They who are afraid to love cannot all be placed in the same category. For instance, there are those who are afraid to love because they have either been physically or emotionally hurt in a past relationship. There are also…
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My grandmother was the epitome of an independent woman, even at the age of seventy-four. Whether it was making her own bed, washing her own clothes, or cooking her own meals, she made it clear that she could do this…
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Jealousy is more a case of personal insecurity than a proof of genuine love. To genuinely love is more about letting go than holding on, more a case of giving love than receiving it, more the result of selflessness than…
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March 15, 2015 Relationships and Family - Other
I believe in love at first sight, because I experienced it. It happened in 1974, in the fifth grade, on the first day of class. I was ten, and Saede, the girl I fell in love with, was only nine….
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January 26, 2015 Communication
Certainly, I am no conflict resolution expert. However, we need not be experts to find creative ways to avoid conflict, particularly if we desire to minimize conflict in our relationships. The challenge with doing this is that each person is…
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December 22, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
A marriage is over when love has departed. Trying to maintain a marriage when love has departed is like trying to start a fire without a match, a car without a key. Where there is no love there is little…
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December 19, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
For too many couples, unfortunately, love departed long ago upon the arrival of mistrust and yet they have chosen to remain together in a relationship that daily is being strangled to death by building mistrust. How unfortunate, for a relationship…
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October 26, 2013 Marriage and Divorce
Heal the pain of divorce with passionate forgiveness. Foremost, forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in your marriage. Yes, forgive yourself, and do so passionately as if your life depended on in it (for in many ways it does.)…
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