Ambivalence

Awaiting The Advent Of American Ambivalence

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Guilt, Bible, Muslims, Jew, Ambivalence, Home Schooling, Secular, Santorum, Atheism, Judaism, Religion News
Carol Smaldino

Standing for religious liberty as well as the freedom to question and even refuse religion as an absolute or inevitable path often "ordained" at birth, is not always a symptom of being radical or even a rebel by nature.

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A Torn Valentine

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Addiction, Therapeutic, Valentines Day, Emotions, Worth, Torn, Love, Ambivalence, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Carol Smaldino

I have to wonder if it wouldn't be more cozy in general if we could admit our torn feelings about this chocolate, heart-filled and too often twisted holiday, and feel a sense of belonging on the day just because we are -- just the way we are.

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Ambivalence: The Career Killer

Hillary Rettig | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Procrastination, Perfectionism, Ambivalence, Productivity, Ambivalence Fear, Career Advancement, Ambivalence Perfectionism, Self Help, Ambivalence Career, Career Advice, Fear Career Advancement, Healthy Living News
Hillary Rettig

Ambivalence is powerful because it is usually fear-based: you crave a particular outcome, don't think you can get it or are afraid of it, and develop a thicket of compensatory rationalizations.

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Can you pause a friendship?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Friendship Doctor, Friendship Pause, Depressed, High School, Brag, Ambivalence, Friendship Sabbatical, Friendship Advice, Group, Toxic Friendship, Low-Self Esteem, Moving, Irene S. Levine, Showing Off, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Dear Irene, I have a group of girlfriends, basically six of us, who've known each other since high school. Anyway, I got very close with th...

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Martha and Her: The Best of Friends?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

Martha, you had to be hurt when Mariana testified against you at your trial. But writing this book and exposing the intimacies of your longstanding friendship so publicly, was a particularly bitter form of betrayal.

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Autumn's First Kiss: a Wake-up Call Or a Sweet Fragrance?

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Older Women, Poetry, Labor Day, Diane Vacca, Ambivalence, Essays, Ainslie Jones Uhl, Women's Voices for Change, Owl---the-Voice-of-Midlife-and-Older-Women, Healthy Living News
Patricia Yarberry Allen

The change of seasons has brought a bounty of smart writing to Women's Voices for Change.

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She's Just Not That Into You: Six Ways to Know When a Girlfriend's a Frenemy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living News, Trust, Judgmental, Movies, Mercurial, Fractured Friendships, Female Friends, She?S Just Not That Into You, Ambivalence, Inconsistent, Frenemy, Entertainment News, Possessiveness, Girlfriends, He?S Just Not That Into You, Female Friendships, Friendship, Relationships, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Sometimes it's difficult to decide whether someone is truly a friend or may, instead, be a frenemy.

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A Friendship Too Broken to Fix

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Fractured Friendships, Women, Friends, Living News, Ambivalence, Dumped, Hostility, Female Friendships, Style News, Irene S. Levine, Relationships, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

It's exceedingly difficult, usually impossible, to downgrade a romance to a platonic friendship after someone has been dumped.

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Are You Suffering From Election Insanity Too?

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insanity, Ambivalence, Voting, 2008 Presidential Race, Election Anxiety, Politics News
Tom D'Antoni

Do you go from one frame of mind to another? From envisioning having just elected the first African-American in its history to envisioning an America who has just believed all of the lies...again?

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