- 爱人就是爱人,只要去爱,不要拿来比较。
不要老说别人的老公如何如何好,别数落他没出息,你是他最亲密的人,你还这么说他,好象不太应该,对大多数男人来说,赞赏和鼓励比辱骂更能让他有奋斗的力量。何况,爱他还忍心伤害他吗?爱他一定要尊重他,再生气也不可以出口伤人,言语的伤口有时一生都在流血的。身体的伤害很容易治愈,精神的伤害后果是可怕的。 - 不可以整天追问对方爱不爱你。
他若真爱你,你不必问;他若不爱你,他已做了你的丈夫,难道他会对自己的妻子明确地承认吗?除非他不想要这段婚姻了。他对你的爱,用心去体会就品味出来了。爱是做出来的,不是说出来的。老挂在口头上不落到实际的爱太苍白无力,婚姻是现实的,生活是现实的,风花雪月的恋爱,不是真实的生活。婚姻是从柴米油盐中感受爱。 - 不要摆脸色给对方看,一个生气的女人是很丑陋的。
他工作已有许多压力,没有义务回家还要看你的脸色哄你开心。对方性格上会有缺点,生活细节会与你不同,令你不满意,但他怎么可能是完美的,在你面前,他要放下面具,做回自己,做个普通人。宽容是做人和对待婚姻应有的态度。 - 男人对自己的尊严看得比什么都重要,不管在私下他有多么宠爱你,多么怕你。
在人前一定要给足对方面子,让他做天不怕地不怕老婆更不怕的他口中的顶天立地的男子汉,他应该不大会喜欢朋友们开玩笑取笑他怕老婆。除非他有足够的强大后盾和高高在上的身份,可是,我们大多是普通人呀。 - 男人骨子里全都喜欢美女,但千万别误以为他好色。
男人看到美女会目不转睛或回头行注目礼,你别认为他不爱你,也别认为他好色,爱看美女是男人的本能,与品格无关。何况,爱美知心人皆有之。你难道没偷看过帅哥吗? - 不要太虚荣,不要太功利。
物质的追求是无止境的,你是活自己,不是活给别人看的,鞋子合不合脚只有自个知道,舒服最重要,其它的都是装饰,是虚设。何况俗话说:千金易得,有情郎难寻。真爱无价,情义无价。 - 男人为何喜欢温柔的女人,因为他们内心很脆弱,不象外表般坚强,他们需要妻子的柔情似水,柔声细语,轻怜蜜爱。
只要你有温雅如兰的外表和气质,有吐气如兰的声音,有含情脉脉的眼波,他们很容易化百炼钢为绕指柔的,温瑞安有本书叫《温柔一刀》,温柔,可以杀死一个男人的,对于男人,那是致命的诱惑。 - 家庭永远是第一。
我们固然要对工作负责,要有职业道德,要从工作中得到乐趣,但不要做工作的奴隶,我们工作是为了更快乐地和家人在一起,享受生活,享受生命很重要。 - 爱人的父母就是自己的父母。
将心比心,爱屋及屋,老吾老以及人之老,只要内心深处真正感到这就是我自己的父母,心理上对老人依恋亲密,老人回感受到这份真心的。何况,人老了很象孩子,只要象哄孩子般哄老人开心就好了。我们自己也有老的一天。
Saturday, May 27, 2006
现代好妻子 - 第二章
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
A Happy Marriage (Part 2)
A Happy Marriage (Part 2)
In the last article, we talked about some tips to keep in mind for a happy and lasting marriage.
Briefly, these were - being happy with yourself and your life before you can be capable of making your spouse happy, considering the new entity of "we" in a marriage without becoming co-dependent, leaving behind the emotional baggage of past relationships, and making your spouse your priority.
Today, let's look at more ways to keep your marriage rewarding and joyful. I'd like to emphasise again how important it is to ensure that your marriage is your top priority. You didn't get married to commute two hours a day, or work at the office 60 hours a week. You probably got married to share your life, your hopes, your dreams (not your bills) with that special someone.
During life's ups and especially during life's downs, keep in mind why you married in the first place. Not jobs, nor cars, nor your favorite sports team. At one time, your partner was the most important thing in this world to you. Act like it today and every day.
Don't compare. This holds true in your life as well as in your marriage. There will always be a couple that seems happier, wealthier, sexier, and more perfect than you two are. So what? Their happiness doesn't increase or diminish your happiness. Neither does their money, their jobs, their house, or their glamour.
All that matters is whether you and your spouse have created a relationship that works for you.
