![Our Greatest Fear: Public Speaking [EXPERT]](http://images.tangomag.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-full/images/podium.jpg "Our Greatest Fear: Public Speaking [EXPERT]")
Some people think the greatest fear is fear of death, but the number one fear is anxiety to speaking in public. Three out of every four individuals suffer from speech anxiety. Up to 5 percent of the world population, hundreds of millions aged between 18 and 54, experience this kind of social phobia in any given year. Women and men are equally affected.
Our lives are made up of several different elements, but we spend the majority of our time focused on work, career and those pieces that provide an income for our family. And for some of us, we actually spend more time with our business associates and co-workers than with our immediate family members. We work crazy hours, long days and even weekends.
Sometimes it's not easy to stay in touch with friends and distant family members, but there's every reason in the world to do it. Not only do tight friendships and strong family offer an emotional connection, research shows when we have close ties, especially with upbeat buddies, we're more likely to take better care of ourselves, feel less stressed – even live longer.
A taboo social truth and holy grail that you won't find in any public library or news publication that will change the dating lives of millions of Western men. Must read!
When love is a curse.
The LoveFeed discuses the General Social Survey, which claims that infidelity is on the rise.
This weekend I was in Connecticut for my Nana’s funeral. It was, obviously, very sad. She’s the matriarch of my dad’s side of the family, and not having her around any more will be strange. As my parents were the last of five children to have children of their own, and because we lived in Texas, far away from my other cousins and aunts and stuff, I never knew Nana as well as my other cousins did. The period that I spent the most time with her and my Grampy was when they lived with us in San Antonio because Grampy had to live in assisted care and my mom didn’t work then, so she could help take care of things.
