Want to Read Your Partner's Mind?
Admit. Wouldn't you like to get into the head of your partner? Maybe not. But now a new study is saying that the desire to understand other people's thinking and perspectives can foster teamwork and be good for relationships. Hmm. Not so sure. But actually that might help me. I have a habit of suspecting people of the deepest, darkest, disappointing thoughts about me. Take my recent birthday. My husband (whose is a day after mine), is not big on them. So every year I prepare to be disappointed. But this year he sent me flowers (on the day BEFORE my birthday), making me think that was all I was going to get. Then he and our son surprised me with earrings on the actual day. That was a really nice surprise. But would I want to know if he were down to our last dollar (yes, I suppose so) or if he found our young neighbor more attractive than, well, his old wife? Probably not. MRM, a newly coined term for the p...