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Dealing with Rejection Part 1: Handling Others’ Rejecting Behavior

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I've received multiple requests to discuss a difficult dating topic - "dealing with rejection". This is a topic near and dear to my heart as well. The misconceptions, bad behavior, and hard feelings surrounding rejection can sometimes create deep wounds. I've seen too many good men and women suffer needlessly because of it. As a result, "rejection" is an important topic for successful and respectful dating and relating. It also has two sides:

1. Managing the rejecting behavior of others, and Declining a request from others.
2. Declining a request from others.

I will address "managing" in this article and speak to "declining" in Part 2. For now, I hope to reverse some of the misconceptions surrounding "rejection", and help individuals avoid the negative emotional experiences that often accompany it. Read on...and hopefully you will see and feel better.

(If you want skip the explanation and jump directly to the "take home points" go to Breaking Down Rejection Distortions and Feeling Better below).

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Marriage Proposals: From One-Size-Fits-All to Postmodern Marriage Law

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THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER 121 (Robert Kimball ed., 1983).

While it has been suggested that Porter may be legal authority since he has been cited by Justice Scalia, Stephen M. Feldman, The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant, 84 MINN. L. REV. 673, 693- 97 (2000), that is not my purpose here. Rather, Anything Goes is background music, suggesting two major underlying themes of this Article. First, there is a widespread perception that “anything goes” with respect to contemporary marriage. We tend to think of this perception as “new,” and even mildly daring, notwithstanding exhaustive evidence of its historical repetition, just as we endlessly rediscover Porter. Second, we are more likely to notice the availability of divergent norms, and to address them,Porter does) in times of economic upheaval, such as the thirties (when Porter wrote the play for...

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Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention A Guide for Marriage and Family Therapists

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ALCOHOL PROBLEMS AND YOUR PRACTICE

AN ALCOHOL PROBLEMS FRAMEWORK

Since the 1930s, "alcoholics" — have been the primary focus of alcohol-related intervention efforts in the United States. While a focus on severe problems is typical of an initial societal response to a health problem,1 alcohol dependence represents only a small portion of the entire range of alcohol-related problems.2 Most drinking problems are of mild to moderate severity3 and are amenable to relatively brief interventions. In a report to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM)4 called for a "broadening of the base for treatment" and widespread adoption of an alcohol problems framework. This framework casts a wide net for treatment efforts, explicitly targeting individuals (or families) who currently are experiencing or are at risk for experiencing alcohol problems. Thus, therapists and health care professionals are asked to direct interventions not only to drinkers with alcohol use...

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Limerence: When Is It More than Heartbreak?

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It's messy. It's passionate. And the first time usually hurts the most. We're of course discussing the all-consuming and universal experience of love. Robert Sternberg, the leading theorist on all things amorous, has added years to our lives—saving us from reruns of 90210 (Team Dylan) and rereads of Sweet Valley High—by uncovering the mechanisms that make our hearts tick. Sternberg's research presents us with the triangular theory of love (protractors not necessary), which affirms three key components as the foundation for the various types of love we endure throughout our lives.

The first side of this triangle is intimacy—feelings of communication, support, and friendship that characterize warm, loving relationships. The next is passion, which takes the shape of physical feelings of desire—essentially, the heat and intensity typical of the beginning stages of a relationship. And the third component, commitment, completes the triangle,...

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What is Limerence and is it the Same as an Emotional Affair?

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So just exactly what is limerence? I had never heard of the term before but it has come up a few times on the blog and in a brief description in one of the books I’ve read. I also stumbled upon a forum discussion about whether or not limerence is the same as an emotional affair or only a component of an emotional affair.

Naturally, I felt it might be of interest to you guys and therefore needed further looking into. I’ll let you guys draw your own conclusions based on your own situations. What is Limerence?

Limerence is a term coined by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one’s feelings reciprocated.

