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Are We Having a Conversation or Seeking Validation?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inviting-monkey-tea/202010/are-we-having-conversation-or-seeking-validation Often, we need something from our listener that we’re not even aware of needing. We’re trying to get the other person to make us feel heard, to give us the feeling that our experience is understood, that we are understood. We award the other person with the power to fulfill or deny us this…

Entitled people act against common good
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-resilience/201801/why-entitled-people-will-disregard-rules-others-follow For this study, this, researchers Emily Zitek and Alexander Jordan first pointed out in this summary (link is external)that previous studies found that “entitled” people—technically, individuals with a higher sense of entitlement – are more likely to believe they deserve preferences and resources that others don’t. And, that they are also less concerned about…
Children who don’t get that love suffer with a lot of issues
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/woman-imprisoned-by-father-writes-about-childhood-trauma-b99565646z1-323322161.html Lisa’s mother finally was able to escape the home and call police. The girls were taken into protective custody and wound up in foster and group homes. Lisa ran away, only to be victimized later by her father and others who took her in, she says. To this day, she said, it’s difficult to…
Calls from MPs and survivor for protections for ‘deepfake porn’ victims
Receiving external validation is a big helper in moving past the secrecy, shame and guilt almost always felt by victims of sexual abuse. “There is enormous power in stating expressly what you want to criminalise, because that in itself provides an educative function, that in itself empowers victims to be able to say that specific…

What Representing Men in Divorce Taught Me About Fatherhood
According to the Center for Disease Control, children from fatherless homes account for 90% of homeless and runaway children; 71% of high school dropouts and 63% of youth suicides. Attorney Marilyn York owns a Men’s Rights Family Law Firm in Reno Nevada, established in 2001. She and her ten female employees focus on representing men…

Diving into the mysteries of mate selection
One line of thinking, for instance, posits that we assess potential mates against an internal threshold of preferred qualities and attributes — a “minimum bar,” that they have to meet to be considered a potential partner. “And we learn where that minimum bar is based on how other people treat us,” he said. Another model…