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	<description>5 Dates. 5 Weeks. For Charity</description>
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		<title>Unleashing some happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is not simply the absence of misery. Happiness and unhappiness are not the end points on a single continuum. There&#8217;s no tug of war to see here folks. If we were only governed by pleasure we wouldn’t survive. To protect ourselves from danger we have a natural bias towards negativity. Our tastebuds detect bitterness more acutely than sweetness. People hate to lose more than they love to win. Negative comments are so powerful they need to be counteracted by five positive ones for relationships to thrive. Even at our recent catch up with fellow Five in Five-ers, the conversation steered towards our bad date experiences. For all of us there, the dating has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve enjoyed the challenge of <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/plugging-into-happiness/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The other language</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those following my Five in Five journey, last night I had date #2 with date #1. Over delicious home-cooked steaks and a bottle of Pepperjack Shiraz, we got to talking about something we’d discussed on our first date – body language. He had introduced me to the research and writings of Allan and Barbara Pease, who are experts on the topic in both personal and professional settings. My date was particularly enthralled with their musings about the sub-conscious messages we put out there using our bodies while ‘courting’ (loving the old fashioned lingo!). Feeling a bit unnerved and all of a sudden very self-conscious of any movements I made (as if I wasn’t already!), he delved into explaining some <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/the-other-language/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants the goss. How did the date go? There is a little trap, easy to fall into, when we give ‘updates’ to our friends and generous sponsors. It&#8217;s the temptation to reduce the person we’ve dated to a measurement of how well they fit our particular likes and dislikes. This style of dating can resemble a job interview and tends to be what makes dating seem so tedious. It can be why some, blokes in particular, run a mile from the awkwardness of being analysed against unrealistic expectations or the prospect of suddenly being responsible for the hopes, dreams and self-worth projected onto the unsuspecting. What if instead we used this dating experience to enlarge our lives and change our <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/its-not-what-you-look-at-that-matters-its-what-you-see/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Forces at Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something curious that happens during the Five in Five dating season. There&#8217;s the warm glow of contributing to a good cause.  The reviving of old fashion dating. And then there are the other forces at play.  State of awareness My very dear friend Richard spent a year working in the Transfer Response Unit. Or as he called it: the taxi service for the already departed. His job involved collecting bodies of the deceased from homes, hospitals, nursing homes and crash sites whenever the coroner wanted to examine the bodies. It’s not a job he’d recommend to everyone. Richard looked on it like his national year of service. His tour of duty. It was challenging, exhausting and often disturbing. <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/the-forces-at-play/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners of Romantic Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I studied psychology for a year, when I was an undergraduate. I gave it away when I realised that you had to study stats, rats and synapses for years before you were deemed worthy to be given the keys to unlock the mind of the criminally insane. I don’t remember much from that misspent year, but what has stayed with me is a graph we were shown in a Social Psychology lecture that charted the amount of love (the vertical axis) there is in romantic marriages versus arranged marriages over time (the horizontal axis). The arranged marriage line resembled the trajectory of a long, slow take-off, while the romantic marriage line looked more like a crash landing. I can’t remember <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/prisoners-of-romantic-love/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>From the Fashionista</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Power is a fashion writer and sometimes TV presenter. She talks fashion on Network Ten’s Logie award-winning national morning program The Circle and is a writer/editor in the books division of leading publishing house The Slattery Media Group. Emily share her style picks in the new fashion pages of JB Hi-Fi’s in-store magazine MAG (Music Australia Guide) – Australia’s highest circulating music magazine. Emily is also providing style advice to Five in Five participants. &#8220;When my friends line up a date, they often dip into my embarrassingly extensive wardrobe for something to wear. At least my outfits are getting a whirl on the dating circuit! I’m extending the wardrobe support beyond my inner circle.&#8221; Click here to read Emily&#8217;s style advice <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/from-the-fashionista/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going in without background research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dating game has a long and pained history – why is this activity something that I would actively agree to participate in, en masse, for a number of weeks? Perhaps it’s the things I will do because I think it will make a good story. Or maybe it’s the good side of dating. Perhaps it’s just putting myself out there – after all, if you never play the game you will never have any chance of winning. In the interests of full disclosure, I am vehemently opposed to Internet dating. I love the traditional notions of romanticism and having a quirky story to tell the grandkids – we clicked over coffee rather than I clicked your profile kind of <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/going-in-without-background-research/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What is old-fashion dating?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just part of the fascination with all things vintage. Floral and polka dot prints, cut-throat barbers, the Don Draper side part – are we just nostalgia tripping? Have a chat to your grandparents or even you’re parents. They’ll most likely tell you a date could be anything from a shared dessert to a bike ride. And they didn&#8217;t always go on dates with the same person. They would go on dates with several different people. Shocking! As Marissa shared: I recently spent the morning catching up with my great-Aunty, who’s now in her 80s but still rather spritely. She mentioned that she had a “string of beaus” on the go “back in her day”, that she used to <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/what-is-old-fashion-dating/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good things come to those who date</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dating. Let’s just clear one thing up. I hate dating. I don’t even like the word dating. It conjures up images of frozen cocktails, cheap slacks, over 28’s ‘nitespots’ and vomit. I don’t suppose any of this should come as a surprise though. Having spent the first ten years of my adult life in two long term, stable relationships, my dating experience is…um…lacking? Perhaps non-existent is a more accurate descriptor. I’ve ‘been out’ with guys and I’ve navigated my way through a number of meaningless encounters. I’ve fallen for guys I shouldn’t have, and I even had my heart broken once. Okay, twice. And quite frankly, I’ve loved every minute of it. But dating? Dating is for losers that think <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/good-things-come-to-those-who-date/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How does dating work again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Mate I haven’t gone on five dates in five years [guffaw]”. The dating novice signs up for the challenge. They realise they can actually find dates. And then the next hurdle looms: planning the dates. What to do? Where to go? For those feeling a little nervous and lost, our best advise is: What do you do when you catch up with mates? Do that. An environment you’re comfortable in is the best place to start. The most common date last year was a couple of drinks after work. Interestingly the worst timed date was at the open-air cinema during the February flash floods. Which brings us to our other bit of advice. If you choose to go to the <br/><a href="http://www.fiveinfive.org.au/content/how-does-dating-work-again/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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