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Trust is a crucial component of any relationship. Unfortunately, trust can be broken in a matter of seconds and can take a long time to rebuild. However, it is not impossible. If there’s been a recent breach of trust within your relationship, whether it be through infidelity, manipulation, or concealment, it’s important to rebuild it.

If you’re looking to rebuild trust in your relationship, here are some tips to start you off.

• Practice honest communication

Dishonesty is the reason behind your relationship’s lack of trust. Getting rid of it completely is the number one step to heal. Little white lies, such as lying about getting to work on time or forgetting to stop by the store, are more harmful than you think. When you lie, you are making your relationship dynamic disingenuous.

• Be vulnerable with your partner

One of the best ways to rebuild trust is by being vulnerable with your partner. By opening up to your partner, you are creating a safe space for you to bond and be honest with one another. By being vulnerable, you are establishing a dynamic that will allow you two to bond over deeper topics dealing with embarrassment or insecurity. Further allowing you to earn each other’s trust. It doesn’t need to happen all at once, but making a small effort will add the spark back into your relationship.

• Live in the present

Don’t dwell in the past! By giving your partner the room to change, you are not only allowing them to showcase their brand-new attitude. But you’re also freeing yourself from any insecurities the breach of trust brought into your relationship. This isn’t the easiest task, but keep in mind that constantly doubting your partner will create toxicity within your relationship. Which could result in bigger problems in the future.

• Be supportive of one another

It’s normal to feel the urge to have your partner show you how they’ve changed. It might be a little difficult at first, but regardless of their past dishonesty, you need to be supportive of them. Even if there hasn’t been much progress, it’s crucial to acknowledge the change they’ve managed to achieve. Holding them to unrealistic expectations will create emotional distance. Support your partner through their progress, so when the roles reverse, they can do the same for you.

Rebuilding trust in a relationship is challenging, but not unattainable. It might take an indefinite amount of time, but if both parties are committed to fighting through these issues, your relationship might be healthier than before.

Selling your home is a big deal that usually takes a lot of time, patience, and preparation. However, if you prepare properly, you may not have to devote a lot of time to the process, which can mean that you won’t have to test your patience as much either.

You should also make sure your house is up to code by checking things such as your foam board cladding. Now here are three more things to take care of before putting your house on the market.

Get Your Home Photo-Ready

Before you can put your home on the market, you first need to make sure that your home and property are ready for the eyes of scrutiny that will be fixed on them all throughout the buying and selling process. To prepare for this, it’s wise to do everything you can to get your home photo-ready.

According to Marian White, a contributor to Moving.com, part of getting your home photo-ready includes cleaning and decluttering every inch of space, repairing or replacing things that no longer function properly or are an eyesore, and staging the finished spaces in such a way that will entice anyone walking through your home to make this their new home. While taking care of all of these things will require a lot of work and man-hours, it will be well worth it once your home finally hits the market and you start getting offers, maybe even offers for cash or above asking price, within a day.

Store Any Valuables

As part of your cleaning and decluttering process, one thing you should be sure you take care of is storing anything that’s sentimental or otherwise valuable to you.

When your home goes on the market and you start having people on your property for showings and walk-throughs, you’re going to be having a lot of strangers that have now gained access to your home and property. And while you might like to think that your belongings will be safe, Cathie Ericson, a contributor to Reator.com, shares that you’d rather be safe than sorry by keeping these things hidden, locked away, or stored away from your home.

Plan To Be Accommodating

While you might want to hope that you’ll be able to sell your home quickly and without a lot of inconvenience to you, Amy Fontinelle, a contributor to Investopedia.com, recommends that you resolve yourself to being accommodating to anyone who wants to see your house as a prospect to buy it. The stress and inconvenience that you’ll feel as you try to keep your home spotless and find something to do while buyers are on your property will be easily forgotten once you’re gotten a great offer and can start moving onto the next chapter of your life.

If you’re going to be putting your home on the market before too long, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you prepare for this event and get an offer as soon as possible.

 

Trusting the care of your loved one to someone you don’t know can be scary. But with the right research and preparation, you can find an assisted living facility where they will take care of your loved one just as well as you would have been able to, if not better.

To help you find this place, here are three ways you’ll know if you’ve found the right assisted living facility for your loved one.

They Meet Their Required Level Of Care

The very first thing that you need to concern yourself with when looking for the right fit of an assisted living facility is if the level of care they are offering matches the level of care that your loved one needs.

According to AARP, your loved one might need things like dietary guidance, speech therapy, skilled nursing care, services from a social worker, hospice care, and much more. And because not all assisted living facilities will have these services available at any given time, you’ll need to check out what kind of care you can expect your loved one to receive. So before you even begin looking further into an assisted living facility that you’re considering, make sure that that particular facility is even a possibility for your loved one based on the amount of care that’s necessary for them to live a happy and healthy life.

Everyone And Everything Looks Safe And Healthy

Once you have a few assisted living facilities that you’re considering for your loved one it’s time to look past what you can see on paper and take a long, hard look at what life would be like for your loved one if they chose to live there.

When doing this, Jeff Hoyt, a contributor to SeniorLiving.org, recommends you take a look at everything and everyone in the facility to see how safe and healthy things appear to be. Check and see that the grounds and the rest of the facility are maintained, cleaned, and well taken care of. With the other residents, try to ascertain if they look and smell like they’re being well groomed and if they appear to be happy there. If anything seems amiss, this might not be the place where you want your loved one to be living.

