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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, try these simple tips to support the one you love.October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So, how can you support a loved one with an illness? Here are five suggestions:

1. Learn to communicate with your doctor and loved ones. Talk with your doctors on a regular basis so you can be informed of how to help your loved one deal with his illness. When you're at home, get into the habit of listening to your loved one and giving him advice on ways that he can feel better.

2. Take advantage of all assistance available. Join self-help groups that teaching coping mechanisms. Support groups are also a great place to learn to manage fears and worries.

3. Take it one step at a time. Do not try to do everything at the same time. It will only make the situation more difficult. Instead, delegate some responsibilities to others.

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4. Remain hopeful and positive. Hope that things will get better. It is impossible to predict the future, but remaining positive and upbeat is a distraction from the

Do your friends give you bad advice?Ladies, I'm going to give you some of the best dating advice you'll ever hear. Free.

Stop asking your girlfriends for dating advice. Wait. Ill amend that. Be very careful which of your female friends you turn to in times of romantic distress. The problem with most of said advice and reinforcements is that it's rarely objective. Here are five misleading things girlfriends say.

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1. "You look great!" Thanks to social media, we have an endless supply of people who are happy to toss off this attaboy whenever we post a new Facebook photo. I can remember reading one such status update a few weeks ago. The woman had recently lost a fair amount of weight and, to her credit, it showed.

The string of comments underneath her picture ranged from telling her how hot she was to how "skinny" she was. As I perused the list of people commenting, I wasn't surprised to see that there was nary a man in the bunch.

The lesson

Submit your original recipe for the next Engagement Chicken and win! By now you may have heard about "Engagement Chicken"-the roast chicken recipe supposedly responsible for inspiring men to propose to their girlfriends. Well, we are on the hunt for the next Engagement Chicken... that is, some special dish which, when you prepare it for your sweetheart, inspires him to commit some specific, romantic act.

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As part of YourTango.com's month-long initiative entitled "Breakfast, Love & Dinner," a site-wide campaign all about the intersection of food and love, we are launching a contest to find the next Engagement Chicken-a recipe that made your man fall in love with you, convinced him to move in with you or otherwise changed your love life in some significant way.

Originally called "Roast Chicken with Lemons," the original Engagement Chicken recipe was published in a cookbook called the Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. The legend began in the 1980s when Glamour magazine

4 tips for couples who want to lose weight and get healthy together!Will weight loss work out better if it is tackled alone or together as a couple? And how can a couple embark on a healthy habits lifestyle together?

Becoming a couple often comes at the price of weight gain. According to a CBS News Report from 2009, "Researchers tracked … the weight and relationship status of 6,949 individuals, and their findings don't bode well for commitment: not only are married people more likely to become obese than those who are just dating, but young women who move in with their partner tend to pack on the pounds, too." And, if one partner wants to lose weight and the other wants to stay the same, the couple can feel out of sync, leading to loneliness and frustration for both.

So, how do couples help one another to succeed in embarking on a sustainable healthy habits lifestyle?

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1. Communicate. To get started, find a time to talk about the deeper values of going on a diet. Mistrust is easily

One mother's take on NYC schools' decision to give the morning after pill without parental consent.Thirteen New York City high schools are making Plan B available to students without parental notification. The only thing that upsets me about this news is that it doesn't apply to my middle schooler.

Katie McDonough at Salon.com calls this a turning point for sex ed in America, and the New York Post reports that only 1-2 percent of parents have opted out of the program. But we tend to be avant garde about these things in the NYC, and I'm sure parents across the nation are cringing at the thought of 14-year-olds having sex.

Heck, I'm cringing about it right now.

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I'm not saying it's pretty. Or that they're even enjoying it. (Let's all take a moment to shudder at the memory of our own ill-considered youthful adventures.) But 14- and 15-year-olds had sex without telling their parents back in the '80s when I was a teen, so it's only dangerous optimism that makes us Generation Xers think our kids are immune to