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06/13/2012
Getting Rid of a Toxic Friend According to a new survey, 83 percent of both men and women say they have held onto a friendship longer than it was healthy. Why is it so hard to dump a bad friend?... More >>

Tags: Character, Courage, ConscienceCharacter-Courage-ConscienceFriendshipsPersonal ResponsibilityValues
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06/08/2012
How We've Kept 'Active' Through the Years My 'boyfriend' and I have been married for 31 years now. For the first 20 years, he was in the Navy and I always made his homecoming something very 'special'... More >>

Tags: DeploymentIntimacyKeeping sex aliveMilitarySexValues
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06/07/2012
With a Passion, I Became Someone I am a product of abuse and haven't seen my mother since I was 7 and my father since I was 15, when I ran away. Because of this, I've always felt I needed to "BE SOMEONE." More >>

Tags: AbuseAttitudeFollow up to CallRead On-AirRegarding Dr. LauraResponse to a CallSelf-esteemValues
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06/07/2012
No One Should Tell a Woman to Forgive her Assaulter This letter is written to all the girls whose father's hands were not pure. I have thought about writing to you about this subject for a long time. Today, I have come up with the words. More >>

Tags: ForgivenessValues
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06/06/2012
How to Be Confident When Saying Yes to a Marriage Proposal I think the best word to describe how I felt when my husband proposed to me would be... More >>

Tags: BehaviorMarriageRead On-AirRespectValues
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06/06/2012
How Not to Raise a Child With your help, I've developed my own 'dogma' for raising children over these past 15 years. I decided to write some of it on my blog today... More >>

Tags: Family/Relationships - ChildrenParentingRaising childrenValues
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06/05/2012
Not a Single Mom, but a Proud Military Spouse! ...My husband serves in the United States Air Force and travels often. In the past seven-weeks, the importance of raising children in a home with a mommy and daddy has become ever more clear to me. More >>

Tags: BehaviorDeploymentMilitaryMilitary WifeRead On-AirRespectValues
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06/05/2012
Differences in Attending College - Then and Now ...[C]ollege is harder to get into and it should be because there is an expectation that everyone should go to college but the truth is we need people with vocations and not just degrees. More >>

Tags: AcademicsCollegeEducationFinancesHigher educationParentingSAHM stay-at-home momValues
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05/31/2012
Respect, Love and Commit I picked up the Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands from the library recently.... I'd heard controversy about it from an online forum, so I wanted to find out for myself what it was about. More >>

Tags: BehaviorReligionRespectThe Proper Care and Feeding of HusbandsValuesWomen's Point of View
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05/30/2012
Putting the Cart Before the Horse I have been married almost thirty years. My husband never proposed to me... officially. Instead, I got a call from his mom with her saying, 'Congratulations, I hear you're getting married.' More >>

Tags: BehaviorMarriageRead On-AirRespectValues
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