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  • One Way Love: Is it Time to Move On? - by Linda Lynn
    Submitted on Oct 24, 2012 from Cupid's Arrow
    We have all been there. A relationship in which one person is head over heels, but the other is not. How do you cope when you are the person that is not in love? And how do you determine when it is time to move on? Determine the Reason You Aren't in Love One of the biggest ways to ...
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  • Online Rejection: There’s No Such Thing! - by Bobbi Palmer
    Submitted on Apr 30, 2012 from Bobbi Palmer
    This is one skill I want you to master: Rejecting online rejection. Learning to accept rejection gracefully, with as few “dings” to your self-esteem as possible, is key to finding your true love. As a dating coach, I’ve found the #1 reason you won’t have success online is giving up too soon. ...
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  • Overcoming Approach Anxiety - Overcome Your Fear Of Rejection - by Chris Topher
    Submitted on Jan 27, 2010 from Chris Padgett
    Approach anxiety is the only thing keeping most men from love, unwavering confidence, and true happiness. Unless you start overcoming your approach anxiety, you could be lonely for a long time to come. When I first started approaching women, I suffered from the same problem. Sometimes even ...
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  • Overcoming Fear of Hurting Feelings of Others—How to Stop Being a Worry Wart - by Cindy L. Herb
    Submitted on May 05, 2010 from Cindy L. Herb
    Many friends that I know are miserable. They are unhappy with a current situation in each of their lives. However, not one of them will ever take steps to alleviate the problem because they are always fearful of hurting others. They base all their actions upon that premise. Each friend keeps ...
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  • Pictures On Canvas - Reasons Behind Its Popularity - by Azalea Wright
    Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Azalea Wright
    With the aid of technology and latest form of digital photography, the process of traditional paintings diminished as it is being replaced by cheaper and faster photographs printed by the latest printing mechanical device. Well, the root of this is technology! But you know what, this ...
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  • Portrait Painters - People Behind The Prints - by Azalea Wright
    Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Azalea Wright
    Portrait painting is made because of the effort and talent of portrait painters. Without them, this kind of art will never exist . Indeed, portrait painters have a lot of contribution in the art industry . Agree or not, we are the people who harvest the product of their skills. Hence, we enjoy ...
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  • Portrait Painting - A Traditional Art Of The Modern Era - by Azalea Wright
    Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Azalea Wright
    You may be asking about the facts of portrait painting . Actually, it is a kind of art or rather a painting that features the images particularly the picture of a human either taken individually or in groups. Hence, we could see a lot of portrait paintings in some traditional homes. We could ...
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  • Portrait Painting- A Traditional Demand Of Modern Days - by Azalea Wright
    Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Azalea Wright
    In a traditional form of art, just imagine how our ancestors sat still, stood and posed for a long hours just to have an excellent portrait painting. The painters had to get their perfect image as accurately as possible. Indeed, the process was definitely difficult and tiresome, but the end ...
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  • Positive Parenting: Rediscovering the fine art of redirection and substitution - by Eric Putnam
    Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Dr. Ken Pollock
    Children live in an adult world where they are constantly told what NOT to do. Parents and teachers fill their day with “don’t touch that,” “stop doing that”, and there is always the old standby that simply says “NO!” Honestly, as a parent of three children myself I agree that many times it ...
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  • Positive Signs That Your Ex Still Likes You - by Mika Maddela
    Submitted on Oct 09, 2011 from Mika Maddela
    Are you looking for signs that your ex still likes you? Our world are usually turned upside down when we lose someone we care about. No one can blame you for feeling the way you do. Our relationships with the ones we love are so important, when they walk out of our life, we have to deal with the ...
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  • Power Partner's, Intimacy In Top Form - by Lori Snyder
    Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Lori Snyder
    There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know we please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Many ...
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  • Powerful Steps for How to Make a Relationship Work - by Jessica Andrews
    Submitted on Jan 01, 2010 from Jessica Andrews
    If we had all the wisdom of what makes a relationship tick, our first love would probably be our one and only. But it just doesn't work out that way. For some people years of painful experience and heartbreak are required to learn How to Make a Relationship Work. It's not to say that the ...
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  • Pregnancy, Childbirth & Relationships - by M. Dennis Paul, Ph.D.
    Submitted on Aug 01, 2009 from Michael Paul
    You've just given birth to the most precious gift imaginable. This gift will portend the future of the world. Certainly you hope this precious gift child will have a life filled with excitement, wonder, and happiness. But what if the excitement and wonder bring this child a world of ...
