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Elev8

Oct 13, 2011 at 9:45 am

What To Do When A Friend Pulls Away

What To Do When A Friend Pulls Away

When you notice that a friend suddenly won’t answer your text messages, tweets, texts or emails, this can be an unnerving and disturbing situation. According to About.com, the first sign that something could be ‘wrong’ with a friendship is often when you just don’t hear from your friend. Some people are not good at initiating conversation when something is wrong, so watch for these subtle signs that your friendship

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Elev8

Sep 30, 2011 at 9:30 am

What You Can Do To Support Black Marriage?

What You Can Do To Support Black Marriage?

Just in time for Black Marriage Day, tomorrow Lamar and Ronnie Tyler the couple behind Happily Ever After and You Saved Me present their new film “Men Ain’t Boys.” The Tyler’s traveled across the country to interview 45 men and multiple experts about the true definition of manhood in the Black community.

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Elev8

Jul 29, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Why It’s People & Not Places That Matter

Why It’s People & Not Places That Matter

When you move or travel to somewhere new, one of the biggest challenges you encounter is balancing what you know from word-of-mouth about the place and what is actually accurate about the people who live there. You create your own experiences through a lens of what you think will happen versus the true reality of the situation.

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RobinRazzi

Jul 15, 2011 at 10:52 am

Will He Ever Marry You?

Will He Ever Marry You?


It seems that a ton of my girlfriends are either jumping the broom or are newly engaged. Not that I am rushing anything, or being impatient as hell and wondering what in the world is wrong with me, but I will be honest in saying why hasn’t it happened to me yet? (Well it has but not by my ideal guy.) I seem to think that I’m pretty attractive,

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Elev8

Jul 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm

How To Manage Your Friendships

How To Manage Your Friendships

It made me wonder how much people can change over the years as relationships evolve and ties that once were strong become strained with the passing of time. Friendships, if not cared for like living entities, can become wilted and slowly disintegrate beneath your grasp, despite your best efforts to act like nothing is wrong.

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Elev8

Jun 22, 2011 at 4:45 pm

Has Technology Made Us More Awkward?

Has Technology Made Us More Awkward?

The addition of the internet onto cell phones has also become a gateway to instant gratification and can sometimes even spawn new friendships if you are too shy to speak to someone on a more personal level. However, if you really think about it, what is technology doing to the fundamental social skills that people have to learn and cultivate? If you can’t talk to someone in person and you resort to e-mailing or Facebook-ing them, is that really the

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Elev8

Apr 29, 2011 at 11:52 am

11 Popular Wedding Traditions Explained

11 Popular Wedding Traditions Explained

Have you ever been to a wedding and wondered just why you were participating in the ritual? An up coming movie JUMPING THE BROOM is a hilarious comedy about a wedding ceremony that forces two divergent families to get along.

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Elev8

Apr 27, 2011 at 12:58 pm

When Life Gets Overwhelming… Take A Break!

When Life Gets Overwhelming… Take A Break!

Let’s just face it: life can be pretty overwhelming at times. If you are holding down every aspect of your life: family, social life, career, love/sex, spiritual life etc. – then you know what it’s like for relationships and situations to constantly evolve, grow, move and change. Yet, life can quickly carry us away, leaving us to feel like we’re carrying the world around on our shoulders. And sometimes

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Elev8

Apr 14, 2011 at 12:25 pm

5 Steps To Find Closure So You Can Move On

5 Steps To Find Closure So You Can Move On

Closure, that unpopular C-word that leaves otherwise sane people feeling stuck. Moving on from what was once an important piece of your life can be a difficult or painful thing to do. Without proper closure there may be sleepless nights, worrying and those awful “what if” questions pondering through your thoughts… not a great feeling at all. So what do you do now?

I recently had to end a friendship that was

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Elev8

Mar 30, 2011 at 8:51 am

Work It Out Wednesday: 8 Steps To Being A Positive Person

Work It Out Wednesday: 8 Steps To Being A Positive Person

We all want to think positive. No one wants to be that person that people run away from. We all want to love lives that can be reflective of what we wish to do in our lives. Joy, happiness, and forward thinking should be your mantra. If we are creatures of a loving God why would we choose to be miserable and spread it? Sounds to me like a pretty basic

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