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Real Women: I’m Talking To You (Possibly NSFW)

June 15, 2012 in Body Image, Dating, Family, Friendship, Gender, Health, Lifestyle, Mothers, Parenting, People, Relationships, Self, Sex, Sexuality, Society

Dear girls, women, fabulous females of all ages: It has come to my attention that we rather like telling each other what to do. We’re a bossy bunch, we are. So many expectations; so many standards. It takes a total of, oh, one glance at the magazines that we write for each other to corroborate this conclusion. Frolicking my way through the world wide web just now, I had Cleo tell me to shake things up in the bedroom and avoid “blow-out days” in my diet; Cosmo very helpfully informed me that I “hate to love” a whole bunch of [...]

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When To Call Quits On Your Marriage

April 27, 2012 in Dating, Family, Marriage, Relationships

Would you look at me and decide that I don’t deserve to be happy? In a recent court case in the UK, a woman appealed against her husband divorcing her, stating that their problems (arguing over the washing machine and farmed meat) were not enough to end a marriage. I’ve heard from the perspective of people who have been through tough times, come out the other side, and who insist that you need to work through your problems. Do whatever it takes. While I do agree that marriage isn’t always beer and skittles, and believe in attempting to work through [...]

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