Going through life is easier when you trust that most people’s
motives are good. Whether or not that's true, it’s unarguable that some
people have paid a huge price for being too trusting. Being aware of five things should help. I describe them in my Psychology Today article today.
Marty, have you ever considered renaming your dog?
ReplyDeleteDennis Overbye writes:
"It is getting to be rather old news that Albert Einstein was not a very nice man. Before he was 23, the father of relativity was also to father an illegitimate daughter whose birth he failed to be around for and upon whom he never laid eyes. Though he subsequently wed the child's mother, Mileva Maric, the couple was never to publicly acknowledge the child's existence, let alone rear her, apparently because it was professionally and personally inconvenient for Albert. After the gifted Mileva sacrificed her own scientific career for her husband's, caught as she was in the intense gravitational pull of his self-absorbed genius, he proceeded to divorce her with an incivility that appalled even his best friends to marry his cousin Elsa, to whom he would then be resolutely unfaithful, at one point even coveting her daughter from a previous marriage, according to the daughter herself. And he was an absentee father whose remoteness and inept parenting skills probably contributed to the psychiatric ruin of his and Mileva's younger son and the lifelong resentment of the older one."