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Confused about my X

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This past August, I was with my ex for 3 years and we were about to move in together when I heard he had another girlfriend, who he had also been with for years. When I called him screaming and angry, he said wanted to be with her and he acted as if he never was with…

Getting Dumped On A Holiday

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Thinking of ditching your significant other? Looks like you missed your chance. According to a recent NPR item, Thanksgiving could spell the end for many a relationship, too. So much, in fact, the day as been dubbed the turkey drop.

How Do You Know If You Were Ever Really in Love?

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Dear Em & Lo,

Four months ago my girlfriend of three years ended our relationship. She gave me generic reasons: "It's not you, it's me; we're too young for such a serious relationship; we have a lot to…

Broken Heart? Find a Fix On the Internet

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Web 2.0 may be the most cathartic thing to happen to breakups since a pimply middle schooler invented slam books.

Recently, we happened upon a charming little website called DearOldLove.com. The concept is very simple: Much in the way…

Should I Breakup with My College Boyfriend?

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Dear Em & Lo,

Some may call us v-card clingers, but my boyfriend and I have been together for three years now. Giving our virginity to each other was not our first first--we were incredibly inexperienced before meeting. Although the relationship began out of lust it has…

How can I become friends with an X girlfriend if she won't return any of my calls or overtures?

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Before you answer I just want to one thing first. I really do want to be friends with her, and thats it. I don't care if she is having sex with tons of guys (which is actually probably pretty likely based on her past), or whatever. Its been a long time since 'us' and I am…

Staying friends with an ex boyfriend just because of kids

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I love the people that read Shine because your opinions and insight are really helpful. Here is another dilemma I've run into so people, give me your opinions. And I"m sorry it is so long, but I wanted you to understand how my feelings came to what they are. I had dated a very nice…

User post: Guys.. I need your advice... Please help me...

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you see.. i broke up with my boyfriend of almost 4 years.. we had 1 child.. then this year he seems to change. he started to get himself busy he's reason "i'm candidate for graduation, and i'm taking my review (a nursing student stuff), then i had the strange feeling that he has…

Why Forgiveness Is So Important In A Breakup

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When nursing yourself through a particularly brutal breakup, it might initially feel cathartic to jump feet first into an angry well of Men Suck. While we loath taking away those precious, precious moments of white-knuckled Grrrrl power, a recent article by Karen Salmansohn, "The Law of Attraction Really Begins with the Law of Subtraction" has us thinking maybe we should try this whole forgiveness thing and shed ourselves of all that man-hating water weight and emerge svelte and ready for love! Read: Bad Breakup? 10 Things To Remember

WHAT IS LOVE ?

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What is love? So that it hurts worse than anything on earth, that's worth dying for, priceless as life seems, through the eyes of innocense filled with hopes and dreams, like the screams of my heartache, ev'rytime I wake, praying to GOD to get a…