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Pete Pearson

You can,
if you wish,
influence your partner to change
in ways that could
make your life
more comfortable.

However, can you really
change something
you don’t understand?

How deeply do you
know what your partner
fears
thinks
believes
hopes for
in the area you seek change?













Pete Pearson

by Peter Pearson, Ph.D.

Is your marriage like my computer screen?

Last Thursday Ellyn needed to use my laptop. She began typing and then I heard, “Ugh, how can you stand this? Your computer screen is really grimy.”

I looked and sure enough, it was even worse than I imagined. I simply had grown accustomed to it. But my one-upmanship came soon.


Pete Pearson

by Molly Pearson

You may be surprised to find that this is not Peter Pearson speaking. No, I am the humble guest writer, his daughter Molly. Oftentimes my dad’s articles are inspired by interactions from the two of us that end with “man, there’s gotta be a lesson in there somewhere.” This time is no different. But since in this situation, I’m the offender, he entreated me to write it in exchange for exonerating my wrong.

I had just come home from a long day in San Francisco biking around Angel Island. On the traffic-infested drive home, I remembered that I had promised to do some work for my dad and we were going to review it that night. “Shoot!” I thought to myself. “It’s my boyfriend’s last night in town and the last thing I want to do is pore over pages of copy editing. I’ll ask Dad when I get home if we can push it back to another night.”


Pete Pearson

by Peter Pearson, Ph.D.

I like this little poem by Jeff Moss:

I’m Going to Say I’m Sorry


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