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Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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Children need adult men in their lives.
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When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
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The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.
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People often recommend, "Why do you ask?" as a good conversation stopper. But that really doesn't end the conversation, it just leaves the other person sputtering for a response. I like, "You'll be the first to know.".
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Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.
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I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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I spent most of my 20s dating older men, and I really wish I had spent that time dating men my own age who were going through the same experiences I was. I totally understand the appeal of a mature, dashing older man over fellow twenty-somethings who are still figuring things out. And, true, a fling with an older man can be instructive in many ways, and no doubt he finds you attractive.
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The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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My inbox showed me how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.
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Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.
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Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.
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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
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The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.
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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.
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I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.
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Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.