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Dating & relationships

How To Tell Whether It's Love Or Lust

Is It Lust Or Is It The Real Thing? Suppose you meet someone new, you hit it off immediately and you’re getting more and more infatuated with them every da...

March 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

How To Break Up Graciously

10 Tips for Breaking Up the Right Way It doesn’t matter if they’re ending things or you are, breaking up is never easy and no one feels good about it. Howe...

March 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

Dealing with Mismatched Relationship Objectives

When you meet someone new and begin a relationship with them, there’s no guarantee of a happy ending. In fact, if your expectations for the relationship di...

March 2017 2 min read

Dating & relationships

Dating Romance

Do you believe you’re hopeless and in love? You’re probably a strong believer in romantic dating. If you grew up watching old romantic black and white movi...

March 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

Are you A Giver Or A Taker?

Some people will tell you that there are two kinds of people in the world: haves and have-nots. I, however, would break it down in a different way. From th...

March 2017 3 min read

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25 Ways to Keep Your Love Alive

As time goes on, couples can easily fall into routines and start to take one another for granted. While the little things you do for your significant other...

March 2017 3 min read

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A Guide To Dating Men

Every woman has made stupid mistakes while dating. Chances are you’ve done strange things on dates that tanked relationships. How can women stop falling in...

March 2017 4 min read

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Be Treated Like A Lady

I am not that old, but I have to admit that in some ways I am more of an “old soul.” I have a penchant for old films, music from the sixties and fashions f...

March 2017 4 min read

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When Others Are More Taken With Him than You Are

Friends is one of my favorite TV shows of all time and recently, I was talking to a family member when I was reminded of an episode where Monica starts dat...

March 2017 4 min read

Dating & relationships

Staring at the ring finger

Through the years, I’ve seen how a lot of women do this specific thing when meeting new men. The first thing they see isn’t his hair, height, eyes or even...

March 2017 4 min read

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Saving Him For Later

Have you ever spent time with someone, had a lot of fun, maybe even found them wildly attractive, but you said to yourself that it wasn’t the right time fo...

March 2017 3 min read