Family Matters

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Due to our readers’ overwhelming response to one of our previous issue “Emotional Infidelity: The Silent Destroyer” we have decided to explore this topic further. It is clear that many readers of this column find infidelity to be the main culprit in the destruction of marriages. Some of you expressed your long-time feelings of concern for your partner’s apparent “non-sexual emotional attachment” to someone else and how this was directly impacting your marriage. Last month’s column un-validated your partner’s complaints that you were crazy and/or jealous and instead validated your suspicions that your partner’s emotional attachment to another person was not healthy.

 To set the topic into context let’s review what infidelity means. Infidelity can be...

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Heartburn is the feeling of burning sensation or pain behind or just below the breastbone (sternum) caused by the backing up (reflux) of stomach acid into the food pipe (esophagus). Interestingly, it has nothing to do with the heart as the name suggests. About ten percent of Americans experience heartburn. It can be triggered by certain foods, lifestyle, medications and even stress. Mainstay of treatment includes avoiding foods that trigger the symptoms and use of antacids. Recurrent heartburn is the commonest symptom of Gastro-esophageal reflux disease-GERD (backing up of stomach contents into the food pipe).

How does heartburn feels?

• Sensation described as warm, burning, peppery or pain starting from below or behind the breastbone...

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The late Steve Jobs said the following about death: “Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it.” Perhaps this is the reason why we should focus our concerns not so much in trying to avoid death but instead we should concentrate our efforts on learning all that we can in and from life. Learning from life and all that it brings with it may actually prepare us to live life with a deeper understanding of our purpose and its fulfillment.

This month, my husband and I were faced with the difficult task of saying good-bye to a loved one.  In his early eighties, at the time of his passing, one could argue that my father-in-law Aubrey Richards had lived a full life.  A self-made man, the death of his mother during his childhood and of his father...

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