September 17, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
When a married man falls in love outside of his marriage, this is what is called an affair. It can be an intimate affair or an emotional affair, but an affair is an affair. If a man is at a…
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I love dresses. Whether they’re for casual wear or a night out I always look forward to shopping for a dress. Especially now that the market has opened up for plus size women. There was a time when, as a…
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September 8, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
If sharing housework with my husband was the key to a successful marriage, I would have been divorced a long time ago. He would have divorced me. I hate housework. I have tried to explain to my husband that we…
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You cannot pick your family but you can pick your friends. If it was the other way around, then blood might be thicker than water. I no longer automatically pick my family over my friends because I do not believe…
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Most women love clothing. It starts when we are young and we play dress-up with our mother or sister or some other adult’s clothing. We shop for clothes when we are sad, happy, angry, bored, etc. Any excuse will do!…
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Every dollar we spend today has to go farther than it ever has before. Budgeting for clothing can be difficult because trends change each season. Magazines show us the latest and greatest new clothing worn by celebrities that do not…
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We make difficult choices at different periods in our lives. Whether or not to help elderly parents financially is one of the most difficult choices we often have to make. It is often a situation fraught with emotion as the…
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. Brigitte Bardot I think most people would have some difficulty agreeing with Brigitte Bardot about how it is better to actually be unfaithful than it is…
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If I was answering this question a month ago I might have answered differently. Now it’s a definite “no”. Two weeks ago my young teenage daughter had a group of friends over. They went swimming, they ate, made noise. In…
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The notion of the blushing bride being a virgin on her wedding night faded some time ago. Probably around the 1960’s when women decided what was good for the goose was good for the gander. Sex came out of the…
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We all start off with the right intentions when we move our elderly parents into our homes but this kind of transition usually does not go quite as smoothly as we would like, even if we have prepared extensively for…
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Everyone else did it. It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. These are the phrases of childhood. Responsibility is a learned behaviour that increases as a child grows. A toddler learns that there are consequences when he goes and grabs…
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February 5, 2015 Skin and Body
Women do try hard to please everyone. Whether a woman works on Wall Street, runs her own company, goes to school or is a stay at home mom, most of us share the same insecurities. When it comes to body…
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February 5, 2015 Skin and Body
If you have lost weight and someone asks you if you have, then proceeds to tell you how great you now look, is it a compliment? Most people would say yes. A woman I once worked with disagreed because she…
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I would not want to be friends with a person who had an affair with someone else’s spouse so I really do not think I would want to be friends with someone who had an affair with my spouse. If…
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Since the day my daughter was born (well maybe not quite that soon), I have drilled the need-to-take-responsibility for your actions mantra into her head. My parents insisted that their kids live by that particular credo. It worked for them…
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We do not live in a perfect world. A child grows up depending on his or her parents to make decisions on behalf of the family. When one’s parents start aging and the tables are turned, someone needs to step…
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A child will always be a child to his or her mother but that child eventually grows up to be an adult and adults should handle conflicts between themselves, whether it involves a sibling, friend, co-worker, etc. A mother cannot mediate…
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September 29, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Many people think they have settled for less in their marriage. I have felt that way at times. I am sure that my husband has felt that way at times as well. However, I have been married for over twenty-five…
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Why should we care for our parents? What have they ever done for us? Just because they raised us, fed, clothed, doted on, cared for and loved us, does that mean we should have to care for them? Of course…
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The other day a friend of mine said she wished she had married a plastic surgeon. The thought briefly crossed my mind that I, too, wished the same thing on occasion. We have all heard the phrase, “beauty is in…
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“I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” Maya Angelou How very true is the sentiment by…
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