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<title>Gener Marcelo - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gener Marcelo, an Engineer by profession is married with 4 kids. He left his family in the Philippines to work as an expatriate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His passion for writing was inspired by his being miles away from home and his family is the source of his inspiration for writing. Most of his articles are reflection of life's lessons learned from his personal experiences. Most of his articles are into Love, marriage and relationship. He's also into writing articles that reflect his personal view about political situation in the Philippines. He and his wife are active members ... ]]></description>
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<title>Protecting Your Marriage From Its Greatest Threat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Infidelity is considered the most significant cause of breakdown in marriage. Whilst there are other factors such as financial disputes, children, career and even in-laws, however infidelity remains as the number one marriage killer. But what drives one to become unfaithful to his or her partner?]]></description>
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<title>Want to Spend Quality Time With Your Kids But Are Too Busy? Try These Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:45:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm a father of 4 kids' ages 17, 13, 10 and 5. Being an OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) myself, my job requires me to spend most of it away from my family. That is why I have to make the most out of my time in every opportunity that comes along the way to be with them, especially my vacations in the Philippines.]]></description>
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<title>Live-in Or Marriage - Which One Guarantees Success in a Relationship?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:40:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find grounds for marriage.]]></description>
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<title>Making Marriage Work Even in the Time of Migration</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:22:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow ponder but sometimes distance in a relationship is emotionally draining and can put stress on a marriage. Having a work that requires being away from my family for a long time poses a challenge to my marriage not to mention, the erosion of physical intimacy which is one of the important elements of marriage. However, intimacy can be more than just physical closeness for its how couple "connects" and be present to each other every day.]]></description>
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<title>Tired of Dealing With Your Truculent Teens - Let Me Share My Experience</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:31:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was in the construction site when my mobile phone rang. It was my wife on the other line but the signal wasn't clear so I decided to hang up. When I reached my office, I found her off-line messages in my YM and after few "buzzing"; we were able to chat finally. Her message seems to be in resignation for a fact that she just had witnessed a quarrel between our eldest and youngest sibling. Tired from work and coming from a short errand in a grocery store, the sight of commotion understandably, is not a good way of welcoming a work-tired mother.]]></description>
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<title>Disagreement - Learn to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:22:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disagreement is innate in every marriage and is also the common cause of dysfunctional marriage. Though marital disagreements at times are an essential part of a healthy relationship, however couples should make a consented effort to keep the "rules of engagement" in effect, lest lose the marriage. Whenever argument arises, always remember this thing: Learn to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;Perfecting&quot; an Imperfect Marriage</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:39:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Filipina married to a foreigner based in the Middle East asked me a question in a social networking forum. "Just wandering if perfect marriage does exist? I mean the one that doesn't have any quarrel or misunderstanding?" She described her relationship as atypical of what marriage relationship that most of us probably knew.]]></description>
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<title>Marriage - Why Fix If It's Not Broken?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:28:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We value and take good care of things we considered useful and important to us. Things like house, cars or even cellular phones and other techie gadgets are our most valuable possessions that we can't live our life without. We regularly keep it in good conditions so that they can be of good use to us at any given time. Sometimes, failing to fix it properly or at the very least; before anything goes wrong bring us more harm than good; cost-wise and convenience. It also goes without saying with marriage.]]></description>
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<title>For Marriage to Work - It Only Takes a Forgiving Heart and a Responsible Partner</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:44:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Marriage is not immune from trials and difficulties. In fact, these are what make a relationship even stronger. Keeping a record of your spouse's dark past either will not make a relationship stronger. Openness however serves as an avenue for the unfaithful to understand how painful it is for you every time he cheated on you.]]></description>
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<title>Wanting to Have a Successful Love Relationship But Don't Know How - Try Not to Fall Out of Love</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:30:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is a human nature to yearn for anything unavailable, the one we cannot fully posses. We crave for things that are beyond our reach and the same goes with love relationship. But the moment we have it the sooner to lose much of its appeal. There seems to be truth to it. Have you observe one's obsession of having a nice car, best rest house or even best job? Is one's insatiable yearning for anything more stops the moment they have those in their possession?]]></description>
