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Family Relationships

Stuff I Didn't Need to Worry About

Thankfully, our kids survived their teen years. So did David and I, though I know I aged more than he did. But I can still do a headstand and he can't, so there.

Nail me for sexism, but I'm convinced we moms feel our kids' challenges more than dads. Everything from circumcision to vaccinations to teething to leaving a tearful kid with a sitter to friendship issues to acne to failed drivers' tests to breakups to college rejections and the rest.

We moms are genetically predisposed to put ourselves through the wringer with each of our kids. How unfair is that?! I have no solution to this biological bind, but I've told David that the next life time we're together he gets to be the mom.

Stuff I Didn't Need to Worry About

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How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

The "Sandwich Generation" is a term that has now made it into the dictionary. It fits an increasing number of Boomer women whose reality includes being squeezed between the demands of growing children and the needs of aging parents.

A study by AARP and the National Alliance for Care-giving identified over 44 million Americans who are caring for ill adult family members, 60% of them women. According to the National Center on Health Statistics, about 80% of women in their 40's have children for whom they are still somewhat responsible. Given these numbers, many of you may well be asking yourself, how can I balance caring for my parents, my children and myself? Here are some tips to help you sustain and nourish yourself.

How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

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From Baby Boomer to Mother-in-Law
How to Play Your New Role

Now that your son has popped the question, the congratulations from your friends include some advice about the wedding: "smile, shut up and wear beige."

Your married children's lives are moving forward and so can yours. Focus your energy on taking care of yourself rather than on controlling them. This is a new chapter in everyone's life. You can best serve your emerging relationship with them and your own personal growth as a member of the Sandwich Generation when you choose to enjoy your new role of mother-in-law.

From Baby Boomer to Mother-in-Law
How to Play Your New Role

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The Tiger Woods Affair
Why Nice Guys Cheat

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Serial cheaters usually use sex as a sort of emotional band-aid to make themselves feel better about insecurities, growing older, depression, and for thrill-seeking, among other things. Serial cheaters seek out opportunities for sex - think ESPN's Steve Phillips.

Unintended cheaters generally make a bad decision when presented with an opportunity to cheat, but don't seek out the opportunity. This is the kind of person who sleeps with a coworker after an out of town conference following a rough month, or a difficult life change.

The Tiger Woods Affair: Why Nice Guys Cheat

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What Can We Learn From the Death of a Loved One

The death of a loved one is considered to be our most painful life experience. Many of us would prefer to die ourselves rather than face life without someone who meant so much to us.

If, however, we accept that life is a school, and that every experience is an opportunity to move forward on our evolutionary path, there will be some very useful lessons to be gained even in this most unpleasant experience. Let us look at some of them.

What Can We Learn From the Death of a Loved One

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When Family Members are Reacting Differently
To the Loss of Your Pet

The loss of a family companion animal is difficult, and my heart goes out to you. We come to love our animals and feel a deep sense of loss when they die. Some people tell me they've felt more grief over the loss of their dog than of any human being in their life.

It's not always recognized by others, but those would only be people who have not lost an animal companion they loved. Or I should say, who loved them. They give us the unconditional love that helps us thrive.

When Family Members are Reacting Differently
To the Loss of Your Pet

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Becoming Your Best Self
Can We Talk?

One of the easiest ways to complicate our lives is in the area of interpersonal relationships, and the closer the people are to us, the more complicated it can get! Misunderstandings arise in the blink of an eye: a poor choice of words, an unconscious gesture, an incorrect interpretation, sometimes a deliberate attack.

Becoming Your Best Self

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6 Ways You Sabotage Your Love Relationship

You may be pushing your partner out of your life. Your fears, guilt, doubt, past experiences and feelings of unworthiness may drive you to doing and saying terrible things to the one you like or love. Whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously, you could be pushing away the relationship of a lifetime.

