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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
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Relationship
Women
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The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.
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Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.
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Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
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If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
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Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.
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Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.
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This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
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You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.
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We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.
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Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe for you.
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Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.
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Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.
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Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.
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He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.
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Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.
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Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the up button, and see where it takes you.
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Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.
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I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.
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One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.
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You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.
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