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I was sitting in a restaurant chit chatting with a friend when the chef walked into the dining area with a large knife tucked under his arm as if heâd forgotten he had it in his hand when he left the kitchen and was now trying to hide it.Â
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And without any thought my body decided i...
All relationships have their moments when things donât go well. Usually we can chalk this up to a difference of opinion or a simple misunderstanding. But have those differences of opinion or simple misunderstandings ever mushroomed out of control leaving you and your partner confused as to what the ...
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For those of us who make New Year's Resolutions, we are connecting with a sense of hope that things can be different. It's part acknowledgement that things could be better and hope that we can engineer that improvement in our lives. Really, the hopefulness we feel is a love affair with the potent...
I recently posed the question, âWhatâs a positive change you want to make in your relationship?â All the responses I got were focused on communication, everybody wanted to communicate better. As it turns out faulty communication is a top relationship problem.
I couldnât think of a better topic to a...
Holidays are a magical time of year AND an incredibly stressful time of year. Many of us look forward to our family traditions, holiday parties, decorating, and gift giving. But, in order to do all these things, we feel like we have to squeeze them into our normally hectic, busy schedules AND get it...
Childâs play is something anyone can do, and yet usually, only children do it. We equate childâs play with something simple and easy. Wouldnât it be awesome if hard things in life were more like âchildâs play?âÂ
What if childâs play could make something like your relationship easier? Wouldnât THAT ...
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