Sentences with phrase «potentially destructive»

The authors offer an intimate look at ten couples who have learned to work through potentially destructive problems — extramarital affairs, workaholism, parenthood adjustments, serious illnesses, lack of intimacy — and examine what they've done to improve communication and get their marriages back on track.

He also cites those who went before him, such as the feminist psychiatrist, Karen Horney, MD, who laid a good bit of the groundwork for our understanding of the importance of «shoulds» in depression and anxiety and relationship conflicts, as well as the role of some of the Self - Defeating Beliefs, such as the Love / Approval Addiction and others, although she used different terms to describe these potentially destructive beliefs.

A survival response such as fighting is functional in situation of real danger, as it is fast (e.g., parent grasping the child's arm with force when the child is crossing a road full of traffic) but is ineffectual and potentially destructive for the parent — child relationship in cases where there is no real or immediate danger.

The authors offer an intimate look at 10 couples who have learned to work through potentially destructive problems, extramarital affairs, workaholism, parenthood adjustments, serious illnesses, lack of intimacy, and examine what they've done to improve communication and get their marriages back on track.

Debunking 12 Myths About Relationships by Dr. John Gottman Many myths about relationships are not only false but potentially destructive.

Over the years I've found many myths about relationships that are not only false but potentially destructive.

His projections are based largely on the success or failure of repair attempts, and on the observation of four potentially destructive communication styles that he calls «The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.»

As I explain in The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, over the years I've found many myths about relationships that are not only false but potentially destructive.

, over the years I've found many myths about relationships that are not only false but potentially destructive.

Addictive sexuality is like most other compulsive behaviors: a potentially destructive twist on a normal life - enhancing activity.

Rather than being a sign of deep love and caring, it is a sign of potentially destructive problems in the relationship.

They should also study summer 1914 and ponder how those responsible for war and peace still make these decisions in much the same way as then, while the crises are 1,000 times faster and a million times more potentially destructive.

They also have hobbies and lifestyles that tend to be more dangerous or potentially destructive, and they also have a significantly higher chance of dying by an unnatural cause (such as homicide or suicide.)

You can create Corporate Bylaws, Meeting Minutes, and other compliance documents at the Rocket Lawyer Corporate Compliance Center, and be well on the way to avoiding many of these potentially destructive legal issues.

Once someone with sufficient resources, influence and power manages to convince himself that something MUST be done and be done SOON, or the human race (complete with all those innocent grandchildren) is doomed, then the door is open to anyone susceptible enough to buy into that level of sheer panic and hysteria, and wealthy enough to act on those fears, to initiate some potentially destructive and irreversible scheme along the lines suggested by our well meaning but naive colleague, Mr. McDonald.

Although never before has the cost of the phantom been so high — or the proposed resolutions of the phantom (CAGW in this case) been so potentially destructive to human society and well - being.

New turbine technology already allows developers to exploit lower - speed winds and get more production from otherwise potentially destructive high - power winds.

«Climate change is real and potentially destructive.

The bulk of the people who deny the theory are doing so defensively out of a concern for the sorts of potentially destructive policies some AGW adherents recommend.

But the camera can play a misleading, even potentially destructive, role.

In her first solo show at this pocket - sized space, local painter Karen Marston focuses on such potentially destructive events, attempting to capture something of the vast scale and frightening power of tornados and forest fires.

Ironically, it is these same potentially destructive forces that protect this area from development and provide the 20 mile coastal greenbelt that has prevented San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles from merging into one huge megalopolis.

Scratching is normal in the wild — but potentially destructive in your home.

The built - in reward keeps them actively engaged, redirecting potentially destructive chewing behavior.

Keep in mind that when Irish Setters do not have a job to do they may become bored, hyperactive and potentially destructive!

All of these behaviors are potentially destructive to your home, but some are also dangerous for your new pet.

But Pat himself points out that «calling the market» is a seductive but potentially destructive market analysis activity for those who make a living by advising people about where and how to invest their money.

It's the first time the central bank has moved the overnight rate since September 2010 — a move the bank calls «insurance» against the potentially destructive effects of the global oil price collapse.

Publishers and independent authors need to take a close look at the music industry and see how potentially destructive these subscription services have been.

Isn't it a little rude (not to mention potentially destructive) to throw an unpolished manuscript out their and see how it does?

There's a unique aero duct for the ZL1's transmission cooler, and indeed there are no less than 11 special coolers for various mechanical bits in this car (notably the differential), a little reminder that heat is a potentially destructive byproduct of extreme power and speed.

So why have we allowed people like Bill Gates and Michelle Rhee, astroturf groups like Stand for Children, and our state legislators to force such a stupid and potentially destructive system down the throats of one of our greatest national treasures, our teaching force?

The impatient rush to «fix» teacher quality in one furious burst of legislating may instead lead to a situation in which promising efforts to uproot outdated and stifling arrangements become enveloped in crudely drawn and potentially destructive mandates.

When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by «borrowing» some water from a large and potentially destructive site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.

The film hinges on the ambiguity of grief as a process that is both absolutely necessary and potentially destructive.

She's the one who cleans up a campaign, who learns all the intimate and potentially destructive things about a candidate and attempts to snuff them out before they ruin the candidate's chances.

«Set in New Manhattan, the cyberpunk sci - fi epic follows the leader of a biker gang who must save his friend, discovered with potentially destructive psychokinetic abilities, from government medical experiments.»

An alien policeman arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo.

Its oily matrix makes its carotenes more readily converted to vitamin A and its high content of vitamin E and low content of the polyunsaturated linoleic acid further augment the convertibility of its carotenes and also protect against their potentially destructive effects.

Even more surprisingly, the latest Hubble images have allowed a team of astronomers to calculate that the planet follows an unusual elliptical orbit that carries it on a potentially destructive path through the vast dust ring.

The brain has taken potentially destructive molecules and put them to work as architects, fine - tuning networks of neurons and removing any unwanted connections.

Even if the cloud is on the thin side, it can still contain relatively dense and potentially destructive wisps of gas.

Most obviously, they might have an advantage over competing species if they escaped into the wild, allowing them to dominate environments with potentially destructive effects.

But if the software is present and configured a certain way, the worm begins its dirty task, intercepting legitimate commands that control devices such as valves and pressure gauges and substituting potentially destructive ones in their place.

In Freud's model, the relentless efforts by other parts of the mind to control these potentially destructive notions and impulses can lead to crippling symptoms such as anxiety, depression and pervasive misery.

People tend to act more impulsively and take more risks online, and may let down their guard more in assessing and relaying potentially destructive gossip.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner conceded the 2005 Democratic mayoral nomination yesterday to Fernando Ferrer, the top vote - getter in the race, in hopes of averting a potentially destructive runoff election and strengthening Mr. Ferrer's hand as he begins the final eight - week campaign against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

«It's potentially destructive.»

The time has come for Carl Paladino to resign as a member of the board of education of the Buffalo Public Schools; we have come to this conclusion after observing what at best can be described as divisive, caustic, disruptive and potentially destructive behavior by Mr. Paladino.

It reflects what a recent Rockefeller Institute report called «potentially destructive myths and misunderstanding» embraced by all too many public fund managers across the country.