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what not to do if you're caught cheating
One deadly mistake: denying that it happened.

What You Shouldn't Do If You're Caught Cheating

You cheated. You got caught. Now what?

When my husband caught me having an affair, I only made matters worse by not taking responsibility for my own actions. So if you've been caught having an affair by your partner or you're even considering it, avoid making any of these five mistakes.

Three Mistakes Women Make While Dating

Three Mistakes Women Make While Dating

Avoid these three BIG missteps.

There are three common dating mistakes that are causing you to be chronically lonely and single. Watch out for these pitfalls, and you too can find Mr. Right! Dating Mistake #1: Always Expecting a Man to Pay  

Solutions to Common Love Mistakes Women Make

Solutions to Common Love Mistakes Women Make

Too needy? Learn the solutions to six mistakes women make in love and improve your love life.

My husband, Rory, and I recently had a conversation about common mistakes women tend to make when it comes to love. He has seen women he’s dated and been in relationships with, and his female friends making these six mistakes. Rory is very insightful and I feel compelled to share them with you since I’ve made many of these mistakes. If you can relate to any of these, try these solutions and watch your love life improve. Mistake #1: Being needy.

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Are you plagued by indecision?

Hate Making Decisions? 4 Tricks To Try

Learn to be as confident in love as you are at work!

Oh, the dilemma of indecision. Many successful career women are confident making decisions at work and indecisive when it comes to making decisions about their love lives.

Verbal Bunders: Did You Really Say That?

Verbal Bunders: Did You Really Say That?

We all make verbal oopses. Learn how to take the sting out of slips of the tongue.

Open mouth, insert foot. It's the verbal equivalent of walking through a restaurant with toilet peper on your shoe. We've all  experienced the mortification of poor verbal choices.  Sometimes, embarrassing stuff just happens.  Letting those blunders happen more often than not, though, is a problem that goes beyond stuff that sometimes happens.

Raising Your Teen Not To Need You (EXPERT)

Raising Your Teen Not To Need You (EXPERT)

Don't treat a teen like an 8-year old. Let go! It's your job to send them out into the world.

It’s a fact.  As your kids grow up, you must grow up, too! If you are the parent of teens, you can’t treat them the way you did when they  were eight.  As they  grow,  you have to grow. What worked with a child won’t be effective anymore.  The sooner you accept that, the easier adolescence will be on all of you.

3 Ways To Get Out Of The Doghouse [EXPERT]
Are you in trouble with your lover?

3 Ways To Get Out Of The Doghouse

A bouquet of flowers won't get you out of trouble! Remember these tips when you're in the doghouse.

When people find themselves in the doghouse in their relationship, they react in different ways like trying to minimize the situation and their partner's emotions, ignoring their partner's anger, apologizing immediately and profusely and/or purchasing gifts to try to make amends.

5 Guaranteed Ways To Lose Your Man

5 Guaranteed Ways To Lose Your Man

If you're dating and you don't follow these rules, you are truly doomed!

So you're dating that new guy and things are going swimmingly. You basically floated home from the first date and already had the drapes picked out for the home you'd be living in together. Y'know what? Dates like that are the kind that we all dream about and it happens to us guys too, but slow down girl before you act on those feelings! Therefore our Tip #1 is:

Women: Is Your Life Setting You Up For Failure?

Women: Is Your Life Setting You Up For Failure?

Regardless of your drive and goals, you may have set up your life as a failure waiting to happen!

As a woman, many things in your life can be made into winnable games that feed your passion, soul and self-esteem. Without knowing how to make your life winnable, you give away your power and simply allow life to happen to you. This creates overwhelm, frustration, anger, anxiety, depression and physical illness.

Women: 5 Mistakes We Make That Give Our Power Away

Women: 5 Mistakes We Make That Give Our Power Away

Feeling out of control of your life? Learn how you give your power away daily and how to avoid it.

As women, we are experts at one thing that permeates every aspect of our lives and that is giving our power away. Most little girls are brought up to: keep it together; let it go; don't make waves and be nice to everyone. But the issues we deal with as adult women rely on our inner power and this programming is what contributes to the destruction of this power.

5 Steps To Independence That Will Light Up Your Life

5 Steps To Independence That Will Light Up Your Life

5 steps you can take right now that will lead you to a life of inner freedom and independence

I love the song Firework by Katy Perry. I especially like this phrase: "You don't have to feel like a wasted space You're original, cannot be replaced If you only knew what the future holds After a hurricane comes a rainbow"