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7 Reasons Men Make Great Sounding Boards

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What makes a good listener or sounding board? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Sounding Board as: “a person or group on whom one tries out an idea or opinion as a means of evaluating it.”  When you use someone as a sounding board,…
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20 Oddest Celeb Friendships That Ever Were

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Celebrity news sources like People and TMZ are forever trying to show us the secret life, and the private side of celebrities. Years ago, before we knew where they shopped, ate and hung out all the time, it might have been easier to keep friendships…
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25 Lessons You Can Only Learn From a Bestie

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June 8 is National Best Friends Day. Best friends are good for everything from a shoulder to cry on to a partner in crime when it’s time for that sort of thing. And she’ll pretty much always take the kids for you when you’re going to…
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10 Reasons Your Next Party Should Include a Poetry Slam

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April 28 is Great Poetry Reading Day. This day is celebrated to honor great poetry and the incredible poets who contribute to the genre. From Maya Angelou to Shel Silverstein, and who could forget Robert Frost, poems put our desperate, uncertain,…
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Can Straight Women & Men Ever Be Just Friends?

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Can straight women and men ever be just friends? Some say platonic friendships between men and women are dangerous and impossible in the long run. Others say that they are not only possible but that they can actually run deeper than same sex…
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How to Relate To & Deal With Difficult People

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We all have someone in our lives with whom we have difficulty relating. Your mother-in-law you always fight with. The sister who always manages to cut you off. A friend who drains your energy by talking about her problems all the time, and…
Making Friends with other moms

Mommy Dating: How to Make Friends With Other Moms

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Mommy dating can be hard! Here are some ice breakers to make other mom friends! When you get married, you leave some of your single friends behind simply because you find yourself having little in common with them. When you have children,…
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7 Surefire Ways to Lose a Friend

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No friendship is made of Teflon, and there’s plenty of bad behavior you can exhibit to drive even a best friend far, far away. Assuming you want to avoid this outcome, here are seven surefire ways to lose a friend—don’t be guilty of…
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How to Host an Old-Fashioned Summer Block Party

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A summer block party may seem like a throwback to the 1950s, when families lived in the same house for decades, everyone on the street knew everyone else, and neighbors were all friends. But times have changed. Families move often, neighbors…