Love and war among relationships, family, friends, and co-workers are common among people. Today we find ourselves fighting, arguing, stealing and killing our own! My question is "why do it have to be that why"? This novel contains a variety of real life stories and more!

Are you waiting for someone to change back into the person you fell in love with? Do you fear you won't find anyone better for you if you leave or let go? Are you confused about what went wrong? This guide outlines ways to make your relationships healthier and, more importantly, how to tell when things have gone bad. An abusive, dysfunctional, or simply wrong-for-you relationship can be as draining and bad for your health as an affinity for junk food. If you're like most people, you're probably hungry for a good, meaningful, fulfilling relationship. Though it's easy to figure out that something needs to change, you may be having trouble figuring out what to do. In Giving Up Junk-Food Relationships, author Donna Barnes uses multiple choice quizzes, check lists, how-to lists, and more to lay out methods for determining what kinds of junk food are affecting your relationships. You can learn how to - recognize and stop destructive dating habits; - spot and avoid waving junk-food (red) flags; - distinguish true love from true lust; - tell if you're in a bad relationship and how to call it quits; - be comfortable being alone; and - handle rejection gracefully. Start making healthy relationship decisions and improve your most important long-term relationship: the one with yourself.

Each story in this collection begins with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation and, through the use of metaphor and an imaginative story journey, leads to a more desirable resolution. In this way, the stories also have the potential for nurturing positive values. The stories cover many kinds of universal behaviour. Following the alphabet from A to Z, the behaviour is identified in the story title e.g. anxious, bossy, cranky ... greedy ... jealous ... lazy ... swearing ... uncooperative ... and more. The stories can be told directly, or adapted. They can be turned into home-made picture books and puppet shows, or used as springboards for the creation of new tales for particular behaviour challenges and situations.

The journey of surviving, the love. Blood, sweat, tears of four years. My heart in someone else's hands. Love, hurt, breaking, healing, lessons, all experienced during this time. I tell you my story

WHY A BIRTHDAY JOURNAL? Nearly all of us would confess we want to live a life of meaning, purpose and significance. Yet, it is hard in the day-to-day grind of everyday life to stop and assess where we are. Your birthday is the perfect time to start the tradition of reflecting on your life. Think about where you've been, where you are, and where you are going. Reflection helps you assess where you have come from and where you are going. You can reflect on life in many ways. By taking a walk down memory lane you can get in touch with who you used to be and allow this information to help you improve. Then, you can create daily and monthly reflection practices that move you closer to making positive changes in your life. This journal also serves as a health journal and may be used by teenagers, as well as adults.