The Truth, Of Course, Is

The Best You Can Sometimes Do Is Learn To Take A Breath, Count To Ten And Simply Accept That Try As You Might, No, Your Husband Will Never, Ever Learn Not To Drop A Wet Towel On The Bed. That Acceptance Too Counts As Resolving A Fight.

Narcissism, Like The Other Personality Disorders, Is A Condition That's Known As Ego-syntonic. In Other Words, The Paranoid Person Really Does Believe That People Are After Him, And The Narcissist Really Does Believe That He Or She Is Better Than Or More Entitled Than Other People, And Truly Doesn't See Why That's Not The Case.

The Mind And The Body Are Inextricably Entwined, And Rarely Are Their Inseparability Clearer Than When We're Under Some Kind Of Mental Pressure. The Moment We Start Trying To Learn A New Skill, Make A Decision Or Otherwise Think On Our Feet, Our Nervous System Reacts - With Accelerated Pulse Rate, Increased Respiration, Even Sweating.

We Are All Born With An Innate Understanding Of Interpersonal Equity - The Idea That If You Lend Me Your Rake Today, I'll Respond In Kind When You Come To Borrow My Shovel Tomorrow. Or Nearly All Of Us Are Born With That. Psychopaths Aren't.

Confidence Quickly Curdles Into Arrogance; Smarts Turn To Smugness, Charm Turns To Smarm.