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The Five Key Ingredients to a Successful Romantic Relationship …
What might they be, I pondered. And more importantly, if you knew what they were and you and your beloved could agree on them, would that give your relationship a higher chance of flourishing? I must admit, I do love … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, compatability, compromise, connection, forgiveness, friendship, heard, honesty, humour, independence, intimacy, love, marriage, middle age, need, needs, relationships, respect, romance, seen, tolerance, transparency
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What Leads a Person to Infidelity?
Sounds like a simple question, right? Maybe they have no morals. Maybe they don’t think they’ll get caught. Maybe they’re bored. Maybe they think they deserve more. Maybe they are weak and easily led to temptation. Maybe they never learned that commandment. … Continue reading
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Tagged cheat, ethics, infidelity, love, marriage, middle age, morals, neglect, reckless, relationships, risk, seen, sex, temptation, truth, vows
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Do You Have One Soulmate or A Dozen?
I don’t mean a dozen as in 12 different people on this planet who might potentially be your soulmate. I mean a dozen as in – it may well take 12 different people – with very different attributes – to … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, divorce, lifetime, marriage, puzzle, soulmate, the one
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Do You Believe In Unconditional Love?
After many weeks of pondering this question I have come to the conclusion that my answer is … No. I do not believe there is any such thing as unconditional love. Unless you are Mother Theresa (only alive). Then there … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, asshole, dog, friendship, greed, guarantee, human, marriage, mother, opinion, parent, son, Trump, unconditional love
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Is An Idle Mind Really The Devil’s Playground?
You’ve heard the old saying, right – An idle mind is the devil’s playground? Yes indeed, we are not supposed to be slackers. Ever. That puritan work ethic should ring in our ears loud and clear ALL THE TIME. We … Continue reading
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Tagged alone, busy, choice, choose, comfort, commotion, decisions, devil, energy, father, fear, feel, finance, goals, God, harmony, hobbies, idle mind, marriage, one, panic, peace, playground, puritanical, pursuit, pursuits, respect, scared, self made man, simplicity, ski, slacker, sleep, trauma, treadmill, wine
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How Much Truth Are You Willing To Tell?
I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been kinda busy. Not too busy to write, mind you, just busy writing. Editing. Rewriting. Reading out loud and editing some more. And I am now happy (or would that be relieved or … Continue reading
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Tagged affair, author, autobiograpy, blog, book, broken hearts, can of worms, cheat, cheating, confessions, cookbook, discovery, edit, evolution, hide, humiliating, journey, marriage, memoir, memories, naked, pissed off, potboiler, racy, recipe, saga, sordid, trepidation, true story, truth, upcoming book, voice, writing
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“You Don’t Have To Be A Good Girl To Be A Good Person”
These “immortal” words were penned by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of “Eat, Pray, Love”). They’re probably not immortal at all, actually. She probably just penned them to publicize her latest tome “City Of Girls”. If you’ve been reading my ramblings for … Continue reading
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Tagged 40s, belief, blog, books, brazen, carnal, characters, choice, City Of Girls, communicate, delights, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, experience, fiction, fortitude, freedom, gin, good girl, good person, honesty, husband, interest, jazz, marriage, mistakes, mother, movies, New York, path, perspective, propriety, regret, reputation, rules, sex, swinging, truthful, wanton, women, writer
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Hey There Lonely Girl …
I spent a lot of time alone this past summer. As a matter of fact I’ve spent quite a bit of time alone this past decade. One of the side effects of working from home is that, apart from my … Continue reading
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Tagged company, cry, gift, grateful, lonely, lonliness, loser, Lynn Miles, marriage, people, relationship, social, Thanksgiving
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Love … And What We Did Not Sign Up For
Today I received the incredibly sad news that one of my son’s grade-school mates has died. In his teens he was diagnosed with cancer, underwent treatment, entered full remission but still … it came back. And now he is gone. … Continue reading
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