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Relationship guest author: Lisa Steadman, a.k.a. The Relationship Journalist™

Lisa Steadman

Lisa Steadman, a.k.a. The Relationship Journalist™ is an accomplished relationship writer, speaker, and coach.

She is the site creator of BreakupChronicles.com featuring stories of how breaking up with the wrong person is the right thing to do (and always leads to bigger and better opportunities in life – including meeting Mr. or Ms. Right!). Her first book ‘It's a Breakup, Not a Breakdown: Get over the Big One and Change Your Life - for Good!’ will be available nationwide in bookstores and online beginning May 8th 2007. Lisa has been featured on The KTLA Morning News, The Tyra Banks Show, Fox Across America, and Playboy radio espousing the positive side to breaking up.

Latest Article by Lisa Steadman:

The ABCs of Ex Etiquette
The most common question people ask me is whether or not it’s possible to stay friends with an ex after a breakup while still moving on. And nine times out of ten my answer is always the same—no. Why? Because as hard as it may be to accept, your relationship is over. This person is now your ex. The relationship ended for a reason. It’s now time to EXtract your ex from your life, give yourself time to heal, and create the space to move on...Read this article

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Relationship guest author: John Gray

John Gray

John Gray is the best-selling relationship author of all time...

John Gray is the author of 15 best-selling books, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one best-selling relationship book of last decade. In the past ten years, over 30 million Mars and Venus books have been sold in over 40 languages throughout the world.

Latest Article by John Gray:

Making it Past the First Date - The Ex Files
One of our staff members recounted how she recently went on a first date and was asked about her past relationships. "I know that the Mars Venus principles tell us to express our best self in the first stages of dating," she said, "and talking about past relationships is a heavy topic for a first—or even second or third—date. How do I answer these questions without scaring someone off or seeming evasive?" She was right to be worried!..Read this article

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Relationship guest author: The Seed

The Seed

Seed is a lot like James Bond. No one man can personify the true depth of Seed...

In a way Seed is the "Exception". He does not march to the same drum as the masses. He charts his own course, makes his own mistakes and is solely responsible for his successes. Well, maybe not solely, he has surrounded himself with some of the best people on the planet and loves and cherishes each friend and interaction dearly.

Latest Article by The Seed:

In search of closure.
When trauma strikes leaving you picking up the pieces. When your Facebook profile sits friendless. Your lover leaves. Your family alienates you. The pizza, sucks.

How do you survive? How do we find closure for our heartache? Does closure even exist? Read this article

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Help and advice on divorce

Healing After Divorce: Is Counseling Right for You?
Divorce is right up there on the list of life altering events, alongside childbirth, marriage and purchasing a first home. Too often, the actual divorce and end of that relationship are only small pieces in the puzzle of putting your life back together. A significant change in financial status, moving to a new home, helping children through the adjustment and the potential loss of your partner's friends and family relationships may become realities in an already trying time.
Protecting your assets before, during, and after a divorce
Divorces can be financially crippling to the couple involved depending on their financial resources in the first place. Knowing what to do in the first place and then doing it are two important steps that you can take to protect yourself financially.
Keeping the financial cost of divorce down
Along with the many changes that divorce brings to your life comes a change in your financial status- for both parties involved. Many couples will go from a two income family to a single income individual. Other couples will go from a single income family with a stay at home parent to a single income individual and an individual in need of a job.

Relationship help and advice

From Dual-Income to Single-Income: Common Marital Issues When Making The Adjustment
As of the 2004 US Census, there are approximately 5.5 million stay-at-home parents, which shows a 15% increase over the last ten years. With the number of stay-at-home parents climbing, more and more couples are confronting the issues and challenges a relationship faces when one parent forgoes a career to stay at home with the children.
20 Dos & Don'ts of a Functional Relationship
1. Who you think you are is important. Like attracts like. Think about it. Do you like who you are?...
How to Recover from a Breakup as a Teenager
Whether this is your first relationship or your twenty-seventh, dealing with a break up is hard. No matter what the reason was for the break up, it still hurts. Even though this break up may seem like the end of the world now, there are ways to heal your broken heart.
What Went Wrong? When Relationships Go From Hot To Cold
Everything was great. We had been dating for 6 months. We shared the same interests, felt very at ease together, had (often) discussed future plans and had even spent some of the holidays together. Our relationship seemed right on track and just right in general. Then, without warning, he said he "needs some time to think and figure things out. " He stopped calling and rarely returned my calls. When he did, I was often met with silence on the other end of the line. When I asked "what happened", I just got a verbal run around of excuses about how busy he is and/or how much stress he is under right now. What happened? What did I do? I don't know what to think.

Help and advice on mending a broken heart

The Surest Way to Cure a Broken Heart
This is a truth everybody knows because everybody has been through it and it's embodied in our society folk wisdom... Time heals all wounds. Do you intend to suffer from your broken heart 20 years from now? Of course not. But that doesn't help you now... or does it?
The 6 Stages Of A Broken Heart
At one point or another almost everyone has experienced a broken heart. Whether it happened in 3rd grade or a week before your 80th birthday, most of us can relate to the Celine Dion song "All by Myself" (even though we won't admit it). What's important is to get through this passing phase of your life. "Passing" is a verb I chose because you do get over it.
Moving On After Being Dumped
Being dumped is something, which has happened to everyone at some time in their life. How each person chooses to deal with it depends very much on the individual, but there is one thing you can be sure of and that is that it will be painful whatever your age. Learning the best way of dealing with this situation will help to you to recover as quickly as possible and prepare you for moving on.
Haunted: Burying The Ghosts Of Lost Love
Late at night, as you read quietly, before you fall off to sleep... During a busy afternoon as you run through a crowd, hurrying back to your office or home.... Sitting in a movie theater, a restaurant or waiting for the light to turn... A sudden thought or image rises within you. It can come as a small nagging feeling or as a wave of emotion that threatens to overwhelm and drown you in the grief of a memory. Either way it's clear; here comes his/her ghost again.

Help and advice on coping with loneliness

Coping with loneliness
You are not alone as a staggering amount of people suffers from loneliness. Loneliness is a feeling of emptiness and can sometimes result in depression.
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