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Holiday Stress and Divorced Parenting
'Tis the season to be thankful, in another month to be jolly, and, if you're still not convinced, a whole new year right around the corner to try again if things don't work out for you through this year's holiday season! Holiday times for children of newly divorced parents are often the toughest time of year. They often have strong emotional attachments to days gone by when Mom, Dad, their brothers and sisters and they all cheerfully ate too much turkey and sang off-key holiday carols together. Remember that your joy in being away from what became an unbearable situation for you leading to a divorce may not have registered with your children, who are still in denial and are hurt, angry, and depressed.
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Know Your Man: Stop This Yackity Yack!
Some women are always whining, pestering, or nagging about something. With them, nothing can ever be right. They pull all kinds of little tricks to get and control a man's attention.
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Amazing Grace: Couldn't You Just Run Over My Toe?
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.
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Men: Winning The Woman Of Your Dreams
What makes for a happy relationship? What makes one couple have a successful relationship while another couple flounders? Is it just luck? Why do some men get the Woman Of Their Dreams while others get stuck with controlling women? Or, frigid women? Or, manipulative women?
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Are You Looking At Your Relationship Through A Telescope Or Microscope?
When girl meets boy, and they begin a new relationship with each other, they tend to look at their partner through a telescope. They only see the qualities, traits, habits and behavior that they want to see. For whatever reason, they fail to observe early signals regarding those qualities and behaviors that they either don’t like or want to see.
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A Complete Departure
A parent should never outlive their child. It should somehow be made into a law.
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Working a Room with Comfort
Everyone hates attending a party where they know hardly anyone. However, with a few tips, you might find yourself knowing everyone by the night's end.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 18 - Conscious Intimacy
Can you be specific about what intimacy means to you? How about intimacy for your partner? In order to achieve passion in your relationship – to solve the Passion Equation – you both must recognize intimacy. Because intimacy looks and feels different for each of you, it may require more thought and work than you realize. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship, to let each other know you are absolutely in love, you must develop the skills for intimacy. This assessment will help you understand the elements necessary for this step of the equation.
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10 Secrets to Meeting Mr Perfect At a Bar
Life in the fast lane means there are hardly any opportunities to meet Mr. Right or your dream date. The dating scenario has rapidly progressed to include online dating, speed dating, dating events, and of course the old faithful an evening at the local watering hole or bar.
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How To Deal With Partner Obsessions and Save Your Relationship
There will always be people that drift from one addiction to another. Needless to say, these are not the best candidates for long-term relationships or commitments. However, if you are struggling with a partner who has a simple short-term obsession, you can bring them back into the fold with common sense, passion and support.
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When a Relationship Ends
If you're glued to the side of something, you really have no idea what the other side of it looks like.
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Break-Ups And Doubts
Shall I break-up? Am I right? Or my thinking is wrong somewhere? What if I hurt my partner with the break-up? What if I cannot live normally after break-up? Shall I recover from it? Should I break-up? I am having doubts about the reasons. I am doubtful about the consequences. I am confused. What shall I do?
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Test Your Relationships
All of our relationships are dynamic. Whether it is marital relationship or a love relationship, all have dimensions that make them go through ups and downs in our life. A relationship essentially develops between two persons and that is the reason of these changes.
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Relationships - Grandparents
Grandparents are viewed differently today compared with those of seventy years ago. Then they were considered 'old' at the age of fifty and many of them were. They led lives of drudgery and had large families without sufficient means to provide for them.
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Falling in Love, Being in Love and Expressing Love
This brief article explores ways to more effectively communicate in your intimate relationship. Relationships tend to be our greatest source of joy or our greatest source of pain. How effectively we communicate typically makes the difference.
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The Bug Funeral Parlor
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?!
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