Tag: life

How Mediation Helped When I Got Divorced

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The pressures of life today are most likely greater than they have ever been. Life today is fast and expectations of buying a home, having a family etc, can put a huge strain on any relationship or marriage. When we meet somebody, of course we always think it’s for life. Falling in love, getting married and starting a family in all honesty is what most people want. Of course it doesn’t always work out like that which is what happened to me in my first marriage. My first marriage ended in divorce and there is no doubt like a lot… [Read More]

Our Embryos: Letting Go

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If you are regular reader of my blog, you will know it’s predominantly a parenting blog and will also know that I have been married twice, after my first marriage I decided with I might a considerable amount of pressure to have a vasectomy, at the time I was already a father of three children, and I guess I never intended having any more children. In life there is no way of looking into the future, and if I’m honest I’m not I would want to at times. But to cut a long story short my first marriage ended and… [Read More]

Video Special: Cleaning Your Carpets With Rug Doctor Products And Deep Carpet Cleaner #Ad

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When you have five children your carpets are guaranteed to get dirty, and cleaning them is something that you should be doing on a regular basis. When you do clean them you will be shocked at how much dirt and grime comes out of your carpet. I know I was shocked when I recently cleaned our bedroom carpet. I have teamed up with Rug Doctor, and they recently sent me a selection of cleaning products, and the all new Rug Doctor Deep Carpet Cleaner to review. When you have six year old twin girls who quite often run around the… [Read More]

Depression And When To Seek Out A Psychiatrist

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Since my teenage years I have suffered from depression. There have, over the years been good times, but they have been intermingled with bouts of very severe depression that have lasted at times for years. Although you have some good times throughout your life, depression is not something that ever leaves you. It will lurk in those dark spaces of your mind that you don’t want to visit, or at least it was not the place I wanted to live my life. For many years I initially thought that all I suffered from was just feeling down in the dumps… [Read More]

Slot Review: Gala Bingo’s $uper$pinner Bar-X #AD

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There’s no school like the old school! Fancying a bit of a step back in time, I found the $uperSpinner Bar-X slot game on Gala Bingo. $uper$pinners Bar-X is a must-play for those looking for a bit of a nostalgic gaming experience, not to mention a spectacular jackpot of a whopping £2,000,000! This is certainly one retro slot that will leave you ‘super’ happy! Read our review to find out exactly what’s on offer… Graphics This 5 x 3 reel, 10 payline slot game will take you for a spin down memory lane and provides a classic gameplay experience! Developed… [Read More]

How To Save Money As A Homeowner

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Owning a house is one of life’s biggest luxuries. You get to live in a place you call home, and there’s never any worry about paying rent or being kicked out because the landlord wants to sell. More importantly than that, owning a home helps you create a stable place for your children to grow up. You’ve put all your eggs in one basket and settled down in a nice family-friendly location, making it easier for them to go about their life. As if all this wasn’t already enough, you’ve also got a very valuable asset that can come in… [Read More]

When Marriage Gets Tough Maybe Counselling Is The Answer

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Marriage is without doubt at times one of the toughest relationships that any of us are going to face in our lives. It’s not always easy to agree with your husband and wife because we all have opinions and there will be times when you simply have a different opinion. Learning to compromise with your partner can be the answer, but sometimes that’s not always the answer, and you can possibly need help from outside the relationship to talk through any problems that you both may be having within the relationship. There are of course a number of reasons why… [Read More]

My Mum Has Reached A Milestone. She Is 90 Years Old Today

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Today is my mum’s 90th birthday. What a milestone to reach! To live to 90 years of age! It’s actually quite hard to visualise somebody that has lived 90 years and has seen all the changes the world has gone through. My mum has lived through the Second World War, has seen television and the telephone invented, and seen the world change beyond what she would remember as a child. I wondered if life was simpler when she was a child with no internet, no social media etc, that would have been simpler that’s for sure, but how would we… [Read More]