In A Rut? Focus On Your Strengths
Many of us have hit ruts in our marriage. We live together. We chauffeur children together. We manage paychecks, and bills, and grocery lists, and karate lessons, and our parents' doctors appointments. But we don't seem to have FUN. We often feel mildly put out. He'll be at work all day, and when he gets home, he collapses in a chair, turns on...
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She Doesn’t Want Sex
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There are many reasons a woman may experience a diminished sex drive. Men and women are very different sexually. Women are emotionally driven while men are more physically driven. The stage of life can be a factor...
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Relationship Status: Ruined
In this new age of social media, appropriate online etiquette can be hard to find (even with Google). But here’s a new piece of advice built on millions of heartbreaking stories: for the sake of the relationship you are changing your relationship status for, take a few more minutes and "Unfriend" or "Block" certain Facebook friends.
Who should...
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Is Facebook a Marriage Hazard?
Ever since the internet became a regular part of the human experience, it has been implicated as an accomplice in online affairs, real life adultery, and the break-up of marriages. With every new online fad have come the stories of spouses wandering away from their marriage to a new cyber love interest. The media has highlighted tales and trends...
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Countering the Drift
Messages in bottles have been the stuff of folklore for centuries. Dying, desperate sailors have hurled them. Curious children have launched them. Nicholas Sparks wrote a novel based on them, but don’t read it—or watch the movie—unless you already have a prescription for antidepressants.
The story I find most interesting about such bottles,...
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What Men Want in a Relationship
How's your love life? If you have questions and you're not sure who to ask, talk to a mentor.
I have discovered a stark contrast between what each sex thinks the opposite sex wants from them, and what the opposite sex really does want.
What women think men want from them causes women to have resentment and anger toward men, and feel hopeless...
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Not Another Divorce Statistic
I did not want to be another divorce statistic, but the numbers were not in our favor.
My husband Rudy is a bus driver and I work in dentistry - both careers that rank high in divorce statistics. We have a severely handicapped son. We struggled financially. My husband has been fighting depression for most of his life. My life and my marriage were...
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