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101 Things I Knew When I Got Married

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101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married In the book 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married by Charlie Bloom and Linda Bloom, They made a list of 101 things that really narrowed down the most common things that people face in relationships or have to go threw together. In the list of 101 things I found two chapters that really stuck out to me. In these two lessons were something that I have lacked in my previous relationship with my friends and girlfriends.What I will be mainly talking about is my past relationships with my past girlfriends that I had and how i had a very hard time communicating with them and being open about my feelings. These were my first relationships, i have learned a lot from them. The first lesson is number 72 in 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married by Charlie Bloom and Linda Bloom (2004) states, ”Facing your fears builds strength; avoiding them diminishes it.”(p.184). In this chapter it talks about a lesbian couple that were …show more content…

In this lesson Linda talks about her relationship with Charlie and how her shyness affected her being more open with Charlie. This chapter really plays a big role in the past relationships that i have had. I am really shy to open up about thing and will hold back a lot of my feelings or things i want to say that might risk our relationship. I have been trying to fix this issue with some of my siblings, i will try to be more open about things that were really difficult to talk about in the pat with them. Ive been taking little steps with these issues that i have been facing. In my most recent relationship I was much more open about my feelings and thoughts that I was thinking, it also might of been the reason we broke up. Now i'm working on what is the right thing to say at the right time, so I won't be upsetting the people around

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