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A Short Guide to Great Relationships
Those who take relationships for granted and do not take the time to do the maintenance will find a once beautiful relationship will wilt and die. You are in a comfortable relationship were you have mutual respect for each other. It may not have the zest and excitement of a new relationship but you have learned to live in contentment with another. This really is a fine achievement worthy of praise. It has the reward of a long lasting loving relationship that can only be coveted by many.
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Relationship: Be Yourself
Be original, your real self. People love you for what you are and not what you pretend to be. If to impress somebody you act to be somebody else you will not be able to attract the person for long. So always be yourself. Never put on what you are not.
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Relationship: Listen Really Listen
Listen - do you really listen to your partner. Here listening to your partner does not mean listening to your spouse at the dinning table or when you are just sitting together and talking. Listening here really means listening with care. Listening to what has been unsaid.
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Relationship: Breakfast in Bed
Food is the best way to enter the heart. You can always surprise your partner with a breakfast in bed whenever your partner is in a relaxed mood. Never be superficial in love. If you love somebody show it. It shouldn’t be just words saying “I love you” show it in your actions filled with emotions and sentiments.
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Relationship: Filler Talk
Filler talks strength the relationship. It is fun sitting together and talking about each other. You and your family come to know about each others interest, ideas and above all what exactly each one is going through. In a way you become more of friends. Friendship is a strong relationship which brings you close to each other.
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Know Your Man: Physical Appearance
Granted, most men have no clue how to dress appropriately. They truly need help. I wonder why their mothers never taught them that, or perhaps, they never learned.
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Know Your Man: Friendship
Have you even seen those old couples that look so friendly towards each other? Would it be wonderful if we could be friends and lovers at the same time? I know a few couples who have become friends: theirs is a strong marriage and they have the time of their lives.
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Stressful Relationships: The 'Cardboard Image' Effect
Relationships with good friends are always wonderful. Is that true? Have you ever had the experience with someone you dearly like as a friend that it just feels exhausting to be with them sometimes?
One reason might be the ‘cardboard image’ effect.
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Quiz- Is Your Partner Honest?
Your partner may be good looking. Your partner may be smart and intelligent. Your partner may be a good conversationalist and may have many other qualities. But is your partner honest?
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Getting Past the Language of Victim and Blame
Over these past twenty five years researching and studying the science of love, I have often come across terms which defy rational thought, yet are considered everyday reality. One of those terms, which I would like to examine today is emotional abuse.
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Emotions Are More Accurate Than Your Partner's Words
We communicate on many levels but there are two primary methods of sharing information with others. They are verbal communication and non-verbal communication. About 7-10 % of our total communication in any given day is verbal. This may change slightly depending on your career, age and what is going on in your life.
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To Hug, Touch and Caress
It is not our indifference that keeps us warm at night. It is our willing and inspiring tenderness that makes others want to be near us. To want to keep us warm. The simple hug, touch, and caress are more than an awesome experience. They have the potential to change your whole life.
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The Truth About Intimate Relationships Between a Man and a Woman
Developing a strong, stable, and successful relationship with a woman takes lots of hard work and time. It requires sacrifice and sometimes it can even cause a lot of pain.
Yet, once you reach the pinnacle of success with a thriving, successful relationship you get to know and be with someone with whom you get to share a type of intimacy that very few ever get to truly experience.
However, most relationships don't even make it out of the beginning stages because most people don't even have a good and healthy reason to be in a relationship let alone know what they are in a relationship for.
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Two Keys to Getting Along Long Term
There will always be differences between any two people in love. You can strengthen your relationship and the bonds that keep you together by the way you handle the differences. Here are some simple tips for avoiding avoidable breakups.
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A Roommate is More than Someone who Shares the Rent
Renting an efficiency or one bedroom apartment means you make the rules and you pay the rent but when the living space expands to more than one not only the rent changes, the rules do as well. Taking into consideration the financial means of a potential roommate no longer is the single most important factor, one must now look at several traits to help make a decision that will result in not only a rent check being delivered on time but also a living situation that delivers little friction.
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Payback Time in the Family? Don't Even Consider It
Many of us had difficult, even rough childhoods, full of ridicule, poverty, or other limitations. While we may, and do, envy other people and their seeming lack of trials, there are few we would really want to trade places with, if the facades were stripped away. And worse, attempts to get even with other people only cause us to lose traction on the slippery slope we're attempting to scale.
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