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Being A Well Spouse Is An Emotional Paradox

As the years go by, and your spouse gets worse, and your life gets harder, well spouses often live with emotional paradoxes.

Death, Life And Hope

It is Sunday, the day after Yom Kippur and everyone you speak to says, "Thank G-d it's over."

Toxic People, A Last Comment

My five-part series on toxic people brought an avalanche of responses the likes of which I have not seen in my four years of writing this column.

Toxic People: What They Teach Us (Part Five)

When dealing with toxic personalities it is very important to remember some basic strategic rules that apply not only to them but can also apply to difficult people who are not toxic per se.

Gravesend, Brooklyn

Question: Should New York legalize medicinal marijuana?

Title: Understanding the Afterlife in This Life

Author: Dr. Bernie Kastner Publisher: Devora Publishing

Title: Jewish Woman Next Door

Urim Publications (Israel) excels in producing wonderful intellectual content to the reading world and The Jewish Woman Next Door is another example of such excellence.

The Children’s Dynamic

As well spouses, we know the effect of chronic illness on ourselves. We know how it robs us of our dreams, our future, even our identity.

Title: Hey, Little Ant!

Authors: Phillip and Hannah Hoose Publisher: Urim Publications

History Lessons

Several readers, at least one or two of them presumably not in the employ of the Democratic National Committee, took the Monitor to task for suggesting that Sen. Hillary Clinton was a pioneer in the art of elevating a scamp like Al Sharpton to the status of esteemed statesman.

Other People’s Pain: A Mea Culpa

Every day I receive e-mails from people communicating their personal problems.

After The State Of The Union Pain And Terror In Iraq

Following every suicide bombing in Iraq, one crucial point is always overlooked. This point is rooted in the confining space of each individual human body. It has to do with the general incommunicability of physical pain. No human language can ever really describe agony. In consequence, the monstrousness of terror-violence - never truly palpable - is generally reduced to an anesthetized inventory of "casualties."

An Illuminating Darkness

"Wouldn't it be nice if the days were long all year round?" commented my son at six o'clock in the evening as we sat down to dinner to the backdrop of the completely black outdoors.

Some Guidelines For Visitation (Part 1)

We are taught that visiting the sick takes away a great deal of their pain.

Let Me Tell You What You Need To Do (Part Four)

Last week I gave examples of supportive messages to people in crisis.

Pain And Terror

We Jews have experienced so much pain in our long and arduous history that the pain of Islamic terrorism seems to be just another episode of indescribable suffering. To an extent, this is certainly true. For the moment, we must endure, and - in the end - we shall prevail. So it has been before; so it will be again.

Let Me Tell You What You Need To Do (Part Two)

Last week I began sharing a well-intentioned letter that was e-mailed to a well spouse and her hospitalized husband.

Death Of A Spouse: Part Three – The Rehearsals

When a spouse is chronically ill, chances are you may be called to the hospital several times in the course of the illness, to say goodbye.

Testimonials – A Daughter Speaks

Last week I shared a chronically ill husband's nomination of his wife for a Caregivers Award.

Testimonials – A Husband Speaks

Recognition of well spouses has come a long way since I first began writing about them.

The Power Of Paint: Paintings By Motke Blum

Vacillating wildly from slashing abstraction, moody evocations of Jerusalem to complex meditations on the Shoah, Motke Blum presents a conundrum.

When Compliments Hurt

A hurricane of mixed emotions accompanies the death of the chronically ill.

More Phone Stories

Chronic illness, to the great pain of everyone involved, only ends in one way, death.

The Power Of Love (Part I)

Marriage is not like every other human relationship. It brings two incompatible people together for the purpose of healing and growth. The degree of healing and growth will depend on many factors. One such factor is the ability to give love. Love is the foundation of married life. Even though many people talk about it, there is a great deal of doubt as to whether they really know how to give love.

Focus On The Positive

Last week I shared part of a letter by a mother of a chronically ill child.

Miriam – Tambourines Of Rebellion

Bitter was the daily fare of the Jewish slaves in their Egyptian exile.

Truly Selfless Love Stories

I recently had the privilege of meeting with a support group that consisted of spouses, children and friends of the residents of a nursing home.

Touch, the Better Alternative

Words do not always come out right. They don't always express the depth of our emotions or what we want to say.

Think ‘Good’ And It Will Be Good!

Tomorrow is the day after Labor Day. We all know what that means.

Coping With Depression – The Holistic Alternative

Last week I wrote about well spouses who eventually chose to get a physicians help with the problems they were having coping, with their partners' chronic illness.

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