Category Archives: Healthy Relationships/No Violence

How to develop and grow healthy and honest relationships. Updates on issues of violence affecting women and girls around the world.

Sometimes He Gives You A Reason to Want to Slash His Tires

   photo credit There was a really great article in the Huffington Post  about how men try to deflect their own bad behavior by derailing a woman’s feelings and convincing her that she’s crazy. The proper term for this is called gaslighting. Be ...

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Love Lessons from Brad Pitt

photo credit What Brad Pitt Can Teach us About Relationships I’m a little late writing about Brad Pitt’s comments about his marriage to Jennifer Aniston in Parade Magazine, but there is still a lesson to be learned. In case you didn’t hear about ...

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Can He Love You Through Your Ugly?

      Every relationship has that moment when one partner goes off the rails. It's when you're sick with the flu, had a fight with your sister or lost your job. It's when the raw emotional side of you comes out and is exposed for ...

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Well, She was Asking for It

   photo credit I was listening to a conversation the other day when a woman was describing to her male friend an incident in which a woman was fondled and sexually assaulted by a police officer. Her response to the incident was “that woman ...

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When Your Love for Him Just Isn’t Enough

 photo credit I was listening to a radio show the other day when a 55 year old woman called in to get advice about her crumbling marriage. She had been with her husband since she was a teenager, and he decided that ...

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