Love Relationships
Love can be elusive and hard to pin down. It can burn red hot or it can smolder quietly, only to burst into flame with a touch or a look. Love is different things to different people or even under…
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Author Archive: Renee Garrison
Dating Tips for Women when to Move on
Every relationship starts out full of high hopes and great expectations for a promising future together. No matter how many dating relationships you’ve been involved with in the past, this time it will be different. Getting to know the person you’re…
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What to Wear when Speed Dating
You’ll never have a second chance to make a first impression. When meeting someone for the first time it’s only natural to want to make that impression count for something positive. This is true whether your first meeting is with…
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Speed Dating Fun Questions to ask a Guy
Speed dating is the latest fad in the attempt to find a potential date, significant other or spouse. The concept is simple. A group of potential candidates are seated at a series of tables in a room. Members of the…
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How to Cope when your Friends Lie to your Spouse about you
February 16, 2015 Communication
In an ideal relationship our spouse is our best friend. When we choose our life partner, we have ideally chosen that person who makes us strong enough to face the world, in good times and in bad. The union of…
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When a Woman Falls in Love outside of her Marriage
February 13, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
In an ideal world and in an ideal relationship, love is eternal and the two people involved have eyes for no other. In the real world, sustaining a loving relationship is hard work and the world is filled with lures…
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Support for Homosexual Friends and Family Members
When you choose a friend, you do so because you share common interests and goals in your lives. Your friend is there to support you and inspire you as you pursue the various aspects of your life and you are…
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Definition of Friend
February 8, 2015 Friends and Peers
“Friend” is one of those words many people tend to banter about loosely and far too casually. In some circles it has lost its meaning. Mere acquaintances are often passed off as friends simply for lack of a better term…
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Beauty Tips for Women over 40
February 4, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Women over 40 have one potentially huge advantage when it comes to beauty that many younger women would die to possess. That advantage is the self-confidence and wisdom that comes with age. Something magical happens to many women when they…
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Family Traditions Traditions
Family traditions are those great memory making, emotion evoking experiences that we look forward to again and again, usually in conjunction with the holiday seasons. Oftentimes, traditions are the cement that holds families and friends together, long after their day…
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How to keep Jewelry from Turning your Skin Green
If you love wearing rings and chains and other pieces of favorite jewelry often, you probably don’t love the green or black discolorations you may sometimes experience on your skin when you wear them. Most people encounter this phenomenon at…
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How to Interpret Body Language on a first Date
You’re nervous. Your date is nervous. Your hands are sweating. Your date is fidgeting back and forth. What does it all mean? If it’s your first date, all of this random movement is an outward sign of the inward turmoil…
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Dating Tips for Workaholics
For some hard-driven individuals their work and their careers take paramount importance in their life. Whether it comes with the territory, as is the case with doctors, lawyers or other professionals, or is simply an off-shoot of their Type A…
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Top Romantic Surprises
Romance comes more easily to some people than to others. Early in a relationship, every day spent together is a gift for couples in love. Sharing emotions, thoughts and experiences with your partner as you go about the business of living…
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How Beauty can Affect Happiness
January 5, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
On the surface, it might seem to be a foregone conclusion that the people who “have it all” experience the highest level of happiness. Money, prestige and, of course, beauty are the key ingredients to a life of continuous happiness,…
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Beauty Mistakes that Make you look Older
January 4, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Age is just a number, but it’s a number that many women struggle against. Oftentimes, in an effort to look youthful and attractive, women will engage in beauty practices that backfire, revealing not only their real age but, all too…
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Friends Unhealthy Relationship
January 3, 2015 Friends and Peers
Few of us appreciate interference in our lives from those professing to be our “friend.” If we have any sense of self whatsoever, we reach adulthood believing we can take care of ourselves and make our own decisions without outside…
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Friendship Issues Advice
January 3, 2015 Friends and Peers
The real you is a complex, multi-faceted person who is changing and growing all the time. There’s little doubt that casual acquaintances, co-workers and others with whom you have limited exposure cannot possibly have more than a subtle glimpse into…
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Protecting an Aging People without Making them Feel less Independent
Whether your relationship with your parents is one of loving devotion or one of constant disagreements, you know they need your help and protection as the enter their elder years. They were always there for you when you needed them….
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What to know about your Partner before Marriage
December 23, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Marriage, much like the rest of life, is a journey. You will never see the complete picture until you are at the end of the road and can look back with clear vision. This element of mystery is what makes…
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Moving your Elderly Parent into your Home
It’s one of those decisions we hope never to have to face. We grew up thinking our parents were our heroes and, as such, invincible. Watching them age is difficult. Becoming aware that they may no longer be able to…
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Tips for Pleasing your Elders
In past generations and in more traditional cultures, the concept of honoring elders was clearly defined and taught to children from the earliest point of being to understand and learn. It was made clear that life experience and age were…
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Childs Responsibility to Elderly Parents
Surviving as an adult in the world today can be tough under the best of circumstances. As people enter the golden years, they sometimes find that coping with life and survival takes a little more effort than they have left…
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Going into Business with your Spouse
November 13, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
You may love him, admire him and think he is the only man for you, but can you survive working with him in the day to day operations of a business? Before you jump right in and answer in the…
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Add Romance to your Marriage
September 29, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
When you first fell in love, romance probably came easily. Love notes, surprise gifts, flowers and secret pet names were the order of the day. Anything you could think of to add spice to your relationship was fair game and…
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First Date Fun Questions to ask a Guy
First dates aren’t about deciding if you’ve found Mr. Right. They’re about having a good time with a new acquaintance and deciding if there’s enough common ground to justify investing time in a second date. As such, long term objectives…
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Tips for Shaving the Bikini Area
July 23, 2014 Style and Beauty - Other
Fashion grooming “down there” has taken on a whole new level of importance in recent years. We have come a long way from the days of simply letting nature take its course and having to cope with a wild growth…
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Benefits of Speed Dating
We live in a fast paced world where we have come to expect instant solutions to all of life’s most demanding needs: fast food, speedy car washes, answers to every question we can think to ask thanks to the Internet, even…
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Reasons People Divorce
May 13, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Divorce is usually the last resort for people who can no longer make their marriage work in any meaningful way. The decision to divorce, much like the decision to marry, is a quality of life issue. Most people marry in…
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Benefits of Living together before Marriage
May 10, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Choosing to live together before marriage can seem quite paradoxical to some. After all, if you’ve found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and you’re ready to cohabit with them under the same roof, why not…
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