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The Today Show’s Modern Wedding That Isn’t Really

The Today Show is hosting a contest, Today’s Wedding: Modern Love! TODAY is throwing a modern day wedding! Whether your love blossomed over the Internet or you met the old-fashioned way, we want to hear from you! touts its Facebook entry page. It’s a seemingly sweet idea- you and your significant other can enter to win a wedding on the Today Show and you get a free honeymoon!Awesome!Right?Well, sure, if you’re heterosexual.

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The Shocking Girls’ Guide to Workplace Success

From the moment baby boomers joined the workforce, women made it their mission to create a fair playing field for everyone. But after decades of feminists plowing down the boys’ club, today’s women enter a totally different kind of workplace and need totally different advice for succeeding. What should the new rules be? This list is long, but here are five points to get the conversation going:

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Truth About Acai Diet Pills

Once upon a time, in the deep, remote areas of the Brazilian rain forest, grew a tree called the acai that caused fat to literally melt away in those who ate from its fruits. If this sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale for adults struggling with weight loss, that’s because it is. The truth about acai diet pills isn’t too pretty–nor is it likely to be encouraging to consumers who put their belief in this tiny purple berry that came to us from afar.

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23 Ways to Fight Fair with Your Husband

Thirty years of marriage counseling and 25 years of a second marriage have convinced me that couples do not need to fight; they need to discuss. Married couples need to solve problems, and sometimes they need to disagree, but they don’t need to squabble, argue or bicker. Fights are dramatic, a dynamic that does not really help a discussion. If you have enough energy to create drama, you have more than enough to tone it down into a discussion. However, because social expectations and mythology are so strong (fighting is often glorified in films and on television as a sign of passion), many of my clients want guidelines for “fighting fair.” I’ve developed a set of Fair Fight Guidelines you may find helpful.