Starting Over Blog

What Is Courage?

We can never be successful in life without courage. We’ve all heard amazing stories and acts of heroism that are worthy of the news broadcasts. ...
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The Power of Respect

Few of us need to be convinced of the value of respect – at least insofar as we want others to show it to us. ...
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Hoping For Love

We are inundated with the myth that there is a perfect relationship for us. Somewhere ‘out there’ is my perfect match, the person who fits ...
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Cautions and Red Flags of Online Dating

The last few blogs looked at the online dating industry’s advantages and disadvantages to the user. We also took a cursory view of the pragmatic ...
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Online Dating: The Advantages and Disadvantages

Hope you enjoyed the last blogs on Virtual Relationships and Online Dating. As a single adult pastor and personally involved in all aspects of single ...
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Virtual Relationships

In a previous blog I wrote about Online Dating.  A lesser known, first cousin of sorts to online dating is the Virtual Relationship. Consider a ...
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OnLine Dating

Improvement for Husbandry and Trade periodical featured an ad by John Hewton stating he wanted to share his destiny with a young lady and they ...
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Myths and Benefits of Divorce Recovery

With divorce being as common as it is I’m sure you’ve heard a friend you care about say something that just doesn’t seem right to ...
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Is raising kids as a single parent less favorable than being in a stepfamily?

Friends, This is our last part of several short interviews with Ron Deal, the national authority on Step-Families and author of The Smart Stepfamily: Seven ...
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Common Mistakes that Stepparents Make

Here is our question for Ron Deal:What are the common mistakes that stepparents make in their new family?  One out of every three or 60% ...
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