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...know when is the right moment to reconcile? If an estrangement you experienced years ago starts occupying your thoughts persistently and interfering with your daily activities, it is time to initiate contact, says Naomi Drew, an author of four books on conflict resolution who is based in Lawrenceville, N.J. "Start the process of reaching out by venting all of your anger about this person in a letter to yourself," Drew says. "Write down all the nasty, disgusting stuff and tear the letter into a million pieces or burn...
Luskin advises focusing on how you will benefit from forgiving someone and having him or her back in your life. Make contact with the firm resolve to avoid placing blame or continuing the argument. Drew recommends e-mail, since it is easy and nonthreatening. If you get a positive response, move to phone conversations and getting together in person in a neutral place. Before you see each other, rehearse what you will say, Drew adds. Advises Houston psychotherapist Sarna Sunshine: "As you plan to meet each other again, try to remember that the grievance that may once have seemed...
...where, one wonders, did hysteria go? Perhaps to the same place ADHD will go someday--back into the minds of the doctors who discovered it and the patients who were convinced they had it. Maybe some disorders behave like epidemics: they spread by contact, there's an immune response and they...
...Norma McCorvey, the young pregnant woman who was the "Roe" in Roe v. Wade, has undergone a dramatic transformation from pro-choice poster child to pro-life activist. Do you maintain contact with her? What was your relationship like during the trial? Was there any indication she was not committed to her decision...
...When I first met her, she was pregnant, she wanted an abortion and she said she wanted help. And for 25 years after the case, she was pro-choice, and she spoke out about that. I haven't had any contact with her since August 1995 - when she decided she was opposed to Roe. But Roe v. Wade was a class action suit, on behalf of all women who wanted to have an abortion...