How to Convince Your Man to Go to Couples Therapy

How to Convince Your Man to Go to Couples Therapy

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Many women share the same frustration. Although conflict, tension, and disconnect may be obvious symptoms in their relationships, oftentimes women find that their men are unresponsive to requests to seek professional advice. Why are men…
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Obama Up by a Whopping 50 Points Among Latino Voters

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Seventy percent of registered Hispanic voters said they would vote for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden if the election were held today, in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll. President Obama enjoys a 50-point…
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Romney vs. Obama in Colorado: The First Presidential Debate

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The first debate of the presidential campaign will be taking place in a state that tipped in favor of President Barack Obama in 2008, when he became only the second Democrat to win Colorado since 1964. It is also where, like the rest of…
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Mamiverse Made it Personal at Blogalicious 2012

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There are luddites out there who dismiss social media as superficial, frivolous and time consuming. I would know! I used to be one of them. I shunned social media until a friend introduced me to MySpace in 2007, and suggested I could use…
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10 Ways Your Local School Board Impacts Your Life

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Editor’s Note: This guest editorial is provided by Librotraficante, the organization formed in the wake of the Arizona Legislature’s ban on Mexican American Studies. The Librotraficante Caravan “smuggled” books by Latino writers…
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How to Find Resilience in Hard Times

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Resilience is the human capacity to adapt to circumstances in the face of grief or adversity, whether coping with the loss of a loved one, a layoff, a disease, a divorce, or any emotionally disrupting event. It is resilience that enables us…
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The Best Mattress for Couples

UPDATED August 1st, 2016 Let’s face it. We use a bed for two major purposes: sleeping and sex. We spend a third of our lives in bed, pursuing one activity or the other. So it’s important, for couples especially, to find a mattress…
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Quince Crashers

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Excerpted from: Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories, edited by Adriana Lopez. “You did what?” I asked. Suddenly, a coughing fit seized me and warm Coke blew out from my…
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Why It’s Okay Not to be the Perfect Mom

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I used to strive to be the perfect mom. I wanted my house to be spotless, and for my children to always be neatly dressed, without a trace of dirt on their faces. I wanted to welcome my husband home from work with a great, home-cooked dinner…