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		<title>In or Out &#8211; There&#8217;s No Middle Ground</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/22/in-or-out-theres-no-middle-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his last post, Mike wrote about people &#8220;staying together for the kids&#8221;, and how it often doesn&#8217;t turn out to be good for the kids or anyone else involved.  I agree, but I think his reasoning (though very common) is way off base.  This is an issue I&#8217;ve had cause to consider in great [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>The rush to intimacy</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/07/the-rush-to-intimacy/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/07/07/the-rush-to-intimacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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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>Losing that personal touch</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/26/losing-that-personal-touch/</link>
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		<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>Saving a Bad Relationship</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/20/saving-a-bad-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/20/saving-a-bad-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike and Tiffany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true.  I tell Mike to cut his losses all the time.  It might seem a bit contradictory, because I&#8217;m not a fan of the modern mentality that says as soon as the roller coaster passion dies down for five minutes, you should start shopping around for someone more exciting.  In theory, I don&#8217;t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing when to get out</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/12/knowing-when-to-get-out/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/06/12/knowing-when-to-get-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dating drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fixing relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would assume that over fifty percent of all relationships end.   I base this assumption on the divorce rate and the fact that not all relationships lead to marriage.  So, at some point, someone decides that they want out.   This is a tough area for me with my “I can make it work” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visibility is in the Eye of the Beholder</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/02/11/visibility-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2010/02/11/visibility-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dating drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meeting people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic people]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true that most of us drift along in traffic, not really noting the specifics of most of the cars around us.  I&#8217;m as guilty of that as Mike apparently is.  I can&#8217;t agree, though, about those stand-out cars.  The cars that &#8220;pop&#8221; for me on the road aren&#8217;t beat up or noisy; the cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picky or Sane?</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/28/picky-or-sane/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/28/picky-or-sane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dating drama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dating]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/?p=314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a &#8220;wish list&#8221; for a potential partner is asking for trouble.  I&#8217;ve said before that I think the biggest problem with &#8220;finding love&#8221; in today&#8217;s society is that we try to shop for mates like we shop for a new dress or a juicy grapefruit.  Looking for love, in my book, is  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Alone for Five Minutes &#8211; It&#8217;s Not the End of the World</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/16/being-alone-for-five-minutes-its-not-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/16/being-alone-for-five-minutes-its-not-the-end-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tiffany</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad choices]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/?p=303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem an unlikely starting premise for a dating and relationship blogger, but getting into a relationship isn&#8217;t necessarily everyone&#8217;s ultimate goal&#8230;nor should it be.   I intended to write about something else today, but this line from Mike&#8217;s post about unhealthy relationship patterns hit me so hard that I had to drop what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds of a feather DON&#8217;T flock together</title>
		<link>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/14/birds-of-a-feather-dont-flock-together/</link>
		<comments>http://life-love-and-online-dating.com/2009/12/14/birds-of-a-feather-dont-flock-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dating drama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, she just wasn&#8217;t that into me.   But, the reason for that is what I think is the more interesting part.  I wasn&#8217;t what she was used to.  She wasn&#8217;t used to being around someone who didn&#8217;t “need” her for something.   She didn&#8217;t know what to do with that.  How do you feel [...]]]></description>
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