I’ll never forget when someone told me, “If you have to change your identity early on in the dating game, it means you aren’t confident in your true self to be what holds onto a relationship.” More often than not I agreed with this, though there are those that put themselves in the position of […]
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Ever notice you have become a magnet for certain types of guys in your love life? Maybe it has nothing to do with your relationships, but just people that come and go in your life – period. I noticed this pattern for me in High School – it took me nearly all four years to figure
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I was eighteen once – thought I knew it all. [Laughing hysterically right now] I also thought I knew what I wanted, and how to get what I wanted from a guy. I’m so embarrassed to say this – but there was a time when I thought the only way to get someone to treat
Ladies, Pump The Brakes [Stop Training Him In Relationships] Read More »
Now I may be treading uncharted waters here, but I guess I enjoy a little controversy. Plus, I will never quite understand how any relationship can “move forward” without directing it’s sails with the wind. The key is knowing the direction of the wind! If you’re not able to discuss one another’s emotional stance, how
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Let me make one thing perfectly clear before you read on: disappointment in relationships is inevitable, so we must learn to brace for impact. Because, inevitably, we’re all bound to make mistakes. But there is a clear difference between a mistake, and an excuse in terms of negative behavior in dating, relationships and even marriage. So
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Good communication starts with listening, but that would all be so easy to understand if we all communicated the same. Of course not – men and women both communicate and listen differently. Yet there’s one similarity that is part of our human nature – we all want to be heard. We need to be willingly
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As a now-married woman, gifting for my husband has become merely impossible. And I, too, still have the mindset of, “I can’t give him THIS – how stupid…” But lo and behold, what I might think is stupid may just be the most brilliant gift in my husband’s eyes. And that has been the test of
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The Holidays, especially Christmas, are actually the peak times of the year where most fairly new relationships take a plunge. Weird, right? Not really, if you think about it. The Holidays are a stressful time of year for most, aside from all of the Joyous aspects Thanksgiving and Christmas brings. So ironically, the Holidays makes
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*Sigh* It’s complicated – no, I’m not talking about changing your Facebook relationship status to “It’s complicated” because you got into a fight with your SO. We’re not still at that elementary level, are we?? So what does a guy mean when he says it’s complicated? Think about the word “maybe” in the real world
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The Holidays is the time of year where most couples either end their relationship, or go scatter-brains looking for one (when they never last long into the New Year, anyway). Because if you’re sporting the single life during the Holidays, you’re inevitably a miserable person. Wrong – society created this perception that Christmas is all about
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