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Going through a tough break up? Allow yourself to move forward & love yourself first!

How To Use Your Break Up To Create The Love You Desire [EXPERT]

Move forward with your future by using these 7 important lessons!

The time before, during and after a break is excruciating. Your mind dwells constantly on your ex, keeping you locked into feelings of sadness, despair and anger. Replaying the series of events keeps you in the past and unable to see a bright future. Break the cycle of replay by becoming aware of the moment you start thinking about your ex.

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3 Key Online Dating Lessons From 'Catfish'

A new film can teach you a thing or two about online, long-distance dating.

Before you take your budding Facebook romance with your coworker's brother's friend from grade school to the next level, YourTango strongly, strongly recommends you watch the new documentary release Catfish—or at least read the following.

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Is Sex And The City 2 Right About Marriage?

Sex and the City 2 is ridiculously over-the-top, but what about its presentation of marriage?

If there's one thing we learned from the Sex and the City 2 movie, it's that we're in the wrong income bracket. If there's a second thing we learned, it's that we're not trying hard enough. (Seriously; do we need to start wearing stilettos around our condo in order to keep the fires burning? Some of us have just been wearing bunny slippers.) If there's a third lesson to be had, it's that when it comes to marriage, you can make your own rules.

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Life Lessons To Live By, From Mom

10 lessons about life, and herself, that one woman picked up from her mom.

My mom didn’t just help prepare me for school; she prepared me for life — and in a big way. After the jump, the ten best things my mom, the teacher, taught me.

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5 Things The Olympics Teach Us About Love

Beyond feats of strength, speed and agility, the Olympics have a lot to teach us about love.

The torch has been passed, and the flame has been lit—the Olympic Games have officially begun. Beyond the usual feats of strength, speed and agility, the Olympics have a lot to teach us. For one thing, the games can show us what love is all about.

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Finding the Man I Never Knew...My Priceless Journey Back Home to my HEART: http://halprice.org/2009/10/19/finding-the-man-i-never-knew-part-1/

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20 Men, 20 Lessons: A Life In Lovers

20 Men, 20 Lessons: A Life In Lovers

Do we learn ANYTHING from past relationships? One women reviews her love life, mistakes and all.

With each man who enters my life, I think I'm making a better choice than the last. Yet even though I'm in my 40s, I keep making the same mistakes again and again. When my current relationship started (temporarily) to nosedive, I began wondering if I'd learned anything from my relationships with men. I decided to take inventory. Starting at 17 and continuing until the age of…don't mention it, here's what I've learned.

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11 Love Lessons From Entourage

Vince and the gang teach us a lot about living and a little about love.

HBO's smash hit Entourage is an illustration of many things: a celeb-obsessed culture, boys-will-be-boys Peter Pan-ism, conspicuous consumption, a consequence-free hook-up atmosphere and me-too voyeurism… but it is also a few lessons to be learned. The show, loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's rise to fame in Hollywood, isn't all fast cars, fellatio and fart jokes. The bromance between Vince, Eric, Johnny Drama, Turtle and Ari provides the show's spine but romance pokes its head in there a time for two as well.

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Sex Academy Opens In Berlin

A new museum where visitors are encouraged to touch the displays.

Talk about an interactive exhibit. The new "Amora Sex Academy" that opened its doors in Berlin Thursday encourages visitors to explore the male and female mannequins on display for hands-on (literally) lesson in human sexuality, reports Caroline Copley for Reuters.

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I Mortified Myself In Public For My Wife

A non-dancing writer takes a Salsa class with his wife and lives to tell the tale.

The whole Salsa thing started with my wife's friend, Autumn. Autumn is a Salsa-dancing junkie. She Salsas the way most of us brush our teeth, which is to say, pretty frequently. Recently, Autumn got Tara all fired up about how much fun Salsa dancing is, how sexy it is. Soon, Tara wanted us to go, despite the fact that I cannot dance, that I do not understand dancing. Dancing, I am the title character in a short film called "White Man in Terrible, Self-Conscious Pain." My wife, by contrast, doesn't do self-consciousness. Which I admire, no end. Preferably from the couch, in my own house.

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3 Things Weeds Teaches Us About Love

Love lessons from the hit Showtime series.

Even after 53 episodes, two towns and numerous romantic liasons, Nancy Botwin, played by the doe-eyed Mary Louise Parker, doesn't seem to have improved her decision-making skills. Same goes for the rest of the Botwin clan and their friends. But, everyone's blunders have made for great TV. In honor of the recent premiere of the 5th season, here are three things we've learned about love from watching Weeds.