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	<description>Blabbing about romance beyond the bedroom. Married 29 years and still looking for new ways to show her I love her.</description>
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		<title>Affair Proofing</title>
		<link>http://ratedgromance.com/2011/12/30/affair-proofing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Blake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Under Construction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked &#8220;How do you keep your relationship affair proof?&#8221; On one hand, it isn&#8217;t possible but if there is one secret&#8230; ..it is 2 remember that affairs are rarely about looks, age or beauty; rather how the new person makes them feel. Romance=anti-affair pill. &#8230;working a lot like a vitamin to help boost the health of your relationship. Don&#8217;t forget your daily dose of small romantic gestures. Mrs.:&#8221;Amputate a fave part. &#8221; ;-) RT @tanyaashwood: I would say communication is the key, or just do what I do, cheat on me I&#8217;ll kill ya lol (Note: &#8220;Under Construction&#8221; posts are works in progress &#8211; tweets, notes and research &#8211; that may eventually end up in my book. If you have anything to add to the topic, I&#8217;d love to hear your comments and related stories.)]]></description>
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		<title>Our Valentine’s Day Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Valentine&#8217;s Day something beautiful and wonderful and marvellous happened in our home &#8211; my Mrs. took over Valentine&#8217;s Day. I&#8217;m not being sarcastic and no I&#8217;m not trying to make some masculist statement about gender equality and romantic gestures. Rather, my wife’s efforts nearly brought me to tears as they marked another milestone in her climb out of the dark clouds of clinical depression. Before clinical depression hit our home, I would have been one of those uninformed people that thought depression and deep sadness were synonyms. I remember saying things like “you’ve got a nice home, a good job, great kids, and a husband that loves you. What is there to be ‘funked’ about?” Being totally vulnerable here, I suspect that one of the reasons I pursued romantic gestures in our relationship so vigorously was that I felt I might be able to make my Mrs. “un-depressed” by providing her with happy moments. In retrospect, that’s a little like thinking I could cure arthritis in a joint by massaging it. My efforts helped with the pain of the symptoms, for a moment, but I had no hope of curing the disease. Clinical depression is not simply accentuated sadness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“What is your take on cheating?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is your take on cheating Greg?&#8221; was the rather provocative question I received on Twitter yesterday. “It’s bad,” was my less than enlightening response. “Would you forgive?” Now I was getting the real question and frankly the answer is a lot more complicated. First off, I’ve been really pondering what it means to forgive. It isn’t as easy to define as you might think (see the discussion topic “What is forgiveness?”).  Similarly, there are definitely degrees of cheating (physical, emotional, drunk-once, long term, passively permitted, etc.). So would I forgive? Yes. Would I stay together? That depends. You see, for me, cheating is less about a physical, observable act and more about a loss of trust and transparency in a relationship. If you feel you have to hide anything from your SO, especially because of guilt, shame or fear, you are setting yourself up to fail &#8211; period. Maybe I watched too many episodes of The Brady Bunch growing up, but I am of the persuasion that the longer you stay together, the more likely a lie will be uncovered: either explicitly or at least “felt.” Cheating &#8211; that kept secret &#8211; is a ticking time-bomb waiting to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Love?</title>
		<link>http://ratedgromance.com/2009/05/23/what-is-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Blake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unraveling the Psychobabble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s love to you?” “I don’t know. You tell me!” A dear friend caught me off guard a while back when she challenged me to define love. It turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. The problem for me was not that I don’t know what love is, but rather I had a hard time trying to identify and pull apart the characteristics of the kind of love we were talking about – spousal love; the love you hope you can share with a partner for a lifetime. I had to think about it a lot and essentially the best I could come up with is that it is a kind of “pinnacle” love… it contains all the characteristics of many kinds of love. So, for example, I believe the sentiments of the following verse: “And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” While this is a component of my relationship with my Mrs., obviously I love her differently than I love God or my neighbor. [...]]]></description>
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