How to be Successful

Years ago an analogy was given to a group of newly graduating business college students. One graduate posed a question regarding what type of business would be the most profitable to consider. The speaker thought for a moment then said, "If everyone of you could bundle up your own personal trials and obstacles...

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Helping a Struggling Loved One Through Difficult Times

Among my close circle of family and friends, there seems to have been an overflowing of unexpected tragedies and sorrows this past week. It got me thinking that this life can change in an instant and the path that we each walk upon can alter in a blink of an eye without any effort on our part. Then my thoughts took me...

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Advice for a happy relationship/marriage

It is true that love makes the world go around. It is also true that love can die a very quick and painful death if we are not vigilant, causing your world to grind to a very unpleasant halt. It does not matter whether you have been together for 1 year or 50 years. In order to determine and maintain the health of your marriage or relationship, you should ask yourself these questions...

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Coping with Heart break

Every medical personnel worth their salt will tell you that the only broken heart is one that is anatomically dysfunctional. Yet, how many of us have felt that painful vise around our hearts that squeezes relentlessly causing us to gasp for breath and feel as though out heart is about to be crushed. Or felt as if our heart is being ripped out...

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Battle of the Exes

Some married couples are lucky enough to get it right the first time and get to spend a lifetime together. But other individuals often wait to get it right with their second or third attempt at marital bliss. While they may then find their perfect partner, they or their partner or both often bring an ex-spouse into the new union. This usually is the case...

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Redefining Disability and Mental Illness in Relationships

You see them walking down the street. They are in our schools, our governments, our churches, our neighborhoods, our homes. We work with them, marry them, give birth to them, befriend them, and are related to them. And yet, they are the most misunderstood individuals on the planet. Many of us know, love...

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