Having a birthday is actually a wonderful thing. Why do so many people freak out? I am happier now than I was 20 years ago.

My mother was meeting Mike for the first time, after hearing about him for many years. Mike Schwass: national speaker, published author, coach, therapist, namesake for the high school Blackhawks MVP award...and quadriplegic.

Pain can only exist in a closed heart. Future relationships suffer from past unhealed wounds. If you can't let go, you'll spoil the next or attract a fool. healing the past is a duty, an obligation to yourself and those who depend on you. Here's how.

No woman will stand a relationship if she doesn’t admire her partner. There has to be something that our men are truly good at, that we need to keep reminding ourselves, especially when the luster of the relationship has lost its power or when we want to maintain a good one. Equally, it is important for men to be admired.

Many women do not recognize that they have the power within themselves to live the life they truly desire. Too often, women find themselves forfeiting that inner strength for the counterfeit of an externally driven motivator - the expectations and demands of relationships in their lives.

If you can get in a woman's head, you can get into a woman's bed. Fact or fiction?

My recommendation is to first establish a relationship with a woman before calling her. The cost of calling Russia and other CIS countries has dropped dramatically over the past few years.

It's very simple, but some people won't believe it. If you want love from another, if you want the perfect mate, you first have to LOVE YOURSELF.

It is a common thing that people who crave emotional closeness are the very people who consistently get emotional distance from others. We may not see ourselves as emotionally distant because emotional distancing takes different forms: manipulation, nagging, whining, seduction, fakeness, control, intrusion, avoidance, isolation, jumping to conclusions about other people's words and actions, etc..

Traditionally we give gifts at Christmas time and at birthdays. As our society has become more affluent our gifts at Christmas time have become more elaborate and more expensive, especially in the case of our children. Gone are the days when a string of beads, a book, or a soccer ball were acceptable gifts to give our children. Now it is ipods and Tamagochis and Play Stations and X Box consoles.

Have you ever had a one-sided relationship with someone? Have you ever wondered what your role with another person was? Sometimes having the friend that only speaks about themselves, their interests, or what is important leaves you to feeling drained. What do you do? What do you give up to be involved with such a person?

It happens to all of us at some point in our life. We think we won't survive it, but we always do. Are you going through a break up? Here are some great remedies to help you to get through this tough time as pain-free as possible.

I have spoken about various games we play in relationships. The games that are mostly negative drain the relationship of its charm and effectively kill all the love and care that partners can have for each other.

Why, in a family, do bad people, hurt good people? Although shocking, this is really the way many people think when relationships develop problems! This depicts a useless way of thinking.