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By: Karen Hendry Stress, stress, stress!  Stress is bad.  Stress makes us sick.  Stay away from stress.  Well, here’s a news flash for everyone – we are addicted to stress!  “Addicted to stress?  How can we be addicted to stress,” you ask.  Well, let’s take a look at what stress is.  It’s natural and a [...]

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There’s no way around it.  Whether your own family is blended or not – statistically speaking –blending will touch you.  Your sister or brother may be members of blended families, your children’s friends may come from blended families, your own friends may be parents in blended families – or, more likely – a combination of [...]

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Living with someone with an addiction to work, is still living with an addict. Of course, there is a difference between a hard working person and being a work addict. While that line might be a narrow one, what it draws is an important difference between the two issues. Hard work is what brings success, [...]

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By: Adrienne Sex addiction as become the butt of pretty well every joke told the last few years, thanks to a string of red-handed celebrities hiding behind the tag.  While it may be funny coming out of the TV screen, it’s anything but funny when you’re coping with it in your own relationship. The truth [...]

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Thirty years ago, in a different life I was married to a police officer who left our small family for extended periods of time for training. It was all so different in those days, airfare was far more expensive than it is today, there were no such thing as long distance plans and the Internet [...]

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Managing a blended family can be one of the most difficult tasks that anyone will face in a lifetime. Today, a blended family is the norm rather than the exception. If you’re part of a blended family, more than likely you already know how hard it can be to make things work. Today, blended families [...]

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  There is no denying that managing a blended family is a very difficult task. At least 50% of American children are raised in a blended family, according to a report by the University of Houston’s Jennifer Garcia, and when taking common-law families into account, this figure is probably even higher. Of course, many children [...]

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Posted By: Portia Brockway Many of us want our very own Prince Charming, traveling through many love-soaked days and delightful decades with this handsome dream boat. We may want to raise a family with him. Yet some of us hold onto an uncontrollable desire to be totally immersed in and dependent on the man in [...]

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The average Joe may feel ho-hum about a number of things – like parsley as a garnish, or Tuesday versus Wednesday, or the color grey.  Ask any person about his or her thoughts on same sex marriage, however, and the engines seem to quickly ignite. A Little History Same sex marriage… “It’s complicated.”  This modern [...]

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Posted By: Kimberly Byrne Sometimes, life as a married couple isn’t always what one hopes for. Of course, at the beginning everything tends to be just like heaven on earth, but as the months or years pass, small things start to happen that make one realize everything might not be perfect. It can be a [...]

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