Problem: Article: If you try to ignore pain, you're only likely to feel it more. Instead of completely ignoring your pain, or trying to push it away when you feel it, accept the fact that breakups come with pain. Even when it's for the best, you will feel sad after you leave someone.  Remember, it's better to feel the pain now than let it come out in different ways later. Allow yourself to cry, be angry, feel regret, or experience any other negative emotions. It's better to feel such things than trying to push them down or ignore them. While these emotions are painful now, remember they are temporary. If you don't deal with the pain directly, you may end up in a rebound relationship. You may also end up going back to your ex to avoid the pain. Even when the pain is very hard to live with, remind yourself how much healthier it is to embrace the pain. Take the time to process your emotions. Before you distract yourself with a movie or video game, ask yourself what it is you are feeling and what it means. Feel the sensations in your body and how they are connected to your emotions. Identify the emotions you are having — are you sad? Angry? Relieved? If you are sad, ask yourself what you have lost. If you are angry, ask how you or your values have been attacked. Try writing about these feelings or expressing yourself through art. Meditate, exercise, and talk to your therapist or friends about how you feel. These are all good ways to cope with the pain. In a bad relationship, you often lose your sense of self. You end up putting your own wants, needs, and passions on hold for another person. When recovering from a bad breakup, it can help to remind yourself who you are. Take this as an opportunity to rediscover yourself.  Is there anything you gave up for the relationship? For example, maybe you had friends your boyfriend did not want you to see. Maybe you had hobbies he was threatened by. Get back to your old self. See friends you did not have time for before. Take up a hobby or interest that went neglected during your relationship. Manipulative people are very good at blaming others for their problems. After a bad breakup, you may feel that you were to blame for your boyfriend's bad behavior.  Remember, a manipulator will be good at identifying your weak spots and exploiting them. Even though you may really feel you were at fault, your boyfriend is probably picking at your insecurities. You may, for example, worry you're a little emotionally distant at times. Your boyfriend may have picked up on this and claimed your emotional distance is what made him cheat, as he did not feel valued enough. Remind yourself you deserve love and respect. If your boyfriend was not providing that, that is his problem. He cannot blame it on your behavior. Your boyfriend is responsible for how he treats others. You should see this an opportunity to grow as a person. Now that you've experienced a negative relationship, see it as a way to learn. In the future, set higher standards in regards to what you expect out of a relationship.  Make a list of behaviors you will no longer tolerate. Use this relationship as a guide to better your standards. For example, you can start you list with something like, "I will no longer go out of my way to please someone who has unreasonable expectations for my behavior."
Summary: Accept you will experience pain. Get back in touch with your old self. Avoid self-blame. Set standards for future relationships.

Problem: Article: Sinks, floor drains, laundry tubs, or wash basins can dry out if they aren’t used regularly. The water under the trap will eventually evaporate with disuse. Without water, sewer gas will leak out of the drains, which will spread throughout your basement over time. You can correct this problem by pouring water and cooking oil into the drains. If you haven’t used your basement toilet for several weeks or months, the water in the trap may have evaporated. As it is with the drains, sewer gas can rise up and leak out of the toilet. The solution to this problem is simple, though. You just need to flush the toilet replace the evaporated water. Due to the increased humidity in basements, fabrics often absorb a lot of moisture. The fabrics may begin to smell if they aren’t cleaned often enough. Walk around and smell any fabrics in your basement. This could mean furniture, clothing, blankets, etc. If the fabric smells musty, it will need to be cleaned or thrown out. Check behind your basement walls and in your basement's crawl spaces. Look for black mold and any dead (or alive) pests. Even if you don’t find a source, there may still be a musty smell from the humidity. Look at the ceiling tile for any signs of mold. Look in the grout of the ceiling tile as well for discoloration. While you are checking, look into any nooks and grannies of your basement for mold or dampness. Leaks are a common culprit for basement odors. Walk around your basement and check out all of the pipes. Look at the joints to see if water is dripping or appears to have been leaking. Leaks can often be hard to detect, so call in a professional if you are unsure.
Summary: Look at the drains in your basement. Check out the toilets. Smell the fabrics in your basement. Look behind walls and into crawl spaces. Check the ceiling tile and small nooks. Inspect the pipes for leaks.

Problem: Article: Start by considering the specimens you are trying to identify and insert into a dichotomous key. Note characteristics that define the things you are looking at, and start listing them out.   If you are trying to create a dichotomous key for a series of animals, you might see that some have feathers, some swim, some walk on legs, etc. For example, if you are trying to differentiate a set of big cats, you might note that some are brown, some are black, some have stripes, some have spots, some have long tails, some have short tails, and so on. A dichotomous key works by the process of elimination, so you want to note characteristics that can be used to differentiate the things you are examining. For example, if some of the specimens you are looking at have feathers but others have fur, then “feathers” is a good distinguishing characteristics.  However, a trait all of the animals share is not a good distinguishing factor. For example, since all big cats are warm-blooded, you wouldn't want to use that trait on your dichotomous key. You want to create a dichotomous key based on increasingly specific differentiations, so you’ll have to order the characteristics of your specimens from general to specific. This will help divide your specimens ever-smaller groups. For instance:   When making your dichotomous key for big cats, you may find that some of the cats you are analyzing have dark fur, and some have light fur. You may also see that all of them have short hair. Finally, you see that some of them have long tails, but some of them have no tails at all. You would start your key with a question/statement about fur color. You wouldn’t need to ask a question about fur length, since all of the examples have short fur. You would follow up with a question about tail length, since tails are not common to all of the cats, and therefore are a less general characteristic.
Summary:
List the characteristics of your specimens. Look for principles of exclusion. Determine the most general characteristics.