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	<title>Life, Love and Online Dating &#187; Mike</title>
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		<title>Staying together for the kids</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/20/staying-together-for-the-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[single parent dating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that I was happy.   Or, at least, I thought I was putting on a good illusion of being happy.  Whichever it was, I didn&#8217;t want my kids to know that my marriage was draining the life out of me and leaving just a hollow shell.   I nearly had myself fooled and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where there&#8217;s no will, there&#8217;s no way</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/14/where-theres-no-will-theres-no-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked what the most important thing is in a relationship, the number one answer is surprising.   From what I have seen, “love” seems to be number one.  Trust appears to be coming in at a close second.   Honesty is another heavy hitter in the “Things we want” list but it still won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the dating discussion lottery</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/08/winning-the-dating-discussion-lottery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[first impressions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in a fairly crowded convenience store and purchased two lottery scratch off tickets.  The store clerk asked me if I had any preference as to which ones.  Now, to me, it doesn&#8217;t matter.  I have to figure that the whole thing is randomly generated by a computer and winning is all left to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The rush to intimacy</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/07/the-rush-to-intimacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiffany once told me that physical intimacy is like a placebo, an illusion of real intimacy.   I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I immediately thought she was wrong and just being&#8230;girlie.   How much more intimate can you be than being “intimate”?   However, my obsessive brain and habitual recreational thinking lead me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling the void with fantasy</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/30/filling-the-void-with-fantasy/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/30/filling-the-void-with-fantasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crushes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crush is fun and can inspire us to live better.  I noticed that I have a tendency to develop crushes on fiction characters.   One of my longest lasting crushes is Dorothy Boyd from the movie Jerry Maguire.   It&#8217;s not necessarily any physical characteristic that draws me in, it&#8217;s her personality quirks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games have a higher success rate</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/27/games-have-a-higher-success-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/27/games-have-a-higher-success-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dating drama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[he's just not that into you]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to playing games, numbers don&#8217;t lie.   I&#8217;d like to say that I am all for the honest and direct approach but I&#8217;ve seen the statistics and games have a higher success rate.  I&#8217;ve talked about this before when I wrote a response to the book “he&#8217;s just not that into you”. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing that personal touch</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/26/losing-that-personal-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/26/losing-that-personal-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Something very strange occurred to me as I was leaving the store.  I realized that I had just gone into the store, picked up a few items, paid for them and didn&#8217;t speak a single word to anyone.  With automated checkout lines, this is now possible.  Human interaction is slowly becoming a thing of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new definition of relationships</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/24/a-new-definition-of-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/24/a-new-definition-of-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike and Tiffany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have gotten some comments implying that Tiffany and I are in a relationship.  The truth is that we have never actually even met.  To clear things up, I thought I might take some time to tell the story of how it all began.   At least, my version of the story.   Tiffany may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking yourself back up</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/23/picking-yourself-back-up/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/23/picking-yourself-back-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been affected by the economy in some way.   Some of us are harder hit than others.   It seems that the “norm” in times like this is to “wait and see”.  But, when the hope that something will change begins to fade, it&#8217;s time to adopt a new way of thinking.   [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Remodeling your life</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/21/remodeling-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/21/remodeling-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the many years that I have been doing construction and remodeling work, the most common question that people ask me is, “What do you think we should do?”   It doesn&#8217;t seem like a very odd question when you consider that I have many years of experience.   However, when you consider the context [...]]]></description>
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