How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Tips to Move on from your first Love
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Getting over a breakup is difficult, especially if it is your first love. However, you have to do it to move on and live a full life. You think it is painful now, but you can do it. First, you…
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Marry or Live together
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Living together before marriage seems such an obvious choice of lifestyle that we wonder why everyone doesn’t do it. But is it really so obvious? Some marital research was undertaken a couple of years ago, mainly to compare the rates…
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Benefits to being a Loner
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
If you are a gregarious, fun-loving people person, you may not completely understand the benefits of being a loner. Most extroverts need to be surrounded by people, noise, fun and activity to feel complete, but there are many introverts who…
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How to Make a Relationship Work
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Relationships are hard and once you throw in life’s daily complications things just become even harder. Even the simplest of relationships take work to maintain. When life gets busy, little things like making a phone call requires more effort. All…
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How to Decide whose Stuff to keep when Moving
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
You might have to put some of your favorite things in storage if you are moving in with your girlfriend, especially if she has already set up housekeeping and there is no room for your music system for example. Although…
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Stress Free Tips for Combining Households
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Put all your important stuff in storage, brace yourself for whatever they bring and drink heavily. No that’s not it at all what was I thinking. Diplomacy is remembering the great words of our founding fathers who said, “I have…
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Moving in together with Kids
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
By the time you have made the choice to live together, there will have been a level of compromise that defines the relationship. When a couple feels comfortable enough to take the plunge of unity, they will have established “unwritten…
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How to Survive Moving in together
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Successfully surviving a live-in relationship includes sharing everything. That arrangement requires more than just the original physical attraction. There must be an honest commitment to each other, and ability to find mutual agreement on each of the everyday elements of…
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How to Decide Who’s Stuff to keep when Moving in with your Girlfriend
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Who’s stuff is going to be kept when you move in with your girlfriend? It’s a simple process; you will sit down with your girlfriend and she will decide. She may let you think you have a say in it,…
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Why is it so Hard to Find a Good Listener
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” The art of listening! As defined, listening is the act of hearing attentively. Imagine… an act that requires so little yet its function…
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Giving Advice Advice
Offering advice can be very tricky. It can be hard to predict how a person will respond to what you say. You must be able to approach the person in a non threatening way, choose your words carefully, have something…
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Relationships the Top 3 Questions to ask yourself before Moving in with your Significant other
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Prior to moving in with your partner you must ask yourself three significant questions. How you answer these questions will give you a lot of insight into whether you are truly ready to cohabitate. While everyone loves the thought of forever-after,…
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How to Offer Advice
Offering advice can be frightening, tricky and unnerving for many. So many confuse the term advice with the term opinion, and they are unrelated no matter how one tries to deliver the message. The age old adage “don’t kill the…
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Tips for becoming a Good Listener
Listening is an important part of communication. It is also acts as means of understanding a situation and digesting it to come up with either a solution or a response as deemed fit. Listening requires a conscious effort, good listening…
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A Guide to Moving in together with Kids
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
It is quite difficult to develop a Guide for people to follow when there are children involved because, first of all, they do not understand, and it will be problematic. There is no one Guide to follow because you have…
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Balancing Honesty and Kindness
Those Misunderstandings or Mistakes That Cost You a Friend What about something said or done in your friend’s best interest to be so misunderstood as to make your friend cut you from her friends list, without you to have…
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Patience Communication
One of the most irritating things that we do is finish off other people’s sentences in our eagerness to speak and let them know we understand what they are saying. Sometimes the response is a polite smile, sometimes an irritated…
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Tips for Moving in with your Boyfriend
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Moving in together with your partner for the first time is one of the biggest life changing experiences many individuals face over a life time. Often the commitment of moving in together is second only to that of having children…
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Tips for becoming a Good Listener
The world is in need of good listeners. Many people are talking but there are very few people who can patiently listen to other people speak. This article defines Listening as the art of hearing properly and comprehending what someone…
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How to tell your Parents You’re Moving in with your Boyfriend
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
If you’re 15, telling your parents that you’re moving in with your boyfriend could cause some significant problems, possibly resulting in your being locked in your room day and night for at least the next three years. If you’re 55,…
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Tips for becoming a Good Listener
These tips are offered by someone who was trained as a Samaritans volunteer (“To Befriend the Suicidal and Despairing”) a number of years ago but who has not been an active volunteer for some time. However, the art of listening,…
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Saying You’re sorry
We all make mistakes. Sometimes we can get by on those mistakes by simply saying you’re sorry, but often, we need to truly show how very sorry we are for mistakes we have made in order to be believed. Maybe…
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Who’s the Stranger
Who’s The Stranger? I wake up suddenly. I roll over and look at this stranger in my bed. She is staring at me. It is my wife. I say, good morning. She doesn’t say a word, just continues staring at…
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A Moving in together Survival Guide
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Survival, in a relationship is a two person project and moving in together is a field test. A survival guide for moving in together would simply talk about pitfalls. These are things that are perfectly normal and should be anticipated…
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The Impact of Facebook on Relationships
Facebook has changed how we conduct our relationships by allowing us access to areas of our friends and loved ones lives that we previously did not have. It also has allowed us to connect and develop relationships with people we might normally…
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Key to Effective Communication Understanding Understand Understood
Effective communication is about understanding another person and being understood by the other person. It has nothing to do with winning an argument, bringing another person around to agree with you or even coming to a happy compromise. It involves…
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Disagreeing without Turning off your Listener
All the people you encounter over time, whether at work or in your personal life, might not always agree with your point of view or acquiesce to your opinions. When someone does not share your perspective, it is permissible to disagree,…
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Tips for Women Moving in with their Boyfriends
March 21, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
Why should you “cheapen” your relationship by moving in with your boyfriend? Be very careful before moving in with a boyfriend because some men will “take you for granted” believing you are not interested in marriage. Then, when they meet…
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Key Effective Communication beyond Small Talk
Effective communication is not just discussing the weather, the ball game, or the results of the latest test. Small talk only goes so far, and there comes a point in all relationships where you really need to communicate. Not just…
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Giving Good Advice is a Conversation Skill
Occasions often arise in conversations when you might be tempted to share your knowledge or opinion in an effort to be helpful, and yet you hesitate, for fear of appearing to be a know-it-all or offending with your advice. Sometimes you…
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