Singles Awareness Day, SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), Anti-Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and now—according to Hallmark—Galentine’s Day. Whatever it is to you, I wholeheartedly believe
We may have been, “stabbed in the back” or feel like we’ve been wronged. Someone may have gotten the promotion at work that we were aching to get. We could have been cheated on in a relationship, or just been, “done wrong”.
I was thrilled at the above topic of presentation by Sushama Kirtikar, a fellow counselor, at our monthly Suncoast Mental Health Counselors Association meeting. Although we mostly are counselors in private practice, and are small business owners, we don’t sell anything. Yet
I‘ve had thoughts of writing a book on relationships. At one point, I thought I would write about all the different ways that relationships I personally had went wrong. I never thought I’d be writing a blog on how people are being stood up.
This is kind of part three of a series. I lost a friend of many years on April 15th to brain cancer. It kind of feels so long ago, but also only like yesterday.
I feel one of the most prominent concepts amongst the theories I learned from past psychologists was Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of (human) needs. Our very basic needs are