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My Emotional World
1. How did your family express the following when you were a child:
• Anger
• Sadness
• Fear
• Affection
• Interest in one another
• Pride in one another
2. During your childhood, did your family have to cope with a particular emotional problem, such as aggression between parents, a depressed parent or a somewhat emotionally wounded one? What implications does this have for your marriage and your other close relationships (friendships, relationships with your parents, siblings, children)?
3. What is your own philosophy about expressing feelings, particularly sadness, anger, fear, pride, and love? Are any of these difficult for you to express or to hear your spouse express? What is the basis of your perspective on this?
4. What differences exist between you and your spouse in the area of expressing emotion? What is behind these differences? What are the implications of these differences for you?
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman [John Gottman]
an enormous six-hundred-year-old Buddha carved from a single hunk of jade. Standing before its placid face I asked, *Why am I here? What is my purpose?*
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight [Phil Knight]
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
John Rockefeller
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