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" Holiday food is rich and indulgent. Going-home-to-see-family food is richer and even more indulgent. "
Emily V. Gordon
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" Balanced, passionate, grounded people are the ones whose careers are ultimately the most successful. "
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" I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word about 'Battlestar Galactica' or its super-awesome ending. "
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" I am fairly convinced that people plan destination weddings because they would actually like to elope but want to have given you the option to attend. "
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" I am somewhat grateful to the disintegration of my marriage for teaching me a lot about myself and about relationships, and though I wish it hadn't been such a taxing lesson, I wouldn't change a thing. "
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" I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever. "
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" I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done. "
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" Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt during their engagement. "
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" Never marry because it seems like what you should do. "
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" The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror. "
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" Sometimes, I hate-watch television. "
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" There's nothing like listening to the drone of QVC's always-bubbly pitchwomen, as they try to move loose-fitting tunics with 'just the right amount of sparkle,' to soothe you into a healing slumber. "
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" Post-divorce, the world can feel harsh and full of jagged edges. "
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" I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies. "
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" Women are encouraged to go on an emotional journey of self-care after a divorce, while men are expected to need help learning how to cook and parent on their own. "
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" People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken. "
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" I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized. "
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" Love is a good thing. "
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" Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress. "
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" If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving. "
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" I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset. "
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" I grew up in a town where there were no Muslims whatsoever, and there was not a lot of exposure. "
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" Stays at the in-laws' aren't inherently sexy. "
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" Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time. "
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" Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework. "
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" Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally. "
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" You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control. "
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" Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren. "
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" I'm not an actress. I'm a writer. "
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" Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff. "
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" It's absolutely amazing to me that anyone allowed their children to watch 'The Ren & Stimpy Show' in the '90s; it's dark, gross, nihilistic, and absolutely bizarre. "
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