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Your Boyfriend Cheated On You... Now What?

Should you stay or should you go?

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Your Boyfriend Cheated On You... Now What?

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You just found out your boyfriend cheated on you. No matter if it was a physical affair or an emotional affair, it hurts. You battle with yourself, "Should I give him a second chance?" "Should I leave him?" "What if someone else can treat me better?"

You'll run through all the possibilities in your head. But at the end of the day, no one can make that decision for you.

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5 Honest Ways To Make Love True

Men can fake orgasms too. It's called getting blue balls.

Orlando, Florida

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Peter K. Levy

Love is a word thrown around so much we start to believe it can soar. All too often, love falls flat against our best efforts and intentions. The feeling is both abstract and concrete, sometimes strange. Depending on how you look at love, the experience can leave you bitter or better than you were before. But to make and keep true love, do these X honest things.

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Old Souls Are What Hipsters Will Never Be

You cannot fake what was never a trend.

Orlando, Florida

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Old Souls Are What Hipsters Will Never Be

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Old is the new "new," as if something of age was meant to be reborn or reproduced. What the past is to us is what the present is to the past. A means of living that expresses the hopeful need of a future not yet lived. Back then, the eternal phrase of dissonance, what we find out of style or outdated was natural living at that point in time. The past we look back at was once the present day. It is a miracle that our gaze can be so scrutinizing enough to see farther than the future allows us. Unless it is to be forgotten, misplaced, redacted, or revised, history will show its punctual and preeminent watershed epochs, even if it means rinsing and repeating. It all depends on whose washing the plates.

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Health Wellness

The Power Of Feeling Powerless

Our whole life we are told to not put importance on the small things yet we don't listen

Alpharetta, Georgia

In our lives, we are constantly bombarded by the fact that we can't control everything. We can't control how people will react or what people will think about us. This just makes us more nervous about how others will react in a situation and what we can say to get a desired response. Recently, school has been becoming more and more stressful and this has continually shown me the fact that we can't place too much importance on the small things or we will get overwhelmed and will lose sight on what is important to us and how we should try to do as much as we can.

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Life Stages

5 Reasons Fast-Food Steals Your Soul

I left, but I'm pretty sure I lost a part of my soul in my two years working there.

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I left the food industry because I was beginning to hate what I was doing. I didn't mind the people I worked with or the people I came across as customers. I started hating the work I was doing and that could very well have been attributed to the fact I want to be a fiction writer. I don't want to be working in fast-food for the rest of my life. I don't want to sell life insurance for the rest of my life either, but right now selling life insurance is bringing me closer to my goal of making a difference in the world.

Fast-food steals your soul and here's why:

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Career Development

It's A Good Idea To Take A Role In Leadership Before You Graduate College

Take advantage of the opportunity to lead rather than fall back into the excuses which littered the fall semester of my freshman year, and likely litter your college experience as well.

Rutgers University

It's A Good Idea To Take A Role In Leadership Before You Graduate College

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Is leadership a position? A state? A choice? Those who choose to lead are a lucky few, a minority driven by an innate desire for change which is both empowering and engaging. Most leaders are born out of normality, thrust into their position by fate, with little control over their life's direction. To quote Shakespeare, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." This "greatness" Shakespeare speaks of can't be foreseen by its recipient, rather developing out of hard work, perseverance, or simply luck. While the far majority say they desire to be great and achieve some level of leadership, most are actually satisfied with the mundane. But even in a state of normal, each person is forced into leadership daily.

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Should you stay or should you go?

If you stay with him....

If you decide to leave him...

Men can fake orgasms too. It's called getting blue balls.

1. Flirt with caution.

2. Talk and walk.

3. Small gestures, heavy-lifting.

4. Detox, delete, debunk.

5. Cut to the chase, but don't run.

You cannot fake what was never a trend.

Our whole life we are told to not put importance on the small things yet we don't listen

I left, but I'm pretty sure I lost a part of my soul in my two years working there.

1. You're always moving too slow.

2. Even if it's not your fault, it still manages to be your fault.

3. As a manager, your higher-ups will always blame you even if it was someone else.

4. Maybe you were gifted (or cursed) with the manager that is everyone's friend, that's great, but when they go to discipline someone that person won't take the manager seriously.

5. Everything is always on fire and there's nothing you can do to change it.

Take advantage of the opportunity to lead rather than fall back into the excuses which littered the fall semester of my freshman year, and likely litter your college experience as well.

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