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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For Christmas, my husband got me a couple books on marriage. Yes, we’re one of those couples. Not because we need the help – we find there is always room for learning and improving in a marriage. Even in our summer season. Speaking of seasons – that’s what one of the books is called, The
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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 – and 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?? I’m talking about the fact you’re with someone who’s “married“, yet tells you over and over that he’s getting that
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Whether you’re someone who has a type, believes in the “type“, or you think your love life doesn’t revolve around a specific type – who you attract, and the types of people you are attracted to may be set to repeat. You may not even realize it. Your type isn’t just physical attributes. It can
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I do love my husband. And I think I love him more for the things I wasn’t expecting to – for the things I never saw in him while we were dating, honestly. So I think I really lucked out with that one. But in reality, nothing in this world truly prepared me for marriage.
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You want to know what it truly takes to get over your EX? It definitely isn’t going to happen if you keep texting him – period. Think of it this way – if you’ve been back and forth off and on texting an EX for three months post break-up, you’re at a -30 in the
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