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Single Mom Survival Kit: The Monster Called FEAR
Is there something wrong with me? Will anyone ever love me again? Have you caught yourself asking these questions? Have you worried about how you’re going to figure out finances and look after the home while juggling your children’s lives? If so, you are not alone. When I first became a single Mom I asked all these questions too. When you...
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This past week I have been, quite literally, voiceless. A bad case of tonsillitis left me with little more than a whisper. It’s been a very quiet week. Today I still don’t have my voice back but I’m feeling just a bit better and I started to notice the changes in my behavior. I realized I’ve been stepping back. I did not attempt...
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They say that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”, but I’m not convinced that’s true. I think that love makes the heart grow fonder, distance just gets in the way. If you love someone, you’re supposed to want to be with them. Distance is not an insurmountable obstacle, but I have a hard time believing it actually helps. Distance...
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There’s no such thing as a perfect marriage, but how do you know if you’re in a good marriage? There have been a spat of celebrity break ups this week. It’s easy to look at them at think, “well that’s Hollywood, we have real problems” but sometimes we lose perspective too. When you’re tired, when change is slow, when you run out...
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Arguably the worst piece of romantic advice ever given is the oft quoted, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Love is all about saying you’re sorry. Love, when it’s good, is finding someone that you want to be with, someone you want to share your life with. Inevitably in all that togetherness there are going to be times...
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I turned on CNN this morning and there was more news of bullying and suicide and it broke my heart. In the past couple of weeks we’ve lost Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Brown, Billy Lucas and earlier this year Phoebe Prince. I wish that was an exhaustive list but there are others. Bullying sometimes gets passed off as just a part of...
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When I was in high school I knew kids who drank heavily. I knew about kids who took drugs and in my Grade 9 year someone committed suicide. But I did not know any students who cut themselves. Fast forward to 2010 and ask my niece about cutting in her high school and she’ll tell you in a quiet voice, “I know a lot of kids who do that.” Teens...
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Can a broken marriage be fixed? Often, if both partners are willing to do the work the answer is yes. In a recent article for CNN author Eileen Kelly recounts her own experience with couples' counseling. For Kelley and her husband the end began on a Caribbean vacation with their three year old twins. She writes about how she has seen several...
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