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  • Preparing our Christian Children for a Lifelong Marriage? - by Angie Lewis
    Submitted on Apr 19, 2010 from Angie Lewis
    As Christian parents what is our duty to our children? How can we prepare our children for a lifelong marriage? Did you know that 95% of children grow up and get married and have families but no one ever teaches them a thing about how to value and cherish marriage and family! They manage their ...
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  • Pro Life? How about Pro Dad? - by Maryanne Comaroto
    Submitted on Feb 02, 2010 from Maryanne Comaroto
    First, this is a rant, not a blog. I hope you will indulge me anyway. Having been a single mom for over ten years, I know so many of you can, do and will relate. And I must warn you, it’s rated R. According to Maria Sudekum Fisher, with the ASSOCIATED PRESS: Scott Roeder had confessed ...
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  • Promises, Promises, Promises - by Cheryl Petersen
    Submitted on Nov 28, 2009 from Cheryl Petersen
    Mary Poppin’s comeback, “That’s a pie crust promise, easily made, easily broken,” echoes in my head as I listen to partners repeat marriage vows to one another. Weddings may be impressive, but statistics have it; human beings are not good at keeping their promises. The divorce rate is such that ...
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  • Proven steps to defuse any argument...fast - by George Bielay
    Submitted on Mar 29, 2011 from George Bielay
    Conflict is the number one reason couples seek relationship advice and couples/marital counselling. When two people come together in a close relationship, "exposing" themselves emotionally and making themselves vulnerable with one another, it is inevitable that misunderstandings and conflict ...
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  • Psychological Tricks to Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back After A Breakup! - by Charles Uadiale
    Submitted on Mar 25, 2011 from Charles Uadiale
    For several years even centuries relationships has been studied by expert psychologists and doctors to know the actual problems in the relationship and get better from there. It looks like relationships are aspect of nature that is what everybody passing through. However the main issue in the ...
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  • Psychology and Relationships Part 1 - by Anne Ellis
    Submitted on Feb 04, 2004 from Martin Gibbons
    Relationships are tricky! Most people would agree with this statement. Some relationships need to be constantly worked at, others drift along and are not too exciting, still others work without too much effort but all of them need a little give and take. One of the reasons for this is that we ...
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  • Purposefully Empower Your Thoughts - Master the Law of Attraction - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Mar 24, 2011 from Nanette Geiger
    It always helps to remember that the Law of Attraction doesn't play favorites. The truth is, while the Universe is in a sense conscious, it does not understand judgement, it simply understands energy. All the Law of Attraction does is allow situations to manifest in your life that are close to ...
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  • Quick Tips On How To Build Your Trust In Your Relationship - by Jennine E. Estes, M.A.
    Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Jennine Estes
    It is very important to show your partner that you are trust-worthy....and here are some quick tips. 1. Follow through with what you say. If you tell your partner that you will be home by 8:00, come home no later than 8:00pm. If you are going to be late, call them and let them know ahead ...
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  • Quick Tips to Help You Move on Following a Break Up - by Raymond Ehoma
    Submitted on Nov 13, 2012 from Raymond Ehoma
    If you have been recently through a break-up, it is really logical and natural that you'd be experiencing a lot of painful sensations and psychological and mental turmoil. The actual pain from a breakup is practically of similar severity regardless if you are the one who did the dumping or ...
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  • Receiving Love: How to use subtle movement explorations and guided awareness to expand your experience of love. - by Mark Fiveman
    Submitted on Jan 11, 2017 from Mark Fiveman
    Most healing modalities engage just one or two levels of consciousness to support healing: talk therapy works mostly with the mind; energy healing like Reiki works mostly with energy; and many forms of body work focus entirely on physical structures. But the whole person includes all of these ...
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  • Recipe for Healing a Broken Heart - by Katy Allgeyer
    Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Katy Allgeyer
    You’ve heard the expression “love sickness”? The term goes back a long way and many greater writers than I (Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 comes to mind) have covered the symptoms brilliantly. It hits most of us at some stage of life--we think we're in love and we've found "the one", the relationship ...
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  • Reconcile With Ex Boyfriend After Breakup - by joan Rivers
    Submitted on Oct 20, 2016 from Joan Rivers
    Reconcile With Ex Boyfriend After Breakup; The mistake most women make after a breakup is telling your ex boyfriend how much you love him and want him back. This is understandable because that is the way you feel. However, trying to make your ex boyfriend feel sorry for you will not get him back ...
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  • Reconnect with the Ex? What You Need to Know Before You Give it Another Go - by Lisa Steadman
    Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Lisa Steadman
    After a relationship ends, it's all too easy to second-guess the decision to split up. And while reconsidering doesn't necessarily mean you should reunite, what happens if you and your ex DO decide you'd like to give the relationship another go? Maybe the time away from one another has shown you ...