The Provide Enjoyable Activities

If your loved one is able to be up and about with the other residents, Meeka Ghebrai, a contributor to APlaceForMom.com, suggests that you try to find a facility that provides activities that your loved one enjoys. Whether it’s dancing, bingo, or movie nights, if there are activities already set up that your loved one can participate in, they’ll tend to have a much better time in that facility.

If you’re going to be helping your loved one move into an assisted living facility, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you know when you’ve found the right one.

For a long time, the idea of climate change and global warming were dismissed as conspiracy theories put forward by crazy scientists. Thankfully people have now woken up to the problems facing our planet and governments and individuals all over the world are working hard in their efforts to consider ways to reduce carbon footprint and to fix the damage that has been done. However, there is still much more work to do and you can help too. Here are three ways in which you can help:

Recycling

Recycling has been a key part of the strategy to reduce the damage we do to the Ozone layer for sometime and we can now recycle a huge amount of our waste. You can do your bit by ensuring that you are composting natural foods and recycling things like metal, glass, plastic and paper. In the western world almost all local governments have recycling plans in place, This could be different colored bins outside your door or centers for recycling and if you want to help then you should make sure that you are taking advantage of these options that are available to you.

Electric Usage

The national grid relies on the burning of fossil fuels in order to create electricity and whilst many more sustainable options are being explored, we haven’t found an energy source that can yet match the demand of the public. You can help on this side of things by reducing the amount of energy that you are using in the home. Think about replacing old light bulbs with energy efficient ones, switch off gadgets, lights and appliances when they are not in use. These may seem like small steps but if everyone did the same then we could significantly lower the amount of electricity we use.

Donate

Opening up your wallet is a great way of helping to save the planet. There are countless charities who are doing great work in the fight against deforestation, putting pressure on governments and industries to reduce their carbon footprint and promoting greener living. These charities rely on donations from around the world in order to help them in continuing their efforts and with a small monthly donation you can give them even more support and help them to continue their great work.

 

Displaced by armed conflict, generalized violence and economic turmoil, refugees have sought safe harbor and asylum in Greece at an alarming rate. In an extraordinary response of solidarity and compassion, the Greek people have opened their doors and hearts to these refugees and migrant children.

Migrant children face particularly harsh realities while fleeing their homelands. One of the greatest risks to children include exploitation practices such as human trafficking, sexual exploitation, or forced labor practices. In 2016, nearly 100 children lost their lives trying to reach the Greek borders in search of safety. By the end of 2017, nearly a dozen more children died in transit to Greece.

Most children arrived in Greece by sea, some accompanied by a mother or father, many arrived unaccompanied. Within the first six months of 2017, more than 3,000 children had arrived seeking food, shelter, and safety.

Victor Restis and the Restis Family Foundation wanted to help. Since the family foundation was conceived, it has focused on the human rights, safety, healthcare and education of people, especially children. Having this crisis in his homeland of Greece, Mr. Restis knew he had to get involved. Mr. Restis reached out to the Municipality of Glyfada – a suburb in southern parts of Athens’s urban area. Starting in January 2016, Victor Restis directed the support of the family foundation to assist with helping more than 300 child refugees who had been taken in by the municipality and housed in Hellikon Air Base (the old airport).

Mr. Restis assisted with the municipality’s charitable work by helping procure much needed supplies for the refugee families and their children. Mr. Restis even organized the purchase of presents and toys to be given to each child with the hope of making them feel a little happier and more comfortable against the situation and dangerous journey each had endured.

 

Have you ever been caught playing mean air guitar?  Or listening to your favorite songs in the car where the music gets you in a great mood?  Then you are in luck. Because one of the greatest tools to teach you music can be found online.

One of the best instruments you can learn using online tools is the piano.  Instead of going to someone’s house and taking piano lessons, listening to the piano teacher’s metronome going back and forth, and forcing you to complete useless piano workbooks, in which you have no interest at all whatsoever, you can learn how to play the piano in the comfort and convenience of your own home in a more fun and interesting way.

What You Would Need 

Learning how to play the piano is affordable, even if you learn how to play online.

As long as you have a Windows Computer or Surface, Apple Computer or iPad, it is easy to connect your keyboard to the piano software.  All you would need is a USB and Midi Cable, which help connect your real keyboard to the digital piano software. For $100 or less, you can get a great keyboard to help you learn the piano.

How To Choose Online Tools 

There are many different options to choose with online tools in learning the piano.

Difficulty level, hundreds of lessons, videos, and audios from a wide range of genres of music give you many options to make learning the piano fun.  This is definitely the best part as you would get to play music that excites and interests you. Some of these online tools even offer a guarantee to be able to play within the first month of learning the piano.

For example, one online tool, Pianoforall, has over 200,000 students enrolled worldwide where they guarantee that anyone can learn to play the piano.  Courses like Pianoforall are even offered on online course sites like Udemy to organize the course in an organized and student friendly way, where they do give a 30 day money back guarantee.  Other courses offered on Udemy include how to play the guitar and harmonica.

Another online tool, Playground Sessions, even features well-known piano players like Harry Connick, Jr. and Quincy Jones to help show you how playing the piano can be really fun, as compared to a traditional piano lesson where you have to play music that is boring and uninteresting.  Watching videos of these successful musicians can help you visualize and better understand that you can learn real music as it is played by talented individuals.

Other popular online tools to learn the piano include Flowkey, Hear and Play, Pianu, and Learn Piano in 30 Days.  Even if you are not sure where to start and what online tool to choose from, looking at reviews can help you make the best decision possible.

So what are you waiting for?  There is so much to offer with these online tools to learn the piano.  You should check out this great review on the best online piano tools to help you get started today!