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Celebrating Traditions—or Why Hosting a Quinceanera is a Grand Thing
And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.
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Do Words We Use Really Matter
I was thinking the other day (No cracks from my friends please.) about the subtle differences between words that are commonly used, sometimes not used or mis-used.
Let me give you an example.
I'm sorry. This simple two word sentence can be interpreted so many ways and have so many different meanings for both the person who speaks them and the person who they are directed toward.
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Relationship: Go On A Date
Most of the couples after a certain period of their marriage become very comfortable with each other. There prefer sitting at home and watching movies together than being romantic and going out on the beach to enjoy each others company. If you act like a boring couple who most of the times are sitting at home watching movies then you are sure to loose that fun and romance out of your relationship. It is essential to keep your married life happy.
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The New Marriage - Part Three of Four
Harry Stack Sullivan, in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry , argues that human beings have a biological drive to develop and establish interpersonal relationships. In Biological Basis for Human Social Behavior , R.A. Hind suggests that a person’s “attachment style”—the way in which they relate to other human beings and form relationships with them—is developed mostly during childhood. The attachment style tends to persist into adulthood but is not fixed and can be modified either positively or negatively as the result of further interactions.
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Know Your Man: Grooming
Sometimes men find it terrific to stay all weekend at home in his PJs, without shaving, brushing teeth, combing hair, or showering. They will do this to de-stress and not to embarrass us. It is the time when they let go of his ordinary activities and roles and almost literally enter their caves.
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Healing a Broken Heart
There is a big difference between pain and suffering. Pain is when you cut your hand. You don’t worry about your hand if you know it will get better. Suffering is when you’re not sure that your hand will heal, and you worry about what is going to happen. In relationship, pain comes and goes, and this is normal. Suffering in relationship comes when you hold back love because you are worried about whether your relationship will survive the pain.
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How to Incorporate the Right Seduction Story into Your Routine
When the term seduction story is used, the most likely thing that would occur to you is fictional stories of which seduction is the focal theme. That, however, is not what seduction story is referring to in this article. Today, you're going to learn how to tell a story…tell it so beautifully and seductively that making love would seem like the most natural thing to do in the world afterwards.
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People Who Pester You
Do you have people in your life who truly bother you in big ways? I call them our soul attachments. Some people come into our lives for many reasons and a few are certainly intended to make us pay some debts to our karma bank or to our thought patterns. They feel and look like those bugs that you want to get rid of but never succeed.
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Inspiration in the Workplace
Hard work is bad management.
What is inspiration in the workplace?
Thanks for this question. Truth is, there is no such thing as inspiration. You can't create it, do it or have it. You can’t cause it or lose it.
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Yours, Mine, and Our Emotional Needs - The Marriage Makers and Breakers
A common theme in my articles, on my website, and in my coaching practice is on needs. For our purposes we define a need as a condition requiring relief. There are quite obviously many needs that you meet on a daily basis. Hunger may be one of the first things to come to mind when we think of needs, however, this is more of a physical need and we want to focus on our emotional needs!
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Selecting Roommates - How To Check References
Discover the secret to checking references before your perfect flatmate moves in. By taking advantage of each tip, you too, will be able to decide if your chosen flatmate is right for you or has any hidden surprises in store.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 15 - Conscious Problems
Do the same problems keep popping up in your relationship? Do you waste precious energy on endless battles? Every relationship encounters issues and problems. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship, you must recognize that there are both solvable and unsolvable problems and that you can live with both. Understanding the causes of the problems is the first step to living with them. This assessment addresses your understanding of the problems in your relationship, or lack thereof.
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Three Thoughtful Reasons NOT To Change A Man
My reasons for not trying to change men have less to do with resigning myself to undesirable behavior, than with mutual respect and consideration for a man's feelings. Here's why I think it's not fair to men that we keep trying to change them.
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The 6 Conscious Listening Rules for the Receiver in Discussions
Do people tell you that you are a good listener? You could be an even better listener, especially when your partner is doing the talking. Conscious Listening is an essential part of Co-Creating a Conscious Relationship, and there are rules to help you master it. Read on to see how you can become that even better listener.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 4: Conscious Non-Avoidance
Are you and your partner experiencing some form of conflict? Is conflict leading you to avoid each other? When couples feel overwhelmed by conflicts, they find highly creative ways to avoid spending time with each other. When you're not spending time together, it's difficult to Co-Create a Conscious Relationship. This assessment helps you and your partner to recognize the avoidance behaviors you do and do not practice.
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Mary and Ralph
Mary Walton, 84, tells a touching tale of falling in love in wartime.
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Affection in Relationships
Lonely. That's what Janette felt when her husband didn't kiss her goodbye before leaving for work. Sometimes his forgetfulness in this area brought her to tears.
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Little Known Secrets To Attaining Security And Certainty In Your Relationship
In Love by Design relationships it is important that there is reassurance, certainty and security. The other day, actually the other week, I had several people in my office who were not very secure in their relationship. They came in on their own. They were having difficulties in their relationship. They just didn’t feel safe and secure in their relationship.
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