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  • Red Flag! Avoiding Toxic Relationships - by Ernest Quansah
    Submitted on Jul 16, 2011 from Ernest Quansah
    The end result of a toxic relationship is devastating and may require some form of healing or counseling. It is the kind of relationship that can leave you emotionally drained, sap your energy, and leave you severely broken up spiritually as well as emotionally leaving you with a feeling of ...
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  • Refreshing Your Relationship: Spend Calm Time Together - by Clyde V
    Submitted on Feb 14, 2012 from Cllifford Kearns
    Everybody knows that we need to spend quality time with our mate. But the day can really take it out of us. We are so weary when we finally fall into bed that we seldom take the time to really talk to each other or to nurture that specialness that is ours alone. Look at your schedule and ...
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  • Relationship Advice for Men (and the Women Who Love Them): How to be Open to Intimacy - by Dr. Rich Nicastro
    Submitted on Jul 09, 2010 from Richard Nicastro
    Have you ever related to your spouse/partner in a totally non-defensive, emotionally open way? If you have, in that moment you and your spouse/partner were vulnerable and receptive to each other’s emotional needs/experiences. To do this, you were able to free yourself from the emotional ...
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  • Relationship Advice For Men: How To Keep Your Relationship Healthy And Happy - by Michael Lee
    Submitted on Mar 20, 2010 from Michael Lee
    Relationship advice for men is different from that of women. Guys just don’t think in the same way girls do. The obvious difference between men and women is probably one of the reasons why couples fight most of the time. He doesn’t understand why she is acting a certain way. She doesn’t ...
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  • Relationship Attraction Is Not Difficult With the Law of Attraction - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Mar 09, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    Make sure you are on the lookout for evidence that your love relationship is coming. Or, search for evidence that your love relationship is getting better, if you're currently in a relationship or marriage. Due to the RAS (reticular activation system) in our brains, we're hard-wired to ...
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  • Relationship Breakthrough: Free Teleclass Provides Couples with Tools to Conquer Conflict and Gain Intimacy - by Rachel Moheban, LCSW
    Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from Rachel Moheban
    New York, – December 4, 2009 Relationships can be challenging at the best of times, especially if you don’t enter them with a clear head and the right “tools” to grow together and learn from one another rather than grow apart. Obtaining these tools and learning how to effectively communicate in ...
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  • Relationship Coach Proves How to Attract the Relationship of Your Dreams - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Feb 25, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    "You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is doing the role that you have assigned to them". That quote is from one of my favorite Law of Attraction masters, Abraham-Hicks. How does that sit with you? Manifesting Law of Attraction ...
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  • Relationship Coach Reveals How to Make the Law of Attraction Work For You - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Feb 18, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    Breathe! That's right. Breathing is an excellent way to get the energy moving in a higher vibrational way. Swing your arms, and alternate by swinging your legs in a cross-wise pattern. That always moves your energy up the scale. Doing something as simple as breathing on purpose ...
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  • Relationship Coach Reveals How to Truly Utilize the Law of Attraction - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Feb 23, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    No one can think your thoughts. No one can feel your emotions for you. It's all up to you. You have total creative control over what you think and how you feel. Most of us give more consideration to what shoes we're going to wear than the thoughts we think. We give away our power all the ...
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  • Relationship Coach Shows You How to Make the Law of Attraction Work For You - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on Feb 11, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    Do you own some dry erase markers? You know, the type of markers that you can wipe off with a wet cloth? If you don't have any, pick up some next time you go out. They are wickedly exciting to play with. You can put messages on your bathroom mirror. Scrawl on a mirror in your home ...
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  • Relationship Counseling - by Paul Thomas
    Submitted on Jul 13, 2010 from Paul Brickhill
    Relationship counseling can and generally is a time consuming process. It’s important to realize as a counselor that the important thing that he or she brings to the table is objectivity and it’s a must to avoid pushing the counselors own beliefs and prejudices on the couple who wish to be ...
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  • Relationship Help: Why Do I Get So Upset with My Partner? - by Dr. Rich Nicastro
    Submitted on Feb 08, 2011 from Richard Nicastro
    Q: I need some relationship help. While I love my husband with all my heart, sometimes it's just so frustrating being married to him. When I feel that he's ignoring me, I get so upset, and he's usually surprised by the intensity of my reaction. Why do I get so upset with him? ~Lynn, Carlsbad ...
