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Friend, no friend, or even a foe??

Types of Love in terms of emotion and ratio

Happy New Year

My 35 best songs for the Top 2000 of 2025

Bleeding heart

Ol’65

The rollercoaster of solitude and loneliness (7)

Wishing you a happy, healthy and loving 2025

Free / een tijdje vrij

The rollercoaster of solitude and loneliness (6)

Birds of a feather flock together

Talk too much

Tijd voor verandering

64

Wie past er in mijn leven en waarom?

I don’t need, want or believe in an “everything” app

When is our life completed?

Mijn andere ik

Vacation

Father and Son

When I’m Sixty Four

Come To My Door

The second first chance

Single: by choice, circumstances, or both?

He’s gone

“Are you alright?”

Leaving a trail

Criticism

The final taboo

Sensitive

A holistic view on dating

Negativity: not forgetting + not forgiving + not loving (yourself)

De Berge Van Bob (Rowwen Hèze)

1960 What? by Gregory Porter

Fathers & Daughters

Time Out

Self-sabotaging

Is there a problem??

Dad, where are you?

The shadow over any past relationship

What are the odds in Love?

I’m drowning in my nostalgia

Life is a journey along its destinations

Strong people don’t need help, do they?

Get a grip on myself

If Good does bad, does Good become Bad?

1960 What? by Gregory Porter

The new kid in town

What more can I do?

50+ dating is like fishing in troubled waters (2)

Wishful thinking

50+ dating is like fishing in troubled waters

When did I stop loving you

Trust works better both ways

No More Fear of Dying

She

Paradise: Love & Hate

The weakness in me

Desperately seeking

Father and son

Interracial relationships

You’ve got a friend who is watching over you

Taking a break

The lone wolf looking for love dilemma

Black Man in a White World

That loving feeling

After Life (Netflix)

Skin hunger

Lucky at cards, unlucky in love (2)

After the Love has gone

Happiness & satisfaction (5) and completeness

Only fools rush into love

Never say never again

When I’m Sixty-Four

I’ve been hit by a butterfly

The coffee date interview

Unequal relationships

Second chances

My melancholic mood of missing and longing

Under pressure

Don’t ask questions if you don’t want to hear the answer

Ghosting on friends

A new milestone: 2,000 published blogs

Hurt

Men can’t stand to be alone after a break-up or divorce

My identity (2): “You’re aimless”

“You are very intelligent, aren’t you?”

Je m’en fous

Silent sorrow

One question says more than a thousand answers

Astrology (2)

Happiness and satisfaction (4)

Happiness and satisfaction (3)

Happiness and satisfaction (2)

Happiness and satisfaction

Home

We’re coming home now

Leaving Town Blues

Pack Your Things And Go

You can take the boy out of the country……

Happy

Feel Good

Old Man

Independence

A House is Not a Home

R.I.P. Marleen / Leen

Déjà vu

What do I want?? Something to believe in…..

Stockholm syndrome in relationships

Lucky in cards, unlucky in love

Making amends vs reconciliation

The Paradox of Choice

How and when do you know it’s over?

Nancy (with the Laughing Face)

My Desert Island Discs

The autumn of my years

Time to think

Grateful

I am confused (2)

I am confused

Autonomy – Philosophy as a Belief system

Acceptance

Marriage

Follow your dreams

Rejection (1) – the hurting

1960 What? 1960 Who?

Everything follows Why

Soulmates

The Right Woman

The rollercoaster of Solitude and Loneliness (3)

Changing my belief

Tired

I am lucky

False Prophets

Come To My Door

Who will be holding your hand?

The lesser of two evils

Indifference

Joan (7) – To the water / Breng me naar het water

Joan (6) – Rhythm of Life

Joan (5) – Rest In Peace, my very dear friend

Joan (4) – I Won’t Hold You Back

Joan (3) – Wildflower

Sorrow

Joan (2) – A Song For You

Everything used to be better………

Joan

Dignity and mercy

Rejection and role reversal

The rollercoaster of Solitude and Loneliness

Age is nothing but a number

Distrust

Teardrops

Sometimes Love is not enough

Silly old me

Old Friend

The Silent Treatment (2)

Missing You

Achilles heel

Mind Games

The Vanishing (5) – the Aftermath

The Vanishing (4) – Proof of Life

The Vanishing (3) – the Police

The Vanishing (2) – the mystery continues

The Vanishing

All or Nothing

My birthday wishes to my daughter Ellen

Revolving doors

Alone again, naturally

Commitment issues

How are you?

I am only doing it for you……..

The “what if” question

How do you know if you love(d) someone?

Togetherness

What makes a relationship truly unique?

Intelligence and/versus Love

Relationships and money issues

Right to be wrong

The meaning of Life = living a meaningful life

Faith Hope & Love

Damaged goods

Father and son

Letting go

Fragile

The Silent Treatment

I miss you

Can you love someone else if you don’t love yourself?

Keeping your distance

Milestone: 20,000 page views

Symbolism – Friday 13 November 2015

We need to talk…………

Nicknames

Voices – the mirror of our masculinity (or femininity)

What’s your story?

Forgive and Forget

In pursuit of happiness

Hatred

Parental love

You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with

Jealousy

Saying “NO”

Love, Betrayal and Closure (part 1)

Show some emotion

I’m a Believer

The 7 Hurdles

Apologies and the 7 reasons for non-apologists

Choices

Expectations

Bitterness

Mistakes versus Lessons Learned

The dark side

Solitude

Honesty

Our individual purpose

Adieu

How pain defines us

Relationships – purpose

The Heart of the Matter

The road to recovery from a depression or burn-out

Hiding in my shell

Reversed bounty – skin colour part 2

Growing old

Kenya – tribalism and national interests

Traumatised

The Seven Stages of Love – for Men

Fear and Hope. Hope and Fear.

Success and Failure

Family businesses

The head-heart dilemma

Addicted to Love

The Promise and Fear of Change

Eat, Pray, Love

Role of Finance

Budgeting – breaking bad behaviour

Private versus Public companies

To Whom It May Concern

Kenya

Geloof, Hoop en Liefde

Papa, ik lijk steeds meer op jou (Stef Bos, 1991)

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