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	<title>A Divorce Dad Blog</title>
	
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	<description>High octane observations on parenting, divorce, and other intellectual roadkill from a single dad.</description>
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		<title>Keeping dry the torches of evil passions: children and sexual purity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I lost my virginity at nineteen. By modern standards that’s disturbingly puritanical.  It’s even more alarming when one considers that my sexual education was a fifteen-minute film during the 7th...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/hXjB5FkP_bs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Unearthing the heart of a child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fatherhood]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[We may wrestle with the effects for a lifetime while never understanding the cause. It can take us down dark paths to dead end places leaving us broken and hopeless. It remains one of the great...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/-zRuyLRSUeY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>He Said She Said: The conditions of unconditional love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[He Said She Said]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week a viewer takes Laura and I to task about a prior episode and asks us to talk about the notion of &#8216;unconditional love&#8217;. Is there such thing? Is it merely Disneyland Fantasy? Or...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/4b8rkinPaQY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I’m glad to be a single dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 02:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatherhood]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Being a single parent has roughly the appeal of syphilis. A lifetime of bitterness, anger, and guilt isn’t a top contender when the genie asks for three wishes; and little boys and girls don’t dream...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/0nOfkjBr-Rw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>He Said She Said: becoming the person your partner hates</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~3/VxPfAwC35pA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week Laura and I have an interesting conversation about how couples, over time, can grow into people the other person hates and how, too often, this is a voluntary process. We do it willingly...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/VxPfAwC35pA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Our chemical romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; “Better living through chemistry.&#8221; Those were the words she used; hijacked from a Madison Avenue attempt at touting the benefits of modern science and big business, she oversold the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/U9SE2nKygkM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Marriage counseling is for married couples</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~3/SD4qPVSCtrk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only bought one brand new car in my life. I had graduated college three years earlier and my ’88 Chevy Cavalier, with the aftermarket spoiler and rear window sticker that read ‘Ultra Cool’...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/SD4qPVSCtrk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Abortion and the failure of men</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~3/yxgawT5X4rg/</link>
		<comments>http://chopperpapa.com/2013/04/abortion-and-the-failure-of-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhood]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[He was freaking. His future had vanished in a puff of disposable diapers and sleepless nights. Their relationship, ornamental by nature, was at it&#8217;s best quid pro quo. It was the view of each...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/yxgawT5X4rg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>He Said She Said: Divorce and Regret</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~3/Rvis8XV59xM/</link>
		<comments>http://chopperpapa.com/2013/04/he-said-she-said-divorce-and-regret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[He Said She Said]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Regret is a powerful force, one that leads us down unintended paths to places we never imagined we&#8217;d go. This week Laura and I discuss regret and divorce; what it is, what it isn&#8217;t, and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/Rvis8XV59xM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Chronicle of a reformed partier</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~3/8KMjaIwgIEg/</link>
		<comments>http://chopperpapa.com/2013/04/chronicle-of-a-reformed-partier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Bradford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Roadkill]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’M NOT, BY DEFINITION, a homebody. In college I would begin Wednesday nights and trail blaze until Sunday morning – ears pinned back blowing the doors off. In youthful defiance I promised never to...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chopperpapa/~4/8KMjaIwgIEg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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