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Should you Facebook Friend an Ex?

July 14, 2010
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by Aja Dorsey Jackson Yesterday Harriet wrote a great post about avoiding danger zones in marriage. Today I want to talk about the place that I see as one of the most potentially dangerous hot spots for couples right now. That place is Facebook. Picture this. I get a friend request from someone I used [...]

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The Weight Of Your Words…

July 13, 2010
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by Marcus Whyte23 When defining words or assigning them value, the word FINE would fall somewhere in the middle of bad and great, right in the middle or its valued weight would be average. Just average, just ok, nothing special about defining yourself as fine. We use words like FINE for relational comparisons everyday when [...]

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How To Protect Your Marriage From Danger Zones

July 13, 2010
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by Harriet Hairston Danger zone:  a dangerous area; a geographical region, personal association, or scope of activity in which the probability of loss, injury or other undesirable outcomes is at its highest.  Perhaps warning signs along open manhole covers in the city come to mind when you think about this definition.  But what about the [...]

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Does Anyone Still Believe In Love? I Still Do

July 8, 2010
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by Kea Taylor It could have been any one of the nights that I ventured out on the social scene filled with beautiful, well-dressed and polished, chocolate 30-somethings.  In Washington, DC — a city wrought with well-educated “power players” and “inside trackers” , it was (and still is) quite common to be asked by a [...]

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Do You Feel Appreciated? (How Do You Cope If You Don’t?)

July 8, 2010
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by Tara Pringle Jefferson It’s summertime and life at the Jefferson household is chaotic beyond words. We’re both working late every night, with my husband coming home at 11, midnight most days of the week. We’ve got projects on top of projects, and all things of things on our to-do list that just need to [...]

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An Arranged Marriage Is Not Such a Bad Idea

July 7, 2010
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by Tiya Cunningham-Sumter My husband and I are raising two great girls who are going to (prayerfully) grow up to be two great women. Based on the values we are teaching, GOD first, self-love and self-respect, family and education are just a few of the many values we want our girls to walk away with. [...]

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Romantic Doesn’t Make It Real

July 7, 2010
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by Aja Dorsey Jackson Negative images of love and marriage are visible almost everywhere you look. On the other hand, we hold true love up to these impossible ideals, leading us to believe that anything falling short of those isn’t true love. I have recently begun to pay more attention to some of the common [...]

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Would You Like It If He Put a Bracelet On It? (Being Married With No Ring)

July 6, 2010
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by Tara Pringle Jefferson My girl Charreah pointed me to this blog post on Real Simple. A young writer, recently engaged, showed off her beautiful new piece of jewelry. But instead of a shiny new diamond ring, it was a simple – yet elegant – bracelet that her fiance had designed for her. She says: [...]

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You Can’t Do What You’ve Always Done

July 1, 2010
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by Tara Pringle Jefferson When my husband and I were going through what we currently call The Fight of 2010 a few weeks ago, I was faced with a choice. I could react the same way I always react when I feel I’ve been wronged: defensive and closed. Or, I could force myself to grow [...]

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Question # 2 from the Ladies Top Ten List

July 1, 2010
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Looking to hear from the voices of all who are dating and or looking to be in relationship. Ladies you in particular are being called out. Here’s the reason for the call out, over the last couple of months we have heard from our television, radio and other media personalities stating that the male and [...]

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Beautiful Wedding, Now What about the Marriage?

June 30, 2010
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by Tiya Cunningham-Sumter Experiencing two weddings this month has not only brought a smile to my heart, it also served as a reminder that love is still very much in the air. Attending one of the weddings as a guest was wonderful, but being a coordinator for the other was more than a notion. After [...]

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