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Couples Sometimes Communicate No Better Than Strangers

Married people may think they communicate well with their partners, but psychologists have found that they don’t always convey messages to their loved ones as well as they think — and in some cases, the spouses communicate no better than strangers. The same communication problem also is true with close friends, a recent study has found. […]
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Bastian Dash

Fair to Middling

So, I’m thinking. And I’m in bed. And someone nice is asleep beside me who isn’t thinking. She’s possibly dreaming though.  I like her soft sighs; the night’s own tick tock in a quiet room of only digitally displayed hours beside a dormant bedside lamp… Well this is nothing new. I’ve been telling you my […]
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Intimate couple

Intimacy

We thought, here at TBW HQ, that we’d post a link to a wonderful tumblr photo blog (phlog?) on Intimacy in which people have uploaded photos which in some way represent intimacy to them. There’s an enormous variety from heterosexual couples to same-sex couples to two neolithic skeletons embracing, which were found near Mantua, Romeo’s […]
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Ted Talk

I LOVE TED… Here’s why you should too

You may or may not know TED. No he’s not the hottest toyboy on TBW but the acronym of an organisation which stands for Technology Education and Design and the website is www.TED.com. TED has the most amazing speakers from all over the world talking on their own particular field of research which can be […]
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Wendy Salisbury

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Just after I was born, my family emigrated to America, the land of opportunity where the streets were ‘paved with gold’. My sister and I recently decided to retrace our childhood steps and set off for Brooklyn, Noo Yawk to see if we could find the ancestral tenement. The year was 1946. Dad had gone […]
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First date dressing service

How To Dress For Your First Date

Ladies, fed up of looking in the wardrobe and never knowing what to wear to for a hot date? Celebrity stylist, Clare Watson and founder of personal styling business Miss Dress offers a Five Top Tips on how to dress for a date and make a first impression that counts! 1. First and foremost like […]
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Bastian Dash

Peer Presumption

You know, there’s this really unassuming guy who must work near my building. We crisscross every day on the pavement and have done for ages; although not so much as an acknowledging nod has ever passed between us. Imagine my surprise then when he walked into a west end bar I happened to frequenting with […]
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Home Jane

Handy Women

I had just bought my first flat.  I’d always sworn I’d never live in a ground floor flat, but I absolutely fell in love with this one, and purchased it despite my concerns about safety on the ground floor.  So, when I need to get some work done in my new home, I was already […]
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Cougar cartoon

What Women Want

Gentleman – if you are expecting this to be The User’s Manual complete with useful diagrams for those tricky complicated parts– disappointment for now. You will have to wait until Volume 2.  Ladies first after all… So what do woman want? Well – if I am to take seriously the spate of articles I have […]
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Single Dad dating online

The Trials of a Dating Daddy

I’m a father. I’m a dater. I’m a pigeon-hole hater! (how very Steve Miller Band!) Some background information:I have a son, who shall be 6 years young on Wednesday (at this age, age is anything but a number -how he and I differ so!!), he’s a glorious human being.  His mother and I broke up before […]
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