Monthly Archives: July 2011

Why Relationships Trump Your Career In Terms of Happiness

Many of us assume that money does indeed buy happiness. After all, we like things. We like better technology for our living room. We like a smoother ride to work in a fancier car. We like bigger, better, faster, stronger. So if we’re going to be happy, we’re going to have to have the money required to buy all of these great happiness-generating items, right?

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Hit the Town: How to Live the Nightlife With Interesting Dates or Double Dates

When someone tells you that they are “hitting the nightlife” or “hitting the town,” what do you think of? Perhaps you think of a limo ride to an exclusive restaurant, followed by drinks at a trendy bar. Or maybe you think of hitting one of the hottest clubs with your date and imbibing the night away. But what if you want to hit the town with a date – or, even more, a double date? How does one exactly, um, do that?

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How to Use Couple Friends as Family Away From Family

In an ideal world, we all have close, intimate relationships with our families. We live near them, we enjoy spending time with them, and we receive support from them. But we don’t live in an ideal world, and even when you do have a great family, that doesn’t guarantee that you’ll always be able to spend time with them. If you took a great job far away from your family because of the career opportunity, you need to build a “home away from home,” in a manner of speaking; a family away from family.

One way to do just that is to build not just a circle of friends, but to find couples to be your friends. This is especially true if you’re in a relationship yourself and you need to find other people who share a similar lifestyle to you. After all, it won’t always be fun being the “third wheel.”

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Keeping Your Marriage Private in a Digital Age

We live in a world of smart phones that know our precise locations on earth. We live in a world that will tag us on Facebook within a few hours that a photo was taken – whether or not we know about the photo. And we definitely live in a world in which digital and social technology is closing the distance between us, blurring the lines between our public and our private lives.

With all this in mind, it is understandable if you are a little hesitant about sharing your marriage with everybody. After all, sharing the most intimate details of your relationship was harder to do fifty or even ten years ago – today, we expect instant access to our acquaintance’s private lives. You can duck out of this if you want – and do it without seeming like a social media prude – but you’ll have to commit to it. And if you want your marriage to stay private, well, sometimes it takes a little work. Here’s what you can do.

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