I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.

You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.