The effect or lack of negative effect on children dealing with their parents dating after divorce or separation is dependent on a lot of characteristics. How difficult and emotional the original break-up was for a start. However, there is no…
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You are just about to set off to meet someone you’ve never come across before. Now, I’m sure you trust your friend’s judgement in the area of trustworthiness and reliability, but nonetheless you are a woman, and as such you…
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I would have to say that having been in a marriage for nearly 10 years, I had forgotten the unpredictability and possible meat market aspect of dating. I don’t think that necessarily things have changed that much. Initial attraction is…
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Love and what it means to give or receive that emotion is a long discussed and fascinating subject. There are several kinds of love that fall within the meaning, romantic, tender, platonic and familial which can be directed to parents,…
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September 16, 2015 Skin and Body
It’s gorgeous outside, how can you resist, and how to do you make sure your skin stays in good condition naturally during the long summer days? Summer skin-care can really be defined in a few short words, nourish, hydrate, moisturise…
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September 4, 2015 Friends and Peers
Running is always an option. I can’t say that it will solve things, but it might give you a small space in which to think about your next move. Also in removing yourself from a friend who is causing you…
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Self-awareness is the single most important element in avoiding being an irritant to other people. Many people are locked in their own world, and have little idea of the effect that their character and behavior has on those around them….
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August 15, 2015 Friends and Peers
There are two distinct situations here. Either, you have started at a new school, work-place or social center and have not managed to breach the already existing cliques. Alternatively, you have beeen somewhere for a long while and suddenly have…
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August 10, 2015 Friends and Peers
“Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand…
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August 10, 2015 Friends and Peers
There is a fundamental difference between being a nice person that people really enjoy being with, and being a doormat who is used and abused. Naturally, your preference will be to fall into the former rather than the latter category,…
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August 9, 2015 Friends and Peers
There is a saying that good friends are almost as rare as hen’s teeth. I, personally, have found this to be true, but although good friends may be rare and precious, key friends are slightly different and perform a different…
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August 9, 2015 Friends and Peers
Goodness is the only investment that never fails – Henry David Thoreau Whilst Thoreau is partly correct in that, generally, good people are repaid in respect and liking by their peers, a good person must face the fact that their…
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Having briefly dated online before meeting my partner, and having a keen interest in photography I feel I have something to say on this subject. Online dating is just that, dating online. Therefore, why do people not take the same…
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May 19, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Cohabitation is an adventure, a challenge and probably the biggest compromise you will ever make in your life. You move in, you share your whole life – your meal-times, your laundry, your work complaints. Sharing your life with someone else…
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Praise for a job well-done, or thanks for a gift or help with child-care. Both of these deserve a show of appreciation, and are essentially different types of help, to be acknowledged in slightly different ways. Generally, in the work…
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April 9, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Some friends you may have, because it’s in their nature to see the bleak side, or be blinkered can give you bad advice based on mistakes that they may well have made in their life. The answer is simple. You…
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March 31, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Stop communicating with your loved one and your relationship is automatically in danger of one of you considering an affair. Feeling unloved, unappreciated and unnoticed can be major causes of people going elsewhere. This lack of communication often stems from…
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The capability to take images and store them is everywhere, phones, cameras, pda’s, etc. However, surprisingly few people actually print their photographs and this, social historians believe, could have our grand-children in years to come unable to view our photographs,…
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You should apply the same rules of caution and instinct with the participants of online dating sites as you should in any other walk of life. Generally speaking the people involved are a cross-section of society and as such some…
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February 11, 2015 Friends and Peers
It has to be said first and foremost, I am not a girly girl. I let my mum have the pleasure of organizing my wedding and have been known to wander away from work-place conversations having got tired of the…
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February 11, 2015 Friends and Peers
The dictionary definition of “popular” is to be regarded with “favor, approval or affection” by others. All of these things are sought after qualities, particularly in younger people whose reliance on their peers for acceptance is at the most acute…
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Smile, breathe, make eye-contact. It’s a wonder that you have any conversations at all on first dates trying to remember to do all that! That said, the important thing to remember with all first date conversation is that it isn’t…
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Finding “fun” on your first date with someone is trickier than it sounds, because unless you have quite a good handle of that person’s likes and dislikes (say you know them from work or some other environment rather than meeting…
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January 6, 2015 Friends and Peers
Let us be frank here, life is one long opportunity, and the joyous thing about it is that the opportunities that life provides come along on a regular, if not daily basis. It’s a charmed circle, happy and successful people…
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January 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
It is so easy to use your motherhood as an excuse to lose touch with people. Particularly, If you are a shy person, then focusing yourself on your baby at gatherings and talking about your child, takes the onus from…
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January 3, 2015 Friends and Peers
Broken friendships can’t always be mended, but they can at least be understood. Not being friends with someone suddenly, can be particularly hard, when you are on the receiving end and don’t understand what has happened to create such a rift. However,…
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In some ways, summer does all the hard work for you. There are few people, whether single or attached who don’t experience a sudden rush of warm feelings when the temperature rises. Spring, leading into summer is a time of…
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August 26, 2014 Friends and Peers
You family and friends are the foundations of your stability and happiness. Then what could be worse than having to choose between them, or what’s more losing one because of the other? Certainly, family and friends have different areas of…
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July 27, 2014 Style and Beauty - Other
Beauty is a response to a person you are experiencing based on your perceptions. You have, from a very young age been taught what is pretty, what is attractive, or given a concept of beauty as a much deeper and…
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Having time on your own at home is what many full-time working people absolutely crave. However, if this is enforced on you, or if you have time at home on your own all the time this can be demoralising, boring…
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