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21 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.09
We were talking about what makes relationships last over time and arrived at the conclusion that one of the conditions is remaining yourself within the relationship, not dissolving into the other person. But there is a context in which this challenge...
21 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03
We have just talked about superficial communication and the price we pay when we stay at the surface in relationships. Starting from there, a broader and deeper question arises: what makes a relationship last not just a year or two, but a decade, thr...
20 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03
Having talked about the impact of our own emotions on those around us, the emotions we transmit without speaking, it is worth looking now at what happens when we do speak, but without actually saying anything real. Superficial communication is one of...
19 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.10
In managing disappointments and unmet expectations, we talked at length about what others do to us. Now it is time to turn that gaze in the other direction, the less comfortable one: what do we do to others, through the emotions we carry and transmit...
19 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.01
If constructive feedback asks us to tell difficult truths with care, there is an even harder type of truth to voice: the one we carry when someone we care about has disappointed us. Not necessarily through anything dramatic, but through the distance...
18 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02
After talking about how to connect authentically even with difficult people, a natural next step emerges: once the connection exists, how do you use it to say things that truly matter? Constructive feedback is precisely that bridge between connection...
17 Apr 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.07
We have just explored how much of our behaviour is shaped by social forces we cannot see. Now we take a more concrete step: what do we do with the difficult people we cannot avoid, those in our family, at work or in our social circle, people we must...
17 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02
If relational tensions show us what happens between two people, there is an even broader level at which our relational life is shaped: that of the group, of society, of the collective dynamics we absorb without requesting them and without fully becom...
16 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.01
The boundaries we talked about last time don't eliminate tensions in relationships. Sometimes they even produce them, at least temporarily. And that is precisely why a question follows that I find essential: what do we do with tension itself? Not how...
15 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05
If patience towards others' flaws asks us to be gentler with human imperfection, there is a delicate balance we need to maintain at the same time: being gentle doesn't mean being without limits. On the contrary, healthy boundaries are precisely what...
