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	Kate Woods BellaOnline's Relationships Editor

Abusive Relationships May Start Younger Than You Think
A young woman was only in her teens, yet she was having some serious difficulties with her boyfriend. The young man was being manipulative and abusive.

Are You in Love With Being In Love?
There are many emotions involved in relationships between two people - not only love; but love seems to get all of the attention most of the time. Do you love me? Why don’t you tell me you love me? Will he run if I use the L word? Are you sure you love him or are you in love with being IN LOVE?

Desperate Husbands
Are you a desperate housewife? I know I am. I have lived more than one of the plots they have used for the show, though I’ll never admit which ones. Yet, I wonder how long before someone figures turnaround is fair play, and comes up with the show “Desperate Husbands”?

Do You Question the Magic of Love and How It Works
Have you ever watched a show that goes behind the scenes and shows you how magic tricks work? Everyone knows there’s a trick to the magic trick but it’s really so much more enjoyable to believe its magic than to believe it’s a trick. Love is sometimes like that as well.

Examples Of Love All Around Me
Recently I’ve been encountering examples of love all around me. Perhaps I’m more sensitive to it since watching my mother go through her grief after my father’s passing. Whatever the case, I feel honored every time I catch a glimpse of what true love is all about.

Fear of Commitment and Trust
Fear and trust are two emotions that follow the rush of feelings that people usually have at the beginning of a relationship. Why is that? What happens to make one person or the other begin to fear making a real commitment to a relationship? What are they afraid of?

In Sickness and in Health
I promised to write about love during the month of February. Most of those planned articles will be late; but today I will be sharing a story about real love. You see, my father passed away one week ago. And I want to tell you briefly about the love my mother and father shared.

Is Cyber Love Really Love?
I may offend some people when I say it is rare you will find true love on the Internet, because undoubtedly there have been those people who have felt they have found their true love via the Web. The difference between true love and cyber love is really as different as an apple and a banana.

Looking for Love in all the Right Places
I had my share of bad relationships. That’s not saying a good portion of the problem wasn’t me. But one thing was very certain, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. So, where are the right places?

Relationship Expectations Damsel Seeks Knight
Damsel In Distress Seeking Knight in Shining Armor - If you were posting your profile on an online dating service would this be similar to your listing? Do you think that the needier you are the more likely you will be to attract a Sir Lancelot type of guy to protect and defend you for life?

Shoulder to Shoulder
I have often used information acquired from the book “Love and Respect” by Dr.Emerson Eggeriches as a basis for some of my articles. I’m going to do it once again in today’s article. However, I can attest to the fact, in this case I have practiced what he preaches.

The Communication of Talking and Silence
Most people seem to think of communication as two or more people talking with one another. Recently I started to realize there is something to be said about silence. That almost sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not. My husband and I have found there is something companionable about silence.

The Pain of a Cyber Affair
I admit the first time I heard someone use the words “cyber affair”, I was shocked, though I guess I shouldn’t have been. I knew of people who have had “emotional affairs”, so I thought a cyber affair was no different.

When He's Gone More Than He's Home
I remember several years ago when Ken and I were having some friends over for dinner. What was planned as a nice meal, turned into a battlefield.