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Conclusion Paradoxically, I propose that best way to honor gender diversity is to transcend it. I don’t mean to pretend gender doesn’t exist. Rather, the task is to look directly at the person who is in front of you, so you can see them as spirit and as a unique individual. Come face-to-face and spirit-to-spirit [...]

Thus, spiritual communications are neutral and genderless. They are about life experience, and some of that experience is about being in a male or female body.

The Problem of Gender The popular book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray seeks to make useful distinctions between the way that men and women communicate, all toward the end of helping the genders to understand each other better and communicate more successfully. That best-selling book has now spawned many [...]

He’s known around the world as one of the sexiest men on the silver screen. But ask Mel Gibson his favorite role and he’ll answer without hesitation, “Dad.”

Russ Bergeron, general manager of the Southern California MLS, genuinely welcomes fizbos, noting “every year I go to meetings and say we ought to put fizbos on our MLS system, and they attack me with stakes and crosses. Even if a fizbo listing didn’t end up with a selling agent, a buying agent might at [...]

Many agents spew a predictably smug it-will-never-work response to Koch’s initiative. If history is evidence, they are correct. The National Association of Realtors, a Washington, D.C.-based trade association and lobbying group, says that owner-sold homes have never represented more than 10 to 15 percent of the market.

What about your concern that Fred loves his daughter more than you? Keep in mind that he has a long history with his child that predates your arrival on the scene. Compared to the length of their relationship, you have only a flash of history with him. The reality is that the parent-child bond predates [...]

I hate my boyfriend’s 13-year-old daughter. She’s been spoiled rotten by both of her parents since the divorce and they constantly make the excuse that the family separation has been very hard on her. Now, Fred and I are talking about moving in together, but I can’t stand the idea of living with this teenager. [...]

Attachment Love is the emotional glue that attaches us as humans. In it’s purest form in the individual it is felt outwardly toward and connecting to another. It is a need to reach out, give and commit. It is experienced as a state and as an immediate feeling. It is both the fundamental and the [...]

The definition of intimacy that involves Commitment is an expansive concept of intimacy. These things which have been a part of relationships throughout recorded history need not to be forgotten in our modern hyper stimulated world. Intimacy involves the very act of sharing a life. Sensuality is particularly bonding but so too is changing diapers [...]