[dancingdoc2]

EEK, this is an excellent addition to our collection of informative articles. Thank you for writing it!

Your descriptions and explanations should help many insecure teens and young adults understand the need for developing self confidence and self esteem and the benefits for doing so. This reinforces what I often mention about relationships being equal partnerships in which two autonomous adults choose to join together in order to create and enjoy lives much greater than the sum of their two parts.

Rewarding relationships are not founded upon what we do to each other; rather, what we do with and for each other. Every person should wake up in the morning and ask him- herself "what can I do to make my partner's (girlfriend/boyfriend, husband/wife) life better today"--then go about making it happen. We must give in order to receive, not take in order to get.

As nice as the words sound, I disagree with those in Barbra Striesand's song in which she states: "people who need people are the luckiest people...." We all desire happiness and fulfillment and purpose, yet not at someone elses expense; not by tearing someone down--by building them up! A needy relationship with another person is not a healthy relationship.

I encourage you to pen an article on bullying both from a young girl's perspective and that of a boy's.

Well done,
-doc