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Life without parents- How to cope?

Written in response to a reader's request for an article on coping with life without parents, this Hub offers thoughts that address this situation. The challenge of coping is different for everyone, depending on the age of the person and the circumstances. This Hub primarily addresses teens without parents.

25 comments    love life advice
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When Roommates Won't Clean Up After Themselves...

After a lifetime of being a "Felix Unger" to a number of different "Oscar Madison's", I'm convinced that a "Felix" and an "Oscar" should never share living quarters. (To those unfamiliar with Felix Unger...

18 comments    life advice cleaning
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"Why Math is Important in our Lives" - Things to Explain to Kids Who Ask

The question of why math is important usually arises when children have learned how to count, add, substract, multiply, and divide; and they come to believe they know all they need to know to function...

16 comments    life education math
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When Should Kids Move Out of Their Parents' House?

There is no set age at which grown children should move out of their parent's/parents' home. Although, of course, moving out is something that is healthy and normal for most young adults, the age at which a...

11 comments    life family how
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How to Move On After the Death of a Loved One

When we lose a loved one, in the beginning it isn't so much a matter of moving on, as it is of getting through the day. That period referred to as "the beginning", however, is a long one, and it doesn't end...

24 comments    love life advice
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Love & Marriage: How can a couple do things together when the husband and wife don't have many common interests?

A couple in this situation would seem to have only a few approaches: Treat activities as "yours, mine, and ours" and find new things to do that are completely different from the activities each partner now...

3 comments    love life advice
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Can You Be Happy In Your Relationship When You Don't Feel Loved?

Whether you can feel happy in a relationship while also not feeling loved probably depends on three things: 1. How much you need to feel loved 2. What kind of love you have in mind. 3. Exactly how...

7 comments    love life advice
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Middle-Aged People and Dreams

This Hub about being middle aged and following dreams (or not) is a matter of my own considering and pondering the matter. As a result, the Hub is lengthy. Pondering, after all, tends to run long. If...

13 comments    life inspiration happiness
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Divorce Options - 50/50 split?

It has always seemed to me that many disputes over property and assets could be eliminated if a couple first sorted a few things out. Whether the issue at hand is dividing marital assets, some common sense...

2 comments    life advice family
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Having Compassion

In  Andrew Lloyd Webber's, "Phantom of the Opera", there is a scene where one of the lead characters, Raoul, makes a plea to the murderous Phantom to "show some compassion".  The lonely and emotionally...

2 comments    life family children
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