Abuse occurs when a person behaves in a controlling manner thus suppressing the freewill of the other person in the relationship. Get help with abuse from your Person Centred Therapist
There most common types of abuse are as follows: -
Physical abuse includes biting, choking, hitting, kicking, punching, slapping, stamping.
Emotional Abuse or Psychological Abuse may include threatening to harm, belittling, intimation, shaming, racial abuse, isolation, refusing to help someone when they are ill, forbidding them to work, not allowing the person to access benefits or other supportive services.
Financial Abuse includes, fraud, withholding money, applying pressure on the person so that they hand over their wages or benefits.
In Religious Abuse the person may manipulate the teachings of their religion to inflict harm or punishment.
Sexual Abuse is any sexual act to which the person has not or could not consent and/or where the person was pressurised into consenting.
For most of us when we think about domestic violence and abuse, a common image that comes to mind is that of a heterosexual relationship where the woman is the victim. However, it is important to recognise that men, same sex relationships, disabled people and family members are also the victims of abuse and domestic violence. Nobody has the right to abuse you and nobody deserves to be abused. Anyone can experience abuse regardless of race, ethnicity or lifestyle.
Person Centred therapist Help with Abuse


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Are you interested in finding love on Clapper? We’ve got something special planned for this Valentine’s Day. We want to celebrate love in the biggest way possible. This year, we want to invite the creators for a special event where the ultimate goal is to go on amazing and fun dates. Yes, dates! We want to offer the opportunity for creators to meet other creators at the platform and form a special connection. Also, we want to highlight the couples that have met through Clapper. We want to include the long-lasting love and the new, interesting first attraction.
Keep reading to find out more about how Clapper will celebrate L-O-V-E on Valentine’s Day❤
Love On Clapper: Speed dating 💞
Love on Clapper will be a speed dating event where creators will PK battle with each other and go on 5 minute dates with all the participants. Depending on the number of applicants, we will make sure that all the bachelors and bachelorettes get a chance to meet everyone. On the dates, we want everyone to think outside the box and be creative. For the event, prepare a candle light dinner, or maybe have a question game ready to get to know each other better. You only have 5 minutes with each person, so get creative with it! The most important part is that you have fun and get to know wonderful new people, who may or may not, be your forever date.
Let’s Get To Know You💓
Creators will post a pinned video on their Clapper profile, 3 days before the event (Jan 11), that answers the following questions:
- Describe yourself in three words.
- What’s your best and worst quality?
- Tell us what do you like to do in your free time?
- What do you look for in a partner?
- What would you do on a first date?
This is an opportunity for other contestants to know what you are looking for in a first date and get to know you a little better before the big event. You will want your community to be present on the day to give you advise and cheer you on. For this to happen, you should promote the specific dates and times when your speed session will take place.
Clapback Your Favorite Date💝
After the event is over, if you want to connect further with a contestant that sparked your interest, go to their pin video and clapback it. Let them know that you want to keep the conversation going and let the love story begin!
Are a couple who met through Clapper? We want to talk to you. The Clapper team will be featuring Clapper Couples who met each other through the app. We will interview them and feature them through the Clapper blog. DM us through @ClapperCreator or @ClapperTalks if you and your partner are interested.
Are You Interested?❤🔥
Do you want to find love this Valentine’s Day? If you want to be part of our speed dating event please go here and apply as a potential contestant. Good luck!
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A Custody Lawyer Can Protect Your Child’s Future
Going through a divorce is difficult. It can be even harder when you share children with your spouse. As a parent, you always want the best for your child. At Seacrist Law Office, LLC, attorney Susan Seacrist can help you fight for the best custody option for you and your children.
Attorney Susan Seacrist has over 30 years of diverse legal experience. Having previously served in a judgeship capacity and with the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, she has a unique understanding of both sides of the legal system. You can trust her to help you find custody solutions that keep your children safe and protect your parenting rights.
Finding The Right Child Custody Arrangement For Your Family
In Ohio, there are two main aspects to child custody arrangements, parental rights and responsibilities and parenting time. Parental rights and responsibilities refer to the authority a parent has to make important decisions for their child, including education, medical care, religious upbringing and extracurricular activities. Parenting time refers to how much time each parent spends with the child. It includes which parent has physical custody and the other parent’s visitation time.
When determining child custody arrangements, the court will consider numerous factors, including:
- Each parent’s ability to care for the child
- The parent’s physical and mental health
- History of violence or substance abuse
- The child’s relationship with each parent
In some instances, the parents can work together to develop a shared parenting plan as part of their divorce. The plan will include a parenting time schedule and how the parents will make decisions for their child. If the judge determines that the plan suits the best interests of the child, the court will approve it.
At Seacrist Law Office, LLC, attorney Seacrist can represent you in contentious custody battles and throughout the mediation process. In many cases, mediation is a faster, cheaper and less stressful dispute resolution method that can save you and your family heartache.
Schedule A Free Consultation Today
Attorney Susan Seacrist understands the importance of family. From your first meeting, she will work with you to find a child custody solution that suits the needs of you and your children. Call 440-340-1101 or fill out an online contact form to schedule a free consultation at her Mentor, Ohio, office.