Don't wonder "what if?" Wondering what it would be like to be with another person-for a night or for a lifetime-is self-delusion and is really unfair to your spouse. You see other people socially when they are at their best. You see your spouse when he/she is at his best, her average, and sometimes at her worst. If you could swap mates, guess what? You'd see that person at his/her worst, and you probably wouldn't like what you see.
In the last article, we talked about some tips to keep in mind for a happy and lasting marriage.
Briefly, these were - being happy with yourself and your life before you can be capable of making your spouse happy, considering the new entity of "we" in a marriage without becoming co-dependent, leaving behind the emotional baggage of past relationships, and making your spouse your priority.
Today, let's look at more ways to keep your marriage rewarding and joyful. I'd like to emphasise again how important it is to ensure that your marriage is your top priority. You didn't get married to commute two hours a day, or work at the office 60 hours a week. You probably got married to share your life, your hopes, your dreams (not your bills) with that special someone.
During life's ups and especially during life's downs, keep in mind why you married in the first place. Not jobs, nor cars, nor your favorite sports team. At one time, your partner was the most important thing in this world to you. Act like it today and every day.
Don't compare. This holds true in your life as well as in your marriage. There will always be a couple that seems happier, wealthier, sexier, and more perfect than you two are. So what? Their happiness doesn't increase or diminish your happiness. Neither does their money, their jobs, their house, or their glamour.
All that matters is whether you and your spouse have created a relationship that works for you.
Don't wonder "what if?" Wondering what it would be like to be with another person-for a night or for a lifetime-is self-delusion and is really unfair to your spouse. You see other people socially when they are at their best. You see your spouse when he/she is at his best, her average, and sometimes at her worst. If you could swap mates, guess what? You'd see that person at his/her worst, and you probably wouldn't like what you see.
Commitment means no matter what. It's as simple as making the decision to be totally committed to your spouse and to the relationship. No matter what happens financially, or health wise, or otherwise. No matter what. Once the two of you have decided to stay "no matter what", there is no question of stay or go, yes or no. Now the emphasis is on problem solving. And all couples have problems. Happy couples learn to deal with their problems. Unhappy couples eventually just run away.
A happy marriage won't happen by itself. It takes intention, commitment, and practice. But the couples who have happy, blissful, and satisfying marriages are proof that it is possible. Just choose to be happy, and choose to be happily married.
A Happy Marriage (Part 1)
A Happy Marriage (Part 1)
So you've found someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. And you've decided to get married.
There's no manual for a happy marriage, but you have a pretty good feeling that your love will help you weather the storms all relationships inevitably go through. In addition to that, here are some things to remember for a happy and healthy marriage.
1. It starts with you
The happier you are with yourself and your life, the more attractive you are to your partner. Another way to look at this is: if you were someone else, would you marry you? Start today to work on being the kind of person you would want to know, date, and marry. If you're not that kind of person, how can you expect your spouse to stay attracted or stay passionate?
2. There's you, there's him/her, and then there's we.
You don't have to give up your identity or be known as your spouse's partner.
It also doesn't work when two people each do their own thing without regard to their partner's wishes and feelings. Marriage is, and should be, more than cohabitation. As the marriage vows state, "two shall be as one". That "one" is neither you nor him. The "one" is a third entity: the relationship, the marriage, the "we". The "we" is what you share, what you have in common, the nurturing that cannot be provided on your own. Think companionship, intimacy, and sharing.
3. Leave behind your emotional baggage
Are you really over your previous relationship? If not, you can't fully commit to your spouse. Likewise, if you are still Daddy's little girl or Mommy's boy, you are not in control of your own life. Therefore, you cannot fully enter into an adult relationship of mutual sharing and support. You can't be accountable to your spouse if you have to keep pleasing Mommy or Daddy.
4. Your marriage comes first
Marriage is the strongest bond between two people.
Parents are here and one day they are gone. Children grow into adults and leave to start their own lives. Your spouse is only person who is meant to stay with you the rest of your time on this planet. Women who say their children come first are usually unable to let their children grow up and become independent adults. These women are always surprised when their mates get tired of being number two, and decide to leave for someone else who WILL put them first.
