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7 Ways To Make Motherhood Work For You

7 Ways To Make Motherhood Work For You

Believe it or not, making time for yourself makes you a better wife and mom.

Time is the most valuable commodity and we all get the same 24 hours in a day. It's amazing how differently we all prioritize those precious hours, though. Being the giving, nurturing creatures that we are, its easy to forget about ourselves.

Five Ways to Handle Stress During the Holidays and Beyond

Five Ways to Handle "Stress" During the Holidays and Beyond

It’s that time of year again. To buy, host, decorate and exchange; to stand in line, shuttle between families and swear like Russell Crowe when the person in front of you at Best Buy takes too long to pay for that Inception DVD with exact change. Calendars get full and tensions can run high.

Date Yourself!

Date Yourself!

If you can't date yourself comfortably, how can anyone else?!

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Why I Take Time Off From My Family

A natural loner, now a wife and mother of two, goes on regular sabbatical.

I love my husband and two kids, enormously. But I love being alone, too, and for long stretches. It's what feels natural to me, a former happy loner. This was my biggest concern before getting married: could I live with someone, or several someones, for an extended time, no matter how much love was involved? To my relief, I discovered having a family, and living with them, is lovely... but only most of the time.

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Dating Detox: I Took A 3-Year Break From Men

One woman goes three years without a date to kick her bad-boy habit.

People enter detoxification programs to rid their bodies of toxins, lose a little weight, maybe look and feel better about the damage they’ve done to their bodies. But how do you detoxify from poor love decisions? Is there a Promises out there for people who have had one toxic relationship after another? How do you take the damage done from too many bad relationships to enable a fresh start? One writer finds out.