturity, family, feelings, self-awareness

Three is a deep “hole” inside many people. This “deep hole” causes people great distress and often causes other people distress. So, what does it mean to talk about someone’s “deep hole”? It means that this person feels a certain “emptiness” inside that cannot seem to be filled. This deep hole phenomenon has resulted in…