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  • Relationship – Finding Happiness - by Francis Hosein
    Submitted on Mar 29, 2010 from Francis Hosein
    Many people have this idea that when they feel appreciated they feel happy. Knowing that they make a difference in someone else’s life they are happy. You may look for outside interaction with family, friend or and event to realize that you are happy yet this feeling is going on inside of ...
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  • Relationship: 8 Keys to Success - by Susan Derry
    Submitted on Jun 10, 2010 from Susan Derry
    There are extreme pressures on relationships today. Fast paced lifestyles can leave little room for developing and maintaining intimate relationships. Yet, a healthy relationship is one of the things that make life worthwhile and helps us live a longer and healthier life. A successful ...
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  • Relationships and Your Love Life--3 Dreadful, yet Very Common Reasons for Staying Together - by Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo, the Mystic Twins
    Submitted on Jun 28, 2010 from Scott & Stephen Petullo
    Almost everyone hopes and strives for a long-term relationship, but few are ever able to find and cement a mutually satisfying, compatible bond that lasts the rest of their lives. Those who place great importance on the fantasy of permanent, romantic bliss may see this as a tragedy, but we ...
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  • Relationships Attraction: Becoming An Energetic Matching To What You Desire - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    When you want something, like a wonderful relationship or financial independence, for example, and you've been wanting this for quite a long time -- 9 months, maybe several years, and it still has not shown up -- then there's resistance preventing you from having what you desire. There's some ...
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  • Relationships Attraction: Creating Effective Romantic Partnerships - by Nanette Geiger
    Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Nanette Geiger
    For the first time in my life, I find myself surrounded by examples of people in great partnership relationships, usually in the form of lasting marriages. Take Don and Barbara. I think they have been together for sixty+ years. I hadn't seen Barbara prior to her quite extensive hospital visit ...
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  • Relationships Without Negativity? - by Laurie Weiss, Ph.D.
    Submitted on Feb 04, 2010 from Laurie Weiss
    What if you allowed no negativity into your relationship? My husband and I recently heard the creator of Imago Relationship Therapy, Harville Hendrix, speak at a professional conference. In his speech he equated any negativity in relationship to verbal or psychological abuse and recommended ...
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  • Relationships: Is The Fear Of Being Abandoned Defining Who You Are Attracted To? - by Oliver JR Cooper
    Submitted on Mar 18, 2015 from Oliver JR Cooper
    Over the years, many points of view have been put forward as to what causes one person to be attracted to another. These have come from scientists, relationship experts and everyone in between. And while some of these views can sound accurate and as though they reflect reality, it doesn’t ...
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  • Relationships: Is Your Emotional State Controlled By Other People's Moods? - by Oliver JR Cooper
    Submitted on Jun 01, 2019 from Oliver JR Cooper
    As to whether or not it is a good idea for someone to go along with another person’s emotional state can all depend on what state they are in. If this person is happy, embracing the same state is likely to have a positive effect on ones wellbeing. On the other hand, if this person is angry ...
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  • Relationships: Why Do Some People Fall Apart When A Relationship Comes To An End? - by Oliver JR Cooper
    Submitted on Jul 26, 2019 from Oliver JR Cooper
    If one has just gone through a break up, they may find that it is hard for them to focus on other areas of their life. Due to how much pain they are in, everything else could fade into the background. Perhaps they were with someone for a long time and they may have even had a strong ...
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  • Relationships: Why Do Some People Feel Unattractive When A Relationship Ends? - by Oliver J R Cooper
    Submitted on Jul 04, 2013 from Oliver JR Cooper
    The desire to feel attractive is normal and something that the majority of people want to experience. Here, one can then feel a sense of healthy control when it comes to attracting the kind of man or woman that they desire. And this is also likely to lead to one feeling accepted and approved of ...
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  • Romantic Love - by Gregory Morgan CMHt
    Submitted on Dec 07, 2009 from Gregory Morgan
    Romantic Love began as a spiritual aspiration. Instinctively, we seek a world that is beyond the reach of our day-to-day mentality The word aspire means “breath” aspiration means to “breath life into” Spiritual aspiration means to seek after, to reach for, and to rise above the smallness of ...
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  • Romantic Things To Do for A Girl: 3 Romantic Ways To Make Any Girl Fall For You - by Michael Lee
    Submitted on Jan 18, 2010 from Michael Lee
    Everyday is an opportunity to find romantic things to do for a girl. It’s time we live up to the legacy of all the Romeos and Don Juans that came before us. Don’t just settle for simple text messages or cheesy greeting cards! We can all do better than that! If you’re ready to step up your ...
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