Relationships and Family – Other

Online relationships are often the beginning of many relationships and even successful marriages. With limited time and excellent technology, meeting online has become the most viable option of meeting new people. Bonding can happen quickly when people know just the…
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Being a person who has struggled with a lot of emotional pain and suffering this writer can honestly say that it is very difficult to get rid of past baggage. The reason that the baggage stays for so long is not so much…
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Excluding the rare “high school sweethearts” who stay together through life and survive, most people go through that first heartbreak, when you have to find a way to get over your first love. The process of forgetting the first person…
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There are many benefits to being a loner. Loners are people who prefer to keep to themselves. This may be due to their personality or the environment that they were brought up in. Many people cannot handle the thought of…
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Children start out in life with a very small view of the world of the world around them.  They feel safe within the one or two parent cocoon that is their world for the first few years.  If that protected…
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Surely every relationship is different, and a how-to guide on getting over your first love is going to be a strangely detached, subjective topic. After all, if there is any aspect of the human experience that is intimately individual, is…
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Welcome to the 21st century. A woman who lives together with her boyfriend without getting married is no longer considered “loose”. While some people claim that living together before marriage is nothing but a way to avoid commitment many others…
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Every relationship begins hot and heavy!  Over time our lives become busier as we combine our life with our significant others and it is our sex life that takes a back seat.  No matter how busy we become there is…
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Love is wonderful. Searching for love, finding love, falling in love and making love are all exciting, renewing experiences. During your infatuation, everything is about the two of you; you make time for one another, no matter what. But then…
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The definition of marriage in today’s society has vastly changed due to perceptions. People have religious perceptions, same-sex perceptions and perceptions of those who have decreased the magnitude of this act by holding the “I can get out of this marriage…
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You feel like you are going to be alone for the rest of your life. You can never picture yourself being with anyone else and feel as though your heart is in your shoes. You have just split from your…
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Traditionally, most couples did not live together until after they were married. These days, this tradition is becoming far less common and in fact, moving in together is often seen as the most significant step prior to considering marriage. There…
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“No I’m not parting with my porcelain dolls! “ “Well don’t expect me to part with my collection of football jerseys!’ “You’re bossy!” “No, you’re inconsiderate!” Sharing a house or an apartment with your boyfriend/girlfriend can be the most exciting…
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Technological advances in communication has a definite affect on romantic relationships. While communication used to rely on love letters and the unreliable mailing system, the invention of the telephone allowed people to be able to actually speak and communicate with…
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As an adult, you have the right to live the life that you want to lead in the way that you want to. At the same time, your parents who hopefully loved and cared for you as you grew up,…
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Getting over a breakup is difficult, especially if it is your first love. However, you have to do it to move on and live a full life. You think it is painful now, but you can do it. First, you…
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Living together before marriage seems such an obvious choice of lifestyle that we wonder why everyone doesn’t do it. But is it really so obvious? Some marital research was undertaken a couple of years ago, mainly to compare the rates…
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If you are a gregarious, fun-loving people person, you may not completely understand the benefits of being a loner. Most extroverts need to be surrounded by people, noise, fun and activity to feel complete, but there are many introverts who…
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Relationships are hard and once you throw in life’s daily complications things just become even harder. Even the simplest of relationships take work to maintain. When life gets busy, little things like making a phone call requires more effort. All…
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You might have to put some of your favorite things in storage if you are moving in with your girlfriend, especially if she has already set up housekeeping and there is no room for your music system for example. Although…
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Put all your important stuff in storage, brace yourself for whatever they bring and drink heavily. No that’s not it at all what was I thinking.  Diplomacy is remembering the great words of our founding fathers who said, “I have…
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By the time you have made the choice to live together, there will have been a level of compromise that defines the relationship. When a couple feels comfortable enough to take the plunge of unity, they will have established “unwritten…
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Successfully surviving a live-in relationship includes sharing everything. That arrangement requires more than just the original physical attraction. There must be an honest commitment to each other, and ability to find mutual agreement on each of the everyday elements of…
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Who’s stuff is going to be kept when you move in with your girlfriend? It’s a simple process; you will sit down with your girlfriend and she will decide. She may let you think you have a say in it,…
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Prior to moving in with your partner you must ask yourself three significant questions. How you answer these questions will give you a lot of insight into whether you are truly ready to cohabitate. While everyone loves the thought of forever-after,…
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It is quite difficult to develop a Guide for people to follow when there are children involved because, first of all, they do not understand, and it will be problematic. There is no one Guide to follow because you have…
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Moving in together with your partner for the first time is one of the biggest life changing experiences many individuals face over a life time. Often the commitment of moving in together is second only to that of having children…
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If you’re 15, telling your parents that you’re moving in with your boyfriend could cause some significant problems, possibly resulting in your being locked in your room day and night for at least the next three years. If you’re 55,…
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Survival, in a relationship is a two person project and moving in together is a field test. A survival guide for moving in together would simply talk about pitfalls. These are things that are perfectly normal and should be anticipated…
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Why should you “cheapen” your relationship by moving in with your boyfriend? Be very careful before moving in with a boyfriend because some men will “take you for granted” believing you are not interested in marriage. Then, when they meet…
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