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		<title>Getting Away With It, Do you Let Him Get Away With Too Much?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting Away With It &#8211; Do You Let Him Get Away With too Much? Are you letting him get away with too much in your relationship? Are the things you are letting him get away with helping your relationship or hurting it? If the man in your life is not the most punctual person in the world and runs late (but not too late) then letting that slide is not the worst thing in the world. We all have our flaws, and if the flaws are not that big of a deal to you, then let him get away with it. However, if the things you are letting him get away with are causing him to believe he can get away with anything and everything, it&#8217;s time you created some boundaries and rules and begin enforcing them. He should not be able to abuse you in any way shape or form and get away with it. He should not be able to have affairs and cheat and get away with it. When someone abuses you or cheats on you, they have no respect for you, or the relationship. You lose respect for yourself as well when you let someone get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends or Enemies? part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends or Enemies? Part 2 In our previous article about friends and enemies we discussed how the man you are involved with should be more of a positive person in your life than a negative. We expect our friends to live up to our idea of what a friend really is: loyally, faithful, truthful and supportive. We expect our friends to treat us with respect, have time for us, and show us that they care about us. The intimate relationships we have should be held to the same standards. If you expect a friend to treat you a certain way, why would you let the man in your life have a lower standard? Why would you call your friend out on the carpet if they did something wrong, but not the man you love? Now let&#8217;s get to our enemies. Why are they our enemies? Did they do something to hurt you, lie to you, mistreat you, or disrespect you? If they did, it makes sense that they are your enemy. But if the man in your life has done all that, why don&#8217;t you see him as your enemy instead of the man you love? You cannot possibly expect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jealousy, The Green Eyed Psycho Hosebeast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is completely normal to want to strangle the gorgeous sexy woman who is hogging your mans attention at a party. Can we blame you for marching right over there and putting your arm around him while giving her the &#8220;Bitch, don&#8217;t even think about it&#8221; look. Nah, not really. Can we blame you for making a snide comment to your man for talking to the gorgeous sexy woman at the party? Again, not really. Now if you go over there and slap him across the face and throw a drink in hers, we have a problem with THAT. Being jealous is not a bad thing per say, but the things people DO when they get jealous can cause MAJOR problems in relationships. Jealousy, at it&#8217;s core, stems from insecurity. If you are with your boyfriend and another man is blatantly hitting on you right it front of him, he has a right to get pissed. Your boyfriend is being disrespected and challenged to some degree by this stranger. We get that. However, if he breaks a beer bottle over a guys head just because the guys asked you if you knew what time it is, that is a problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Talking But He Is Not Listening?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you talking but he is not listening? Women seem to want to talk about things with the men in their lives. They want to talk about their day, their feelings, the relationship, the people that are driving them crazy etc. But what if the man in your life is not listening to you when you talk? Why would you continue talking to them at that point? You may be frustrated that you tell him things to do, and he doesn&#8217;t do them. You may be angry that you warned him not to stay out late again with his buddies and not call you. You have told him over and over again that if he stands you up or cancels on you one more time it is over. But yet he does exactly what you told him over and over not to, or he doesn&#8217;t do what you have told him over and over to do. You do not understand WHY you have to tell him this same crap over and over and over again. I know why. It is because your words are not followed by ACTIONS. Therefore, they are meaningless and no real threat to him. So he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t he Afraid of Losing You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;h1&#62;Why Isn&#8217;t he Afraid of Losing You?&#60;/h1&#62; Everyone is afraid of something. We may not all be afraid of the same things, but we are all afraid of something. For the moment, let us use sharks as an example. Why are most human beings afraid of sharks? Because sharks will bite you, eat you, and you will probably die. (Good reasons). We are afraid of sharks because of what they will do to us. If sharks just hugged and blew kisses at people instead of eat/kill them, everyone would want to have a pet shark in their pool. So how does this relate to relationships? It is the same concept. If your husband or boyfriend is always doing things to upset you, hurt you, or make you angry, you may wonder, why he isn’t afraid of you, or afraid of losing you. Could it be because he views you as a baby seal and not as a shark? When he does something you don’t like do you just yell, scream, or talk his ear off? Please keep in mind that no one is a afraid of a barking dog, they are afraid of the barking dog biting them. