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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:52 am Post subject:
Enna wrote:
Remember that your partner is seeking you as much as you are seeking them, they want a relationship with a special someone and that person is you. Stay focused on what you want, be open to receiving and use your co-creative powers to manifest the relationship of your dreams.
Enna, this is the best thing I have seen on this thread so far. It works! But be careful what you ask for ... she'll be calling you three times a day before you know it. _________________
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject:
Enna wrote:
Remember that your partner is seeking you as much as you are seeking them, they want a relationship with a special someone and that person is you. Stay focused on what you want, be open to receiving and use your co-creative powers to manifest the relationship of your dreams. - quote from Jennifer Hoffman
Itazura ichiban wrote:
Enna, this is the best thing I have seen on this thread so far. It works! But be careful what you ask for ... she'll be calling you three times a day before you know it.
@Itazura Ichiban - I am glad you appreciated it. Thank you for your kind words.
As the expression goes; "Be careful what you pray for."
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:21 am Post subject:
The one I am with now has a lot of male friends. I trust her, but I don't know about the intentions of her friends. Guess I just have to learn to not show my possessiveness. _________________
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:19 am Post subject:
Itazura ichiban wrote:
The one I am with now has a lot of male friends. I trust her, but I don't know about the intentions of her friends. Guess I just have to learn to not show my possessiveness.
HAng in there. Dont worry about it.
Ive always had a lot of guy friends. THey are guys so if she said yes, well say no more.
The only one you need to trust is her.
And if she had wanted them she would have already had them by now. So no worries on that front. _________________
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:21 am Post subject:
Thanks, Eve. Are you from a large family?
She has told me how much quality time she spends with me, compared to the little time she spends with them. FB friends don't count for much!
The boys who seem to really matter in her life, she disses them, that they are not as positive or as reliable as I am. I just need to cool my jets. _________________
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:28 am Post subject:
Itazura ichiban wrote:
Thanks, Eve. Are you from a large family?
She has told me how much quality time she spends with me, compared to the little time she spends with them. FB friends don't count for much!
The boys who seem to really matter in her life, she disses them, that they are not as positive or as reliable as I am. I just need to cool my jets.
I have two older brothers that I did everything with as a kid hence having so many male friends as an adult. I am comfortable with men.
And as my husband knows they are in my life only on the telephone for the most part as opposed to us being together all the time. But at first he was a bit jealous of my best friend for the last 30 years. Even though I call him a total pervert.
Actually he is just the quintessential bad boy. Not BF material. _________________
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:20 am Post subject:
In Britain, a Gift Registry for Divorces
By MEG HANDLEY / LONDON Feb 26, 2010
TIME MAGAZINE
Divorce can be liberating for some. But starting over can be emotionally and financially taxing, as well. One British department store chain hopes to ease the transition for the recently divorced by launching a specialized gift list that family and friends can use to help newly single loved ones stock up on things like sheets, towels and appliances for their new home. You've heard of a wedding registry - well, this is a divorce registry.
"Obviously divorce is quite an expensive time with legal fees and it can be quite busy; there's lots of stuff to think about," says Ruth Attridge, spokeswoman for Debenhams department store, which has more than 150 outlets across Britain and Ireland. "So we thought well, we'll set up a divorce gift list and maybe it'll be a way for friends and family to help that person on their way a bit." She says several customers turned the company onto the idea last year when they inquired whether there were divorce gift lists similar to the ones the chain offers for weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. Since the program was unveiled in January, calls have flooded in from curious prospective clients. (See five Facebook no-nos for divorcing couples.)
Setting up a divorce gift list is simple. Customers book an appointment at a store to pick the items they think they'll want in their new place, with or without some help from the staff (a divorce registry specialist, if you will). Afterward, the selections are posted online for family and friends to browse and buy. Based on market research, Debenhams expects most divorce gift list recipients to be men, for the simple fact that more women tend to remain in the marital home after a breakup, especially if the couple has children.
The British chain is believed to be the first to launch such a program. However, given the proclivity of Americans for divorce - recent statistics put the U.S. divorce rate at about 3.5 per 1,000 people, or roughly half the marriage rate - it may only be a matter of time before the concept makes the jump across the pond. Indeed, divorce has become a big industry around the world, thanks in part to such high-profile celebrity splits like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston and Heather Mills and Paul McCartney. "Celebrate-don't-commiserate" products like greeting cards, sponge cakes and divorce-themed books are all the rage now in the U.S. and Europe. Christine Gallagher's book The Divorce Party Planner includes a "full party plan," with advice on gift ideas, games and appropriate divorce party music. And one London-based law firm, Lloyd Platt & Company, even sells divorce legal advice vouchers for $200 per half hour. (See the best social networking applications.)
All of these items may be popular with consumers, but the trend has triggered a heated response from family advocacy groups. Norman Wells, director of the Britain-based Family Education Trust, says the Debenhams gift registry deliberately glorifies divorce, something he says could have been avoided had the chain devised a more generic "setting up new home" gift list. "This smacks of a cynical attempt by a high street chain to cash in on the misery of people whose marriages have come under pressure," Wells says.
Attridge disagrees. "We're certainly not encouraging divorce," she says. "I don't think there's anyone who's going to get divorced just so they can have a gift list." Retail experts don't see anything wrong with it either, saying the chain is just capitalizing on an untapped demographic and responding to customer demands. "Divorce is a sad fact, but it is a fact and any good retailer is always looking for new opportunities and innovative services and products they can offer," says Richard Dodd, a spokesman for the British Retail Consortium. "Clearly, we've got a retailer who put those two things together." (Read: "Gift Giving on Facebook Gets Real.")
Some recent divorcÉes also see a benefit to the service. Elizabeth Blessitt, who recently divorced her husband of 11 years, says a gift list could have come in handy when she was moving out on her own in Texas. "I was separated for nearly eight months before fully moving my things from our old apartment, so there were a lot of things with memories attached that I just either threw out or left behind," the 33-year-old says. Blessitt ended up purchasing new towels and linens when she moved into her new place, as well as big-ticket items like a bed, desk and dresser - money she would have much rather saved.
But a divorce gift list isn't just about stocking the new bachelor (or bachelorette) pad with cool stuff; it's also about making a fresh start. And not having to dig out that makeshift milk crate coffee table from your old college days.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:15 am Post subject:
Like vultures circling the kill. Even vultures know not to hit on fresh meat, it might not be dead yet.
I know one lady who suddenly went back to her ex-boyfriend. I guess he wasn't really "ex".
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Thank you for your kind words. 
