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Is it wise to be friends with your Ex?

After posting my last blog, I received a couple emails from readers asking for advice pertaining to dealing with an ex boyfriend or girlfriend and moving on from that sort of attachment. Honestly, it baffled me to see how many people really do struggle with break- ups. Looking back on my past articles, I realised that I've written quite a bit on making relationships work and embracing your singleness, and not very much about break-ups. It's apparent that people have a genuine problem with getting over relationships, and some how assume that the best remedy is to maintain a friendship with the person you've been in love with. Obviously, everyone would have their opinion about this but I'm about to open your scope a bit because when you've been there and done that, it's damn time to move on.

Men aren't pursuing women anymore...

As the "Month of Love" approaches, or so it is referred; I could not help but be bothered by a frightening trend patterning among us. The word 'tradition' is now the new enemy, as an excuse for 'creative originality'. All well and good for self exploration but I believe we're taking it too far because somethings are designed to remain a certain way. In this article, I hope to broaden our scope in the area of evaluating our relationships. For some, it might be a harsh reality check and for others, a journey to knowing yourself.  At my age, and I'm not very old; I've lived through the hard evidence of seeing the spheres of communication in the dating and marriage world, belly flop. It seems that by some snap of the finger, we've switched roles. Who's responsible? I'll get to that in a while but do we remember the days when a man truly admired a woman and approached her with the sole purpose of knowing more about her? I'm not tal...