Holiday Blues

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It’s that time again…the holidays are quickly approaching and this season can be a difficult time for those who have gone through a divorce. However, the holiday blues don’t just occur in people who have been divorced. Death, financial hardship and distance from loved ones can all contribute to the holiday blues. For a long [...]

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How to Start Dating after Divorce

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How to start dating after divorce is a tricky question and the one question most people who have gone through a divorce will eventually ask themselves. It can be a long time before a person feels ready to get back into dating after years of marriage, time spent healing and reluctance to enter the dating [...]

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Getting Help for Your Grief

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Losing someone close to you whether it be divorce or death can lead to the same feelings such as; sadness, anger, loss, loneliness and hopelessness. You probably even want them back but you are powerless. This is all part of grieving, a normal reaction to losing someone you love. There are several ways to grieve [...]

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The Heart of Self-Improvement

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Pain is often the motivation for people to change. Failed relationships and divorce can make us realize that it is time to change and work on our relationship skills, character and life. Divorce can be humiliating, embarrassing, bitter and tragic driving us to never want to have to go experience it again. This can be [...]

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Grief after Divorce Still Got You Down

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Grief after divorce can be an on-going process. Everyone’s grief is different and people deal with it in their own way and in their own time. The feelings of intense grief should lessen over time; ignoring, suppressing or rushing it won’t make your grief go away. You simply need to deal with it and let [...]

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How to Find the Perfect Gift

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We all have people in our lives we struggle finding the perfect gift for. One of my problems is the ability to keep surprises; when I get a great gift idea I run out buy it or make it and then blab to the person what I did, totally ruining the surprise. However, that is [...]

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Reduce Anxiety with Exercise

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Relationship problems and divorce are a major cause of stress, anxiety and depression. If not dealt with they can lead to other health problems and affect your mental and physical health. It is estimated that over 17 percent of the U.S. population has an anxiety disorder that requires some form of treatment. In the olden [...]

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Helping Someone Cope with Divorce

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When helping someone cope with divorce it is always a good practice to begin with prayer; for them and for wisdom for you. It is hard to find the right things to say when they hurt so badly and feel hopeless. When a person is going through divorce it is difficult for them to stay [...]

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What Holds a Marriage Together?

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There are several pitfalls when it comes to remarrying after divorce. We tell ourselves that this time around we aren’t going to make the same mistakes; hopefully that is true, however, many people seek out new relationships based off their previous standards. Some people, particularly men, are driven by physical attraction. Men are visual creatures [...]

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Reasons People Remarry

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There are good and bad reasons to remarry after divorce. Unfortunately many people remarry for bad reasons and either have a rough marriage or end up divorced again. An ideal scenario when it comes to remarriage is to marry someone because you are best friends, have similar goals and both want to be the people [...]

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Overcoming Low Self-Esteem

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When a person has low self-esteem they don’t feel good about themselves and find it difficult to be proud of the things they do. Overcoming low self-esteem is important because it helps you to be a positive person, deal better with stress and boost your drive to work and play. People with a good self-esteem [...]

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Finding Joy

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Finding joy is something many people long for; it seems to be a simple enough concept but unfortunately it can be very elusive. Joy isn’t one of those things that we always feel, it can come and go. Life’s problems, failed relationships and unmet expectations are all factors that influence joy or the lack of. [...]

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Dating After Divorce with Children

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Dating after divorce with children can be challenging; who has time to fit one more thing into a single parenting life-style let alone something nerve-racking as dating? I think before you start dating you need to first understand how your children may feel about it. It shouldn’t keep you from taking that step but it [...]

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Men Coping with Divorce

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Men coping with divorce is obviously just as common as women coping with divorce but because men and women are wired differently the manner in which they cope can be very different. Men have been accused of lacking emotion or the inability to deal with emotion compared to their counterparts. When it comes to coping [...]

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Finding True Love after Divorce

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After divorce it is difficult to imagine being able to love someone again, especially if your previous partner left a lot of wounds. But eventually we begin to heal, the pain goes away and the desire to love returns. However, we need to make sure that the desire to love is not guided by our [...]

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Why Set Up an Online Dating Email

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Whether dating online or the old fashion way it is important to consider safety, for both men and women. Meeting people for the first time can be nerve-racking, however because of technology we have a way to take the edge off; I am referring to email. You can learn a lot about someone before meeting [...]

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The Need to Be Right

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How many times have we gotten into a heated argument with our children, spouse, loved one, co-worker or checker at the store about who is right? Relationships are torn apart by people feeling they need to be right and prove the other person wrong. Family members may go years without talking because of an argument [...]

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Who’s Pulling Your Strings?

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There are several different kinds of relationships we have with various people and they take a certain level of commitment and work to maintain or either break away from. Not all relationships in our lives are healthy but unfortunately they are unavoidable. We often have to deal with the person at work that seems to [...]

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Creating Your Own Reality

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There is a famous saying, “We become what we think about most of the time.” This means that our thoughts dictate our life’s direction and the quality of life we live. When setting goals, breaking habits and creating a healthier lifestyle we look to self-improvement resources. Self-improvement books are a major seller in bookstores because [...]

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Fighting Parental Alienation

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Over the years we have seen family dynamics changing; fathers are taking a more active role in raising the children as mothers are pursuing careers. Unfortunately, many families are broken up due to divorce and if couples aren’t able to put their differences aside for the sake of the children it can result in the [...]

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Qualities to Look for in a Mate

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Qualities to look for in a mate obviously differ from person to person and knowing what you are looking for presents its own challenges. I know when I started dating after divorce I was uncertain about the type of woman I wanted to be with – we all have our dream person but then reality [...]

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