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Celebrating Traditions—or Why Hosting a Quinceanera is a Grand Thing
And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.
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Witherspoon and Phillippe Split—Why?
After seven years of marriage Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and movie star Ryan Phillippe have called it quits.
How could this be? Just months ago in her Oscar acceptance speech, Reese Witherspoon thanked her beloved husband, and now they're divorcing. Wasn't this a fairy tale marriage?
Learn the REAL reason Reese, Ryan, and hundreds of celebrity couples seem unable to find or keep the partner they are looking for.
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Healing a Broken Heart
There is a big difference between pain and suffering. Pain is when you cut your hand. You don’t worry about your hand if you know it will get better. Suffering is when you’re not sure that your hand will heal, and you worry about what is going to happen. In relationship, pain comes and goes, and this is normal. Suffering in relationship comes when you hold back love because you are worried about whether your relationship will survive the pain.
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Feeling Lonely - You're Not Alone
How does increasing isolation affect your emotional and social health? Learn more about the culprits of loneliness and how you can improve your social connections!
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It's The Little Things That Count
As relationships mature, grow and develop people can sometimes forget the little things that can have a positive impact on the quality of the relationship. I put these in three categories: Simple courtesies, simple pleasures, and simple words.
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Surviving Infidelity
Learning about your spouse's affair is one of the most life changing events you'll ever have to cope with. The initial mental and physical pain can be more than most people feel they can bear.
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A Date to Remember - Tracked Down by an Ex-Lover
The Internet has made connecting and re-connecting far easier than ever before. In fact it is now effortless, but the question I beg is should we contact old flames just because it is easy to do so? We have to think about the other person's life and the effect it may cause them before we do. This only gets more true as time goes on, your life has changed significantly, surely theirs has as well. What impact will your casual hello have on them? It could be wonderful or catastrophic.
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Challenged by Your Relationships? Good!
Why are our relationships such a challenge?
By their very nature, relationships always push us toward duality, toward the opposites. They take us into both the light of our souls and the darkness of our subconscious. They force us to look at the light and experience the shadows.
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Making Marriage Work, Part 1
Is your marriage in trouble? Have you lost the passion that you once had? Do you believe that if only your partner would change everything would be fine? In this series, discover a powerful process for making your marriage work.
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Hurricanes and Relationships
Hurricanes can be a time of adversity, destruction and devastation, however they can also be a time of building relationships and meeting new friends. There is something about the human character and the innate characteristics of the human species which bonds people together who have lived through adversity.
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5 Non-Negotiable Times Your Partner Should Respect You
There is a trap that many of us fall into because for the most part girls are socialized to be sweet, accommodating, passive, well-mannered etc. When we grow up and get into relationships, many of us don't really know what to do in response to disrespect. Find out how to spot the signs, and prevent it.
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The World's Biggest Jerk
It takes hard work to be in a relationship. Many men don't understand what's
involved. So they cheat, instead. This article is for those of you.
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Relationships: Fear Of Letting Go Of A Bad Relationship
If you're stuck in a bad relationship the fear of letting go can literally undermine your happiness and your health. The many roots of this fear originate in early childhood experiences that many psychotherapies fail to address adequately. There is a new more powerful approach to feeling free and in charge of your self that I discuss in this article.
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So Am I: Projecting Our Qualities
How is that that I have great and not so great relationships with different people? What is there that makes me like and be liked as well as hated (or disliked) and hateful (or despising)? Why do I recognize negative qualities in some people and positive qualities in other people?
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