Are all Women Nags
November 21, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Do all women nag? Yes we do. It’s true. All women nag, but it might only be due to the need that derives from the men in our lives. After all, if you were a woman who had to live…
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Author Archive: Vicki Phipps
The Benefits of Bereavement Counseling
November 17, 2015 Crisis Support
To help us understand why bereavement counseling benefits those who are grieving, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. wrote the book On Death and Dying. She explains the need for bereavement counseling comes from the fact that today, more people live to old…
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Creative Ways to Show your Boyfriend you Love him
If you want your boyfriend to know how much you love him, it might be wise to look through the frame of a guy’s mind. It may be hard to do, but you can if you try. Just visualize you…
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Ways to Avoid Emotionally Unavailable Men
I used to believed that all men were emotionally unavailable, but the truth may be that we women tend to be too needy. It seems that we can actually create an emotionally unavailable man by making these mistakes. 1. Fairy…
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How to Successfully Flirt with Women
How does a man successfully flirt with women? It’s an art derived through the skills that come from the experience in failing, and sometimes again and again. There’s nothing like rejection to show you what not to do if you…
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Love Relationships
Yes, love does end when it’s taken for granted. It can be like the seed that never has a chance to grow because no one thought to feed it. Love is a word that can mean many things for many…
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How to Gracefully End a Bad Blind Date
I don’t go on blind dates anymore because, you see, I’m married now. Still, when I did, it gave me the benefit of experience which makes it wise for you to read my article on the art of ending a…
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Tips for Dating while Pregnant
It’s a difficult scenario to perceive, much less conceive, but if anyone asked me for tips on dating while pregnant, here are the list of tips I’d give. PREGNANT DATING TIPS: 1. Choose what type of guy you’ll date with…
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How to think Throuh a Liberated View
October 13, 2015 Communication
At my age today, I’ve arrived at the time of life when I see the reality that my political views have a lot to do with my social and moral values. What I think and believe politically, has a lot…
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Making a Crucial Decision between two Lovers
The choice I’d make could make or break the quality of my life. Beyond this, I knew from experience that regrets take a long time to survive, much less to overcome and recover from. At the time it seemed cruel…
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Preparing your Home to Care for an Ill Loved one
When my dad became ill, the family had to come together to prepare for the inevitable of what Lou Gehrig’s Disease would bring, with his quality of life in our minds. I hope these tips will bring you and your…
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Friendship Issues Advice
October 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
What makes a healthy friendship? I believe it begins with me. 1. Healthy self reflection brings healthy people and things: The most healthy friendships are drawn to me when I am healthy, physically, mentally and emotionally. When you feel good,…
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Friendship Issues Advice
October 5, 2015 Friends and Peers
One of the marks of a good friend is how that friend inspires me, and when they do, it inspires me to inspire them too. That’s what friends do. They inspire the best in you. I’ve read every quote told…
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Friendship Issues Advice
October 3, 2015 Friends and Peers
Who knows where the American concept of friendship began but I suspect it began when time began. After all, here in the USA diversity makes it easy to find friends from a variety of different cultural views on what friendship…
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The Minimum Cost of Friendship
October 2, 2015 Friends and Peers
To me, the minimum cost of friendship is that we must give up a bit of our pride and allow our ego to see through cooperative eyes. Friendship can’t be, “all about me,” so I have let go of my…
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The Difference between Love and Friendship
September 29, 2015 Friends and Peers
The difference between love and friendship can be confusing even to the most philosophical minds. Sometimes love comes from passion and friendship seems to arrive from experience and time, but true love seems to come from the experience friendship brings…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 28, 2015 Friends and Peers
Do you want to give your friend a gift that will symbolize what your friendship means? It’s a nice way to express what words can never seem to do, might possibly be the keepsake that reminds your friend of you…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 27, 2015 Friends and Peers
My favorite all time friendship movie depends on the time of life I’m in, but one of the most recent was this one. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood: I’d read the book that the movie was based upon…
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Dealing with a Platonic Friendship
September 27, 2015 Friends and Peers
I’m assuming that we are defining platonic friendships as being between a man and a woman where neither of the two have a romantic agenda. Right? I suppose it’s possible, but my experience with men leads me to think of…
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How Addiction to Love can be Unhealthy
This title might be misleading, because it isn’t just that addiction to love can sometimes be unhealthy, but the fact is that love addiction is always an unhealthy way to relate. Anything addicting requires someone who gets sick with it….
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How to Play Hard to get
Although I no longer date since I recently married the second Mr. Right in my life, which I got right this time. Still, I know a thing or two about being hard to get and why it can and does…
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Why Men like mean Girls
Men may seem to prefer mean girls over those who tend to be sweet and easily pleased, but the difference between a girl who’s mean and one who has a high self esteem can be misleading. The truth of the…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 24, 2015 Friends and Peers
It’s a time honored tradition to have a shared favorite song among friends and in my life, I’ve had many of them. I’ll list a few and maybe they will remind you of your friends too. That’s What Friends are…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 23, 2015 Friends and Peers
How to make friends used to be something that was never an issue for me. Throughout my life, I made friends easily and the numbers made it clear for me to see. It wasn’t until three years ago that I…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 23, 2015 Friends and Peers
We’ve all heard those lines and rhymes people use to describe friendship, but do we ever stop to think, “What do they mean?” Here’s one that makes no sense to me. “A friend in need is a friend in deed.”…
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How Relationships Act as Mirrors to Reveal who we are
I wouldn’t say that relationships mirror who we truly are or who God intends us to be, but they do reflect what we think of ourselves and what we believe we are worthy of at any given time in our…
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An Overview of Cohabitation
Cohabitation seems to be the new way men and women date and relate these days, at least in the USA. Since the 60’s we’ve become a bit too free with love, I’m afraid, and the result may be even more…
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Substance Abuse Recovering from the Toxic Effects of the Relationship
September 18, 2015 Communication
Recovery from a toxic relationship revolvers around the process of moving through victimization to survival, but the key to recovery is to move beyond surviving. Since toxic means, “a poisonous thing,” toxic relationships make us sick. They leave us with…
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Friendship Issues Advice
September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
Initially, the answer to why friendship needs to have a two way communication would be obvious to most of us who have friends that we communicate with. Someone needs to be listening while someone else is speaking, otherwise there would…
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Signs your Relationship is getting serious
People intuitively know when a relationship is getting serious. It’s a mutual bonding process, which in time and through a vision of what the two of you believe love should be, tells you that this time, you’ve got it right. Still,…
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