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The Importance of Emotional Value in Maintaining a Healthy and Happy Marriage
I watched the popular drama “The Right Way to Open Life” two days ago and was moved by a scene in it. Full-time housewife Fu Xintong paid a deposit of 1 million yuan in advance to send her son to study abroad, but the money was defrauded. When her husband Bian Liang learned that his wife had been cheated and the money was difficult to recover, he did not get angry. Instead, he comforted his wife: “Don’t take this matter to heart. Just think of it as a loss in the stock market. You have to pay for the mortgage and son’s tuition fees. Don’t worry, there’s still me.” Many…
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Samuel Johnson’s Timeless Wisdom on the Art of Conversation and Knowledge Acquisition
We talk to people non-stop every day: we chat with other parents when we pick up and drop off our children, with clients, bosses and colleagues at work, with our children and spouses at home, and with our parents when we have time. We’re all master conversationalists – a lot of the time is cliche, polite, and most of the time beating around the bush, probing, dodging. An article in The New Yorker said: “Our society is full of bad talk these days, in part because it provides more interesting content on the Internet and on TV. Talk is not chat (too noncommittal), not debate (too much) arguing), not…
