By Cranston The Cat

“I’m quitting,” my freshly divorced friend ceremoniously announced. “That’s it! I’m going to pull out of this silly race while I still have a scintilla of self-esteem intact.”

“No you’re not,” I retorted. “Quitting is not permitted. You’re just having a bad day. You’re blood sugar’s low. You’re hormonal. Go have a double cappuccino or a gargantuan Coke-Slurpee” (my fix for everything lately.) “You have to be patient,” I then offered more gently -”not set these impossible deadlines for finding someone. It doesn’t work that way.”
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By Terisa Hill

For the ladies out there who’ve ever thought the words, “This man is just not good enough for me,” I strongly suggest you read further.

There are enough women out there who have put up with men who don’t deserve them, that they have come to not remember that they deserve better. It is about time we women come together and try to change that. If we rally ourselves to set a standard approved only by and for women, then we won’t feel alone in our tough choices in men. Instead, we will feel support when we are questioning ourselves about if we are worth more than what the particular man in question can give us.
I have found that a man cannot be the primary judge of what a woman is worth. We have to rely on the understanding of our own gender if we want the true worth of who we are.
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By Monica Ziebell

What is love? Is love the caressing of each other on the coach watching television being completely happy? Is love being in a marriage that you aren’t happy with, but you stick it out because you made a promise to that person, forever? Is love the moment you first see someone for the first time, and you get that special feeling, “Love at first sight”? Often times people totally get this word “love” mixed up with, lust. We think one is the other, and then we usually get everything all mixed up in the process. I know as I get older I learn the difference from the two. Lust is what usually starts when you meet someone you attracted too. It can develop into a great loving relationship, or it can end up turning into pure hell. It’s all a matter of opinion, and person of how you deal with love or lust.

By  Melissa Gonzalez

As children, we were quite often told we could be whatever we wanted. We could grow up to be a teacher, an astronaut, or even the late night sex therapist you see on those women’s television networks. Whatever we dreamt of surely became an object within grasp. Although, while the professional or even material milestones are always obtainable, why were we never warned that in love… we aren’t always allowed to have what we want?
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By Kathleen Ingraham

In the past week I have lost two comforts of my life: my job and my boyfriend. In both situations I was told that it was nothing I did wrong. The principal at my school explained to me that they were reorganizing the staff and that there wouldn’t be a position open for me. My boyfriend told me that I didn’t do anything wrong, he just didn’t feel the things a boyfriend should. But as each began to explain how I was no longer needed in their lives I couldn’t help but wonder: If I had done better could I have saved my job/boyfriend?
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