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Is Your Past Getting in the Way of Your Future?

February 3, 2013 8 Comments
We think we need to be perfect, or at least somewhere close. We have so little grace for ourselves, for what we’ve been through, where we’ve come from. A beautiful woman is looking out from behind a chain link fence, symbolic of her own beliefs that are keeping her from having the relationship she wants.

I received an email the other day that really got to me. It was from a reader who felt that her past behavior with men had precluded her from having a future with a good man. My heart went out to her. It brought back to me all those times I, too, questioned my own [...]

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Do You Have Too Much Emotional Baggage?

May 2, 2012 2 Comments
Unpack your bags - don't let the memory of your ex get in the way of a new healthy relationship

Don't let the memory of your ex be the "third wheel" in your new relationship. This is the seventh post in our series 8 Signs You Aren't Ready for a Relationship. We all have unpacked emotional baggage from our past relationships, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to completely get rid of it; that's just being [...]

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