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All Hands on Deck!

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable.
After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

- Maria Callas
 

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

- Ann Landers
 

Source: Mike Holmes in Cyclists Please Dismount and Other Photographs from Kodak Limited's "Humour '70&" Exhibition, Angus and Robertson Publishers 1971

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Congratulations, Louise

by Joyce Powell, Onehunga

The midwife laid the baby across her knees, then handed her the phone.  Charles would marry her now.  Louise dialled his office.  He would be back from Singapore.  Business took him away so much.  Charles answered.

"Darling," she gasped, "you have a lovely son."

"How wonderful, but who is speaking?"

Source: the Book of Incredibly Short Stories selected by Brian Edwards, Tandem Press 1997

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When Opposites Attract...

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Trophyism

While physical attraction is important for a relationship to grow, three additional ingredients are needed:

bulletThe first of these additional ingredients, complimentary needs, is a give-and-take among soul mates that occurs without resentment, and through love.  It releases us from an unrealistic ideal of what our soul mate should look like.
 
bulletThe next ingredient, maturity, occurs when we have depths in all aspects of our lives, and are ready to share experiences with our soul mate.
 
bulletThe final ingredient, resonance, occurs when you and your soul mate recognise you have similar values.  If a man can move beyond that first chemical ingredient, he will get closer to finding his true life partner.

Source: love.msn.com 24 February 2003

See also:
bulletLessons for Lovers (in the section on Drugs) - There are two types of love - one originates in the hypothalamus (a part of the brain also present in other animals).  It is programmed into DNA.  It causes men to be attracted to women with larger breasts, wider hips and a waist size no more than 68% of the hips (this body shape subliminally appears to men to be more fertile).  Women are attracted to men with broad shoulders, thin waists and larger muscles - in other words, strong and powerful.  The other requires oxytocin...

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I've Known a Few of Each...

Guy?  Or Liar?  (or Both??)

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For articles on affair motivators, changing relationships, do-it-yourself psychotherapy, lies, insincerity, social graces, cosmetic surgery, roots of culture, self-deception, love, and reunions of lost relatives click the "Up" button below to take you to the Table of Contents for this Relationships section.
 

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