Friday, May 19, 2006
品玫瑰花茶做抗抑郁女人
茶叶店里常有颜色鲜艳的干玫瑰花出售,很多人由于不了解其作用而忽视了它。其实,玫瑰花是很好的药食同源的食物,女性平时常用它来泡水喝,有很多好处。尤其是月经期间情绪不佳、脸色黯淡,甚至是痛经等症状,都可以得到一定的缓解。
中医认为,玫瑰花味甘微苦、性温,最明显的功效就是理气解郁、活血散淤和调经止痛。此外,玫瑰花的药性非常温和,能够温养人的心肝血脉,舒发体内郁气,起到镇静、安抚、抗抑郁的功效。女性在月经前或月经期间常会有些情绪上的烦躁,喝点玫瑰花可以起到调节作用。在工作和生活压力越来越大的今天,即使不是月经期,也可以多喝点玫瑰花,安抚、稳定情绪。
对于女性来说,玫瑰花喝多了,还可以让自己的脸色同花瓣一样变得红润起来。这是因为玫瑰花有很强的行气活血、化淤、调和脏腑的作用。我们平时所说的脸色不好或脸上长斑、月经失调、痛经等症状,都和气血运行失常,淤滞于子宫或面部有关。一旦气血运行正常了,自然就会面色红润、身体健康。要想达到这种效果,具体做法是:每天坚持取玫瑰花15克泡水喝,气虚者可加入大枣3—5枚,或西洋参9克;肾虚者可加入枸杞子15克。
泡玫瑰花的时候,可以根据个人的口味,调入冰糖或蜂蜜,以减少玫瑰花的涩味,加强功效。需要提醒的是,玫瑰花最好不要与茶叶泡在一起喝。因为茶叶中有大量鞣酸,会影响玫瑰花舒肝解郁的功效。此外,由于玫瑰花活血散淤的作用比较强,月经量过多的人在经期最好不要饮用。
傷害 。。。
寬恕是對自己的仁慈
吳淡如放棄以生氣折磨自己,不再對憤怒說:
歡迎光臨我曾經碰過一個讓我覺得哭笑不得的婚姻個案。
先生和太太都是誠懇又平凡的市場商販,求助的問題則使人忍不住感歎「怎麼會有人這樣? 丈夫的困擾是:二十多年來,太太完全不准他回家看父母,也不讓孩子看祖父母,跟婆家完全鬧翻了。那還不打緊,太太每日照三餐對他叨念婆婆家過去的罪行,重複再重複也不厭倦,有時半夜心血來潮,還會把丈夫叫醒來叨念一番,丈夫已二十年未曾睡好覺、吃好飯。這位太太是一位「長男的媳婦」,向來勤儉持家,做牛做馬。婆家到底有多麼對不起太太呢?
對不起是一定有的,但聽來都是一些很小的事情,比如說:兄弟妯娌間曾合夥做生意,錢分得不公平,所以太太一直記得先生的大姐積欠她一整年的豆腐錢,「豆腐三十三塊,豆腐乾十五塊、豆腐皮十塊錢」,說好要給她的,但一直都沒有還,太太銘記在心,每天都在腦中重撥了一次算盤,竟沒有一天能忘。還有,婆家並沒有好好地幫太太坐月子,使她備覺委屈,這也是後來她不肯讓孩子認祖父母的理由:生出來的時候你們都沒有好好照顧我,憑什麼養大了之後要讓他們來認你?是她的邏輯。先生早期處理得也不得當。太太一抱怨先生的家人,先生基於孝道,就先把她打一頓再說,後來發現「打了還是繼續念」,終於不敵,轉而變成一個受害者。以前他打她,現在她念他,好像也是挺公平的。然而,她已經五十多歲了,在一個多小時的訪談過程中,提起的舊恨依然是豆腐乾與坐月子,聽久了讓我覺得很荒謬。連我都快把她的豆腐價錢背起來了,她卻一而再、再而三的咬牙切齒,陳述著自己的怨恨。
其實,年過半百的這一代台灣婦女,幾乎有百分之九十九,都走過婆家與先生的許多個對不起,她的遭遇,絕對不是最悲慘的,一大早走進公園裡訪問正在跳舞或練氣功的歐巴桑們,你一定可以找到不少命運比她壞幾倍的女人。其他更歹命的人可以在事過境遷後開開心心過自己的日子,而她卻不能,問題在哪裡呢?在她一波又一波的泣訴下,頭皮開始發麻的我只有一個結論,那就是:她的怨恨多年來一直累積,並沒有因為口頭的發洩而宣洩,她的記恨能力和生命力一樣堅強,已成了打不死的蟑螂。
有時我覺得,記恨能力很像基因遺傳,有些人天生健忘,什麼國仇家恨都無所謂,有些人就是喜歡此恨綿綿無絕期。這位太太說到後來,還把自己的關節炎以及靜脈曲張所帶來的疼痛,算進公婆沒有好好幫她坐月子的帳裡。她的恨意像細菌,在她的擴張解釋中分裂生殖,威力無可抵擋。生活圈子不大的人,眼界不寬,記恨能力也會特別強。古人說,前事不忘,後事之師。記取經驗和教訓是好習慣,但可不要光記恨而已。因為記恨是划不來的。恨比愛花力氣,沒有投資報酬率,還會讓周遭的人喘不過氣,愛會生愛,而恨會生恨,這是不變的道理。這些年來,她為恨所花的力氣,必然超過妯娌欠她的豆腐錢了吧。恨,那麼花力氣傷身體。
