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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 1

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…
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Lifestyle

Attitude: From Negative to Gratitude

Tina TessinaFeb 22, 2015 1

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 orphaned,…
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Anger Management|How to control your anger

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014 0

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 figure…
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Relationships

Romance is Not Necessarily Love

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014 0

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 create…
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Relationships

10 Reasons For Not Falling in Love

Tina TessinaNov 18, 2014 4

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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VICTIM’S LIFE OF TRAUMA REVEALED AS GLITTER IS ALLOWED TO BE IN OUR GANG AGAIN February 4, 2023
Paul Gadd – a monster up there with the likes of Jimmy Savile and the BBC’s laughing hyena Stuart Hall – is back on the streets of the UK at the age of 78. Gadd who used his fame as Gary Glitter, a bargain-basement Elvis look-alike with pop-shlock pointless songs, was jailed in 2015 for […]
Andrea Martin-Banks
How the Hell’s Angels of Colander House helped me collect vintage thoughts and furniture February 3, 2023
When I became a hoarder in the mid-1990s I had just given everything away – my second wife, my job and basically my way of life. Oh, and my beloved old red 3.5 SD1 Rover saloon (now that hurt). I became essentially a loner, except of course for my very middle-class Golden Retriever. We scratched […]
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KILLING OFF DELILAH TO TACKLE THE SHAME OF WELSH RUGBY MISOGONY February 2, 2023
Tom Jones’s murder ballad Delilah has finally been banned at the Principality Stadium, the Welsh Rugby Union has revealed. The lyrics ‘why why why Delilah’ from the 80s hit have been sung at the games for decades – not in glorification of killing your wife! No, in glorification of a knock-about classic sung by a […]
Andrea Martin-Banks