The mission of CMU is to help pastors of local churches build and preserve unity in the church by encouraging men to be the men that God has commanded them to be through Jesus Christ.
The vision of CMU is that all men will become men who God can use on mission with Him.
In order to be truly united, CMU believes:
- A man has to realize that he can't do it alone. (Ecclesiastes 4:10-12)
- Not being united can cause divisions among each other (1 Corinthians 1:10)
- We have to live in peace with one another (Ephesians 4:3)
- We have to love each other (Colossians 3:12-14)


“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”
Phil kind of reminds me of you circa 2008. Thanks Matt Fincham. Meghan, 17.


White Day, March 14th
You can read the details of White Day on Wikipedia but basically it is the counterpart to Valentine's Day. In Japan, Valentine's Day is the day when women give gifts of homemade chocolate to men. Since one must always reciprocate in this culture, the men officially must return the favor one month later on March 14th! And it is called White Day.
Marriage and love in Japan are quite different from the culture I grew up in. It is not uncommon for marriages in Japan to be about convenience and out of need or social obligation rather than love. Roles inside of marriage are much much more conservative, with the husband helping out very little at home and with raising the children. The couples also usually lead totally separate lives, knowing very little about each others daily comings and goings and social activities.
These past weeks I have been surrounded by talk of marriage. One friend who is in a wonderful Christian marriage shared with me that at her childrens' kindergarten, she and one other women are the only women happy in their marriage and at meetings and gatherings she must sit and listen to everyone complain and degrade their husbands.
This last week Rocky and I celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary. We began with a short overnight trip, just the two of us. Then on the 11th, the actual anniversary date, Rocky surprised me with breakfast in bed. I shared this with one of my English classes, and could feel the tension in the room as most of my students did not know how to respond to my enthusiasm about our marriage. As it dawned on me that they have never known such love, my heart began to break for them even more.
Oh how I want them to know the unending, all consuming, powerful love of their Savior! It is only because Rocky and I know THAT love that we can have the marriage that we have. I LONG for them to experience LOVE in its purest form, love unconditional and full. A love so powerful it washes your sins whiter than snow!
White Day this year has reminded me to pray MORE for the couples in this country. Pray with us that God will bring HIS love into their lives and transform each one, and in turn transform their marriages and then their whole family. We have seen this happen in our church and we long to see more of it!


Some thoughts on dating
The Shabbaton was also somewhat eye-opening. Among the hundreds of people there were quite a few whose photos I had seen online on various dating sites. It was fascinating to see how different many people were in person than I expected them to be from their online profiles. When people post photos of themselves online, they are generally looking their best and exuding confidence. But in person, I realized that many of the guys I met, like me, have their own insecurities about dating.
I am not saying this to demean the guys I met. Rather, the weekend made me more sympathetic to the difficulties of being a guy who is expected by society to take the lead in dating, but who may be uncomfortable with this situation to begin with, and, over time, may be worn down by repeated rejections.
As a single female, among other single women, I have often discussed the frustrations many of us share with some of the men we have dated. It is generally accepted that being single above a certain age is more difficult for women than for men. While I think there is a lot of truth to this assumption, the singles weekend helped me to realize how difficult the dating landscape can be for men as well. The bottom line is, for all of us looking for our basherts, and being unsure what exactly we should do to meet the right person, the process is fraught with difficulty.


...it's really not hard to foster a long term relationship, even though business relationships are a bit more complex than a simple friendship. They definitely share some of the intricacies of a marriage or significant relationship. And it's easy to take good relationships for granted and forget to give them the care they need to last a long time.
Over the years, I have seen MANY people post on the forums "How much should I charge?". Truthfully, it's not the easiest question to answer. But, more often than not, 3D artists are charging less than they should. Not only that, but they are also setting a poor precedent in how they communicate their fee to their client, setting themselves up to be walked on by their clients on future projects.