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<title>From the Creator's Hand Comes Every Masterpiece</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:00:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are all God's masterpiece for into Thy hands that we were created. But we could only be as good as His masterpiece if we remain in Him for He gives us knowledge and understanding to learn His commands and not breaking it.]]></description>
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<title>Keeping Us From Harm's Way</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:43:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The completion of the role of all parents comes when they're assured of their children's future; not only here on earth but also in heaven. Securing this future entails lots of sacrifice and patience on the part of parents and often times in exchange of their own happiness.]]></description>
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<title>Marriage - Open Both Eyes Before, Close One Eye After</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:18:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Marriage is accepting the person as what he/she is and not what you expect him/her to be. Partners are two imperfect but unique individual children of god who have decided to share a life together.]]></description>
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<title>Filipino - It's Not Where You Are But Who You Are</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:26:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do our social roles and functions forbid us from exercising the ultimate display of freedom that is the freedom of expression? On the other hand, would it be destructive to the culture that we have grown up with should we adapt to these practices?]]></description>
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<title>Making Relationship Work - A Decision to Make</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:16:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making a decision is arriving at a solution that ends uncertainty or that settles a dispute. It is distinguishing between options; some big, some little, some good and some evil. When making a decision, you must choose between little things such as chocolate or vanilla ice cream or big issues like which career to pursue or what house to buy.]]></description>
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<title>Love is Not Only a Feeling But a Decision</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:44:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If I speak with tongues of men and angels but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge; have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1-3)]]></description>
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<title>The Will to Survive</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:22:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What you think and do is what you will become, that is life's predisposition. If we think that life has been very cruel to us is because of how we predisposed our thinking and actions to life's cruelties. The world is a big jungle where survival of the fittest and elimination of the unfit applies.]]></description>
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<title>Migration - Its Resentment and Hope</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:26:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My wife sent me an e-mail with pictures of my kids last Fathers' Day. I was surprised to see the picture of my eldest son; a full-grown teenager from the "kid-image" I used to know of him. I almost couldn't recognize him while riding in a row boat for his looks totally surprised me.]]></description>
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<title>Patience - A Virtue We Can Always Choose in Every Circumstance</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:54:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[God uses life circumstances to develop our patience. We do not always choose the circumstances that come our way, but we do choose the way we respond to them.]]></description>
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<title>Who Wants to Cast the First Stone?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:38:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How easy for us to say who is right and who had done wrong in a world that is full of self-appointed righteous. But little did we know that no one is righteous among us, not even one.]]></description>
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<title>Why I'm Against Death Penalty?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:38:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No rule can be more effective unless it is implemented to its fullest without fear and favor. We don't need to reinvent the wheel to know its purpose, we just have to implement the existing law, and that is all we need to do.]]></description>
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<title>The Tree and Its Fruit</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:45:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["A tree is known by the fruit it bears." This phrase painted the sad but true scenario in our present society. Gone are the days when parents imposed "curfew" to their children attending social gatherings and how a child could lose this privilege if he fails to abide by this rule. Gone are the days when parents are the first persons that children confide with issues that affect them; dreams and aspirations in life, successes and failures and even affairs of the heart. ]]></description>
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<title>Lawyer Ethics 101 - Stealing Paper is Not Irregular</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:04:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lawyers are considered as one of the learned people in the society. They prepare the laws of the land; provide interpretation for its implementation and from there begins a healthy coexistence of people and the law. But what will happen to a nation if those who are supposed to uphold it are the very same people twisting it?]]></description>
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<title>I'm an Addict</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:53:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The word "addict," perceived to be as always associated with the used of prohibited drugs is doomed to get a negative connotation in the public's perception. But addiction to God's words has never been a regrettable thing to have though it yields the same effect -- getting "high."]]></description>
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<title>Are You Afraid to Die?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:36:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Death is no respecter of persons. It is the great equalizer here on earth. Rich, poor, wise, foolish, great, simple - all will die. But there is a way to have something waiting for you when you get to heaven - eternal life.]]></description>
