Sorry that you couldn’t leave your comment with the “snow” post – I was having terrible problems with WordPress yesterday and no sooner had I published the post but it “disappeared”. I think I’ve sorted the problem now.

My best wishes also to you and your family.

Just read your blog post about having to walk through snow.

Gosh, I am sure glad you made it. A difficult journey in freezing cold. I am happy to know you have the strength of your convictions

Yes, there are important life lessons here, but stay safe out there.

And sorry to hear about the rough weather, but you adapted well.

My best wishes to you and your family and keep on writing. Thanks

Without communication, assumptions get made about what other people are thinking and feeling and about how things are that may well not be true. Challenging the status quo can be a real force for healing if we’re up for it.

I think it’s all about communication really. Rather than just putting up with the status quo you have to (constructively) challenge.

We had a problem at home recently. My wife and I have been together for 10 years, married for 2 and have 2 beautiful daughters. But we were taking each other for granted and not spending any real time together. We were lost in our own worlds, doing our own thing without realising that we’d lost us along the way.

So just before xmas we sat down and talked it through for hours. We laughed. We cried. We decided that we wanted to both start appreciating each other. Now every night rather than me working all night, I spend some time with my family and my wife. When the kids have gone to bed if she has jobs to do I’ll do some writing and if she hasn’t then we’ll have sometime together.

All it took was for us to stop putting up and accepting what was and for us to actually do something about it.

I’m happy to hear that you work in a place where relationships are healthy. It gives the message that it is, in fact, possible.

And thanks too for your inspiration for this post in the first place. Much appreciated!

It may not be words all the time but actions/gestures could be useful mediums.

Some people dont want to listen, others want to raise an argument and the rest wouldnt care less.

I guess if you’ve studied the temperament of such bosses you could pass the message across constructively. I could be wrong though!!!

I am blessed to work in a company where the directors, managers, supervisors all have healthy relationships with each member of staff. but it definitely wasnt like this in a few places I had worked before

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That’s interesting to hear. I guess, as you say, some people just don’t want to know what’s really going on. If that’s what you were faced with, it was brilliant that you found the courage to speak up nevertheless. You knew, come what may, you were being true to yourself. I admire your authenticity