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The Guardian (enlace): «After I have sex with my partner, I immediately start crying. I don’t even get to think twice before tears come out of my eyes. I would like to understand why. I don’t necessarily feel sad, I just feel so many things – I can’t really explain it.»
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El Guardian ha publicado 19 consejos para para tener relaciones de cualquier tipo más sanas.
Avoid fighting over who is right or wrong “I’ve been doing this for almost 40 years,” says Marshall, “and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to people having an ‘I’m right and you’re wrong’ argument”. Nobody has ever solved anything this way, he says. “All that happens is somebody will throw something else in, or they’ll find an example of the one time the other person was wrong. And we just go round and round in circles. However much you believe that your views are right, your partner believes just as much that their beliefs are right, too. You need to understand the position of each other better; then you can both soften and a third way will emerge. ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ battles destroy relationships.”
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Los crucigramas, considerados con frecuencia un simple pasatiempo, va y resulta que son buenos para combatir el deterioro cognitivo, especialmente en personas mayores. Aunque muchos lo consideran todavía distracción inane, pero durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando se utilizaban para entrenar a los y las especialistas en descifrar códigos, empezó a cambiar la opinión que teníamos de este entretenimiento. Algunos estudios, como el de Davangere P. Devanand, han demostrado que los crucigramas mejoran la función cognitiva, superando incluso a juegos diseñados específicamente para este propósito. Además, quienes los practican muestran un deterioro menor de los tejidos cerebrales y consiguen mantener una mejor calidad de vida durante más tiempo.
Enlace al artículo en El País.
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It was November 1970 and Northern Ireland was sliding into the Troubles, but for Gerard Gorman, a new pupil at St Colman’s College, the horror of that era began when Fr Malachy Finegan summoned him into a room, closed the door and told him to sit on a sofa. Gorman was 11 years old and small for his age, with big blue eyes. Two months earlier, he had started as a boarder at the Catholic boys’ school in Newry, County Armagh. Staff tended to be aloof or intimidating, except Finegan, the religious education teacher, who was solicitous and avuncular. More than half a century later, Gorman can still picture the scene on that autumn day. He had been with other boys, running to the dormitory, when Finegan beckoned him from a doorway into his sitting room. It overlooked playing fields and had a TV and a bag of sweets on a table. The priest sat beside the boy. He was a big man with huge ears that had earned him the nickname Floppy. There was a bit of chitchat, then he leaned in. “His whole face was sort of wrapping around me and just blotting out everything else,” Gorman recalls. “I had shorts on and he put his hands on to my penis.”Esto es lo que escribe Rory Caroll en The Guardian. Un testimonio terrible del daño que puede llegar a generar el abuso sexual durante la infancia. Cuando, además, estamos hablando de hombres que van por la vida dando lecciones sobre lo que los demás tenemos que hacer, sobre qué significa ser buena persona y sobre la magnificencia de Dios son especialmente terroríficos.
Me cuesta mucho pensar en la reinserción en estos casos. me cuesta muchísimo.
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I was pregnant, and getting ready for our son’s second birthday when the phone rang and everything changed in an instant. My husband had collapsed during a half marathon. How would I ever keep going? [...] My husband never woke up. I waited all night, as his family and mine arrived, their faces ashen. The following day he was pronounced dead. Puk Qvortrup.Enlace al artículo de The Guardian.
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Las monjas de Belorado, en Burgos, han estado en el centro de una disputa eclesiástica que recuerda a los dramas de “Juego de Tronos”. Enlace a El Diario.
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I’m at my wit's end. I’m a 50-year-old gay man and I'm in a happy, long-term relationship. But I’ve fallen in love with a married straight guy 10 years my junior. He’s a new colleague at work. We get on well and have struck up a companionable working relationship, but my feelings for him have become deeper – and it’s agony. Why do I keep falling in love with totally unavailable people?Lee el artículo aquí.
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The Guardian. Shock of the old: eight sadistic and antisocial boardgames. Why mess around with Trivial Pursuit when you could be murdering revolutionaries, managing an HR department or – worst of all – emulating Donald Trump?