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ABA Mental Health Resources

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INTRODUCTION

Stress, depression, anxiety, chemical dependency, substance abuse, and other mental health conditions and impairments among law students are problems that continue to spark a national dialogue among faculty, administrators, and students. While students enter law school suffering from clinical stress and depression at a rate that mirrors the national average, the rate sharply increases during the first year of law school. Through the duration of their legal education, the rates of law students grappling with substance abuse and mental health problems increase dramatically. If unrecognized and untreated, these issues can carry into their professional careers.

Consider the following from the 2014 Survey of Law Student Well-Being:

- 89.6% of respondents have had a drink of alcohol in the last 30 days. - 21.6% reported binge drinking at least twice in the past two weeks. - 20.4% have thought seriously about suicide sometime in their life.

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Results of Qualitative and Online Message Testing To Support A Sexual Health Campaign

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The Communications Action Group (CAG) of the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) drafted a series of messages designed to motivate individuals to take action to protect and improve their sexual health.

Specifically, these messages were designed to define and promote:

●The benefits of sexual health.

●Core action steps to achieve good sexual health.

●A simple, consumer-friendly definition of sexual health.

This report presents the findings of a qualitative exploration with the general public to examine message clarity, relevance and appeal, and to determine:

●The motivational power of six general benefit statements and 26 specific benefits of sexual health.

●Whether five draft action steps, along with supporting statements, are clear, compelling, and perceived to be important.

●The appeal of four possible definitions of sexual health.

Messages were tested with men and women, 18 years of age and older in two phases:

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Why Women Engage in Anal Intercourse: Results from a Qualitative Study

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Abstract

This study used qualitative methods to assess why women engage in heterosexual anal (receptive) intercourse (AI) with a male partner.Four focus groups which comprised women from diverse ethnicities were conducted. All groups were digi- tally recorded for transcription; transcripts were analyzed using the methods of grounded theory to determine themes. Women’s reasons for engaging in anal intercourse with a male partner can be described in broad categories including that the women wanted to have anal intercourse, either because of their own desire, to please a male partner, or they were responding to a quid pro quo situation. The riskiness of AI was assessed within relationship contexts. Past experience with AI including emotional and physical reactions was identified. Among the negative physical experiences of AI were pain and disliking the sensation, and uncomfortable side effects, such as bleeding of the rectum. Negative ...

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Ammonia Refrigeration

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Overview

Ammonia is considered a high health hazard because it is corrosive to the skin, eyes, and lungs. Exposure to 300 parts per million (ppm) is immediately dangerous to life and health. Ammonia is also flammable at concentrations of approximately 15% to 28% by volume in air. When mixed with lubricating oils, its flammable concentration range is increased. It can explode if released in an enclosed space with a source of ignition present, or if a vessel containing anhydrous ammonia is exposed to fire. ortunately, ammonia has a low odor threshold (20 ppm), so most people will seek relief at much lower concentrations..

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“Discredited” Versus “Discreditable”: Understanding How Shared and Unique Stigma Mechanisms Affect Psychological and Physical Health Disparities

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Abstract

In his classic treatise, Goffman (1963) delineates between people who are discredited—whose stigma is clearly known or visible—and people who are discreditable—whose stigma is unknown and can be concealable. To what extent has research in the past 50 years advanced Goffman’s original ideas regarding the impact of concealability on stigma management strategies and outcomes? In the current article, we outline a framework that articulates how stigma can “get under the skin” in order to lead to psychological and physical health disparities. Further, we consider when and to what degree concealability moderates these effects, creating divergent outcomes for the discredited and discreditable.

Does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them? In the first case one...

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Shelter Health: Essentials of Care for People Living in Shelters

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The Causes and Conditions of Homelessness

Serious personal health problems and flaws in health care systems are maKor contributors to contemporary homelessness. Some health problems – addictions, schiQophrenia, maKor depression, physical disabilities – are distressingly obvious, particularly in persons living in public spaces, while others are less visible but equally insidious, undermining the capacity to maintain stable housing and function independently. an far too many cases, a fragmented health care system has not responded adequately to the multiple needs of homeless persons, who are indigent and typically uninsured. With recent natural disasters in the U.S., particularly Hurricanes >atrina and Rita, the realities of homelessness on our national landscape are changing, with large numbers of poor people displaced by storms trying to make a new start in new communities, many of which are already having enough trouble providing basic services for their...

