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Holiday Stress and Divorced Parenting
'Tis the season to be thankful, in another month to be jolly, and, if you're still not convinced, a whole new year right around the corner to try again if things don't work out for you through this year's holiday season! Holiday times for children of newly divorced parents are often the toughest time of year. They often have strong emotional attachments to days gone by when Mom, Dad, their brothers and sisters and they all cheerfully ate too much turkey and sang off-key holiday carols together. Remember that your joy in being away from what became an unbearable situation for you leading to a divorce may not have registered with your children, who are still in denial and are hurt, angry, and depressed.
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Relationship: Leave the Baggage Behind
A past is a past, forget it and move forward. We are so much gripped in our past that we create a fence around us not letting somebody enter in our heart. Let this not happen. Let loose your past and feel like a free bird to fly into a new horizon. Get out of that depressed mood and experience the different phases of life. There is always much to be done in life. You just have to look around. There is a lot of work that requires your helping hand and a lot of other people who need you.
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The Intricacies of Family Relationships
This is the 21st century. There are so many more
factors and issues that add stress to relationships.
There are more demands on time, higher expectations,
more toys and gadgets, high-stress careers or
profession. Each member of a family need
more space, more independence and freedom
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Amazing Grace: Couldn't You Just Run Over My Toe?
My mother was meeting Mike for the first time, after hearing about him for many years. Mike Schwass: national speaker, published author, coach, therapist, namesake for the high school Blackhawks MVP award...and quadriplegic.
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Relationship: Listen Really Listen
Listen - do you really listen to your partner. Here listening to your partner does not mean listening to your spouse at the dinning table or when you are just sitting together and talking. Listening here really means listening with care. Listening to what has been unsaid.
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Relationship: Say It With Words
Words have the power to move the strongest of men in the world. Let the power of words strengthen your love life. Lovers often have taken the support of words to express their love. “It’s only words and word all I have to take your heart away”, the words from a famous song that have helped many lovers to express their love, proves the power of words.
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Sacred Love - Some Advice to Those Seeking a New Relationship
Here are 11 warnings. They are not meant to encourage judgment, moreover, they are meant to help you to respect where people are at. The last person to know where they are at is the person them self, because their lust, emotion, and need to be rescued from their hell will make you the idol they will worship. They will be so attached, yet, complain and struggle, often blaming you for all their problems, when really it was their reality before you met.
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Quiz- Is Your Relationship Collapsing?
I never expected that I would one day hate the person I loved so much. We were very happy. I do not know what happened, but suddenly our relationship collapsed. This is heart breaking. I do not know what to do, or think? I am going numb with stress.
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It's The Little Things That Count
As relationships mature, grow and develop people can sometimes forget the little things that can have a positive impact on the quality of the relationship. I put these in three categories: Simple courtesies, simple pleasures, and simple words.
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Can We Overcome the Power of Limerence?
Limerence is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state characterized foremost by intrusive thinking, longing for reciprocation and sensitivity to external events signifying uncertainty or hope in relation to a person of our desires. It can be destructive and tiring for an individual. This article briefly provides a case study and asks about a possible solution for escaping the clutches of limerence.
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Love Hurts - Can Your Present Lover be Your Later Enemy?
Do lovers wear masks in front of their beloved or is the society influencing the negative thoughts of the generation in love. As soon as you dare to leave your ex-beloved, revenge replaces love ... and sometimes, literally. What makes former lovers violent with their once-beloveds?
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Learning To Let Go With Love
One of the hardest things for any person, man or woman, is letting go of a relationship that's not meant to be. We have to learn to let go of our partners with love, so we can move past our hurt and learn to love again.
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Long Lost Kids
It was 1967 and I was overseas in a recon outfit. It had been many months since I had experienced any contact with a love interest from the good old USA. I had gone to mail call almost daily and received nothing but an occasional letter from my folks.
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The Power of Coffee (Dates)
When you've connected with a woman - either online or out socially - where do you take things next?
The next best step I've learned is the coffee date. Dont be so anxious to 'take her out.'
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I Ain't Eating No Chitlins
Yes, we Black men and women have some collective concerns, a certain amount of shared pathos , arising from our shared painful past which we are daily changing to a triumphant future - but we are each something more fundamental than a cog in a Great Black Cause. I am, like you - just me.
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