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I'm married with two teenagers,and holding a full time job as a lecturer.I'm interested in relationships, beliefs, science ...
sadsack
posted on Nov 03, 2008
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Yesterday was All Souls' Day and we did something we had not done for a long time. We visited the cemeteries where my mother and my In-laws were buried.The cemetery looked beautiful. peaceful. Almost all the graves had been cleaned and... read entire post
sadsack
posted on Oct 29, 2008
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Don't get me wrong. I love my 16 year old daughter, but there are times when I feel almost like turning her over and whacking her with a huge hairbrush though she's almost as big as me. She's so moody I never know what her reaction is gonna be.... read entire post
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posted on Oct 29, 2008
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My husband acts loving and romantic only when he wants to have sex. But I'd love him to be this way more often and not only as a prelude to sex.Why can't we just be loving because, wel, we love
Are all men like this, or is it just my husband... read entire post
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posted on Oct 28, 2008
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My country, India is a dizzying mix of opposites of every conceivable kind. We have mega cities like Mumbai and remote villages where there's no electricity or piped water. We have billionaires and poverty stricken folks who don't have one square... read entire post
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posted on Oct 26, 2008
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Its been an awfully tough month...but I've survived!It began with a letter from my college principal telling me I'd been selected as the convenor of the exam committee. I knew it meant that basically I'd be in charge of arranging and organis... read entire post
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posted on Sep 23, 2008
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I grew up in the emerald state of Kerala in southern India during the sixties and seventies. The ideal of womanly pulchritude there in those days was derived from the ancient Indian classics which described a beautiful woman as having haunches that rese... read entire post
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posted on Sep 15, 2008
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I'm horribly worried about my 17 year old daughter. She has developed a huge crush on one of her girlfriends. I'm so afraid she may have homosexual tendencies. I know, I know I really do have nothing against homosexuals, but it's a bit difficult to face... read entire post
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posted on Sep 08, 2008
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I wish I had a wife!This is odd 'cos I'm a woman and heck no, I'm not a lesbo..(I've nothing against them..to each his own.) The reason I want a wife, is cos i think, women's lib or not, I end up doing much more of the work around the place than... read entire post
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posted on Aug 30, 2008
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For a large part of my life I sat on the fence...I was an agnostic...not sure whether to believe in God or not.But over the last few years my faith has strengthened tremendously. Part of it due to a lot of reading I've been ding and part due... read entire post
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posted on Aug 30, 2008
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I suppose knowing oneself intimately is the mark of a wise and mature person.In which case I'm far from being...middle-aged as I am...I feel I'm just getting to know myself now. I still surprise myself with reactions which are unexpected.... read entire post
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posted on Aug 30, 2008
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What is 'old' ?I'm approaching half a century and I feel not much older than I did when I left college 25 years ago. True, there are the gray hairs that I think I should start colouring, the odd twinge in my knee when I've been sitting too long... read entire post
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posted on Aug 25, 2008
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Don't get me wrong. I love kids.I have two teenagers of my own and I've been teaching 16 to 18 year olds for the past 20 years or so. I love my students too.But I have been seeing the way attitudes have been changing and it scares me sometim... read entire post
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posted on Aug 08, 2008
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My kids are only 20 months apart in age and only another mother with small kids and virtually no help will understand what that means...life was a frenzied round of feeding, cleaning, washing, soothing small hurts, frantic trips to the paediatrician... read entire post
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posted on Apr 05, 2008
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The single most devastating experience in our family life was that of discovering that our father was a paedophile. It shattered us, left us wrenched and tortured.We were, we thought till then, a fairly normal suburban family. Three of us teenager... read entire post
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posted on Feb 04, 2008
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For years I could n't make up my mind whether to believe in God or not. I sat on the fence for a long, long time. My heart kept telling me to believe, but my inteelct kept telling me I was a fool for doing so. My training in science prevented me from acc... read entire post