Untangling the parental effect

For the majority of my life (at least 32 years or so), I lived a life that I thought I wanted. It was only when I started to feel unhappy about my life and question why I felt like that, that I began to realise that the life that I thought I wanted was actually a life that my parents had painted for me instead of me actually figuring out who I was.

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Seeing your pets in a new light

As I was growing up, I never had a pet because my parents never liked them and thought they were “dirty”. I always loved dogs though and would be found playing with the pets of my relatives whenever I would go to their house and visit them! For many of us, we have a pet because they are fantastic companions. There’s just something about having a pet in the household that helps ease a bit of stress, brings in that little bit of fun and give us that little thing that we crave as human beings – unconditional love.

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