I've been a people-pleaser most of my life, but now I'm just here to be a member of this forward progress team of movements that help us improve our life game. I used to do the same and go out of my way to avoid conflict. I hated conflict, but now I believe some of that brings out clear change as well. So my ideas about conflict have changed. Conflict can deliver the necessary changes needed to move forward in life. Confronting others (outside of me) in a limited fashion now instead of arguing with anyone. To me, being with more happier people is more pleasant in my opinion, than being with unfocused anyone. I'd much rather be with a much happier unfocused person, than an unhappy, unfocused person....that's double trouble! I can't deal with both unhappy and unfocused. So my focus is to do my best to include the happiness of others (in my focus), so we all can have some happiness. So yes, just like this movie, I have the same desire to keep the people around me happy. It just make more sense to me. So the movie was more about resolving inner conflicts, all the while she is writing a book called 'My Life As A Doormat'. Ironically, a doormat is something people walk all over. And that is what can happen to unhappy, unfocused people...resulting in a lack of control in one's own life and others controlling it instead. I have learned how to nip that in the bud for myself, thankful!! Clever script-writing! Well thought out and different for Hallmark! Sometimes, Hallmark choices are really outside of the routine box and I love that. Thanks Hallmark!
... View MoreGreat! Great Great ! Good actors. Interesting story of a Lady that wants to please everybody, and ends up lying. Until she understand how to not run away from conflicts but face them. And the only one she has to please her Creator. And looking to the mirror she slowly starts discovering.Interesting to know what we really want and the person she had conflict first was herself.The happiness of the grand parents being married a long time. He had the courage not to be a net and wait for true love.It reaffirms the power marriage within a lasting bond.
... View MoreHallmark has done it again!! This is such a delightful movie Ben Bass is perfect for the role and brings a laugh or smile to your face more than once when things get complicated. It is a change of pace and does become complicated in a funny serious kind of way. What really is nice is the man gets who the woman is and what her problem is and to boot he helps her become the person she is meant to be. This is a must watch!! You will love it!! It does have many complications that I personally found funny! It is so delightfully funny when you feel you have no problems and find you are loaded with problems. Taking care of the problems in a group proved awkward and funny! You will enjoy it!!
... View MoreThe real joy in viewing this film is to see a conflict-management class that is not just straight lecture. What a great idea to have people not only to talk things out in a group setting, but to go on field trips and stir up confrontational issues and see how they are resolved.The grocery store frequented by the group was an education in itself. Holding up the checkout lines for a variety of reasons was great and to see how their partner in this reacts was even greater.Of course, our heroine will find love in the group, especially when it's the guy who had panned her first book that turned out to be successful. How conflict resolution may lead to romance was engaging and enjoyable to watch.
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