It's time to stop sabotaging your love relationship. You are worthy of relationship happiness. Your partner is not better or worse than you, as you both bring equally important things to the relationship. Here are 6 ways that you are sabotaging your love relationship, and what to do about them.

6 Ways You Sabotage Your Love Relationship

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What You Can Learn From
President Obama's Mother-in-Law

Now that Michelle Obama's mother is living in the White House, will the cruel jokes and snide remarks about mothers-in-law finally stop? Will Marian Robinson, as first mother-in-law, be able to pave the way for acceptance, even respect, for this much-maligned branch of the family tree? Only time, and the nightly comedians, will tell.

What You Can Learn From
President Obama's Mother-in-Law

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Six Tips For Spending the Holidays With Your In-laws

The way I see it, there are two groups of people: those who love the holidays because they love spending time with family, and those who dread the holidays because their family-or spouse's family-is difficult to be around. I wrote this article for those of you in the second category.

Remember when you promised "for better or for worse"? If your in-laws are controlling and self-centered, then spending time with them is probably part of the "worse." Because spending time with your spouse's parents is part of the marriage commitment, you might as well learn how to make the best of it. Here are six tips for having a better holiday experience.

Six Tips For Spending the Holidays With Your In-laws

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Growing and Connecting with Your Spouse

Do you remember when there were no children in your life? Hanging out with your spouse was your first priority. You had fun going on dates. You had time to talk and share with each other your day's events. And sex was something you looked forward to. And then along came Ryan or Megan, and then maybe Benjamin or Kaylee. Suddenly, life became centered on your children. Time for each other as a couple was rare.

If you and your spouse plan to be a happy couple after the children have left, you need to grow and connect with each other today. While there are no guarantees that you and your spouse will be one of those cute, old couples in "When Harry Met Sally," there are things you can do to increase your odds.

Growing and Connecting with Your Spouse

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Is Grandma Really a Monster In Law?

It is easy to take offence when you are confronted about your parenting choices, especially when criticism comes from your own mother or mother-in-law. But could you be over-reacting or perhaps just a little oversensitive? Is Grandma really going out of her way to needle you or could she actually be trying to impart some well-meant (although misguided) information?

Family Values

You may have heard a million jokes about mother-in-laws, but when it comes to dealing with your own, up close and personal, especially when you become a parent, it is not easy to see the funny side. Unfortunately, we can't choose our in-laws. They come as part of the package along with the person we fall in love with. And, here lies the root cause of most problems: the difference in upbringing between ourselves and our partners.

Is Grandma Really a Monster In Law?

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If You Think You're Enlightened, Have Kids

Spiritual teacher Ram Dass reportedly once said, 'If you think you're enlightened, spend a weekend with your parents.' I would like to modify that to 'have kids.' Of course, having kids is a much bigger time commitment than spending a weekend with your parents. Instead, you get YEARS of weekends in which birthday parties, G-rated movies, and Chuckie Cheese's qualify as high excitement. But that isn't really what makes having kids such a spiritual reality check. The value is that you have a built in test of your ego and self-awareness on every front.

If You Think You're Enlightened, Have Kids

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Home For the Holidays
Family Dynamics and The Art of Compromise

It's time to go home for the holidays. Since going away to college, you come and go as you please. Eat and sleep when you feel like it, and report to no one. Now it's time to get together with old friends, party 'til dawn, and sleep all day. It's the perfect way to let loose before to going back to the college grind, right? Right?

Alas, this lifestyle won't go over well with most families. Demonstrate that new found maturity by being considerate of others-holidays are about family, after all. Of course, it's important to spend time catching up with friends; just make sure to schedule some quality time with the 'rents. Remember, you can go back to living the independent lifestyle soon enough. The following tips will help college students communicate effectively and come up with a plan to make the holidays fun-and peaceful-for the whole family.

Home For the Holidays
Family Dynamics and The Art of Compromise

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The Circle of Life -- The Zodiac Signs and the New Moon's Journey
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