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	<title>Girls Gone Single</title>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Stylin&#8217; Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered the title  “professional lifestylist” – and I snorted out loud.
I could understand hiring someone to cut your hair, pick your paint colors or even organize your closets. But a lifestylist? Does every element of our existence really require professional help?
But on further consideration, I asked myself, why not? After all, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Shame, No Gain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard a twice-divorced woman describe herself as a “two-time loser.” Ouch. It got me thinking about just how embarrassing it is to end a marriage.
When we talk about the emotional journey of divorce, great epic feelings like Pain, Fear and Loneliness tend to hog all the airtime. But I think embarrassment belongs right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/no-shame-no-gain</link>
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		<title>Stand by your&#8230; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I saw a crazy thing on TV the other day. A decade or more into marriage, the husband decided to switch genders and fulfill his lifelong yearning to live as a woman. The wife stood by her partner through the whole transition (yes, surgery), and at the time the segment was taped they were living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/stand-by-your</link>
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		<title>One to ponder&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Martha divorced around the same time I did. We didn’t know each other then, but wound up neighbors after we both moved from our Marital Estates into sensible little easy-care townhouses.
As we became friends, Martha inspired me: She ran her own business. She biked to the gym every morning. She grew her own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/one-to-ponder</link>
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		<title>A Grateful Heart</title>
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My ex-husband came with a number of serious flaws and some truly fabulous old ladies. Most notably, a great aunt we’ll call Josephine, who epitomized the gracious Southern Dame.
Well into her seventies, Josie was beautiful in a way that had nothing to do with preserving the trappings of youth. It was all about elegant carriage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Umm… Congratulations?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Umm… Congratulations?
People often wonder about the appropriate response when someone gets divorced. I’m in the camp of a resounding “mazel tov!”  A congratulatory exclamation of warm wishes and good luck makes every kind of sense as a rough chapter closes and a new one begins.
I am not insensitive to the sadness and pain that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Some Noise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like me, you’re reading a stranger’s divorce blog because that’s a whole lot easier than talking about the subject with your friends.  But I hope you’re not like me, because if there’s one piece of advice I’d like to foist on the unhappily coupled (or uncoupled) of the world, it’s quit brooding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/make-some-noise</link>
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		<title>The Ex Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve got a problem with the phrase “my ex.” It might just be that it makes me feel like a character in a bad country song, but I think there’s more to it.
It’s the “my” part that bugs me. I prefer to reserve that descriptor for the positive things I cherish: my family, my friends, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/the-ex-games</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Sex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I realized my marriage was over, the predictable array of scary topics ran rampant in my brain. I worried about my kids, of course. Then there was the issue of money.  And what about lawyers? And where would I live?
But it might surprise you to learn that in between all the hand wringing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/lets-talk-about-sex</link>
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		<title>In My Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent two years tucked in the corner of a therapist’s couch. My husband sat to my right, my shrink faced us in her chair. Week in, week out, that was my place and I occupied it faithfully, even when I went to therapy alone.
It was in one such solo session that I decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.girlsgonesingle.com/in-my-corner</link>
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