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In the beginning of my divorce, I remember having lunch with two of my girlfriends.  “Why does this always happen to the kindest women?” One asked while the other agreed. “It’s not kindness,” I replied. “There are plenty of kind women who are happily married. It is kindness with zero boundaries and a lack of…

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw do not disappoint. It really doesn’t matter what those exquisite pipes belt out. You feel it. You feel them. Their newest song Speak to a Girl – is no exception. I almost don’t know where to begin. I don’t like to admit this but I will. I was extremely proactive in…

I have always spoken to my children about love. Relationships are both beautiful and tough even in the best of circumstances and those with ego can destroy another person. I want them to know the type of love which is minus ego. This means I must also raise them to be mature and confident enough…

I drag my chair closer to the desk, grab a headset and click on the mouse. Computer keys pound in the background choreographed by the women who sit beside me. My first call registers on the screen. “Hello, Karin’s Florist, this is Colleen, how may I help you?” I utter softly, so as not to…

Okay, so no one chooses divorce.  It chooses you. It is a last resort. An ending to a story you wish was otherwise written. And you hold onto that ending for a long time. No one wants to leave a movie feeling like they could have written it better.  It is, after all, so much…

In many ways, we can learn from our youngest selves. Toddlers live in real time.  There is zero pretense, no games and no holding back. Toddlers demand to be heard and because of this we listen.  Is it possible we complicate things as time moves forward and our egos develop and dig in? Toddlers are…

Nothing like a New Year for a new start! When we think of relationships, we tend to focus on our most intimate ones. In reality, many of the dynamics which evolve in our romantic and family relationships also evolve in our friendships and workplace. Why? Because typically we all play roles within our own family…

Each year we strive to not repeat much of our past. In the relationship world, that statistic is stacked against us. Admit it! When we are young, we believe we are relationship Ninjas! Immune to any sort of duplication of our past! Our mother! God love her! We won’t make her mistakes! We won’t remain…

So you have a broken heart? That’s the bad news… The good news? You don’t have to talk yourself into getting over this person. You really can get ahead of the ‘dread’ ED ex in the New Year! I know what you’re thinking! It’s so much easier to hate the cheater or even better the…

One day my marriage counselor said, “Colleen, you have the ability to see your own faults and this is unusual. The average person, not even a difficult personality, does not necessarily have the ability to see their own faults.” I realized why he was telling me this. I couldn’t reach my husband no matter how…
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