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Communication Is Vital For A Healthy Relationship

When people are told that they need to communicate more they often think that that is an open invitation to talk but there is a complete difference between talking and communicating. Communicating is an art, and art of combining the ability to express your opinions and feelings in such a way as to ensure that [...]

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Anamchara – 7 ways to Soul Friendship

This articles shares with you the seven Blessings of the Celtic idea of Anamchara meaning “Soul Friend.” In Corrogue it is frosty. The ramp into our “acre of diamonds” is now firm underfoot where before it was a sea of mud. Murphy our dog runs excitedly by my side. We are on our way to [...]

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Making an Investment in Friendship Can Pay Off in Your Old Age!

When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate to befriend me. She did not operate with the social belief that she should choose her friends only from [...]

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10 Ways to Help Your Child Make Friends

“How come I don’t have any friends?” Has your child ever asked you that question? It’s not an easy one to answer. Children are often cruel to one another and their methods for choosing friends are often irrational to the adult mind. Unfortunately, there is no quick-fix answer to make a child instantly popular. As [...]

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The Benefits of Communication Skills

What if I told you there was a secret to you being happy, attractive, popular, successful, understanding, in control, loving, and satisfied? What if I told you that you could get all these benefits plus more by learning a single skill? It sounds almost too good to be true. The skill that will give you [...]

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10 Dumb Things People Do in Relationships

Looking for inspiration for this article, I asked my wife, Christy, to help me identify one dumb thing I do in our relationship. I should have known better. “Only one?” she asked innocently. Apart from the occasional Saint among us, the rest of us are pretty human and do our own dumb things in relationships [...]

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Dealing with Controlling People

The worse thing in the world is to feel controlled and manipulated. Each waking day, our minds are challenged by forces that try to identify and dictates to us what we need to do. Whether we know it or not, the forces of manipulation and control are always at work even before we get out [...]

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Transform Yourself from Introvert to Extrovert

Were you the type of individual that would sit in the back of the room, hoping that no one would bother to talk to you? Maybe you have stopped yourself from going to social gatherings, just because you would rather stay at home and focus on your developing hobbies. If you want to move to [...]

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Finding the Right Bandages: Empathy versus Sympathy in Relationship Communication

Life was much easier when you were a child. You would fall and scrape your knee, and you would get a band-aid. Maybe you felt bad about something that happened at school, your mom would sit you down with chocolate chip cookies and milk and listen while you told about your bad grade or time [...]

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Judging People by the Way They Look

Most everyone remembers from high school the nicknames given to those who stood out a little bit. There may have been a girl with braces, a guy with clothes that didn’t fit just right, or the freshman who was overweight. The judgments and perceptions that are developed at this time often don’t go away, leading [...]

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