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    Til Death Do Us Part? 

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    Published on 10-06-2011 02:26 AM
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    About 16 years ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my best friend and her uncle, and we were discussing marriage. She had been dating her boyfriend for about 8 years and was engaged to be married. She was excited about her impending nuptials and full of hope. He had been married a few times and was a firm believer in just being married. I held a more reserved view of the idea which fueled discussion because although I had been in long term dating relationships, I had trouble understanding why anyone would want to. Albeit, I did want the frilly billowy princess dress, but I didn’t feel the necessity of legalizing love with a contractual agreement. ...
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    Improving Communication, Improving Relationships 

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    Published on 09-19-2011 04:53 AM
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    Whomever coined the phrase, "communication is key", couldn't have been more on the money. Our communication styles directly drive the success and demise of our relationships. Effective communication is vitally important to a healthy relationship. Since we all communicate and interpret information differently, we must put forth extra effort to ensure that what we said or didn't say was received in the proper context.

    Generally speaking, people tend to fall into two categories of communication styles, introverts and extroverts. Most of us can adopt either style depending on the situation, but we gravitate to one style more frequently. In fact, there are physiological differences in brain activity that predispose us to these behaviors. ...
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    Finding Love and Acceptance with Positive Perception 

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    Published on 09-13-2011 07:00 AM
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    In a recent class I attended, we engaged in an exercise that discussed personal perception and how it impacts our relationships with others. We were separated into two groups, one consisting of all women and the other all men. The groups were allotted 15 minutes and instructed to write down their thoughts around three topics. How they viewed themselves? How they viewed the people in the other group? How they thought the other group viewed them? Not knowing that the other group would be critiquing their comments, the men were giddy with anticipation to be free from female scrutiny, and the women easily fell into a comfortable collaborative sisterhood.
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