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5 Things NOT to Discuss with Your Husband

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There’s no doubt that the best marriages are based on honesty and mutual trust. But that doesn’t mean you and your husband have to share ever detail or your lives prior to meeting each other, or that you have to say exactly what’s on…
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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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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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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…
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Suicide: When & Why You Should Talk About It

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The word “suicide” in conversation is not exactly an icebreaker. Nevertheless, if you have a family member or close friend who is a suicide survivor, learning how to talk about suicide will help your friends and family cope, and it might…
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Single Women: Between a Rock & a Hard Place

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I married at 43, to the collective relief of my friends, who feared I’d be the last, lonely single gal among them. Still, I remember well my decades of single life, and the struggle to stay strong and independent and not “need” a man,…
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What’s Next, Arizona? Banning Women’s Studies?

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Everyone knows that Arizona is the center of the anti-immigrant movement. But not enough people know that it is fast-becoming the center of the anti-intellectual movement too. And just like Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws spread, so too will…
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Book Declares 'The End of Men'

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Have women evolved to an era where we no longer need men? And if the power dynamics have shifted such that women are now more independent and in control than ever before, is either sex better off as a result? These are just some of the questions…
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How a Work-at-Home Mom Works When She’s Away From Home!

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While being a WAHM (work-at-home mom) has its advantages, one of the biggest misconceptions is the belief that those of us who do it are always at home to work—quite the contrary! Many of us who telecommute, particularly those of us with…