Global Rencai
Global Rencai
Tennis is me-time
You might assume that since I didn’t have babies until after having enjoyed a big career, I’d have been immune to the women’s malady of burnout. And yet, both times after I gave birth (at ages 39 and 41), I fell into a stupor of overwork.
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Doubt means no
Just before the event, I published the blog post “Do not settle for Mr. Wrong,” and so we had a good discussion about how to distinguish Mr. Right from Mr. Wrong. Then someone asked: “But the biggest problem facing many Chinese women is not how to find Mr. Right, but that after several years of dating him, he still doesn’t propose. How do you get a man to commit?”
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Do not settle for Mr. Wrong
My friends and I all have stayed in relationships longer – months, even years – longer than we know is good for us. We try to change him, we try to change ourselves, we struggle to make a fit where there is not a real fit, and in the process of trying to make things work, we make everything worse.
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Even a successful woman can be a fox
In the romantic movie “I Do” now playing in Chinese theaters, the actress Li Bingbing (love her!) plays a successful 38-year-old businesswoman unlucky in love. Disregarding pressure from her peers and society that she escape her leftover status, she insists on finding true love.
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Change the world – it’s fun!
Last Friday, I went back to Los Angeles City Hall to help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of “Cash for College,” a program which connects students and their parents with the public funds to help them go to college.
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Joy in the News
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