Marlena Guzowski
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A quirky nerd with a Doctor of Education and undergrad in Science. Has lived in Germany, Italy, Korea and Abu Dhabi. Currently in Canada and writing non-fiction about relationships, psychology and travel as well as SFF fiction.
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If You Repeatedly Say the Post-breakup Phrase “I don’t know why…”
I’ll be married twenty-five years this coming year. Eeesh. I know. What's even freakier is that I'm actually happy. So, one Friday night my husband and I started “intellectually masturbating” about what makes our relationship functional and here’s one biggie we came up with: Never ‘knowing’ in a relationship signifies that you either lack self-awareness and/or you refuse to take personal accountability.
By Marlena Guzowskiabout a year ago in Humans
When You Are Being Nice, Are You Being Kind?
According to the Blackburn Centre “niceness involves doing something that is pleasing or agreeable. By contrast, kindness is doing something that is helpful to others, or that comes from a place of benevolence.” Therefore, niceness and kindness are not the same thing and yet somehow our society has come to equate acting in a pleasing manner (niceness) with true benevolence (kindness) when in fact, they can be the opposite.
By Marlena Guzowskiabout a year ago in Humans
