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3 Simple Ways to Overcome Anxiety in Your Relationships

Aaron J. Anderson
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11 min readJun 5, 2021

Anxiety is a normal reality of life. Young people wrestle with it and so do the elderly. Women can be oppressed by vexing thoughts and so do men who might struggle to admit it.

The middle class has to battle it, the poor are berated by worry, and even the wealthy are fearful. Anxiety is not bound to particular ethnic groups or periods of world history.

Anxiety is born of the reality that we possess little power to control the world around us.

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” — Kahlil Gibran

We have no control over the actions of other creatures with free will. We possess little control over world affairs. Even when we develop a healthy lifestyle, we are unable to stop hereditary diseases from ravaging our bodies.

Your life does not have to be controlled by anxiety.

Anxiety can make our relationships intolerable

At its worst, anxiety can cripple our relationships to the point of making them intolerable.

My wife Gail and I recently celebrated our 24th anniversary. We were barely 20 years old when…

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Aaron J. Anderson
Aaron J. Anderson

Written by Aaron J. Anderson

CEO of Logos Academy & LogosWorks in York, PA, Dad of 6, Lead Pastor of Living Word Community Church, Red Lion, PA. www.aaronjanderson.com

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