When you enter into a sourcing relationship, you are making a long term commitment to work with a provider as a team. Like any relationship there are steps to take and practices to adopt in order to keep it healthy. Over time, needs and expectations on both sides of the relationship will change. Below are the 5 key elements of a healthy and productive sourcing relationship.
Both planned and unplanned communications are key to successful sourcing relationships. Planned communication brings stability to the relationship and a cadence to the business. Unplanned communication allows for unexpected issues that come up to be communicated before the next planned meeting or status report. Communication should be carried out using multiple channels, don’t email exclusively. Instead you should schedule phone calls and video sessions as some people communicate differently in different formats. Video provides the added benefits of visual cues. You should communicate even if there isn’t anything of note to relay. Stay practiced of communicating, make it a habit.
Both sides of the relationship have to trust the other. That means more than just telling the truth. Don’t mask the truth or hide anything, be transparent. Do what you say you will, when you say you will do it. Be giving, show genuine concern and help the other party even when it doesn’t benefit you. And be consistent in these behaviors. Trust is not given instantaneously, you have to earn it and then maintain it.
In any sourcing relationship, you are committed to the other. You are naturally invested in the success of the other’s business, so treat the relationship as an asset. If you disagree do so privately but always support the other in public.
Team members within both organizations should understand how the sourcing relationship fits into the overall scheme of things, what the goals of the relationship are. Most importantly they should understand what value the relationship brings to each organization. If they understand how these goals are aligned with the broader company mission, vision and values, they will be able to make better decisions. You should share your corporate goals including major initiatives annually with your team. Test alignment in the interim and refresh alignment goals and messaging periodically.
Your sourcing relationship exists to reach specific goals and outcomes. Your desired targets need to be defined, you need to agree on how to measure success so you are measuring the same things, the same way. Review results together and if you miss the target, ask why with true curiosity. As the client it is up to you define your needs and desired outcomes. As the provider of a service your sourcer needs to represent their capability honestly. The two of you can then agree on requirements.


Posted by Robert L. Arone
Along with warmer weather and lazy days spent at the pool, summertime also often includes a family gathering, such as a Fourth of July barbecue, a family vacation, a reunion, or time spent at a family cabin or lake house. Whatever the form, in our always-on-the-go society, getting the whole family together is a rare occurrence. Clients should take advantage of this time together to discuss their estate and financial wishes with their families. As an advisor, you can help facilitate and encourage this discussion in the following ways.
Meet Your Client’s Trusted Decision Makers Now
You can encourage a client to discuss their estate and financial plans with their family by offering to meet with your client and their trusted decision makers now. Clients often select adult children to act in trusted decision-making roles, such as a successor trustee, executor or personal representative, or agent under a financial power of attorney. By meeting these trusted decision makers now before they are needed, you can begin to develop a relationship with them and be an advisor that the family feels comfortable turning to for guidance when needed. Summertime, when family comes to visit, is the perfect time to have this meeting.
As part of this meeting, you can review the client’s important documents with the trusted decision makers so that they know what the client’s wishes are and how they should be carried out when the time comes. You can also answer any questions the client or the decision makers have about the client’s plan or their roles.
Have a Family Meeting
Another way you can help your client have a family discussion about their estate and financial plans is to offer to meet with your client’s entire family and conduct a family meeting. Clients often feel that they lack the skill set or knowledge to explain the sometimes complicated legal and financial concepts involved in their plans. After all, it is one thing to understand a concept when it is explained to you but quite another to try to explain the concept to someone else.
A client may also feel uncertain about how their family will react to their estate and financial plans. Having their advisor, an unrelated and objective party, there to explain the client’s plans and the benefits of those plans and answer any questions or concerns that their family members may have can remove some of the emotional upset or criticism that could emerge.
By offering to attend and conduct a family meeting, you can reduce or eliminate your client’s fears about explaining their estate and financial plans to their family. You can also be invaluable in helping the client determine the best format for this family meeting. For example, should the family meeting be siblings only, or should in-laws also be included? Should the family meeting include grandchildren? Your knowledge of your client’s family dynamics and plans will be extremely useful in determining the best format for the family meeting.
Summertime is a common time for families to get together. Encourage your clients to take advantage of this time to discuss their estate and financial wishes with their families by offering to meet with their trusted decision makers or to conduct a family meeting. Doing so is a great way to provide added value to your clients. Please reach out to us if you need assistance discussing these ideas with your clients or hosting a meeting.


The problem stems from when the relationship is one-sided and not consensual. If someone is too young to consent, or one person is coercive, then relationship is predator-like. If the relationship is based on one-sided attraction, then it is not consensual.
As a Group, the Devotee/PWD relationship is not consensual. While there may be many examples of consensual Devotee/PWD relationships, they do not represent the majority.
Devotee/PWD relationships are more often characterized by a one-sided attraction where the PWD may not even be aware of the existence of the Devotee and/or his or her sexually based attraction.
Healthy relationships are based on mutual respect, trust, and disclosure. Unhealthy relationships involve deception, lack of trust, and non-disclosure. Unhealthy relationships are detrimental to both parties, but are more damaging to the unwilling object of attraction.
The current state of the group Devotee/PWD relationship is unhealthy. It is unquestionably harmful to PWDs. I think it is also harmful to Devotees because many of them operate in a secretive and voyeuristic manner at best, and a coercive and predator-like manner at worst.
It all comes down to consent. If a PWD consents to a “friendship” or relationship with a respectful Devotee, then there is no problem. If the PWD doesn’t consent, he or she should be left alone, period. That is how all healthy and consensual relationships work. If a Devotee doesn’t disclose due to fear of rejection, then he or she is involved in a one-sided non-consensual relationship regardless of how “innocent” or “harmless” he or she may feel.
As a final note, I am noting saying that full disclosure is easy. If it was easy, then we would not be having this discussion. But comparatively speaking, the obstacles faced by many PWDs everyday are greater. Why create more problems for PWDs? If you truly care about PWDs, then you should be doing all you can to support them even if it makes you uncomfortable or seems difficult.


