Relationships are hard. Whether it is married folk, parent and child, business associates, singles,all are having to figure out what they need to do to find, keep or negotiate in order to achieve a successful relationship.

The amount of articles and books that have capitalized on this is astonishing. Okay, I”l bite… How astonishing? When I googled the topic achieving a successful relationship in 36 seconds Google had registered 11,000,000 responses. 11 million responses! Just to put this into perspective as to what people think is, I don’t know, interesting/newsworthy/read worthy, when I asked how many articles were associated with “should we commit troops in Afghanistan” it registered 6.5 million responses. Okay, back to the the 11 million.  That’s like every single person in New York City had a thought about this. Did you get a vote?

There certainly is enough “relationship specialists” out there aiding and abetting in how to negotiate bumps in the road, how to better communicate, how to interpret signals, how to, how to.

And, it’s BIG business. I mean, we are talking BIG bucks for those that have become the arbiter of what to say and what not to say, do and think. I am sure that we all can hear Dr Phil, every night, repeating the mantra, “thank you Oprah, thank you Oprah, thank you Oprah.” As he should, actually, twice a night.

I, sadly, don’t have any wisdom to dispense.  But, if you feel that you have some pearls to offer up, here is your forum. Dispense away.