有些人的一生,似乎是為了來學習寬恕這個課題。命運對她並不仁慈。她和我的年齡差不多,卻已歷盡滄桑。她是我在廣播節目中,訪問過的一位朋友,湯秀璸小姐。我看了她的書「逆風飛舞」,主動爭取訪問她的機會,而她雖然費盡全力與末期癌症抗爭,卻也大方的克服萬難,來接受訪問。她進廣播室的第一句話是:「你看完我的書,覺得這個女人很笨吧。」依然柔嫩美麗的臉龐上,掛著洞然世事的微笑。我不想說假話,我對她點了頭。我很早就在報紙上看過她的個案。她自幼有類風溼性關節炎,在戀愛路上,雖然遭到家人反對,仍堅持與她的第一個男人J在一起。J是個醫學院學生,也是個優柔寡斷的男人,既想以「家人反對」理由和她分手,卻又不捨多年感情放下她,反反覆覆、波瀾起伏,卻還是瞞著家人結了婚。結了婚,卻不承認。常寫滿紙濃情蜜意的情書或紙條給她,卻同時又以未婚身分與數位女子暗通款曲。
這個婚姻,之所以會鬧上法庭,使人人震驚,是因為湯秀璸在得了初期乳癌時,曾經請教過自己在某大醫院擔任家醫科總醫師的丈夫,丈夫卻多次告訴她沒關係,且阻止她就醫,直到癌症末期、已難治癒。看在法律人的眼裡,這無疑是一場蓄意的謀殺。J曾為了離婚,用盡方法,而湯也為了挽回婚姻,不斷委屈求全,各種讓我覺得「一個受過高等教育的女子不應如此」的手法:比如,因為無法生育,跟妹妹要一個孩子當成自己的,要丈夫視為己出,想挽回外遇丈夫的心。替丈夫跟他追求的對象談判,願意接納他的齊人之福……這一切努力,當然拴不住一顆已經離開了的心。最後忍無可忍的她控告丈夫,這件事情進入司法程序時,因這位醫師的醫德令人髮指,有不少律師熱心幫忙。然而到了後來,湯秀璸卻選擇了寬恕,還向法官求情。官司未完,她已決定釋放。在與最難纏的病魔纏鬥時,她將她的經歷寫成書。「逆風飛舞」就是她用生命寫成的記事,坦誠且深刻。讓我心疼她的痛苦,也歎息她在漫長歲月中曾有的天真。
他使她的病情無可挽回,且她卻選擇寬恕,且她的寬恕並不膚淺,她說:寬恕不是一條容易走的路,它是不斷的來回擺盪,需要時間耐心的學習、滌除、釋放。她的寬恕,最大的意義並不只是原諒那個傷害她的人,而是放過自己。不再為傷害自己的事情受苦。不想再將自己剩餘的人生也賠上。花了那麼多時間,她體認到:「幸福可以有各種模式,不是非得把自己的人生依附在另一個人身上才能得到幸福,生命的寬廣及可能往往超乎我們的想像。」我不是她。但誰都知道,被傷害到這樣的地步,寬恕好難。然而,寬恕卻是一個被嚴重傷害的人,能夠送給自己的最寶貴的禮物。什麼是寬恕?寬恕不是忘記對方的錯,也不等於赦免。不是告訴自己,對方沒有錯。是拒絕他的繼續傷害,絕不表示他還可以傷害你。不是自責。也不等於跟對方和好。只是放棄以生氣來折磨自己,不再對憤怒說:歡迎再度光臨,不想再把往後歲月葬送給不美好的記憶。這才是寬恕。
我們不是湯秀璸,未曾受過那麼深的傷害,但人人都明白,寬恕多年前心靈上被砍傷的那一刀已經很難很難。但是,學會寬恕,最受益的還是自己。美國史丹福大學曾經開設過一個學習諒解的課程,近三百名成年人發現,上完課後,他們的精神壓力減輕了,莫名其妙的頭痛和腸胃不適都不再侵襲自己。
Thursday, May 18, 2006
自助餐
6/5/06 新加波大选, 公共假期。 利用那天和月丽,金凤去吃自助餐。 太好了,已经好久没有如此轻松。
Olive Tree at Intercontinental Hotel, high tee on saturday cost S$28.00 +++ per person, you can enjoy from 1pm to 5pm! Great! Food variety not so fatastic but taste good. A bit disappointed on pastries, not much selection on cakes. But overall 气氛 was good. We have a lot of time to chit chat and eat in slow pace, no hurry.
Friday, May 05, 2006
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