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Why your partner shouldn’t fulfill all your needs

Posted in Expectations, Friends, Happiness, Marriage, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Sep 12th, 2017

Should your spouse be your everything and fulfill all your needs — be your best friend; passionate lover; devoted parent; soul mate; great communicator; romantic, and intellectual and professional equal who provides you with happiness, fulfillment, financial stability, intimacy, social status, fidelity … ? That’s what marriage has become, as my co-author and I detail […]

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Why women need more experience with rejection

Posted in Dating, Expectations, Gender, Men, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Singles, Women on Aug 15th, 2017

Who has the upper hand in dating, men or women? It might depend on whom you ask but there’s one thing I’ve been thinking about lately — how gals generally don’t have as much experience with rejection when it comes to dating as men do, although it may feel like it if they’ve been dumped, […]

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Must you be friends with your former romantic partner?

Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Friends, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Aug 8th, 2017

A few years ago, I broke up with someone I had been seeing for about a year. Because of age differences and life circumstance, we agreed from the beginning that it was not a relationship that was going to “go somewhere,” but we genuinely liked each other. So when it ended I said, “Let’s still […]

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