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A good friend of mine recently said, “but I do love him.”

“Then why are you willing to accept being angry at him, instead of working to resolve the issue?” I asked.

The him, was her husband and our conversation was about how we choose to be in the state we are in. How we choose to love, or not to love, to be angry or not to be angry, but that it is our choice, consciously, or unconsciously.

Although not convinced about the control she had on this, I kept pressing. “So why choose anger?”

“Because I’m tired of constantly trying, only to get rejected.”

Still hearing her skepticism about choice, I said, “If you don’t control your emotions, who does?”

I stopped questioning her at that point, because I could hear the pain in her voice, which only minutes before stood as anger. Having been through a similar situation in my own marriage of 14 years, I felt her pain as if it were mine…perhaps because it truly was. I listened as she said she hadn’t stopped loving him, but in my eyes, I felt that for the minute, she surely had. She had made a conscious effort to stop loving her husband as a direct result of his rejections. Even if indirectly, it was payback time.

But who was really paying the price? She felt the daily rejections of him not listening to her and of him not being intimate, but now it was his turn to feel unloved. Wasn’t that how this game was played? It was one option, but one that she would pay the price for, even as she withheld the love. She would then hold the reigns, but still walk away feeling unloved.

After leaving a marriage that left me with similar feelings, I left the conversation with a pain in my heart. The pain from knowing exactly how it felt to be denied a love that I could almost taste. The pain from constantly exposing myself, only to be left feeling bruised and beaten from the silence. The pain of trying to peel away each layer of my skin, hoping for my true self to be revealed and loved. And the ultimate pain, in not knowing if it would ever end.

The most difficult decision I ever made was to leave my husband after fourteen years and to give up my dreams of a happily ever after ending, but one that had to come. You see, my marriage differed from my friends in one very important way. I never stopped loving my husband, because I was the eternal optimist, and believed that eventually he would hear me. I believed that if I kept putting myself out there, that one day he would finally cave in and love me like I needed. It wasn’t until the day I realized that he could only love the way he knew how, that I knew I had to leave. I didn’t know how long I had been giving and feeling unloved, but it was very clear that I was becoming a person that almost didn’t feel anymore.

Faced with being a single parent, trying to start a business of my own, create a life for my children that enabled them to see my true self and learning how to expose myself to the cruel world of dating, I never once looked back. I couldn’t choose that. I couldn’t, because who I needed to be was someone who was feeling and this was where I needed to be.
Dating, after being married for fourteen years, will help you experience the raw feelings of being exposed and vulnerable all over again, with a huge range of emotions. The difference is that I know there is an end in sight.

“Just be cautious,” my sister pleaded after hearing about one of my better dates.

I resisted my usual urge to defend myself. “There is no cautious in the game of love,” I said. “This time I am looking for someone who knows the real me, right from the start. And if throwing caution to the wind from day one, means I may experience sadness…than so be it…because playing full out is the only way to play. And if I get hurt, at least I will know that I feel. And if I feel, at least I will know I am alive.

So this spring, why not experience Spring Fever with a real spring in your step? Play full out…love like your heart tells you to. You may be surprised at the happiness that comes with it.

Lesley Moore is President and Owner of LifeScope, Life Coaching. She specializes in working with individuals in transition, empowering them to create a life they love. She is also a Personal Fitness Trainer and a Freelance Writer. Lesley graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Journalism and has studied coaching through the Mentor Coach Program, which is recognized by the International Coaching Federation. For more information about Life Coaching, visit her website at http://www.lifescopecoach.com/.

College years are the best, the most remarkable and fun days of our lives, therefore we should spend them in the way that can make them remarkable and fun. Doing this, we must not forget that the key aim of us being here is studying; getting necessary skills to proceed with work in our field. Everything you dwell on turns out to be done and completed well.

Accept writing. Every time you turn your paper in, expecting on your deserved “A”, you get a good mark and your tutor explains that you lack that little trifle that makes your work look like “the A type”. It’s time to take some actions to correct the absence of that trifle. Sometimes even postgraduates are asked to reconsider some of the stylistic points of their thesis paper and add something that makes it more interesting to read. Here is some advice on how to insert interesting stylistic points into your work. It is quite easy to insert a rhetorical question in any thesis, even if it is a complicated paper, like computer science thesis. By a rhetorical question we mean a question that doesn’t need an answer, a poser that can possibly be answered only by a person wondering. Technically it is used to turn one’s attention to the statement. This question makes a reader think it over and find the answer. This stylistic matter makes a reader or a listener involved in the topic. This way your work is absorbed easier than if you present bare statements to reveal your researched topic.

Quotations can make even a dissertation look brighter and more informative. When you quote, it means that the principles of work of the scientist you use are very familiar and close to your way of thinking. It also shows how deeply you have researched your topic and how well you can operate the knowledge you got out of that. A quotation makes your work easy to understand and the interest of the reader increases. One more point is the lexical structure of your paper. There should be a number of various linking words and phrases that make your language look rich and convincing. The number of nouns is quite limited, but the number of adjectives and adverbs that you know and also can for can not be counted. Therefore it is wise to use some of them in your presentation speech and in your paper. You have to prove to your advisors and audience that you deserve to be called a scholar for your effective statement, presentation skills and literate and stylistically well-composed language. All things considered, you have to think over every detail of your paper and only then turn it in. If you add some little trifles in your paper, the success is guaranteed. Sometimes it is better to overdo than to underdo the work. You’ll work hard and the whole thing might even seem senseless in the end, but your satisfaction will have no border when you get your deserved “A” and recognition as the best writer in class.

Chris Wells is a senior editor at Dissertationsexperts.com – Thesis Writing Service. He holds a PhD in Science and for now his major professional areas of interest include teaching at universities and consulting postgraduate students who find difficulty in completing their written assignments starting from essay writing to dissertation writing. His advice in dissertation writing and thesis writing is helpful to many postgraduates.