2009-07-02 - Be A Good Example For Teens
Sometimes I hear the kids arguing and one of them will use a word or phrase that is not a normal part of their vocabulary. For example, not many 17 year-old boys would say this, “You are the most deceitful person that I have ever met.” Instead they would say something like this, “You are a liar.” Sometimes people [...]
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2009-07-01 - Do You Celebrate Dating Anniversaries?
I’m trying to figure out what I think about dating anniversaries. Some couples celebrate anniversaries while they are dating. There seem to be a lot of variations in these anniversaries and I have no idea what the right answers are for determining these. How often do you celebrate? It could be every week, month, year? And [...]
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Do You Celebrate Dating Anniversaries?
2009-07-01 - Music Will Be My Constant
My long distance boyfriend and I hit a bit of a rough patch. It can happen when you are dating someone you see often, but when you are dating someone you rarely get to actually date, it can spring out of nowhere and it can be brutal. As I’ve mentioned before, talking to someone on the [...]
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2009-06-29 - More To Love, Real-size Reality Dating Show
Every week, while watching So You Think You Can Dance with my pal, Leah, we see promos for a new dating-type reality show called More To Love. It looks like it’s set up in the same vein as the Bachelor/Bachelorette, which makes sense as all three shows are executive produced by Mike Fleiss. The ladies in [...]
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More To Love, Real-size Reality Dating Show
2009-06-29 - Take A Relaxing Relationtrip
Relationtrips are those important trips that you take with your significant other that really make an impact on your relationship. Suddenly you are spending all of your time together away from the pattern of everyday life. There are two different types of trips: 1. Trips where you have a guide book with highlighted pages and detailed [...]
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2009-06-28 - Why Is Everyone Else Getting Engaged?
There is definitely a period of time in your late 20’s and early 30’s when you start to watch everyone around you get engaged and married. I’ve heard from older friends that this happens, and I am realizing that I have actually reached that exact point in my life where it is happening to me. [...]
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Why Is Everyone Else Getting Engaged?
2009-06-28 - You Can’t Tell Anyone Everything
Sarah came home a few minutes ago. She was crying and I followed her into her room to figure out what was up. She wouldn’t say anything at first, but finally it came out that she’s very upset because the friend that she has been hanging around with told her to “shut up.” I don’t like [...]
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You Can’t Tell Anyone Everything
2009-06-27 - Hunkering Down
I was talking to my boyfriend tonight. He’s not going to be able to make it over here for awhile and he’s working a lot, so we don’t have as much time on the phone during the weekends. This is the part that is hard in a long distance relationship - the inevitable disconnect or distance. [...]
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2009-06-25 - Teaching, Learning, Doing It Yourself
I read an interesting item today. It was an essay that is an excerpt from Andy Raskin’s memoir, The Ramen King & I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life, that was in the March 2009 issue of Women’s Health magazine. In the essay, Andy talks about how when he assumes the role [...]
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Teaching, Learning, Doing It Yourself
2009-06-25 - Dating Etiquette Tips from Dr. Phil
I posted in How To Succeed When Meeting the In-Laws about using rules about etiquette, that your parents drilled into your brain while growing up, when meeting your significant other’s family. A lot of people don’t believe in etiquette anymore, but I think that it creates a set of standards to fall back on when [...]
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Dating Etiquette Tips from Dr. Phil
2009-06-24 - How to Succeed When Meeting the In-Laws
If you have been dating for weeks or years, meeting your significant other’s family for the first time is a big deal. If you ask people for advice, they will all probably say “be yourself,” but I actually think that for such a big occasion there are a lot more things to keep in mind. [...]
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How to Succeed When Meeting the In-Laws
2009-06-24 - Maybe They Are Taking A Break
After six months of living with our family, Greg moved back to his Mom’s house on Sunday. They arrived when I was making dinner, packed his stuff up, and left. I had no idea he was leaving that day - Bay didn’t say a word. I knew that he was going to leave this Summer, but [...]
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2009-06-22 - A Reminder to Give Thanks
I have found that a lot of Americans dislike “Hallmark” holidays like Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Valentine’s Day because they see them as money-making schemes created to give consumers a reason to make purchases that they otherwise might not. In contrast, my family has always made a big deal out of these holidays. We [...]
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2009-06-22 - I Write From Experience
I’m a writer. I write 5 blogs that share my personal opinions and experience. In no way do I set out to hurt anyone and I do not ever blog anything that is untrue. That would be fiction. In writing for both Relationships and Dating Dames, which is what Relationships used to be, I have spoken about [...]
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2009-06-22 - DVRs and Quality of Life
I read something interesting about DVRs at Crave. Do you use a DVR? A Tivo? If you do, then according to a study that was “commissioned by NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay TV…” people who use their DVRs are happier in their relationships. They record their shows and then are able [...]
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2009-06-21 - Dream Riders On the Travel Channel
Dream Riders is an multi-award-winning documentary about Bill and Nico Roulston, a father and son who take a 4000 mile bicycle trip across the United States together. The purpose of the trip is to reconnect father and son. Bill has only a few options left to regain his son’s love and respect after a devastating divorce [...]
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Dream Riders On the Travel Channel
2009-06-19 - Perspective and Age
Bailey, 17, just came home from a sleepover. She spent the night with a teenage friend who is young mother with a 6-week-old baby. As she came in the door she said, “I’m exhausted and I’m never having kids.” I said, “Well, I do hope that you wait, but they don’t cry forever.” And, if you [...]
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2009-06-19 - A Daily Romance Planner?
If you have been in a relationship with the same person for a long time then you eventually reach the point where you no longer have the spark of the initial romance and instead you probably find yourself sharing a life, but mostly just chugging along with your daily routines. If you find that most [...]
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2009-06-18 - How to Maintain Long Distance Friendships
I recently moved across the country, from the east coast to the west coast. My family is on the west coast, but all of my wonderful friends who I spent all of my time with over the last three years still live in New York. It is sad to leave all of them, but it [...]
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How to Maintain Long Distance Friendships
2009-06-18 - Real Life vs Reality TV
I was watching the show The Bachelorette the other day with my sister, Robin. She was at her home and I was at mine, almost 6 hours apart. I’m a pretty slow texter, but it was still fun to watch the show “together” this way. We were texting, because my sister was having trouble talking. She [...]
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