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The Relationship Between Dysfunctional Family And The Involvement Of Children In Prostitution

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Abstract

The involvement of children in prostitution is a well known phenomenon but not well understood. The aim ofthis study was to examine the involvement of children in prostitution. A total of 63 sexually exploited young women participated in this children >centered approach study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods wereused. Respondents’ age ranged from 13 to 18 years old. Nearly 89.0 percent of them were 16-18 years old.This study found that the youngest respondent first involvement in prostitution was nine years old. A majority 0 (! of them entered prostitution at the age of between 13 to17 years old and more than half were 15-16 years ofage. The average age of the respondents’ first involvement in prostitution was 15.1 years. Three main reasonsfor their involvement were boyfriends’ deceit, friends’ influence, and personal. The study provides a significant implication to social workers on how they...

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The Relationship Between Dysfunctional Interpersonal Tendencies, Derailment Potential Behavior, and Turnover

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Abstract

Managerial derailment, which includes failure in the form organizational exit, poses costly consequences for organizations. We investigated the relationship between dysfunctional interpersonal tendencies, derailment potential behaviors, and actual managerial derailment in the form of voluntary and involuntary turnover. Data were from an archival database of high-level managers working for a global retail organization, including self-report interpersonal tendencies, 360-degree feedback data, and personnel history (N = 1,796). Managers who exhibit the dysfunctional interpersonal tendencies associated with “moving against people” were more likely to enact derailment potential behaviors. As a result, these managers were more likely to be fired or quit. This study advances our understanding of the managerial derailment process by providing evidence of the positive relationship between derailment potential behaviors and both voluntary and involuntary turnover as well as the potential for “moving against” people to result in derailment. Our results may...

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Danger Ahead: The Changing Face Of Failure To Warn Claims

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Defense attorneys involved in product liability litigation are familiar with claims alleging failure to warn against a manufacturer or seller. The typical failure to warn claim is fairly straightforward: the plaintiff asserts that the defendant placed inadequate warnings of potential hazards on or with the product and the lack of proper warnings was a proximate cause of harm to the plaintiff. Not all failure to warn claims are so basic, however. Many such claims have wrinkles that do not allow the standard analysis to be used, whether it involves a unique argument for insufficiency or the targeting of an uncommon defendant. Plaintiffs try to assert these non-traditional claims in the hope of finding additional sources of recovery, even if the outlook for success may appear bleak...

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Abnormal Psychology What Is Abnormal Behavior

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Difficulty in defining Abnormality

In this era of rapid technological advancement, you might think there would be some objective test like a blood test or a like a brain scan that could determine whether an individual is normal or abnormal? There is no such test available; however psychologists rely on signs, symptoms, and subjective criteria for deciding when the observed symptoms (signs) constitute abnormality. Four criteria for defining abnormality have been proposed. They are often called the four D's, Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction and Danger.

Deviant behavior means different extreme unusual and bizarre Distress refers to unpleasant or upsetting behavior of an individual Dysfunctional or disruptive in a way that possibly can became dangerous as well Danger of hurting one self and others

1. Deviance

a.  Deviance from the Cultural Norms b. Deviance from the Statistical Norms

a. Deviance from Cultural Norms

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Civil Practice – Involuntary Commitment – Danger to Self or Others – Insufficient Findings – Conspiracy Theories

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In re Richardson The trial court found that respondent (1) was hospitalized twice in the preceding year; (2) was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and delusional disorder; (3) was taking the anti-psychotic drug Respirdal; (4) believes that the government is trying to control him, keeps to himself, and eats only pre-packaged foods; and (5) feels his parents are on the side of the government, despite their support. These findings do not indicate that respondent is a danger to himself or others

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