EXCERPT: You’re Having a Baby & Your Friend’s Not. Set the precedent NOW — before your little one arrives — to send out one text or email a week (at least!) to see how your BFF is doing. Paying attention and inquiring about your friend’s welfare helps the friendship stay on track where it’s still about […]
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EXCERPT: You know that saying, You’re your own worst enemy? Unfortunately, most of us take it to heart far more than that other well-worn cliché, Be your own best friend. Women tend to be more in touch with their emotions than men, and that cuts across the whole array — happy, sad, angry, and feeling
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Through the years as a psychologist, I have worked with many single men and women who have found that trying to date in Southern California is not easy. Even though there are seemingly so many potential candidates here, people often are too busy or too disconnected from each other or are exposed to so many choices it can be hard to
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EXCERPT: One of the biggest deal-breakers in a relationship? Communication. As in, a LACK of it. It makes sense, really. How are you supposed to live happily ever after with someone who grunts Eh every time you ask a question? Might have been the norm back in caveman days, but it’s kind of lame now. Still,
EXCERPT: But keeping romance alive in your relationship is actually more important than you think, notes Yvonne Thomas, PhD, a psychologist in Los Angeles, California, whose specialties include relationships. If romance starts to go away, you’ll end up more like friends or live-in roommates, she says. You may still love him, but you won’t feel in love with him.
