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Celebrate Your Husband This Father’s Day Forget about ties, video cameras, and BBQ supplies. In fact, forget about material items altogether. This Father’s Day, honor the father of your children for the unique individual that he is. Read on for two gift ideas that will hopefully knock his socks off, in one way or another. [...]

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There’s a scene on the Sopranos where Tony takes on AJ, a perpetual underachiever and shmuck even as a 10 year old, in a game of Mariokart.  Tony had spent the better part of a season telling him to “quit wasting his time” but he came down to his kid’s level and they ended up [...]

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  My son was born during the worst of what we’ve been calling “the Great Recession”.  A few months after he was born I got notice of my very temporary layoff from my job as a locomotive conductor. It was a numbers game and I was promised I’d be back in a month, but I [...]

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Sorting through the Myths of Marriage We’re living in an age of extremes, especially when it comes to marriage. On one hand we have the fairytale stories complete with magic, Prince Charming, and happily-ever-after and on the other hand we’ve got a cynical, doomed attitude towards marriage that can be seen all over the media. [...]

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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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Dear Red: If you try to get Brian to stop altogether, you’ll be accused of coming between him and his dad, which will lead to all sorts of new troubles you don’t even want to contemplate. Instead, choose among these options, none of which is perfect–but, then, neither is marriage. Say nothing further and be [...]

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I think you need to decide if this is the time to “burst the bubble” or not? If you want to open up about your “not so great“ marriage, I recommend you meet with a couples therapist who can help you through the transition of separation because marriage counselors are just as important to use [...]

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We’ve all heard the cliché: “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” But is divorce destined to become the next certainty? The overwhelming numbers are not in our favor. In Canada, 41 percent of marriages end in divorce within the first thirty years. For varying reasons, including growing apart, infidelity, affairs, mid-life crises, or money [...]

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Love in the Age of Facebook It’s hard to remember what our lives were like before Facebook became a household word. I’m on it all the time (even though my husband refuses to sign up), and it’s my go-to website to connect with (and snoop on) all my friends and family. How else would my [...]

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Much like the endless brushstrokes of paint that make up Monet’s famous water lilies, the beauty of a relationship lies in the detail. Indeed, the amazing thing about a work of art, which can leave you scratching you head in bewildered wonderment long after you have left the museum, is surely that it has the [...]

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