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Office Romance

Office Romance

Before you think about dating the cute guy in the office next to yours, think about the risks.

Office romances such as dating a man in the workplace are full of risks. Before you start flirting over the copy machine, think about where an office romance could take you. In fact, your company may have a firm policy discouraging dating a co-worker or at least dating a person within the same department. Moral of the story: Think before you date a co-worker.

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Begging is for dogs.

How To Get Him Back Without Seeming Needy Or Desperate

Try this six-step approach to get your boyfriend back pronto.

If you're a woman who has tried to get your ex back, you've most likely taken the "desperate times call for desperate measures" approach, causing you to do all kinds of unfortunate things, including the walk of shame and the drunk dial. These unflattering behaviors render you his doormat, and ultimately push him away.

4 Tips for Creating Happiness Within the ADHD Family

4 Tips for Creating Happiness Within the ADHD Family

Tools for coping with ADHD within the family

Lately there have been a lot of questions in regard to how best to manage ADHD within the family.  ADHD is not isolated to the individual (or individuals) in the family that have it.  It affects the entire family on a daily basis in significant ways. When a family member presents with what we would consider many common ADD symptoms, and has been properly diagnosed, the next step is;  

Addiction Pandemic:  Addicted to Love, or Sex and ADD, too?

Addiction Pandemic: Addicted to Love, or Sex and ADD, too?

Addiction to sex, alcohol, drugs, food, shopping, texting & hoarding is skyrocketing. What's Not?

Have you heard, now there’s even an “election addiction”?  Aren’t you glad we’re through with that one for right now?   But, seriously, addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, smoking, shopping, video games, gambling, hoarding, work, cutting, texting and social media just keeps accelerating.   It’s staggering, what in the world is happening to us?

What To Do When Your Friend Is Driving You Nuts!

What To Do When Your Friend Is Driving You Nuts!

Part of Sophie Keller's 'How Happy is' Series

  “I’ll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour), I’ll be there for you (like I’ve always been before), I’ll be there for you (because you’re there for me too).” The chorus to the theme song of the hit TV series ‘Friends’ is indelibly marked in my brain forever. The closeness, loyalty, and trust these six friends had was one of my secret addictions and yet ten years later the show is over and the friends and I have moved on.

4 Ways to Deal with the Pink Elephant

4 Ways to Deal with the Pink Elephant

It's that thing that nobody wants to discuss but everybody puts up with. Here's how make it vanish!

Every now and again you come across a situation in your life that blows your hair back, your skirt up or...just blows. For example: you find out the person you're seriously considering spending the rest of your life with isn't interested in a long-term relationship with you. Or you discover one evening, quite by accident, that your husband prefers blondes...who are hung like a horse.

break up
Are there intolerable problems in your relationship?

4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before A Breakup Or Divorce

Tips for solving intolerable relationship problems, plus four questions to ask before you break up.

Ending a low quality relationship can be associated with considerable improvement in our wellbeing. There is a point at which it makes good sense to get out of a bad relationship. This even holds true for children and divorce: Ending a highly conflicted marriage can be good for children in time (a good thing to remember when you're wondering if you should "stay together for the kids").

20 Rules For A Happier Relationship [EXPERT]
Turn your relationship into rainbows and sunshine all year 'round!

20 Rules For A Happier Relationship

Try these tips today!

From my experience as a psychotherapist for 30 years and a married man for over 20 years, I think of these rules as everything a couple must learn for an ongoing, happy relationship.

4 Tips For Avoiding Passive-Aggressive Behavior

4 Tips For Avoiding Passive-Aggressive Behavior

Keep problems from building up and confront passive-aggressive behavior when you spot them!

By Signe Whitson for GalTime  One of my favorite stories about passive aggressive behavior in a marriage goes like this: "Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding the items the woman wished to purchase. As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse. "So, do you always carry your TV remote?" I asked.

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Find out if divorce is the best option for you!

Are You Ready For Divorce? 8 Questions You Should Answer

Answer these 8 questions to decide if divorce is your best bet.

For divorce to be a collaborative and respectful process, the couple must be prepared to separate their lives on all levels — legally, practically, and emotionally. To do this, each person must face their own divorce dilemma by answering the following eight questions:

Relationship Communication Problems
Just can't seem to get on the same page?

4 Common Relationship Communication Problems & How To Fix Them

Most relationship problems are caused by poor communication. Here's how to address this issue.

No relationship is perfect. We all know this. We're not perfect and therefore our relationships will never be perfect either. That's okay. That's normal. But success in relationships — romantic and otherwise — have a lot to do with proper communication. In fact, most relationship problems are caused by poor communication.