Because we are not cold people, we decided to share our love between our exchange students and ESNers.
It’s very easy… you come to the other person, choose your right hugging
technique and you hug this person. And a big warm hug exists :)
Thank you for sharing love


The prospective Marriage visa applies to applicants who do not meet the relationship requirements of the subclass 309 or 100 partner visas to Australia but are in a committed, genuine relationship and wish to marry in Australia.
The visa enables you to:
- Enter Australia for 9 months with the intention of marriage within this duration
- Apply for 309 – Partner Visa once married to remain in Australia
The basic requirements for the Prospective Marriage visa to Australia are:
- The applicant and sponsor must have met in person
- You must be aged 18 years or over
- You are in a genuine and continuing relationship and you intend to maintain a lasting relationship as husband and wife
- You must be of opposite sex to your intended spouse
When making an application for a prospective marriage visa to Australia you must submit a date of intended marriage and book the wedding ceremony in Australia. You do not necessary have to get married on this date. It can always be moved once the visa is granted but you must marry within 9 months of the date of visa grant – this cannot be extended.
Once you are married under this visa subclass an application can be submitted for a temporary spouse visa that will allow you to live and work in Australia for 4 years. After 2 years you can apply for Permanent Residence.
As with the other visa categories dependent children and other eligible family members can be included in your application subject to meeting specific requirements.
If you meet the basic requirements above, get in contact today.


We, Skinner, had a feeling that there was a rift between Demi & Selena that time. We don't know why, and we don't know how. But one thing's for sure: Miley fucking Cyrus was definitely in the picture.
"@selenagomez like i said, i don't understand how we can go from crying to laughing hysterically in two seconds. Hahaha"
Demi and Selena were never friends with Miley (that's for sure) before that KOI dinner with her and her then-boyf Justin Gaston. After that, things have changed..
We all know Miley was Nick Jonas's ex-girlfriend. When Nick started dating Selena, of course, like a sad teenager, Miley started "not liking" the new girlfriend, even if she is dating Justin Gaston at the time. But you know how people are; you can never forget your first love and yadidadida.
When Selena and Nick broke up, the foursome had that dinner at KOI. Why only that time? Was it because Miley could finally be friends with her ex's now-ex? Or something else?
There were some reports that Miley and her bff Mandy were badmouthing someone through texting, and when Miley accidentally sent the message to that person, they had a heart to heart and became good friends. We suspect it was Demi.
Now, Miley and Selena are Demi's bffs. It was kinda weird to us that when Demi started hanging out with Miley, Selena was out of the picture. We never saw a single twitter from Demi to Selena, vice versa. Then, the fortunate tweets came (see screen-cap above).
It's obvious that they were in a rift, and after talking to each other, they reconciled.
Demi and Trace Cyrus (Miley's creepy fug brother) are flirting on twitter (EW, of all places and of all people, flirting on twitter with Trace fuckin' Cyrus yuk)
The conclusion of this account is: Demi is only "bffs" with Miley just to get to Trace, and explained her plan to Selena, who at first was getting a little jealous of her friendship with Miley, and the REAL BFFs reconciled, since Selena was totally game for it.
JiA, RAIA & Bee


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Allow me to travel a bit into the weird. Well, into the "girl." Traveling into the mind of "girl" is dangerous, so read at your own risk.
I've found this guy....the only guy for me. He's not perfect. No. And it's not like he's just a male version of me, which would be horrible. But he's just....right.
I don't really want to be with someone who will think that it's cute or sweet that I'm into the things I'm into. I feel like I would be settling. Not that we couldn't each have our own thing, but I'd rather be with someone who enjoys a lot of the same things I do as much as I do so we can enjoy them together. There's nothing like the feeling of being "got" (from The Story of Us). Near the beginning of the movie Dan in Real Life, Dan (Steve Carrell) meets this woman Marie (Juliette Binoche) in a bookstore. She thinks he works there so she's telling him what kind of book she's looking for, just going on and on, I want this but not this, and this but not quite this.... Dan tells her that rarely do you find it all in one book. Well, that's like people. I don't expect to find everything in this one guy. I wouldn't want to anyway, I don't want perfection.
But it's like another quote from Dan...: "Is it frustrating that you can't be with this person? That there's something keeping you apart? That there's something about this person that you can connect with? .... and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?"
This guy is a real guy. Has a name and everything. Not someone I've made up. I just haven't met him.
Crazy, huh. Yeah, I know.


