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Angela Harris profile image81

Are You in a Toxic Relationship? Know the Signs

Most relationships start out with the belief that this will be an intimate connection with a special person in your life. Some of us get lucky and get our wish. Most relationships fizzle out and end without...

9 comments    health love family
Catherine Behan profile image70

Three Steps To Ending Your Toxic Relationship

I can’t remember the first time my boyfriend snapped at me. Now that I look back, I suppose it started gradually. He was so sweet to me at first. Lots of flowers, gifts and sentimental greeting cards. ...

0 comments    love relationships dating
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How to Exit a Codependent Relationship

One of the most difficult things for codependent people to do is to extricate themselves from toxic relationships. Codependents don’t want to leave relationships because they think they can “fix” the...

0 comments    love advice how to
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The Gift of Fear Book Review

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker has been given to me by well-meaning friends more than once, but I finally sat down to read it this month. This is not an easy book to read-- at several points, I had to...

6 comments    entertainment relationships
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Why Bad Relationships Lead to Low Self-Esteem

Toxic or bad relationships can lead to low self-esteem in any relationship. In this article, you will see that not only relationships between men and women but parent and child can also become toxic and lead to low self-esteem.

19 comments    family relationships hubmob
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Stopping Violence Against Women and Children

I have been waiting for an opportunity to be able to discuss openly, and maybe even get a little feedback, about the anger and disgust I have at our society's disregard towards the rights of our youth and...

0 comments    violence murder bullies
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Toxic Friends

She tells you you're fat and your boyfriend is cheating on you in the name of friendship. Or is it? Who needs enemies when you have toxic friends? Have you ever received a promotion, lost weight, got a...

2 comments    love life advice
mortaine profile image73

Keeping Your Boundaries

In short, "Boundaries" is psycho-babble for "you don't get to walk all over me." Your personal boundaries might be physical, but more likely they're emotional, and the emotional boundaries are the hardest to...

1 comment    life advice family
Wouldn't This Odd Critter Make YOU A Little Anxious When You Realized You Had No Idea What It Was?69

How To Reduce Anxiety

Having been fortunate in learning early on how to trick my mind and thus reduce anxiety from its inception, I don't personally suffer from that terrible demon to any significant degree. However, my wife...

6 comments    health how to relationships
catsiiis profile image51

There IS a way out

There I was, in a house...on a hill...far enough from "society" to ever be found, if something should happen. I was in a podunk town in the foothills of central california. If you watch the news, it was an...

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