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November 10, 2013 0 Comments

Forgiveness

Forgiveness. Why do we have to forgive? Is there really any good in forgiveness? Someone sent a question to my Facebook page on the topic of forgiveness and restoration. What I found out is that many people have a problem with forgiving. We know that it is humanly impossible to actually forget the event(s) that occurred where someone caused harm or hurt to you. But with forgiveness, it is possible to move on and gain some insight as to why that person caused harm to you and possibly restore that person. If we look outside ourselves for a moment and […]

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November 9, 2013 2 Comments

How to Not Get a Second Date

Last month, I got an email from my Plenty of Fish account alerting me that someone wanted to meet me. Cautiously optimistic, I logged in and was thrilled to see someone who was very photogenic and had an extremely well written profile, showing humor and insight. I left her a message that she responded to. After some witty banter, we swapped numbers and agreed to meet for a coffee date. The meet and greet went well, so, at her suggestion, we agreed to meet for sushi and sake. We were both five minutes early, which is a tremendous turn on […]

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Friends with Benefits
October 25, 2013 2 Comments

Friends With Benefits: What’s in it for Who?

Sweetest Day has come and gone. Fall is here. Cuffing season recruitment is just about done. And Men, here you are STILL SINGLE!! What’s a guy to do?  Well you could follow the advice of a well known pop star and “Call up that shrink in Beverly Hills. You know the one? Dr. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.” But what many men do is look to their PURELY PLATONIC friends for a little “comfort and consoling.”  This sort of arrangement is commonly known as “friends with benefits.” Friends with benefits, loosely defined, is when two people with a history of successful […]

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October 13, 2013 0 Comments

Why “Separated” Isn’t Good Enough

As a single woman, I get hit on all the time by men from various walks of life, and that’s to be expected. But what I don’t necessarily expect is to get hit on by married men. Why? Well, because they’re married! I’m at that age where most of my friends are married, my parents have been married for 47 years, and my aunts and uncles stayed together until death did they part…literally. So with that being said, I am one to have the utmost respect for marriage as an institution under God. When you get hit on by a […]

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October 13, 2013 35 Comments

DIVORCED IS THE NEW SEXY!

5 Reasons Divorced Women are Marrying Faster than Single Women Divorced women are effortlessly finding Husband #2 while single women, with or without children, are having difficulty finding Husband #1. Once women hit the age of 30, the statistics become alarmingly worse. But why is that? What do divorced women have that makes their chances of matrimony greater? Here are the top five reasons why men are making a dash to the aisle faster with repeat offenders. Credibility: When a man sees a beautiful, intelligent woman over 30 who hasn’t jumped the broom yet, he thinks one thing, “What’s wrong […]

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October 12, 2013 0 Comments

You Want Him?! Me Too!!! Eliminating the Other Woman

Ladies, Sisters, Girlfriends, and Fellow Divas, How many times have we found ourselves unwilling participants in a love triangle you never knew existed?! While we all know the high road is to address the vortex (the man), there are those times when we somehow end up face-to-face with the other woman and have no choice except to address her as the competition. Now, the first decision to be made is do we really want him and the relationship. As women, before we engage in conflict over a man, we need to examine the man in question and decide if there is […]

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October 1, 2013 1 Comment

Wait on the Lord

By Melissa Harris “Wait on the Lord and He will direct your path.” I hear so many people make statements like the one above all the time. Even though it’s not an actual bible scripture, there are so many scriptures in the bible that allude to the above statement. But what does it actually mean to wait on the Lord? Does it mean to sit down on your couch and wait for God to speak in an audible voice as to what your next direction should be in life? From what I understand, it means to first acknowledge that he […]

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versus1
September 30, 2013 1 Comment

MYTH BUSTER: Good Girl or Good Catch

By Augustus Golden Most men want a good girl, but many others want a bad girl depending on their taste and their station in life. A good girl is the kind you bring home to momma and hope to one day have in a family picture on your desk along with a couple of kids, whereas a bad girl is that fun girl that makes life exciting and helps you get in touch with your inner badass until you‘re ready for the good girl. The reality is there are very few women who neatly fit into either of those categories […]

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September 30, 2013 2 Comments

In Love and War

 by Renita Austin It’s been said, “All things are fair in love and war,” and I am of the opinion that just as the two entities being compared are opposites, so does two opposites apply in that the statement is both fact and fiction. Fact because… …in love and in war, one is likely to find themselves doing and saying things out of the norm, even out of character. In love and in war, we are often placed in the most precarious situations, faced with life or death decisions, and forced to fight for what we believe in our hearts […]

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