Are you struggling with issues related to anxiety, depression, relationships, LGBTQ+, or major life changes?
Individual therapy helps adults to identify goals that can inspire change or improve the quality of their life. Sometimes challenges in our lives are hard to face alone, therapy can provide an opportunity to you for overcoming obstacles and living your best life now. Embracing hope and positivity, I endeavor to facilitate a process where you grow as a person in terms of self-growth and awareness, self-esteem, handling difficult situations, and making healthy decisions.
Creating opportunities to reconnect with your partner, couples therapy enables each of you to learn to manage conflict, become better friends, and create shared meaning together in your lives. Couples therapy helps you to re-engage and turn toward each other with improved communication skills, transforming the relationships of married and unmarried couples.
Helping adult and adolescent family members improve communication and resolve conflicts, family therapy can be useful in any family situation that may be experiencing stress, grief, anger, or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and learn coping skills to bring you closer together.
Using a secure, online video platform, online therapy offers the benefits of in-person therapy along with a location that is convenient for you, providing an extra level of anonymity as well as saving time on traveling to therapy sessions.


UNFADED: PART TWO
"They say the brightest stars burn out the fastest…
But the strongest loves don’t ever fade. "
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Felicity Wilde was never looking for fame.
It found her anyway.
And, with it, a boatload of broken promises and painful goodbyes.
Since she walked out of the spotlight — and away from Ryder Woods — she’s carved out a new life for herself.
Quiet. Simple. Drama-free.
It’s everything she thought she wanted.
So why does it feel so empty?
She told herself she’d never go back.
Not to music.
Not to Los Angeles.
Not to him.
But when outside forces compel her to fulfill her contractual obligations, Felicity will once again find herself facing the life she thought she’d left behind for good… as well as the man who broke her heart into pieces…
They say lightning never strikes twice…
But what if your love is a perfect storm?


Yes, Prince William, I know. Betrothal to a beautiful woman is a marvelous experience. It’s really cool to share the moment with you. However, despite your royal/celebrity status, I wouldn’t trade your story for mine. Not for all jewels in Buckingham Palace.
As of Saturday evening (11/13) Jean and I are engaged to be married. Some pictures and details forthcoming (despite my aversion to pictures and relationship blogging).
Life is a gift.


EDITORIAL: Don’t Misunderstand Me: Learning Your Partner’s Love Language
Love is in the air – or is it the smell of another holiday that has been marketed beyond recognition? Either way, Valentine’s Day is almost here in all its polarizing glory. Singles are either depressed or relieved, and those with partners are probably reading this and saying, “Oh shit, is it this week?!
Many couples feel compelled to pay exorbitant sums on gifts or dinners, sometimes to mend a difficult relationship or prove the fervor of their love. But these types of costly gestures can fall flat, leaving the receiving partner feeling overwhelmed and awkward while the giver feels their efforts are unappreciated.
If this sounds familiar, you and your partner may have different love languages.
The concept of love language originated in Gary Chapman’s book ‘The 5 Love Languages’, originally published in 1992,” states that there are five love languages that people tend to identify with. According to him, these are words of affirmation, physical contact, receiving gifts, quality time and acts of service.
Whether they realize it or not, the majority of people already know their favorite love language, the one they “speak”, in other words. If you feel most loved or loved when someone brings you a surprise coffee on the way home, your love language is probably to receive gifts. If holding your partner’s hand is the most important part of your grocery shopping excursion, it’s probably physical contact, etc.
Of course, it’s common and possible to have more than one love language, but there’s usually one that matters most to an individual. And while Chapman’s categories are nice and neat, love, like any other language, has its nuances beyond those compartments.
Some have even argued for a sixth love language: distance or personal space. This may sound counter-intuitive, but it makes sense given that many people would see themselves as an exception to their partner’s need for alone time and in turn would be offended by a request for space.
Knowing your love language and being able to identify what you need is important for any relationship. But it’s just as important that you know your partner’s love language and be able to speak it.
Let’s say your love language gets gifts, but your partner’s is words of affirmation. Instead of saying “I love you,” give them a Valentine’s Day necklace, which might make them feel like you’re trying to buy their affection or don’t care. Of course, that’s not true at all, you love them! But you express it in the way that matters most to you, not to them.
Now, instead of having a romantic evening, you’re trying to figure out what you did wrong, and your partner insists you shouldn’t care if you can’t even tell them you did. love.
You may not speak the same love language as your partner, but that doesn’t mean your relationship won’t work out. It just means you’ll have to pay special attention to what makes them the happiest. If it’s hard to say, just ask them. It might sound weird, but chances are they appreciate you wanting to get it right. After all, basic communication is necessary for any partnership, regardless of your respective love languages.
When you’re in a relationship, especially if you spend a lot of time together, it can be easy to lose part of your identity and at the same time forget your individual status outside of the relationship. This person you now call your boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, etc., has lived an entire life until they met you. During that time, they have become someone you have the privilege of knowing and loving.
Remember that people are not machines that you put affection into in exchange for validation, sex, or whatever else you want from them. If you can’t take the time to learn what really matters most to someone and show them that you care about them, then you really shouldn’t be looking to get into a relationship.
So before you take the leap this Valentine’s Day and shower your partner with expensive gifts or regale them with an epic ballad, stop and ask yourself if what you’re giving is more like something you’d want from them. . On the other hand, if you’re just considering putting gas in their car and ordering Wendy’s (which honestly sounds pretty good), make sure it’s as meaningful a gesture to them as it is to you. .
From everyone at Montclarion, have a happy Valentine’s Day!


