Where is my happily ever after? Part IV

Beauty and the Beast's Gaston might have won the fair Belle if he had been more artistic or idealistic. But she chose the beast. She might have been better off with Gaston...

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Where is my Happily Ever After? Part III

You won't admit it but you have a recurring fantasy. You meet this drop dead gorgeous woman who only has eyes for you. She is in this horrible predicament that only you have the power to save her from. You do so at the peril of life and limb and she agrees to...

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Where Is My Happily Ever After? Part II

Every mother wants her son to grow up to be a hero and every girl wants to eventually settle down with that type of a partner. Let's face is though, not every man, or woman for that matter is cut out to be a hero. Just imagine if instead of Pocahontas befriending the alien looking John Smith...

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Where Is My Happily Ever After? Part I

Every woman has inside her that fairy tale princess that is looking for her handsome prince to come and whisk her away. Every man has in side him that prince who is seeking his princess who makes him feel like a king. We all want that Disney perpetuated happily ever after. What the fairy tales fail to...

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Where Can I Turn For Help?

Let's face it. There are so many destructive issues pummeling the family in today's society. Like never before, kids are dealing with overt sexual peer pressure, bullying that has now gone viral, predators that target individuals both old and young through the medium of social networks and chat rooms, not to mention...

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do!

Relationships, like people, go through a life cycle. The relationship begins (birth), matures (aging), and eventually ends (death). Some relationship cycles are only weeks long while others last a lifetime. There is a saying, "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours forever. If it does not, then it was never...

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Playground Politics

It's every parents' nightmare. Their child comes home in tears and announces that they don't have any friends and no one likes them. Your heart breaks and you ache for the distress that your child is feeling. What can you do to ease their suffering?...

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Can I really trust my partner?

With the advent of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, getting reconnected to friends, family, and old acquaintances is now no more difficult than typing in a name and running a quick search. Thousands of people are reconnecting with old friends, old mentors, and old loves each day through the ease...

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You can't sleep on a drill press!

The adage "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" was never truer than when applied to the way the two sexes prioritize. For the most part, women tend to place priorities in the following rank of importance: family, home, friends, work, self. Men generally rank their priorities as: work, self, family and marriage, friends,...

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The Awesome Power of the Smallest Lie

You took that less than stellar job with the understanding that after nine months time, you'd get a substantial raise. You assumed that your boss would follow through on what you were told at the time you were hired but now a year has gone by and no raise is in sight. You are disillusioned, angry, and no longer...

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Beware of Auld Lang Syne

Often in our current romantic relationships, we tend to look at what is going wrong instead of focusing on what is going right. This myopic view might lead to the temptation to renew old acquaintances with past loves in an attempt to recapture what may now appear in the memory as glory days of long ago. Stop! Desist! Take off those rose colored glasses...

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Compromise: A dirty word?

Compromise has been given a bad rap lately. To many individuals it means giving up what they feel is important in order to maintain a certain level of peace and functionality in a relationship. In actuality, compromise means...

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The generation gap is now the communication gap

"How is ur day?"

"It wuz bad."

"Y?"

"Cuz, my gf dumped me."

"OMG! Whatup?"

"Says we don't talk."

"LOL. U talk tons."

"WTH. Idk girlz r lame."

"Sucks 2 b u."

"Thx. TTYL GTG."

"K."

If you are over 30 years old, you have probably reached the point where you are now scratching your head, wondering what the above cryptic excerpt meant. Let's face it, society is...

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I hope that you'll go on a journey with me as I explore and write about the variety and fabric of the relationships that make up our lives.  This blog offers me that chance to interact with my readers and get input and suggestions from you and what you'd like to read about.  Being a relationship columnist is a wonderful experience for me but I sometimes find myself running low on ideas, even though my years as a counselor and my own household have given me a lot of useful insight and material.  So I look forward to your comments and ideas.  Let me know what you'd like to know more about.  After all, I'd like to begin a close and personal relationship with each of my readers and the only way to achieve that is if you tell me what is important to you.