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• A Small Exercise in Civility Goes a Long Way

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: Failed Marriage, Divorce Communication, Separated, Talking With Your Ex, Failed Relationship, Being Civil, Separation

  advice, I put money in my relationship bank account and now have a little credit for some future date where I may not be as civil. For example, when I need my ex to pay his share of a future medical expense for one of the kids and he says no way, I have some leverage to convince him to listen to me. A little civility reduces the risk of my

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• Top 5: Moving Beyond a Lost Relationship

  Published: May 11, 2007, 4:31 am

  Tags: Kids, Divorce, Failed Marriage, Failed Relationship, Separation, Survival

  my marriage was an emptry relationship. I grieved for many weeks over the loss of my marriage and feared being a lonely single mom with a special needs child. As painful as it was, I knew that the best decision was to start a new life. Listed below are my top five survival tips to moving beyond a failed relationship, especially if you have

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• Don't Ask Me Why the Relationship Failed

  Published: July 28, 2007, 12:31 am

  Tags: Liar, Failed Marriage, Denial, Everquest, Cheating, Failed Relationship, Advice, Responsibility

  I was looking at other relationship blogs and searching for something to understand why my ex is inly interested in discussing why our relationship failed. I have not found anything yet, but I think his desire to talk about why is his excuse to place blame on me rather than accept his own failure. To understand this, I have to give some

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• Build a New Self. Do Not Let Rejection Rule.

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:27 am

  Tags: Self Esteem, Leaving Spouse, Divorced, Separated, Reconciliation, Identity, Failed Relationship, Advice, Acceptance, Separation, Survival

  not fixating on a failed relationship. Instead, I regularly took steps that eventually lead me to believing in a new self-image and future of possibilities.It's not be easy to take the first few steps back into the world without a significant other, but it is possible to create a new direction. Over time, accepting a new reality may lead to

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• The Normal Day

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:18 am

  Tags: Family, Health, Life, Relationship, Women

  It was Saturday morning; I was at one of my favorite coffee shops sipping green tea. I was reading a book. As usual, I shut the whole world around me and totally became engrossed in my reading. However, on this particular beautiful Saturday morning something hits me, I stopped for a moment and my whole life flashed back at me all at once and

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• Snap Judgment: Clearly, Chris Robinson Has Moved On From Kate Hudson

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Chris Robinson, Inf, Rebound Relationship, Snap Judgment

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• A Time To Rediscover Yourself

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Self Help, Self Esteem, Empowerment, Goals, Finances, Divorce Communication, Single Mom, Failed Relationship, Advice, Acceptance, Separation, Relationship

  that if you have multiple relationships, then you carry your experiences from one relationship to next. I have though about this advice and realized I do not want to relive the relationship with my ex. For this reason, I delayed going into other relationships until I knew what I wanted in my life and understood the behaviors I did not want

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• I Don't Tolerate Girlfriends on the Side

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Lying, Leaving Spouse, Empowerment, Divorce, Separated, Reconciliation, Failed Relationship, Advice, Separation, Responsibility, Survival, Relationship

  In late 2006 when I found out that my ex had a girlfriend while still married to me, I told my ex that I would not compete for him. I gave an ultimatum of the girlfriend goes or I go. At first he tried to convince me the girlfriend was out. Then he told me he needed to check on her and make sure she was okay--telling me he would then only keep

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• Researchers developing humor-spotting robot

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:54 am

  Tags: Humor, Jokes, Relationship, Relationships, University

  Filed under: RobotsConsidering that we've got androids who can toss together a more cohesive conversation than some human counterparts, it's a wonder that these mechanical pals still can't chuckle at our jokes. Now, however, a duo of researchers at the University of Cincinnati have built a computer program "that is able to get a specific type of

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• Blind and Happy in a One-sided Marriage? Never Again.

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:50 am

  Tags: Self Help, Leaving Spouse, Divorced, Failed Marriage, Denial, Failed Relationship, Advice, Separation

  participating in a one-sided relationship definitely nota balanced relationship. I supported my ex while he was in grad school; Iworked all the time days, nights and weekends. I bought a second car ahatchback that my ex refused to drive, so I gave him my SUV. I did all thedomestic work, even when we entertained large groups of his

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• Growing Online Dating Relationships

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Entertainment, Self Improvement, Meeting People Online, Online Dating, Online Relationship, Relationship, Virtual Meetings, World Relationships

  Just like regular real-world relationships, online relationships need tending, to grow over time. Here are some quick growing tips. 1. Take time and make time. Does your online date get in touch with you regularly? Do you do the same? Neglecting virtual meetings can be considered abuse or neglect, so treat each other's time with respect. If it's

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• College student surveys breast cancer couples

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Adriene, Archives, Breast, Byu, Cancer, College, Couples, Intervention, Leisure, Life, Molly, National, Patients, Project, Quality, Ramon, Relationship, Research, Satisfaction, Spouses, Student, Study, Surveys, Survivor, Zabrinskie

  aimed at examining the relationship between couple leisure satisfaction and marital satisfaction of couples in which one spouse has breast cancer. Molly and her study partner Dr. Ramon Zabriskie hope to identify new avenues for cost effective intervention targeted at improving the quality of life for adult cancer patients and their

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• I Won't Rescue A Non-Existent Relationship

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:09 pm

  Tags: Everquest, Reconciliation, Cheat, Separation, Divorced, Divorce, Denial, Failed Marriage, Liar, Separated, Cheating, Failed Relationship, Advice, Girlfriend, Responsibility

  assumptions. For examples, relationship advice makes sense if you believe you marriage is salvageable, but not if your choice is salvage yourself or salvage your relationship. Or it does not work if your relationship is simply non-existent. My choice was really that my marriage was non-existent, but the sad part of my story is that I had to

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• What to Do When the Ex Plans His New Next Life

  Published: August 11, 2007, 1:56 am

  Tags: Divorced, Divorce, Failed Marriage, Talking Your Ex, Cheating, Failed Relationship, Separation, Girlfriend, Relationship

  have been the one ending the relationship, then this may not be a difficult step. For the rest of us however who were caught off-guard, this event will take time. Sometimes, you can deal with this event simply by talking to friends or family. Other times, it may take talking to a counselor. I have even known some people who took a year off to

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• Excessive Flirting Is Not OK!

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:37 am

  Tags: Divorced, Divorce, Failed Marriage, Separated, Failed Relationship, Separation, Flirting Cheating, Relationship

  this is one way to start a relationship based on emotional connection first followed by physical connection. Everyone has their own boundaries about flirting when in a relationship, but flirting should have some boundaries.Excessive flirting with others outside of a relationship can be hurtful. Why be in a relationship if the desire is to

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