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will He Forgive You or Forget You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many women we speak to contact us in a panic when their boyfriend or husband is angry with them. They are terrified that their significant other will never forgive them and they ask us what they can do to make their significant other forgive them. First of all, you cannot make someone forgive you, no matter what you do. It is up to them when and if they will forgive you. What we have found alarming is how angry their significant others get for the smallest little things. These are the same men that screw up big time, and are forgiven over and over and over again but when the woman does the tiniest thing world war three breaks out. Sure, he forgot her birthday but SHE forgot to get him Pop Tarts when she went grocery shopping KNOWING FULL WELL how important Pop Tarts are to him! He makes a Federal Case out of the whole thing and is seeking the death penalty. In a relationship, if you are going to sweat the small stuff and want the other to beg for forgiveness, you should expect the same thing done to you when you screw up as well. (And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Heart is Stupid, so Listen to Your Gut Instead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guts tell us a lot of things. We get this funny feeling there that something is not right in our relationship. The problem is though, that our heart grabs a megaphone and starts screaming &#8220;Don&#8217;t listen to your gut, listen to ME instead&#8221;. Well, your heart is an idiot. You heart already took over for your brain and now wants to silence your gut as well. Your gut may see the writing on the wall, but your heart grabs a can of spray paint and covers the writing with &#8220;BUT I LOVE HIM&#8221; until the writing on the wall is completely covered in nonsense. It is time to silence that loud heart of yours and start listening more to your gut. Those feelings you get, those twinges of unpleasantness, are your instincts warning you for a reason. It is your bodies way of raising a red-flag so you can avoid danger. Your heart, being the idiot that it is, likes to throw caution to the wind, even though it knows when the heart breaks, it hurts worse and takes longer to heal than any other physical injury. Many women I have spoken to, in retrospect, wish they had listened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Men Withdraw?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of our female clients have asked us why men withdraw. Actually, many women wonder why men withdraw, and here are some reasons why: 1. When a couple first meets and feels an overwhelming connection or chemistry, a tendency to want to be with this person 24/7 is commonplace. You are thrilled that he contacts you several times a day and wants to see you all the time. You begin to think you have found something really special. He seems so attentive and interested in everything about you and about your life. Then, suddenly, the does a 360. What happened? Why did he withdraw like this? Did you do something? Did his feelings change? Not necessarily. When a couple first meets, a man may come on very strong to show you how much he likes you. He is also caught up in the newness of it all and really is interested in you and getting to know you. But then all the things he has been avoiding or put on the back burner to put you in the front have caught up with him. It was unrealistic for him to devote that much time, energy and effort and live the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride and Ego Can Ruin Your Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pride and Ego Can Ruin Your Relationship We should all be proud of ourselves, have pride in our accomplishments and a healthy ego. If we love ourselves, it is easier for others to love us. But in some cases our pride and ego can actually get in the way of our relationships. When someone is talking about themselves do you interject and try and &#8220;one up them?&#8221;. Were they excited to tell you about let&#8217;s say the money they won but when you felt the need to interrupt and talk about the time you won money they withdrew? Allow someone else their moment to shine, to brag, and to feel proud. Be proud of them, but don&#8217;t take away from their experience by making it about you. You don&#8217;t want your partner to feel you are in competition with one another, yet by constantly turning it back to you, you are giving them that very feeling. When you are wrong, can you say you are sorry? If you both had a disagreement, do you always wait for the other person to come to you to work it out? Why can&#8217;t you swallow your pride instead of letting your partner be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complaining and Criticizing in a Relationship Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complaining and Criticizing in a Relationship Part 1 No relationship is perfect, and neither are the two people in that relationship. It is hard not to criticize our loved ones even when we try. Sometimes our criticism is constructive, but other times it is the exact opposite &#8211; destructive. Too many complaints and too much criticism can take the romance out of a relationship faster than a speeding bullet. Look at the way you and your partner communicate? Is it mostly in a loving, supportive and uplifting way? When you speak is it one negative thing after the other? If it is the latter, one would assume your sex life is not as good as it could be. It is much more difficult to feel sexy or romantic towards your partner when they have very little good to say about you. Those criticisms and complaints can really hurt your ego, so initiating sex can lead to rejection, so you simply don&#8217;t do it anymore. People say you should not take it personally and that your partner may mean well, but when the delivery is bad and it goes on day after day, you have no choice but to start taking [...]]]></description>
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