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This might be another very controversial article that I get to post on my blog weekly. This is because every now and then I get to meet very interesting people and I am constantly reminded that we view life differently. Before I continue, I'll advise only 25s and above to read this. I believe this age range can relate with this topic appropriately. However,  I'm open to contrary views.

Are you spending more time with your smartphone than with your partner -- even during romantic dates? ‘ 50 percent of the time I am with Omar, I'm either playing games on my Ipad or chatting away with my friends on blackberry and other social networking sites. Lately we haven't had a real discussion. I don't find him boring, far from it but I can't but touch my phone. I think its a disorder. I think it’s beginning to affect us. It got so bad that one night after we had sex, I picked my phone and started to play games. He thought I was chatting with my friends but when he saw what I was doing, he got very displeased ’ said Jamila. Sound familiar?  In the last 15 years the mobile phone has conquered the world.  I could make a list of 50 ways these phones have improved our lives.   But if you’re like me and can remember what life was like before we all got mobile phones, you may wonder if all the changes are really for the good.  Remember lov...

This might shock a lot of my readers, but I'm going to anyways. So I've lived on this face of the earth for twenty something years and I know quite a lot of things some of my peers don't. I hear that a girl should not date more than 5 men in her lifetime before she settles. This brings me to the question "is there no difference between dating and a relationship?" If you have an answer, please feel free to share with me. Me thinks there's a difference, going on dates means you're not officially exclusive to one person. You can see other people but in a relationship, it demands your loyalty. You can disagree if you please. May I add that it's OK to go on a couple of dates with prospective partners till you are sure you are ready to go the long walk with just one of them.  I don't subscribe to cheating although it's almost inevitable that one of the couple might fall victim. Never lose yourself while you are in relationship. It shou...