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Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California since 1978 with over 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 13 books in 17 languages, including It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction (New Page); How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free (New Page); The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again (Wiley) and The Real 13th Step: Discovering Self-Confidence, Self-Reliance and Independence Beyond the Twelve Step Programs (New Page); Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage, The Commuter Marriage, and her newest, Lovestyles: How to Celebrate Your Differences. She is CRO (Chief Romance Officer) for LoveFilter.com - the Relationships Website and she publishes “Happiness Tips from Tina”, an e-mail newsletter, and the “Dr. Romance Blog.” Online, she is “Dr. Romance” with columns at DivineCaroline, SelfGrowth.com and Yahoo!Personals, as well as a Redbook Love Network expert. Dr. Tessina guests frequently on radio, and such TV shows as “Oprah”, “Larry King Live” and ABC News. She tweets @tinatessina and is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tinatessina and http://www.facebook.com/DrRomanceBlog.

Lifestyle

Coping with Critics

Tina TessinaFeb 22, 2015

By Tina Tessina No one likes to be criticized, fairly or not. It’s always difficult to deal with, and it can hurt. Because I’m a writer of books and columns, and because I’ve…

Lifestyle

Attitude: From Negative to Gratitude

Tina TessinaFeb 22, 2015

Despite the occasional temporary setback, my life is good, and I’m grateful. It wasn’t always that way, however. At 18, just after I left for college, I was essentially…

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Anger Management|How to control your anger

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014

By Tina B. Tessina Anger Management Anger is a taboo emotion in our culture: we feel it, we express it, but we don’t usually talk about it, so it’s difficult for adults to…

Relationships

Romance is Not Necessarily Love

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014

By Tina Tessina In romantic depictions of love, cute little images of cherubs and cupids abound. But Cupid, in his real incarnation, is not so sweet and cuddly. His arrows can…

Relationships

10 Reasons For Not Falling in Love

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014

By Tina Tessina Although you might think of “falling in love” as romantic; we all fall in love many times in life: with a new lover, a new friend, a particularly cooperative…

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All sorted! The couple we were looking for on social media have explained why they visited our home September 18, 2023
We’re meeting them for a coffee in the spirit of goodwill! It looks like we’ve upset some innocent house viewers who are – or were – looking for a property to potentially to buy! Having become aware of our social media search for them, the couple have come forward by contacting a third party to […]
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THE DOGS OF JAW… they are good dogs, they do what they are bred to do. KILL! September 16, 2023
THE case for outlawing XL Bully dogs is overwhelming. They are killers. Out of ten people torn apart by dogs in the UK recently, six were killed by this brutal breed. The last victim, Ian Price died as he fought one attacking his elderly mother. Dog lovers say the breed cannot be blamed. And they are […]
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