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<title>The Place Where My Heart Is</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:22:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love of country or obligation to your family? One of so many questions whose answer lies in each individual's heart and depends on which side of the fence you are standing. But sometimes, it pays to listen to what your heart is saying over what your mind is thinking.]]></description>
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<title>Rich and Poor - Justice is Blind, Totally Blind</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:07:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The blindfolded statue of justice system signifies that justice knows no one; rich and poor alike. But real life situation would spell the big disparity of administration of justice between those who can afford it and those who cannot.]]></description>
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<title>Playing God</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:59:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the history of mankind, man's quest for freedom started early as Biblical times when people of Israel led by Moses exiled from Egypt to escape the tyranny of the Pharaoh. Today's modern civilization, there's seems to be an over exaggeration of this freedom. Man creates laws to ensure that right for freedom is protected.]]></description>
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<title>The Race of Our Lives</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:48:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In every race there awaits a finish line and you must finish the race in order reach that line. What God wanted from us is not to win this race but to simply finish it for the glory waits in heaven to those who endure the race of our lives.]]></description>
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<title>The Making of a Good Mother</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:13:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you describe a good mother? A mother is God's gift to a child in the same way how mother is so thankful for being given a child she labors inside her womb for nine months. Motherhood is all about love, sacrifice, joy and pain that a mother endures and will give for her child's sake.]]></description>
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<title>The Color of Our Skin</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:01:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our company issued a company car for my official and personal use. All seems to be well except for a fact that I couldn't use it unless I had a local Driver's License. "Okay, no big deal." I quipped.]]></description>
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<title>Keeping My Hopes and Dreams Alive</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:35:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What you think and what you do is what you will become; that's life's predisposition. If we think life has been very cruel to us, it is not so much because such is our destiny but because we have predisposed ourselves to those "cruelties" by our thoughts and actions.]]></description>
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<title>My Father Didn't See Me Grow Up</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:27:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It has been very easy to measure the economic benefits from overseas work. But no one can ever quantify what the Filipino family has given up in terms of love, or what it is doing to recover it.]]></description>
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<title>Promise From a Mother's Heart</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:21:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A promise made out of pure love is like an umbilical cord that connects a mother from her offspring. Instintively, a child knows that a mother's promise will never be broken no matter how intangible it may seems.]]></description>
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<title>I Don't Want to Miss a Thing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:08:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love in an unselfish way needs to be given with undivided attention for this to be felt truly. While time may not be enough, still it's the truthfulness of the love that will live a lasting memory to cherish for the rest of times.]]></description>
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<title>Diary of an Absentee Father</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:51:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The love of a father to his family entails a lot of sacrifice. The pain of not seeing his loved ones in exchange of providing the means for the family to live decently is unfathomable. Going out of his comfort zone describes the kind of love a father is willing to sacrifice for his family, in the same way as our Holy Father who gave His only Son for the love of mankind.]]></description>
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<title>Love the One Who Wears Your Ring</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:43:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While we value advice of people close to our lives, however choosing your partner in life is a decision that is you and yours to make. When this decision is put to test by whatever circumstances, the credibility of such decision lies on how you will continuously love the same person you promised to be with the rest of your life.]]></description>
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<title>The Love of Money</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:42:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was very emotional after reading the news from a broadsheet; a bank robbery ended with three people dead. Two security details and a Roving teller were all gunned down in broad daylight. I'm raging furious to know that evil people really exist.]]></description>
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<title>Saving the Best For Last</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:26:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[December of 2006 when my wife's relatives from Australia came to the Philippines to spend their Christmas holiday. We were ecstatic in our preparation to delight these balikbayan relatives at the very least, letting them experience once again how is to be Christmas in the Philippines. We decided to have our dinner in a sea food restaurant along Macapagal Boulevard, known for its festive ambiance come night time.]]></description>
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