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The Advantages of Friends With Benefits Relationship

The Advantages of Friends With Benefits Relationship

Friends with benefits (FWB) relationships are casual relationships where both partners enjoy a great time together, mostly making love, but with no commitment to each other. These relationships may start between two friends who have been seeing other people but become single simultaneously. Such friends may want to enjoy intimacy but without the commitments that … Read more

Year of the 10th Birthday Party and Making Friends.

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I’m preparing to attend another birthday party for one of my daughter’s friends.  We have attended several parties this year.   And when I say this year, I mean since school started.  In our experience, more parents are throwing parties celebrating 10th birthdays than other birthday years and searching for online cake shops.  My daughter even … Read more

Preach It!

Preach-It!

I am so extremely fortunate to have an open and honest relationship with my teenager. She and I talk about anything and she tells me everything (I hope). Last night as we walked together and caught up on our day she shared the latest installment regarding a particular friend and some ongoing issues that are … Read more

Apologies

Apologies

I’m going to open with a short discussion Ezra and I had recently…  we had an incident where an adult’s conduct was less than stellar in front of Ezra.  If my children get out of line, I expect them to apologize and make things right.  I expect that from adults as well.  Kids are more … Read more

Time Stops

Time Stops

I hope to be accurate when I state that, at some point or another, we’ve all had a moment when Time Stopped.  If we’re very very fortunate, we’ve had many.  More good than bad, and the good so very far outweighs the bad such that no matter how slow time passes during the daily grind, … Read more