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...I'm so sorry for your loss Miss Stella. Gramma loved you very much and that is something that will stay with you forever and ever. Sending you a lil' hug and a prayer and please give Mommy a hug for me too....Keeping you and your family in my prayers at this time and always....Peace & blessings.
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Nursing homes serve as residences for older adults who require long-term care and support. These facilities provide an opportunity to create meaningful human connections that enhance the quality of life for residents. In this essay, we will explore the importance of fostering connection and care in nursing homes, examining how human bonds contribute to residents' emotional well-being, sense of belonging, and overall quality of life.
Paragraph 1: Loneliness and social isolation are prevalent issues among older adults, particularly those living in nursing homes. By prioritizing human connection, these facilities can address these challenges and improve residents' mental and emotional well-being. Encouraging social activities, organizing group events, and facilitating interactions among residents create opportunities for meaningful connections, reducing feelings of loneliness and fostering a sense of community.
Paragraph 2: The relationships formed between residents and caregivers are integral to the provision of high-quality care. When caregivers take the time to build rapport, listen attentively, and show empathy, it creates a supportive and nurturing environment. Establishing trust and a sense of familiarity allows residents to feel valued, respected, and understood, leading to improved overall satisfaction with their care.
Paragraph 3: Family involvement and engagement also play a crucial role in fostering connection in nursing homes. Encouraging family members to actively participate in residents' lives through visits, celebrations, and involvement in care planning helps maintain and strengthen the familial bonds. Family members provide emotional support, serve as advocates for residents' needs, and contribute to a sense of continuity and familiarity, which can significantly enhance residents' well-being.
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Same father, same face
Mandrills with the same father look more alike than half-siblings who share the same mother – a result of selection that makes it easier to recognize each other as relatives.
05/28/2020 · Lebenswissenschaften · Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH - Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung · News · Forschungsergebnis
More like mom or dad? Human babies always get this curious look in their face combined with the question whom the child resembles most. The answers vary depending on the degree of kinship, gender and the time of assessment. Mandrills, monkeys living in Equatorial Africa, may recognize facial features coding relatedness better than humans. Scientists at the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen, together with colleagues from the Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), showed by using up-to-date artificial intelligence (AI) that half-sisters, who have the same father look more alike than half-sisters who share the same mother. The paternal half-sisters also have closer social relationships with each other than unrelated mandrills. This result provided the first evidence suggesting that interindividual resemblance has been selected to signal paternal kinship (Sciences Advances).
Throughout the animal kingdom, related conspecifics show similar features. Some are the spitting image of each other. However, whether resemblance between kin merely reflects their genetic resemblance or results from selection to facilitate their recognition is still unknown. A team of scientists led by Marie Charpentier of the ISEM in Montpellier, including Clémence Poirotte and Peter Kappeler of the German Primate Center in Göttingen, used for the first time artificial intelligence (deep learning) to examine the hypothesis that the similarity of the facial features of free-living mandrills is the result of selection. The database consisted of 16,000 portraits of mandrills, taken since 2012 as part of the Project Mandrillus in Gabon. This natural population of mandrills is the only one habituated to the presence of humans. Using a trained algorithm of deep learning, the individuals were first identified and then quantified in terms of facial resemblance. The results were subsequently related to relatedness data of the study animals.
Mandrills live in groups consisting of more than 100 individuals and are characterized by the fact that the females are maternal relatives. They are familiar with each other and remain in the same family throughout their lives. Since reproduction in mandrill groups is mainly monopolized by the alpha male, young mandrills of similar age often have the same father. However, as members of different family groups within the large groups, they should hardly know each other. Nevertheless, half-sisters on the paternal side, as well as half-sisters on the maternal side, interact with each other more often than unrelated animals. "This observation suggests that paternal half-sisters recognize each other as relatives by their facial features. Although maternal and paternal half-sisters share the same degree of genetic relatedness, the facial resemblance is stronger among paternally related females. We suspect that the similarity of facial features between paternal relatives has evolved to facilitate social discrimination and nepotism between kin," says Clémence Poirotte.
M. J. E. Charpentier, M. Harté, C. Poirotte, J. M. de Bellefon, B. Laubi, P. M. Kappeler, J. P. Renoult (2020). Same father, same face: Deep learning reveals selection for signaling kinship in a wild primate. Sci. Adv. 6, eaba3274.


