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@shoelady60,

What a day you have had I know your mom appreciates everything you do. ✨✨

Here this will make you feel more relaxed. 😘No worries I will kick out some
handbags. 😜

Club Sheba

@taci

Taci – thank you so much for your thoughts.

Everyday it’s something new with these shots or another variant popping up. I have pretty much quit watching the news because I am so sick of hearing one thing one day and something else the next day. It seems this virus will be around for a long time and I sure hope we don’t have to get a shot every six months.

@sheba2011

My favorite quote – once in a while, add a handbag!👠🐶👜

Really a miserable day in the ‘burgh🌧 so mom and I didn’t go anywhere. After I dropped her off at the hair salon, I ran to the grocery store for a couple things for her. Went back to her house and cleaned her microwave, stove, swept the floor and changed her sheets. Then we had tea, chips and dip after I picked her up. It was a nice afternoon and didn’t come home exhausted.🥰

Thanks for your condolences – like you need more. I hope your nieces and husband are taking it one day at a time. You are their pillar.💓💕💓 Hugs to you and Poppy.🤗

One-Sided Relationships

Relationships can become out of balance and one-sided, if we don’t occasionally check in with each other.

One of the most beautiful qualities of an intimate relationship is the give and take of energy that occurs between two people. In the best-case scenario, both people share the talking and listening, and the giving and receiving of support, equally. Occasionally, within any relationship, the balance shifts and one person needs to listen more, or give more. Generally, over a long period of time, even this exception will take on a balanced rhythm; we all go through times when we take more and times when we give more.

However, there are also relationships in which the balance has always felt one-sided. You may have a friend whom you like, but you have begun to notice that the conversation is always about their life and their problems and never about yours. You may also have a friend who seems to require an inordinate amount of support from you but who is unable or unwilling to give much in return. Over time, these relationships can be draining and unsatisfying. One option is simply to end the relationship, or let it fade out naturally. Another option is to communicate to your friend that you would like to create a more equal balance in which your concerns also get some airtime. They may be taken aback at first, but if they are able to hear you, your friendship will become that much more sincere. They may even thank you for revealing a pattern that is probably sabotaging more than one relationship in their life.

A third option is to simply accept the relationship as it is. There are many one-sided relationships that actually work. One example of this is a mentor relationship in which you are learning from someone. Another example is a relationship in which you are helping someone who is sick, disabled, or otherwise needy. In these instances, you can simply be grateful that you are able to help and be helped, trusting that the balance of give and take will even out in the big picture of your life. Think about it. 😘😎✨

@kittengirl,

Happy Halloween Weekend in California. I hope this will be a good one for your
grandson. Thinking of the kitties and sending kitty hugs from OZ. ✨

Over the Rainbow
Song by Judy Garland

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can’t I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can’t I?

@shoelady60,

Good afternoon in the ‘burgh. I am so sorry for the loss of you and your husband’s friend.
I will be thinking of you today. Prayers up. ✨🌹

I will make you something later in Club Sheba. 😘😎

@71flowerchild,

Howdy in Texas and I hope you and your family have a great weekend. Happy Halloween
and be sure to give the fur babies Jewell and Little D a nice Oz pet. 😜😎✨😘

@taci,

Good morning in S. California have a great time this Halloween Weekend.
I got all my treats for the kiddies I live near the woods so I hope they come early
because here there be monster. 😎✨😘

@oodiebom,

Good afternoon on the Gulf Coast. I know you and hubby have a busy day.

Take your time and get your beauty winks for Trivia tonight. 😘✨✨

@xango,

Happy Halloween Weekend in Florida. See ya in Trivia. ✨✨

I think the name is Poppy. 😜✨😘

@defg,

Good day in Maryland I hope you and hubby have a great weekend. ✨

@ddshoppy,

Good morning have a great day in S. Cali check in when you can. I would like to know
how everyone is doing. See ya in Trivia if you are up to it. ✨✨