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10 Tips for Fighting Fair

10 Tips for Fighting Fair

  Every couple argues. Some of the do it overtly by yelling at each other while others do it covertly by avoiding contact and conversation. Whatever the method, the result is the same – hurt feelings and disenchantment. Here are my tips to help you argue constructively, if done correctly it can be a pathway [...]

Advice for People Who Want to Move Past a Rotten Childhood

Advice for People Who Want to Move Past a Rotten Childhood

  Author Tracy McMillan knows a thing or two about getting over a bad childhood. Her father was a drug-dealing pimp and convicted felon who spent most of his daughter's life behind bars. Her prostitute mother gave her away. Here's what she wants you to know about getting over your past. 1. Get a New [...]

Dating and relationships: Are women the new commitment-phobes?

Dating and relationships: Are women the new commitment-phobes?

  Although most of us love a great wedding, an increasing number of women are saying “No, thanks” to the idea of marriage. In 2011 the US Census Bureau released statistics that show women are now marrying later than ever before with an increasing number choosing not to marry at all. Many women are instead [...]

Love Online: Dating Expert’s Advice

Love Online: Dating Expert’s Advice

  In a world that is looking for love, Facebook is becoming both a social support and a matchmaker.  A new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project points out how those associated with “power users” are reaping the benefits of reaching thousands and building confidence. Despite questions as to [...]

The Power of Film as Storyteller: Oscar Nominee “The Help”

The Power of Film as Storyteller: Oscar Nominee “The Help”

We love film, television and other forms of media storytelling in part because our experience with them is very personal. When we watch a film, we are transported into the world of the story, and we feel like we’re experiencing events as if we were the characters. This is one reason why film can be [...]

20 Things to Start Doing in Your Relationships

20 Things to Start Doing in Your Relationships

  Family isn’t always blood.  They’re the people in your life who appreciate having you in theirs – the ones who encourage you to improve in healthy and exciting ways, and who not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody who you want to be.  These people – your real family [...]

What’s Your Love Language?

What’s Your Love Language?

There is a good joke about the difficulty of having a good relationship with a woman. A man finds a magic lantern with a genie inside. The genie says to the man “You have found the lantern and so I will grant you one wish. You can wish for anything you want.” The man thinks [...]

Parents Are Turning to DIY Education

Parents Are Turning to DIY Education

    In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways they never [...]

Working With a Type A Personality

Working With a Type A Personality

  By Bernardo Tirado – Many personality type assessment models like Carl Jung's Psychology Types, Myers Briggs Personality Types Theory, The DISC model, etc., have been developed over the years but the most commonly known out of these models is Andrew Goldsmith's Theory – Type A and Type B Personality.  Understanding someone's personality provides insight [...]

Finding Joy That Lasts

Finding Joy That Lasts

  It was the bottom bottom of the ninth inning in game seven of the 2001 World Series. The New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks were all tied up. As Arizonans, my family and I were thrilled to see our state getting attention for something other than sun damage, so when Luis Gonzalez hit [...]

The 7 worst things about being a male

The 7 worst things about being a male

  The cultural stereotype is that it’s great to be a man.  Not only do we have shorter lines at the rest room, but we make scads more money and can reach things on higher shelves in the marketplace.  We don’t have to deal with double standards or glass ceilings, and we’re raised to have [...]

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