Japanese innovation leads the world yet again, this time in the field of relationships. Ending them, that is.
Reuter’s reports on ceremonies to end a marriage, held with family and friends around, and even a ceremonial gavel to smash the ring. You aren’t allowed to do that while it’s still on your ex-partner’s finger though.
No, I’m not offering marriage advice to every citizen of the land. But a good friend sent me an interesting piece of political writing from the New York Times, and pointed out the connections it made between Imago couples therapy and the way Professor J.M. Bernstein writes about anger.
Bernstein’s article looks at what he calls “The Very Angry Tea Party”. Here’s a quote. “This is the rage and anger I hear in the Tea Party movement; it is the sound of jilted lovers furious that the other — the anonymous blob called simply “government” — has suddenly let them down.”
Alanis Morissette is one of Imago’s fans! So we’re very excited to hear that she married recently in a small private ceremony. So private – that it took the media two weeks to even find out about it. But her relationship success adds a new meaning to the beautiful video she recorded showing her appreciation of [...]
