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My name is Carissa Link and I am a Florida-based life and love improvement blogger. I share resources and personal insight to young women on living and loving their best self - through relationships, marriage and self love.

Right now this so-called lockdown, staycation, work-from-home, solitary confinement or period of unwilful solitude - whatever you want to call it - is about to test everyone's relationships. Whether you're newly dating, in a relationship, living together or apart, engaged or married, this indirectly enforced stay-at-home confinement is going to be the ultimate test if your relationship is built to last.

A Relationship Built To Last Can Survive A Stay-At-Home Lockdown

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Right now this so-called lockdown, staycation, work-from-home, solitary confinement or period of unwilful solitude – whatever you want to call it – is about to test everyone’s relationships. Whether you’re newly dating, in a relationship, living together or apart, engaged or married, this indirectly enforced stay-at-home confinement is going to be the ultimate test if

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I began dating online in, oof, 2009. I remember having to fill out a 100+ questionnaire and a dating profile that resembled a resume template. I have no doubt things are different since then, likely in not-so-good ways. Some dating apps may not even require you to fill out a full-on profile anymore (sad, sad, saaaad), and that's a huge problem. I am not surprised at all by the lack of success, and the status quo these dating apps only seem to care about.

This is every SUCCESSFUL Online Dating Profile [As Of 2020]

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I began dating online in, oof, 2009. I remember having to fill out a 100+ questionnaire and a dating profile that resembled a resume template. I have no doubt things are different since then, likely in not-so-good ways. Some dating apps may not even require you to fill out a full-on profile anymore (sad, sad,

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Let's be real, there's going to come a time when you're in desperate need of things to do when you're confined to home or indoors with your partner. For instance, one of you or both are under the weather, it's raining cats and dogs outside or you're on standby for the AC guy to show up between that annoying 5-hour window.

25 Activities for couples when you’re confined to your home

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Can’t do date night out? If you can’t leave the house, there are still plenty of fun activities for couples that can still keep you connected. Let’s be real, there’s going to come a time when you’re in desperate need of things to do when you’re confined to home or indoors with your partner. For

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If you're dating below your standards, you are implying someone else is responsible for your . You get the idea, hopefully.

150+ Examples to avoid dating below your standards

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If you’re dating below your standards, you are implying someone else is responsible for your [happiness, fulfillment, expectations, worth, self-respect]. You get the idea, hopefully. That’s why your dating standards DO matter. Yet we’ve ALL done it. I’ve done it. Call it the having kissed a few toads before knowing what it means to kiss

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Stop expecting YOU from others - sincerely, a recovering people pleaser. There's a slightly nasty, yet logical part of me that thinks we do this because we are constantly told we are imperfectly perfect, and to focus on our positive qualities. So we start looking for that same sense of perfection in others - meaning, we're looking for that good in others to measure up to our own perceived goodness.

Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser

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Stop expecting YOU from others – sincerely, a recovering people pleaser. There’s a slightly nasty, yet logical part of me that thinks we do this because we are constantly told we are imperfectly perfect, and to focus on our positive qualities. So we start looking for that same sense of perfection in others – meaning,

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