Posted on 19 November 2012. Tags: Couples, happiness, love., Marriage, relationships
You are awesome. Your friends all say so. Who, besides you, is both willing and able to flip their eyelids inside out at a dinner party? Remember the time you had everyone practically blowing old vine zinfandel from their noses when you laid down that room clearer and then blamed it on Jenny? Oh, the [...]
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Posted in Communication, Love
Posted on 04 November 2012. Tags: Couples, happiness, love., Marriage, relationships
Are you ready for a relationship? Well—unless you’re a self-avowed bachelor or bachelorette—of course you are. If you’re single, you’ve probably been pining for your soul mate since your hormones inevitably won the war against cooties shortly after puberty. But the question wasn’t do you want a relationship? —The question was are you ready for [...]
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Posted in Communication, Love, Uncatergorized
Posted on 04 October 2012. Tags: Couples, happiness, love., Marriage, relationships
You are awesome. Your friends all say so. Who, besides you, is both willing and able to flip their eyelids inside out at a dinner party? Remember the time you had everyone practically blowing old vine zinfandel from their noses when you laid down that room clearer and then blamed it on Jenny? Oh, the [...]
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Posted in Dating
Posted on 17 August 2012. Tags: benefits, divorce, domestic violence, happiness, Living Together, longevity, Marriage, mental health
Despite the grumbly water-cooler comments sometimes spewed about spouses, the fact is… most still do it (marry, that is). Why? Some of the obvious benefits include things like: built-in best friend for life (um, awesome!), built-in nookie for life (um, awesomer!), an automatic fan-club member and cool tax benefits. Once married, people learn pretty quickly [...]
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Posted in Love
Posted on 26 June 2012. Tags: Career, cinderella, cinderella complex, colleagues, community, Couples, dad, Dating, divorce, education, emotional, Family, father, food, friends, happiness, Happy, independence, Marriage, mom, mother, Parents, prince charles, Prince Charming, princess diana, recreation, therapists
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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Posted in Family, Friends & Family
Posted on 05 June 2012. Tags: advice, Conflict, father, fathers day, fun, happiness, long-term relationships, Love, relationships, stepdad, stepfather
Posted By: Portia It was Spring time and I was four years old. My father and I were out in our Connecticut back yard. We stood in front of a lilac bush in full, fragrant bloom. He asked me my favorite color. I considered the purple of the lilac blossom and the green of the [...]
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Posted in Family, Parenting
Posted on 29 May 2012. Tags: appearances, Behavior, beliefs, happiness, husband, long-term relationships, Marriage, norms, partner, positive thinking, psychology, spouse, stability, success, wife
Keeping up appearances – it’s something everyone feels compelled to do. Long-term relationships are the stuff of a stable society, or so it’s said. We have a certain idea of what it means to be happy, and that notion includes having a “significant other”. But really, how fantastic is marriage? Why do we pretend things [...]
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Posted in Communication, Family