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Relationship Booster: Mental Subtraction

We don't have to lose a thing to know its worth. It’s a fallacy to conclude that "One doesn't know the value of something until one loses it". There is a positive psychology thinking pattern called “mental subtraction”, where you imagine your life without that person or thing. It’s a way to stimulate gratefulness and know the value of what is ours, and not until when it is lost. When you can imagine your life without that person, then your life with that person will be more meaningful and beautiful. I know the value and worth of all that I have, including people, things and all. Because I can play the differences between before and after I had them and this makes me treasure them the most.                                               We don't have to get t...

Relationship Booster: Open Mindedness

Let’s open our mind just as our eyes are open, for to be closed minded is no difference from physical blindness. Be open to experience, not all circumstances or people are exactly the same, make room for their differences. It’s a personality type required for a healthy relationship. Relating with a close minded person can sometimes be frustrating. It’s someone who can’t see the other side, who can't think outside the box, who can't embrace a new perspective and too narrow minded. This mindset rob us of the life and fun of our relationship, it limit one's life and that of others. It is close mindedness for a woman who was heartbroken by a man to conclude every man is unfaithful; even five men are only a few samples out of billion men in the world. Likewise for a woman to be generalized as women, and because your woman lied once should not make you form an unchanging opinion of her that she is a chronic liar, because a liar today can be the most sincere and open tomo...