All relationships at different times will be challenging and will suffer many ups and downs throughout the years that you are with your chosen partner for life. One of the biggest issues that relationships have is intimacy problems. It could be that one of you will struggle to move from the emotional level of your…
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The Top Stresses in Relationships: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Read moreFrom not helping out around the house to financial burdens, every relationship undergoes stress, and, unfortunately, it’s a never-ending instance that will continue to be around throughout the duration of your relationship… The key is all in how you handle the stress… together as a couple. Relationships are hard… No one has ever said that…
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Read moreWhen you start a relationship those early days often leave you feeling as though as you’re floating on a cloud of happiness. Everything appears to have fallen into place in your life, even more so if you have found “the one”. That special person that you’re going to live out your life with and grow…
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9 Questions to Ask Yourself to See if Your Relationship Is Worth Pursuing: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
Read moreSo many wonderful things come out of love and relationships. Partners have the ability to bring out the best (and the worst) in each other. Joy, happiness, fulfillment and growth are some great things relationships bring, but if you’re missing some of these benefits and considering whether or not to stay in your relationship, here…
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Keeping Productive Now That You Work From Home
Read moreCoronavirus has many people working from home, and even though things are begging to get a little more normal, the majority are still home-based. If you’re new to working remotely, then these tips should help you to become a home-office professional and help you to stay productive. Photo by Huseyn Kamaladdin from Pexels Stick To…
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Read moreA relationship between two people will always start with you both of you wanting to spend every second of every day of the year together. This is perfectly normal, but sadly not all relationships will stand the test of time and many of them will fail for a number of reasons. Relationships or marriages are…
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Read moreEvery marriage or long term relationship will at some point hit a sticky patch, and that could be sign that there is a more deep seated problem within the relationship that most likely both of you have been ignoring for many years. We are of course living through a global pandemic which has seen countries…
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Read moreWhen you start out on the journey of meeting somebody new, those initial first moments together are, if truth be known, just perfect. Everything clicks for you as a couple. You have those times together where you are all loved up and quite honestly life is perfect. Of course this is entirely normal and it’s…
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Mummy Needs a Break: Signs Your Wife Could Use Your Help
Read moreYour wife is like a superhero. Despite what’s going on, she manages to get up every single day and see to it that you and your children are loved and cared for. You love and appreciate her for that, and hopefully, find ways to express it. Yet, what may be hard for some men to…
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Couples And Counselling
Read moreWhen you meet the one, all of us instantly think this is it. My life is mapped out and nothing will ever change. Of course that is very the beginning of a relationship when no matter what you do, the other person never sees anything wrong in what you are doing. Over time it’s completely…
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Physical Violence in Relationships
Read moreI recently read a post by Alan at Omg it’s a girl about domestic violence, and that in Ireland there is a campaign underway. The statistics of domestic violence that Alan quoted were massive, but it didn’t surprise me one bit, especially the figures of domestic violence against men by their partners, wive’s or girlfriends.…
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Why Do Kids Become Weapons: When Relationship’s Go Wrong
Read moreDivorce in the world today is forever on the increase. There are probably a number of reasons why it’s on the rise. The pressures of life are far greater than ever before with work and money worries, which also seem to be greater today than ever before. Generally speaking the pressures of life and relationships…
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Sisters: My Sunday Photo
Read moreOn Wednesday just gone it was my birthday, and my 20 year old daughter came home from university for a few days. Which was wonderful as I got to see her on my birthday, many moments make your life worthwhile, and my Sunday Photo this week is without a doubt, one of them. Whenever my…
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The Older I Get The More It Hurts: Siblings
Read moreAnother year has passed and I’m another year older. The older I get, the more think of the estranged relationships I have with my brother and sister, and quite honestly it hurts a bit more every year. When I was born I had a mother, father, brother and sister. I have on many previous occasions…
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Having Children: Does It Help Or Put Pressure On Your Relationship?
Read moreWhen you meet the one, those early times of your relationship are wonderful and carefree. You can please yourselves and do what you want, when you want. You can both be incredibly selfish and my goodness it is wonderful! Totally loved up and just each other to worry about. What could possibly go wrong? Children…
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Divorce Helped Me Form A Strong Bond With My Older Children
Read moreComing from a divorced family life as a child, it would for many years cement the fact in my mind that I never wanted children. It wasn’t until my eldest child was born that I realised I’d felt that way originally because my own parents simply didn’t care about their children. They were far too…
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The Ingredients Of A Happy Relationship
Read moreI am always amazed when I read what so called experts in relationships consider the key factors that make a happy relationship. I have long thought that people today, especially the younger generation jump into relationships much too quickly. It seems to me that as quick as people meet each other, they are moving in…
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I Was Once Part Of A Happy Family Of Five
Read moreIn the near future I will be doing a blog post about a company that basically revitalises all your old black & white photos. So at this point I decided to raid my mum’s house for as many old black and white photos that I could find, and wow! What a shock I was in…
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Chatting To My Five Year Old Twins About Family
Read moreFor half of the school week I drop off and pick up my five year old twin girls from school. When I pick them up I always ask the same question. What did you do in school today? 99 times out of 100 I get the same reply which is a wall of silence or…
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Relationships (Don’t Change Me) Learn To Compromise
Read moreRelationship’s are a minefield. They can be full of mis-trust, paranoia, arguments or least that’s what we read about most of the time. Forming a relationship to me is a strange process because we meet somebody and we must be before anything else, physically attractive to each other. It’s that split second that your head…
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5 good habits to get into in a new relationship
Read moreStarting a relationship can be exciting and you may have high hopes for the future with your new partner. But while you might not be able to keep the smile off your face right now, how do you know things will work out with your other half in the long term? The short answer is…
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