Your wedding ring once reflected the undying love that existed between you and your spouse. Sadly, eternal love does not always turn out to last even half that long. Most marriages are filled with half-truths and outright deceptions; much like…
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October 12, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Congratulations on choosing to go for your first kiss. All romance ends in heartbreak and regret, but don’t let tomorrow’s anxiety ruin today’s moment. It’s yours, and even among firsts it’ll stand out years later. This article aims for gender…
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July 9, 2014 Friends and Peers
A root canal, a needle through the eye, or an arrow to the knee. What do these three excruciating experiences have in common? They are all a walk in the park compared to hosting a friend’s financial intervention. However, there…
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Giving your soul to a partner means accepting your own vulnerability. When you give a chunk of yourself to another how can you be sure they won’t go dragging your heart through the mud? Sometimes it can seem impossible to…
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February 12, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
The old Shakespeare quote comes to mind, “Hell hath no fury like a woman you don’t text message every hour.” It’s true. The light of your life, the belle of your ball, acts like a cross between a prison warden and…
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February 12, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
While in college, this author befriended an El Salvadorean custodian. Now ,there is an unassailable trope about the wise old janitor. Oscar made sport as he worked, giving opinions on everything from work to marital life. Without condemnation Oscar put forth…
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February 11, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Sometimes a troubled marriage shows signs of failure before one party officially gives up the ghost. If you’re a woman living in this space you need to know it, and take the extraordinary steps required to fight for your husband….
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December 23, 2013 Marriage and Divorce
Different people necessarily define marriage in different ways; healthy relationships are often a function of the models the participants have had in childhood. Despite your own person history it’s not too much to ask to have a spouse that grants…
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December 23, 2013 Marriage and Divorce
Divorce can change your whole outlook on life, but it’ll certainly wreak havoc on your feelings about marriage. If you’ve received the bad end of the deal in terms of the financial split, if he or she did things for…
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