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Guest Post: Overcoming Perfection

May 1, 2018 kernbetts emotional maturity, Expectations, forgiveness, love, Observations, parents, Relationships

By Anonymous contributor “If gold rusts, what then can iron do?” – Geoffrey Chaucer The minute I turned eighteen, I left home and never came back. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration; I came back a couple of years later after my mom died. She kept her illness from everyone until the family reunited

Overcoming an inability to … swear!

January 22, 2018 kernbetts Expectations, lighthearted, Observations

I’d love to hear your story if you actively practiced swearing as a kid. Because that was me, too. In grade school, I was teased for not swearing. So I worked on it. Turns out, that was the right direction; there are studies now not only showing benefits of swearing, but also dismissing the notion that

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Guest Post: Overcoming Perfection

Overcoming an inability to … swear!

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