Tag: Relationships
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Law of Attraction and Relationships
When the Law of Attraction doesn’t bring you what you desire in a relationship, it may be bringing you the next most convenient form of it. Want to know a trick for figuring out if a relationship is over? Uh, no, it’s not always that easy to know. Especially if they’re telling you one thing…
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Spotting Relationship Patterns: the Rule of Three
The Relationship Rule of Three, a relationship pattern recognition tool for identifying trends and behaviors in personal connections. Learn how to understand patterns in relationships to enhance your awareness and improve your interactions. Call it the “Relationship Rule of Three,” but it could be the Rule of Ten or the Rule of Twenty. It may…
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What It Is Wednesday: The Force Field Between Us
We’ve built a magnificent force field between us — one text, one message at a time. A meditation on digital intimacy, introversion, and the friendships we maintain without ever really seeing each other.
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Love and Late Blooming Flowers
A lyrical personal essay on late-blooming flowers and what they reveal about love, hope, and the gifts Nature delivers when we least expect them.
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What It Is Wednesday: Who Ya Gonna Call?
On the gift — and the cost — of being the person everyone calls at midnight. A personal essay on empathy, connection, and the quiet labor of caring without limit.
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Why the Bullying Pattern in My Life Re-Surfaced
When the same painful pattern of emotional manipulation resurfaces in your life, there’s a reason rooted in early programming. A raw, unflinching essay on recognizing the cycle — and why this time, everything changes.
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When I Don’t Know How to Have a Champion
She’s been her own champion for so long that when someone truly steps up for her, she doesn’t know what to do. A raw essay on trust, vulnerability, and finally learning to let someone else fight on your behalf.
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When You Do Everything Right and Things Don’t Work Out
Hard work, loyalty, kindness — and still things don’t work out. Here’s an honest look at the hardest truth: doing everything right is no guarantee, but it’s still something to be proud of.
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Do We Ever Really Know Anyone?
When I was very young, I believed I could really know someone after a few weeks of late-night talks. Decades and broken friendships later, I know better — and yet I still listen for the ones who say, “Welcome home.”
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What Is Epic Love…and Why It Eludes Me
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about… epic love. Or true love. Probably because two friends of mine seem to talk about it quite a lot: one, who lost his epic love years ago, and the other who just married hers, a man twenty years her junior who’s been her partner for nearly a decade.…
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Energy Exchange: The Imperative Need in Any Relationship
Energy exchange. Not a common phrase but fitting. What I need in any relationship is simple: reciprocity. By “relationships,” I mean any relationship–business or personal, romantic or platonic, social or family, employer or employee, inner circle or outer circle. I’ve also called it “emotional support” when I gave lots of nurturing but got little to…
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Intimate Acts of Writers: Sharing Naked Creativity
Do you remember sharing your first venture into creativity? What that was like? Who shared it with you? Their response to you? Often the first venture into the intimacy of creativity happens as children, and most often with our primitive artwork. It is an encounter with Deity that often is never lost, but as children,…
