Should You Tell Your Teenagers About Your Past Love Relationships?
Should you tell your teenager about your own past sweethearts? How much do you tell and how do you talk about it? A journalist recently e-mailed me those questions and it got me thinking. She quotes me in her story , but I feel the urge to elaborate a bit. Recent psychological research on "happiness" makes clear that relationships are pivotal to happiness. Studies of people's regrets in life show that relationship regrets top the list [Not financial regrets, which actually are low on the list]. Personally, we all know that we have experienced the heights of happiness and the depths of despair over relationships . Now we are parents and want our children to be happy. We've learned a lot, wish we knew then what we know now, and want to help our teenagers. Don't you sometimes wish you could teach them what you've learned about relationships? We probably all wish we could somehow "download" to our children all that we've