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		<title>Relationship Advice:  Should I cut off from my family of origin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing a lot of personal work on overcoming some really dysfunctional situations with my family of origin. I&#8217;m 71 years old, (which is hard for me to even believe, feel like I&#8217;m 30) and am realizing that in order for me to remain healthy and to continue to grow spiritually, emotionally, and psychologically&#8230;.I&#8217;m going [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice:  My boyfriend is playing house with his ex and son</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been dating my boyfriend for just over a year and a half.  He is a wonderful man and father to a nine-year old son. I am crazy about them both. I am a single mother to a two-year old girl. Her father lives in another city and has her every other weekend.  This [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: My dad wants me to help him get my mom back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my parents are already divorced and my dad put all of us kids to come up with a solution to be bring them back together, kind of like in the parent trap. So I was wondering what I should start with in trying to solve their problem. The thing is that my dad has [...]
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		<title>Marriage Advice: Communication for a Troubled Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a 25 yr old who is married with 3 children. I am married to my first love. We are having problems in our marriage. We are not really communicating and it is to the point where the kids are emotionally affected. He tends to have his family intervening in our marriage.. I love [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: I&#8217;m Not Accepted by my Iranian Girlfriend&#8217;s Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been dating this Iranian woman for 2 years going on 3 and weve been doing great until recently.. For the time we&#8217;ve been together her parents didnt know anything about us being together until about 6 months ago when she decided she want to tell them so she did and it didnt end well [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: Dilemma with a Neighbor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 22:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a next door neighbor family that we absolutely love.  They have 4 children, 1 their biological and 3 adopted.  Their biological daughter is 12 and has ADHD and Asberger’s Syndrome.  We have a 12 year old daughter also.  When we first moved in (we lived here for about a year now) the girls [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: His Family is in our Business!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please pray tell me, whenever my partner and I have an argument my partner consistently and without fail informs his Mother, Father and Sister, which in turn leaves it to them to become the Judge,Jury &#38; persecutor of what should happen next? This confuses me immensely. LISA&#8217;S RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: It sounds like your partner is [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: Setting Boundaries with Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok - im in a long distant relationship and the problem isn&#8217;t the relationship itself it&#8217;s my family. See my family has nothing,  i mean nothing,  to do with me unless they need something other then that i don&#8217;t hear from them all but when I went on a trip they got mad and started a big mess. LISA&#8217;S [...]
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		<title>Relationship Advice: Losing My Boyfriend to his Grandma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be four years in May 2009 since me and my boyfriend met.  He is an only child just like I am an only child.  He lost his mother in 1994 and she was an only child too.  He is also the only grandson.  I lost my mother last year suddenly and he and [...]
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