A healthy relationship is not supposed to make your intestines feel like they are in a constant knot. If you feel like this when you are around a certain person, let’s pick an arbitrary number, ten times in a row, you need to find a new friendship. So many of us are raised to believe that unacceptable behavior is acceptable; it’s not. I know that many of you reading this are under eighteen and have parents that perhaps are addicts. Therefore, there is a constant stream of intestinal knots. This is an awful situation and I can’t offer an easy solution. I can tell you to pray and that God…

Happy New Year in February!  I really wanted my beloved nephew, a brilliant Wordsmith, to write my first blog on this topic, but he’s too busy.  So here I go, and I hope we all get to hear from him soon. The first line of Auld Lang Syne asks, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot  and never brought to mind?” From High School, and way beyond, friends will come and go, as will boyfriends and girlfriends.  Most of the time, it’s extremely painful when the relationship ends, and in an effort to ease the trauma, sometimes, we chase after a relationship that just isn’t healthy for us anymore.  Don’t do that. …