MINDPT

Tag: personal growth

  • After Money — What Comes Next

    Part 1: The System Is Breaking, and It’s Not Your Fault

    It was COVID that made me say it out loud for the first time.

    Something has shifted. Something fundamental. And it’s not coming back.

    I’ve been watching this for years — studying history, following economic trends, observing the people around me. But the pandemic made it impossible to ignore. The gap between what people work for and what life actually costs has become absurd. Not uncomfortable. Absurd.

    People who were born in the seventies could earn enough to buy a home. That’s just a fact. Work hard, save carefully, and in a reasonable number of years, you’d have a place that was yours.

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  • Why Couples Fight — And What Actually Fixes It

    Part 2: The Path Forward

    In Part 1, I described the root of most persistent relationship conflict: two people who grew up without enough love, who brought unmet needs into their relationship, and who have been colliding ever since — not because they chose wrong, but because neither of them was taught what love as a practice actually requires.

    Now I want to talk about what changes that.

    The answer is not what most people expect.

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  • Why Couples Fight — And Where It Actually Comes From

    Part 1

    You’ve probably been told your relationship problems come down to communication. Or compatibility. Or different love languages.

    Maybe you’ve tried therapy. Maybe you’ve read the books. Maybe things got better for a while, then slid back to exactly where they were.

    Here’s what I’ve come to believe after years of studying the human mind — and after watching my own marriage get tested in ways I never expected:

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