It Is Very Difficult To

We Must Become What We Wish To Teach.

The Practice Of Assertiveness: Being Authentic In Our Dealings With Others; Treating Our Values And Persons With Decent Respect In Social Contexts; Refusing To Fake The Reality Of Who We Are Or What We Esteem In Order To Avoid Disapproval; The Willingness To Stand Up For Ourselves And Our Ideas In Appropriate Ways In Appropriate Contexts.

Living Consciously Is Seeking To Be Aware Of Everything That Bears On Our Interests, Actions, Values, Purposes, And Goals. It Is The Willingness To Confront Facts, Pleasant Or Unpleasant. It Is The Desire To Discover Our Mistakes And Correct Them . . . It Is The Quest To Keep Expanding Our Awareness And Understanding, Both Of The World External To Self And The World Within.

For "i" To Become "we" And Yet Remain "i," Is One Of The Great Challenges Of Marriage.

Most Of Us Are Taught From An Early Age To Pay Far More Attention To Signals Coming From Other People Than From Within. We Are Encouraged To Ignore Our Own Needs And Wants And To Concentrate On Living Up To Others Expectations.