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I need a man who will take me to country festivals/concerts, hiking, camping, cruising, stargazing, and horse back riding. I need someone who will explore with me and go on adventures. And kiss me on the forehead. That last part is a must.
Maybe I should let you go.
Just let it be. You may as well. Everything moves in and out at its own time. You have no control. You never did, you never will.


Scenes that never happened but I wish they did: Bumi gets lost in the Fog of Lost Souls and meets his dad.
Bumi’s dialogue is shamelessly ripped off from Civil Wars part 2.
(shhh, leave me alone with my Bumi feels…)
Do you just ever love a person so much
But not in a sexual/romantic way
You just love them so much it’s not even a friendship
It’s like they’re your sibling or a platonic soul mate
You don’t want to make out with them or do sexual things
You just want to keep them close to you and protect them and be their friend for life
[[seductively does nothing to indicate I’m attracted to you]]


Recognition and appreciation in the workplace today are more important than ever for employee engagement, retention, and talent. But how can organizations better understand how to appreciate and recognize employees? This blog post will share how to do this with the help of love languages.
In 1992, Gary Chapman published a book that would be a New York Times bestseller, The Five Love Languages. In this work, Chapman discusses the five ways to express and experience love. These love languages include words of affirmation, quality time, giving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Since its publication, love languages have improved relationships, helping individuals feel loved, cared for, and remembered.
In the workplace, we show our teams we care through various practices that actually correspond to these love languages. For example, words of affirmation can involve saying “good work” to a teammate or thanking them for a presentation. Quality time can look like getting lunch and having a pleasant conversation. Physical touch could involve a [possibly virtual] high five. There are many ways to express ourselves at work.
A few years ago, I organized an offsite team celebration for the holidays. After thinking hard about the activities, I decided to poll the team to understand better how they’d prefer to celebrate the end of the year. Funny enough the activities reminded me of Chapman’s work, and so I further developed the five options to correspond to each love language.
- Gift and swag corresponds to giving gifts
- Dinner with the team corresponds to quality time
- High Fives and game activities correspond to physical touch
- Team huddle and a written letter corresponds to words of affirmation
- Hosting a surprise corresponds to acts of service
According to Chapman’s work, each person has one primary and one secondary love language. The theory is that people tend to “naturally give love in the way that they prefer to receive love, and better communication between couples can be accomplished when one can demonstrate caring to the other person in the love language the recipient understands.” (Wiki). This isn’t also true, however. The counter of receiving is giving. The options for the poll stayed the same, but the question posed includes “how would you most like to celebrate others?”
Building camaraderie on a team is about rewarding interaction and autonomy. One way to do this is to bring attention to the interactions that promote recognition and appreciation between individuals. Speaking a shared and inclusive language around praise and gratitude is just one start to genuinely creating an enjoyable and supportive workplace.
This post shared just one approach for celebrating and recognizing team members based on relationship research. Good luck to everyone looking to celebrate their circle, employees, and or team members. Let me know in the comments how it worked out!


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We have a good time together.
I love the photo booths at the movies!! Look how much fun we have!
I love him.
I love that he does these goofy things with me :)
I took him to see Alpha Omega last Saturday (not so great really, but he liked it. Lots of talk of 'repopulating' which made me a little antsy... luckily he hasn't asked me any questions!)
Oh, and he really doesn't make that face when I kiss him. at least not most of the time :)


Chances are if you ask a man why he doesn’t show more love to his wife, he would say: “I will love her more when she respects me more.”
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The fact is it takes two people to make a marriage work. The husband has to show his love to his wife in order to gain her respect. And the wife has to show her respect to her husband to gain his love.
-Yasmin Mogahed (via islamicrays)
Out of curiousity, he takes a peek. Out of modesty, she looks away. Two in love but cannot say. She has been saving herself for the one and only. And in her eyes he can see innocence and purity. Out of this, his desire grows, the fire in him almost shows. He keeps his distance, stays far away, he wouldn’t want what is bad for the one who took his breath away. Late at night the door bell rings, her heart beats loud and her soul sings. The talking below, she hears so clear in her mother’s eyes she can see a tear. He has finally come to take her away in the play ground of love they will finally play. He will protect her and treat well like a real man should. She would try to love him, please him, and care for him as best as she could. This is love and how it should be, How Allah intended it to be. Love is love and it shouldn’t change, but everyday its meaning seems to fade away. Love is sweet and should have an innocent start and later on it will pour endlessly from your heart. Guard your heart, love, body, and soul and insha’Allah release them only to the one whose name is written in the sky beside yours ♥
It belongs not to those who wait, but to those who seek.
It belongs not to those who suffer, but to those who endure.


