Mexican Living Survival Tip # 10 Love, Belonging, Power, And Fun
William Glasser, M.D., of Reality Therapy fame, said this,
I believe that we are genetically programmed to satisfy four psychological needs: love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
If this is true, then you need to have a plan, a huge plan, for just how you are going to be able to meet these needs if you expatriate to Mexico. If you dont, then what will happen is what I see all the time in American gringos.
They move to Guanajuato. For reasons I cannot fathom, they move here not knowing more than two words of Spanish. But they come and somehow they start a life here.
They spend their days holed up in front of satellite television where they can watch all the shows they watched in America. They drive a car to the supermarket to shop. They come home and sit in front of the satellite television and watch more of the shows they watched when they were in the United States.
They claim that the majority of their friends are Mexican. This is a wonder since they themselves cannot speak Spanish. So, I deduce that they have to mean that the majority of their friends are...