According to one study, young men with high self-esteem shared some common childhood influences. There were three major characteristics of their families.
(1) The high-esteem group was clearly more loved and appreciated at home than the low-esteem group.
(2) The high-esteem group came from homes where parents had been significantly more strict in their approach to discipline. By contrast, the pa...
2. Watch What You Say
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Dr. James Dobson
Do you and your spouse feed each other a steady diet of put-downs? If you do, your marriage could be headed for divorce court.
When psychologists Cliff Nortarius and Howard Markman studied newlyweds over the first decade of marriage, they discovered that couples who stayed together uttered 5 or fewer put-downs in every 100 comments to each other. But couples who inflicted twice as many verbal wou...
