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14 Relationship Hacks That Every Couple Needs To Know

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1. Here’s one, tested and approved. Keep a small notebook, well hidden from her, and from time to time, write down a note about something she liked, wanted to buy, a place she wanted to go or something she wanted to do. Keep the dates as well. Then, on a special occasion or when you can afford it (timewise as well as moneywise), get her that little something she wanted to buy or take her out to that restaurant she fancied etc. The key is NOT to do this immediately after she asks for it but rather to wait long enough for “it” to leave her immediate thoughts. With this, she knows you care but more importantly, she knows you LISTEN.

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Life Experiences

Depressing Confession of the Day

My wife is not the woman I used to know. She let the fame get to her.

I met my wife when I was 15 in high school, she was 17. That latter part of my teenage years was probably the hardest of my life, since in half a year I lost my mother. Never knew my dad so she was the only thing I could consider “family”.

At that time, me and my wife were only friends, but she was there for me, and grieved with me. I think I started developing feelings for her during that time.

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Picture Of The Day

Picture of the Day

Geronimo and Lozen

Geronimo’s final band pictured in front of the train car taking them to prison in Florida. Geronimo is in the front row, third from the right. Immediately to his left is Chief Naiche. In the back row, third from the right is Lozen, the famous woman warrior. This is the only known photograph of her

Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Apache tribe. He was born in 1829 in what is now Arizona, USA, and he became one of the most renowned and fierce Apache warriors in history.

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Work-Life/Goals

How to See Faster Results by Tracking Your Progress

how to track your results

Photo by Isaac Smith

Tracking your progress, no matter what it is that you’re trying to accomplish, serves as both a motivator and a tool to determine what works and what doesn’t. In my experience, it’s one of the best things that you can do if you want to see results and see them quickly.

There are quite a few different ways to track your progress, and we’ll go through those in a bit, but first:

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Links

Linkage

Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online – The Ringer

She Played ‘Hilary Banks’ on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. See Karyn Parsons Now at 56 – Ned Hardy

If you want to level up your espresso game, this grinder comes up often in coffee circles – Amazon

SAG-AFTRA Members Vote 97.9% in Favor of Strike Authorization – Variety

She Played ‘Ursula’ In Spiderman 2. See Mageina Tovah Now At 43 – VL Wanderer

A climber rescued from death’s door on Mount Everest is being slammed online for thanking his sponsors instead of the sherpa who saved his life – Insider

How to Write a Perfect Resignation Letter – The Cut

6 Times Family Guy Predicted The Future – Linkiest

How to Overcome Stress and Hardship with One Powerful Method – Better Humans

This is what supermodels look like when they get older – Bright Side

Here Are the Winners of This Year’s James Beard Chef and Restaurant Awards – Grub Street

Contact Posters Are Coming to Your iPhone – How To Geek

The Flash Has No Business Being This Good, But It Is – i09

Video shows how a storekeeper defeated Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in jiu-jitsu – NPR

50 Amazing Rarely Seen Photos From World War II – The Art of Manliness

Ranked: The 20 Most Air-Polluted Cities on Earth – Visual Capitalist

How a Texas High Jumper Used His TikTok Savvy to Score Nearly $1 Million in Deals – TIME

46 Books that Changed the World – Mental Floss

 

 

 

Answers

Why Didn’t They Just Bomb the Beaches of Normandy Before Carrying Out the D-Day Landing?

If you haven’t read D-Day, by Stephen E Ambrose, I’d really recommend it if you’re interested. All quotations are from Chapter 14 of the book.

They bombarded the crap out of the beaches. Several veteran soldiers have said the opening naval barrage on D day was one of the loudest things they had ever heard.

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