Starting conversation with someone you have just met is sometimes difficult for the majority of us just because we are not sure of what to say. But to be confident to make the first move in starting conversation with a stranger often boosts our spirits and helps us to become more diligent and contented with ourselves.

Is your spouse too controlling? Are you too passive? Or are the roles reversed? Control issues refer to who’s in control, who’s in charge, or who’s getting their way. Significant control issues are always harmful to a relationship. Here are ten reasons you need to be concerned if you have unresolved control problems in your marriage.

Emotion is the language of the ego. Emotion is the most wonderful honesty about how you feel, think and see life. But if you think your emotions are anything but a witnessing of your own “unconsciousness”, you may have a big problem in life. Emotions block love. No relationship, sacred or otherwise, can thrive when a couple considers their emotions a foundation. Those emotions are so changeable.

No relationship is without stress, disappointment, problems or frustration. Regardless of whether you have been married for 50 years, dating for 6 months or living together for anything inbetween I will guarantee that sooner or later you will make or have made one of the following relationship mistakes.

Most marriages that are troubled have these giver and receiver roles firmly fixed. In marriages that are happy, these roles will fluctuate between the partners regularly, depending on where the need is greatest. Where does most of your energy go during a normal day?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail? In fact what would you do differently today? Does your fear keep you from what you most want? Do you find yourself making excuses instead of going after what you really want in life? Imagine like Indiana Jones who had a fear of snakes, you were tossed in a pit of writhing slithering snakes or do you have a fear of high places or even speaking in front of a large crowd.

Relationships are never perfect and some appear less perfect than others but just because you don't always see eye to eye and just because you have let the relationship slide it doesn't mean to say that you weren't meant to be together.

Can you say what you mean and have your partner hear what you mean? Conscious Listening is critical to the success of Co-Creating a Conscious Relationship. Both partners must take a role in speaking and listening. You will always have issues, thoughts, feelings, and problems, on your Journey from I-TO-WE, but you will not be able to resolve them without effective communication skills and techniques. This assessment helps you recognize the elements of communication in which you shine, and the elements that need attention.

Here are just a few quotes from people that honored their mothers with these wonderful and memorable words about motherhood.

Are you looking for Love by Design? Well you certainly have found the right place. A lot of people go through life completely unconscious and not knowing exactly what they want to have in a relationship until they get into a relationship and find that they don't have what they want.

You can have relationship renewal through using Amazing Training to make sure you're always seen as the ideal partner. Begin now by making one decision.

This installment covers the phone/email stalker. You can find this article series as part of Game Chronicles

Having the ability to fully observe your loved one, without making any assumptions or evaluation about them is an important skill to have in building a solid connectedness with them.

Love and Chocolate - why the best things in life can actually be good for you. Science now shows that you can benefit from being in love, having sex regularly and eating chocolate. So go on - enjoy!

Gifts are an expression of our feelings. They are a token of appreciation and love towards others. And among the multitudes of gifts available, perhaps no gift can ever be as lovely and expressive as flowers. Flowers bring joy to all who behold them and add a splash of vibrancy to any occasion or event. They have and will always remain the most wonderful gifts on this earth.

Sometimes, the enemy is us. By repeating the same negative patterns and behaviors, we often sabatoge our relationships. When we choose partners based on surface credentials rather than values and character, we set ourselves up for relationship failure.

Are you playing for keeps in your relationship? Here are some strategies for making it over the long haul.

Remember that the other person you're involved with is not you. So, how do the ways he or she is different from you make your life easier, more fun, better?!

When we’re young, we’re taught to play nice and share. Selfishness is a vice, and consideration a virtue. We carry those beliefs with us into adulthood where they work well in everyday life. But, the situation is different when you’re dating.