Relationships Archives

How to Cope with Rejection? A Growth Mindset Can Help

We all experience rejection in our lives, whether it be in a relationship, after a job interview, or in a social situation. Coping with rejection can be difficult: What’s the best mindset for learning how to cope with rejection? Whether you have a fixed or growth mindset affects the course of your personal relationships. Mindset helps explain: Why people work against their own interests in relationships Why relationships devolve into warfare Why some relationships succeed and others don’t We’ll cover how having a growth mindset helps you cope better with problems in your relationship and learn how to cope with

Alcohol and Consent: What Are the Rules?

Is consent while drunk valid? What are the rules around alcohol and consent? Although recent events have brought questions about alcohol and consent to the forefront, it’s been a thorny issue for decades, particularly on college campuses. Can you give consent while you’re drunk? Should you trust the consent of someone else who’s drunk? Here are some things to keep in mind about alcohol and consent.

These 5 Relationship Myths Are Making You Unhappy—Learn Why

What are the most common relationship myths? How does believing in them hurt you and your relationships? We’ll cover the most common relationship myths and discuss why people who believe them often have a fixed mindset.

Building Healthy Relationships Depends on a Growth Mindset

What are the keys to building healthy relationships? How is your mindset–fixed or not–involved in your relationships? We’ll cover why having a growth mindset is the key to developing healthy relationships, and we’ll look at common relationship myths to avoid.

Maintaining a Healthy Relationship—Stop Believing These 3 Myths

What’s the secret to maintaining a healthy relationship? If it’s not working, should you end it? We’ll cover why having a growth mindset can help you maintain a healthy relationship and shore it up when it falters. We’ll also cover some of the most common roadblocks to healthy relationships.

Appalachian Family: As Backward as Hillbilly Elegy Claims?

Is there a typical lifestyle of the Appalachian family? Are stereotypes about Appalachian families true? As both a work of social commentary and an autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy takes us through Vance’s formative years in an Appalachian family, where he witnesses one social dysfunction after another. We’ll cover these attributes of the Appalachian family and what Vance’s family life indicates about other families in the area.

JD Vance’s Mother: Bev Vance Nearly Destroyed Her Family

What is JD Vance’s mother like in Hillbilly Elegy? How does she impact her life, and how does he escape the cycle of poverty and violence that traps her? JD’s mother had once been a promising student and seemed on track to rise up from the poverty and abuse that had surrounded her as a child. Unfortunately, she fell into the same cycle of dysfunctional that she had learned from her parents. She married her high school boyfriend and quickly found her life beset by the drama, fighting, and violence that had so defined her parents’ marriage. We’ll cover the

JD Vance’s Wife Usha Helped Rid Him of His Hillbilly Ways

What is JD Vance’s wife Usha Vance like in Hillbilly Elegy? How does her family help Vance deal with his own dysfunctional family? We’ll cover how JD Vance’s wife helped him move beyond the confines of his childhood culture and how her family taught him to leave no one in his own behind.

Are All Hillbilly Families Violent and Poor? (Hillbilly Elegy)

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis examines the spiritual and social decline of the Appalachian white working class through the story of the hillbilly family of its author, JD Vance. Growing up in a post-industrial Ohio town, Vance encountered the symptoms of community and familial dysfunction—drug and alcohol abuse, unstable marriages, lack of education, and evasion of hard work—that underscore the failing values of the culture from which he came. We’ll cover the ways in which Vance’s hillbilly family has shaped who he is today and how the stereotypes of the hillbilly family are, in

JD Vance’s Hillbilly Family: A Cycle of Poverty + Abuse

What is JD Vance’s family like in Hillbilly Elegy? How do they shape who he becomes, and why does he desire to escape the place where he grew up? Vance shares the story of his struggles growing up within this culture as a means of articulating a broader social and cultural critique of the Appalachian white working class. Through it all, however, Vance is undeniably proud of where he comes from and clearly loves his family very dearly. We’ll cover the three primary members of JD Vance’s family: Mamaw, Papaw, and Mom.