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I have a friend who has talked about her marriage problems for the past nine years. She is not unforgiving, nor is she someone who can’t let things go. She is in fact, overly-forgiving and let too much go and thus, ended up in a bad situation because of that. She is not weak. She…

I dragged my marriage out. I beat the horse, rolled it over, beat it again, moved it, then beat it one more time. In the process I became a different person. I wasn’t funny chatty anymore. I was incessantly chatty. No one was listening to me at home. I wasn’t ready to leave. I was…

The easy part of love is love. The hard part of love is people. People come from all different types of families. People come with all types of communication styles. People come with baggage. It’s not that love is difficult per say, but that great communicators are rare and disrespectful communicators far too common. This…

There are disrespectful personalities and there are disrespectful communicators. It is logical that a disrespectful person would also be a disrespectful communicator. However, an individual does not necessarily have to be disrespectful person to be a disrespectful communicator. There are many individuals who are otherwise polite and respectful, until conflict occurs. The conflict is what…

Love should be so easy, yet it is so complicated. Scratch that! People are complicated. Love is not. 6 Signs a Person is Capable of Loving You Unconditionally: 1. They are confident – Sounds so simple doesn’t it? However, there are people who appear confident, but in actuality lack the authentic confidence it takes to…

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My friend and I are chatting. “Why do people think they can say whatever they want to us?” she asks. “I would never say some of the critical things people tell me to another person. Do you think it is because we are the type of people that share our lives with others? Do you…

I am chatting with one of my roommates from college. I will call her “Marlena.” A nod to the “Days of our Lives,” soap opera, college watching spree. “Col,” she says in her New Jersey-ease. “Don’t you remember the first year that you two started dating?” I know that she is right. There were red…

It is extremely common for people who are divorcing to feel embarrassed. However, it is not only unnecessary, but absolutely archaic. It is a frivolous shame that should not be indulged. It is perpetuated by the illusion that marriage is the preferred venue. This is a myth in many cases with really just a small…

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