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Being an Effective Communicator when Facing Conflict
Effective communication requires tact and positivity. There is a reason people used to kill the messenger of bad news. They are irritating. Nagging, being confrontational, or shaming is unpleasant and rarely induces the continuation of talking or even remaining in the near area. Communication that counts is effective, deliberate, and kind. Let’s review some tips…
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Getting Ready for Love
Getting Ready for Love If you need to make personal changes, now is the time to start. These four guidelines will help improve your quality of life and self-market. Do your best to change what needs fixing. Don’t let it show with whatever isn’t fixable or if you are a work in progress. A date…
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Is Your Attitude Losing Altitude?
Did you know that you can stay positive virtually all the time? It’s a choice. But what if you expect good and don’t always get the outcome you’re hoping for? Well, if you expect the worst, you won’t always get the desired results either. Choosing the brighter outlook produces time spent cheerful and happy instead…
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The runaway groom
COVID has been a time of deepened appreciation for some couples, but it’s been a rude wake-up call verging on an extended nightmare for others. The happier couples were enjoying a honeymoon. The embattled ones were in teeth-gritting pain and avoiding contact for fear of bad getting worse and COVID provided meager opportunities for escape.
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Smoldering Through Covid May Equal Revenge at the End
Covid changed us all. In many categories, lives got better or worse but few remained the same. Love was a major area of dramatization. Partners either got closer or couldn’t wait to be apart. Extremes have been more common than subtlety.
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5 Ways To Love Your Body — Even When Life Is On Pause
Change what you want — but do it with love. It’s important to learn how to love your body. I remember seeing a cartoon titled, “The Difference Between Women and Men,” that had a naked man and woman each looking into a full-length mirror. The woman saw herself as three times bigger while the overweight,…
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Wedding Season Is Here – Unite With Unconditional Love
Are wedding bells giving you a headache? Your big day is one day. It’s not forever. Can we agree that marriage is more important than the wedding? Then now would be a fantastic time to keep a firm hold on perspective. Reaching agreement about your “big day” and the decisions surrounding it helps guarantee memories…
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7 Ways to Keep Your Relationship Hot
When conditions force you into more alone time, see it as an opportunity. As important as communication is, without connection — touching, sensing, and giving what you’ve learned your partner needs — a relationship is less likely to be sustainable. Connection is an all-important key component to a happy love life and a hot relationship.…
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The Key to Connection – Mutual Goals
True compatibility is the feeling that you have a helpmate – someone who wants to help you reach your goals and develop as a person. And you must respect and be willing to support your mate’s development and goals as well. With such a strong base, staying together becomes relatively easy. I’m going to let…
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6 Ways To Make Sure You Love Your Partner MORE After Your Next Fight
Yes, a fight can actually bring you together. In a perfect world, couples would never fight. But we don’t live in a perfect world, and people in relationships often feel misunderstood, neglected, insecure, and any number of other emotions that can lead to fights and disagreements. That doesn’t mean your relationship is headed for doom…
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The Secret To Feeling Sexy As You Age Has NOTHING To Do With Your Body
Time to learn where sexiness REALLY comes from. Albert Einstein may have suffered from cognitive decline, but no one was smart enough to know. Memories don’t start declining until very late in life. If you’re doing it right, there is more in stored for your memory as life rolls on. And filing can be a…
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