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Toxic Type: Be Careful What You Wish For

By On March 8, 2013 · 197 Comments


I hear from a lot of people who are unhappy with exactly the type of person that they wanted or even wished to be with. In fact some are unhappy with the person whom they believed that they needed in order to have the type of feelings or relationship that they envisioned.

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If you have core values issues, you have compatibility issues

By On February 8, 2013 · 199 Comments


A few months back while creating a class for one of my courses, I decided to conduct an experiment on me and note what I used to look for in a partner and the list…. was short and very embarrassing. Good looking but not a necessity if they 1) pursued me hard [...]

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Are You Being Blinded By ‘Good Points’?

By On September 19, 2012 · 149 Comments

If you want to find yourself staying in a relationship long past its sell-by-date, one of the easiest ways to do so is to focus on the trees instead of the wood, and pretty much visually and mentally chop up a person into so-called ‘good points’ and ‘bad points’. It’s this getting hung up [...]

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Are You Living By YOUR Values In Your Relationships? They May Be Great On Illusionary Paper, But Where Are The Shared Values?

By On August 15, 2012 · 121 Comments

I’ve written a lot about the importance of values and how if you want to understand why your relationship isn’t or wasn’t working or want to have improved relationships, how you need to better understand what your values are and more importantly, live them.

Values, quite simply, [...]

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The Importance of Holding Your Own in Dating & Relationships

By On June 29, 2011 · 151 Comments

If you imagine driving a car, after your initial acceleration, you still have to hold it steadily in order to go anywhere and have a quality journey. Sometimes you have to give it a little more ‘gas’, sometimes you have to gently apply pressure to the brakes, and sometimes you have to [...]

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