Martin Kolk e Gunnar Andersson studiano l’evoluzione dei matrimoni tra persone dello stesso sesso e delle loro gravidanze e divorzi in Svezia. Sottolineano un aumento delle nascite e dei matrimoni, in particolare per le coppie femminili, e una stabilizzazione dei rischi di divorzio. Nel tempo, le dinamiche familiari delle coppie dello stesso sesso sono diventate sempre più simili a quelle dei partner di sesso diverso.
In recent decades, same-sex couples in nearly all high-income countries have gained increasing access to the same legal family forms as those available to different-sex couples. The Nordic countries and the Netherlands were pioneers in these developments. In Sweden, registered partnerships for same-sex couples were introduced more than two decades ago, in 1995. In almost all aspects, the registered partnership amounted to a de facto same-sex marriage, and in our contribution we refer to it as such. In 2009, new gender-neutral legislation also assigned the label of “married” to all new spouses, regardless of their sex. Like other dimensions of civil status, entries into and exits from registered partnerships / marriages are recorded in national administrative data, and available for demographic research. In a recent study (Kolk and Andersson 2020), we used such register data to document trends in marriage formation, divorce, and childbearing events among men and women who entered a legal same-sex union in Sweden. Our research follows earlier demographic studies of same-sex couples based on Swedish and Nordic register data (Andersson et al. 2006; Kridahl and Kolk 2018; Wiik, Seierstad and Noack 2014, 2016), but in this case we expand on earlier research by focusing on changes in behavior over calendar-year time from 1995 to 2012, and on new trends related to childbearing and parenting in same-sex unions.
20 years of change in same sex couples
A number of legal changes have taken place in the past 20 years in Sweden, including the right for same-sex spouses to adopt children (2003), to undergo government-funded insemination (2005), and to enter formal same-sex marriage under the gender-neutral marriage legislation that replaced the registered partnership in 2009. However, not all of these legislative changes have had the same demographic impact. For instance, while the formal same-sex marriage introduced in 2009 was an important symbolic recognition of the equality between same-sex and different-sex marriages (for the case of England and Wales, see, for instance, Boertien and Vignoli 2020), it brought no crucial changes in the underlying legal rights associated with marriage as compared to those of the registered partnership. Incidentally, this is why we do not distinguish between these two types of (formal) union in the rest of this article and simply talk about marriage and divorce, across all the years we study.
While male-male marriages have increased only modestly in the past 20 years in Sweden, female-female marriages have skyrocketed (Figure 1). To some extent, this reflects the growing popularity of formal unions for same-sex couples, and is probably related to the new policies that facilitate childbearing and parenting in female same-sex unions in particular. Interestingly, when the labeling of the civil status changed from registered partnership to marriage in 2009, the pace of union formation was not affected (Figure 1).
Childbearing in female same-sex marriages has increased rapidly over time in Sweden. When taking both female spouses’ childbearing outcomes into account, we find that childbearing events within marriages between two women are nowadays even more common than within different sex-marriages. In Figure 2 we show childbearing events from the individual perspective only: when there are two women in the couple, the chances of having a child are of course greater than p (individual probability): they are about 2p–p2.
More union formation, fewer union breakdowns
Same-sex marriages in general, and those of two women in particular, have traditionally been more fragile, and exposed to the risk of dissolution (Andersson et al. 2006). This tendency has lessened over time, however. The divorce risk of male same-sex couples is now similar to that of different-sex couples, but is higher (about twice as high) among female same-sex couples (Figure 3). For childless marriages, we find that male same-sex marriages have the lowest divorce risk of all marriage types. After 15 years of marriage, approximately 40% of female same-sex unions, and 30% of other types of marriage have ended in divorce.
While still a small minority of all marriages formed in Sweden, same-sex marriages have become increasingly common over the past 20 years. Initially more men than women entered same-sex marriages but this quickly reversed over time. In 2012, the probability of entering a different-sex marriage was still about 50 times higher than that of forming a same-sex marriage for a woman, but about 200 times higher for a man. At the same time, the behavior and characteristics of same-sex spouses have become increasingly similar to those of spouses in different-sex marriages. For example, the effect of education on marriage (positive) and divorce (negative) is similar for different- and same-sex couples. The increasing prevalence of same-sex marriages and the increasing similarity in patterns of marriage, childbearing (at least among females), and divorce in different types of unions have occurred in response to, and in tandem with, increasing social and legal rights granted to spouses of the same sex. More inclusive policy-making thus seems to have been both a driver and a consequence of ongoing family-demographic change.
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