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Thirty minutes into my first dinner date with Jeff, he leaned across the table and said, “you should know I’m eager to get married.  And I want children, probably no more than two.  A boy, hopefully, and I’d like him to have my name.  How many kids do you want?”
 
Thus far, Jeff and [...]

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Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the news.  Beautiful women love to cheat.  A University of Texas report released this week put forth that “physically attractive women may not only have more alternatives, but also [have] high standards that are difficult to satisfy…they may have fewer reasons to be committed to any particular partner.”
 
Indiscriminately chosen partners [...]

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Studies suggest people who have suffered severe trauma to the frontal lobe of their brains have trouble projecting into the future and making plans.  These unfortunate folks are “trapped forever in a perpetual now, a world without end, a time without later.”*     
If you were to go out with a person with a compromised [...]

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According to family legend, my grandparents met while ice-skating on a Canadian pond that could have come straight off the set of It’s a Wonderful Life. Grandma wore a muffler and a Donna Reed haircut. Grandpa had on starched trousers and Brylcreem. She was coy and giggled at all his jokes, he bought her a [...]

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