"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.
"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.
But Arizona: not everyone has a partner. This must be where posting in threads and blogs come in. Ce n'est pas?
thewall2: There are no problems in life.......only solutions.
If I FOCUS on the problem .......the problem persists.If I WORK THE SOLUTION to the problem,the problem gets removed....because I'VE BEEN WORKING THE solution.
I was once told I have all the answers, it is the questions I do not know.
The best place I have found to seek my answers is from within..
P.55....."Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself."
"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.
I thought that was very well-stated, Pat. "Still waters" in a relationship probably means Malaria's being brewed.
I always make a habit of telling my love what I feel. The problem is that sometimes I may allow frustration to compromise that expression with irritation or even anger. But overall talking about our concerns has been a boon for us - and I think it would be for anyone.
HJFinAZ: I was once told I have all the answers, it is the questions I do not know.
The best place I have found to seek my answers is from within..
P.55....."Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself."
"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.
There have been times in my long term marriage that I was too upset to talk about the problem at hand, so what I did was tell him I need some time, I can't talk right now and we can talk later. He knew when I said that, I wouldn't be talking. I would then go scrub the kitchen to death to work out my frustration, and to think about the solution to the problem. We always talked and worked things out by the time the kids had gone to bed. After we divorced we talked quite a few times. And it turns out that wasn't the best solution either. He needed more fighting to bring in more passion, according to him. So I was left confused, I don't like fighting, I would much rather think first before speaking, then talk about the problem. I still won't fight, so I need a man who works things out more like I like to without the drama. And still can find passion without it.
mylifewithu: There have been times in my long term marriage that I was too upset to talk about the problem at hand, so what I did was tell him I need some time, I can't talk right now and we can talk later. He knew when I said that, I wouldn't be talking. I would then go scrub the kitchen to death to work out my frustration, and to think about the solution to the problem. We always talked and worked things out by the time the kids had gone to bed. After we divorced we talked quite a few times. And it turns out that wasn't the best solution either. He needed more fighting to bring in more passion, according to him. So I was left confused, I don't like fighting, I would much rather think first before speaking, then talk about the problem. I still won't fight, so I need a man who works things out more like I like to without the drama. And still can find passion without it.
I forgot to say this is what he also used as his excuse for cheating on me, He needed the thrill and excitement.
"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.
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"Still waters run deep" may be true for lakes and rivers, but in intimate relationships it is not necessarily true. Our silence can keep us isolated from ourselves and from those we love. In order to grow together, we must let each other know how we think and feel. Sometimes just saying a thought or feeling helps us see beyond it.
If we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we may get so immersed in those still waters that we nearly drown in them. A problem kept to ourselves usually grows bigger and more consuming. When we talk about it, we can work through it and move on to something else.
Choose, one concern, small or large, and express it to your partner.