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Relationships and MarriageBecoming parents for the first time is a significant experience, personally and for your marriage. A lifestyle that was once comfortable and familiar becomes unpredictable and perhaps stressful. Many first-time mothers and fathers share anxieties regarding the changes a baby brings to the marriage. Among these concerns are the added…
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Forages and BaleageNo matter what business or process one is managing, the success of that management depends on regularly measuring and monitoring performance. Pasture management is no different. Employing the “three Ms” of the management cycle (Figure 1)—measure, monitor, and manage—is crucial to success in management-intensive grazing systems. Increasingly, management-intensive grazing systems…
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BlueberriesFrost protection systems tremendously benefit commercial blueberry production in Georgia. These systems are expensive and usually configured as overhead irrigation systems (Figure 1). For the system to provide protection, it must operate as soon as it’s needed. The best practice for maintaining a frost protection system is to perform preventative…
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Relationships and MarriageHow do you feel when you are around people who look for and talk about the negative things in life? When it’s sunny, they complain about the heat. When it’s raining, they complain about the dampness. When things are going well, they could always be better! If you find yourself…
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Relationships and MarriageAt the beginning of each year, couples often make New Year’s resolutions about what they want to do individually. What about what you and your partner can do for your relationship or marriage? When was the last time you and your partner looked at the previous year to assess where…
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Relationships and MarriageMarriage isn’t designed to make you happy, it is designed to make you married. When caught up in the emotions of love, this statement might not make much sense to you. It really doesn’t make much sense if you have been watching any reality TV shows; these programs, although they…
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Relationships and MarriageAs a relationship develops, a couple’s attachment to each other grows stronger. According to Dr. John Van Epp, author of How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk (McGraw-Hill, 2008), attachment in healthy relationships is based on five factors: knowledge, trust, reliance, commitment, and touch. For the strongest and most…
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Relationships and MarriageDating is an exciting and challenging part of life. The heady feeling romance brings is wonderful, but the sadness experienced when a relationship ends can be devastating. Learning a little about how relationships develop can help us better cope with both the joys, and sorrows, that romance brings. Relationships develop…
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Relationships and MarriageWhen romance is in the air and a walk down the aisle is in your future, plans for the big event seem to take priority over planning for the marriage relationship. There is a multitude of advice and opinions from television and radio talk show hosts, magazine articles and of…
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Relationships and MarriageHow do you know if a person is compatible as a life-long partner? What does it take to really get to know someone? According to Dr. John Van Epp, author of the program P.I.C.K. a Partner (Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge) (www.lovethinks.com) and the book How to Avoid Falling in…
