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Do you often feel that, as a parent, you’re struggling to find a satisfactory balance between providing for the needs of your children and caring for…

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During summer holidays, Christmas and many other occasions, we find ourselves with family and friends where at least one person will have written an…

In my birth family, I was brought up to believe that there was only one way to think; one way to react to something. When, at eleven, I was sent to a…

When I was growing up I had two friends - I'll call them John and Paul. While my family life had boundaries and structure, both John and Paul's seeme…

It's that time again where the school summer term ends. Our young people have probably worked hard to harness great exam results with a view to atten…

In many ways we spend the majority of our life experiencing one kind of transition or another. Leaving home, new relationships, new jobs, having chil…

There are so many reasons why people cheat on their spouses and infidelity can occur in all types of relationships - newlyweds, long-term marriages,…