Are you willing to be different than most. Great partners in relationships are willing. And they have a better life than most. They wake up and go to bed feeling better than the people who only make half hearted efforts towards the one they supposedly love. Mark Webb, Licensed Marriage Therapist returns with another excerpt from his bestselling book, How To Be A Great Partner.

Nowadays with work and online dating many people have turned to long distance relationships. It is hard enough having a long distance relationship, but when the long distance part ends and you move back to living near or with each other it can suddenly seem a whole lot harder. There is a certain adjustment phase which can make or break any relationship.

Birthdays are considered a special day for celebrants. Moreover, they often get special gifts treatments from their loved ones.

Whenever you see your partner spending more time over the computer playing video games or surfing the net it means your partner is no much interested in you. You are actually being replaced by a computer. So you better do something to switch off that idiot box that is actually replacing you. You ought to be aware of what is going in your partners mind and how your partner thinks.

Dating, dining, dancing, conversing with, and romancing women take a lot of energy, but I can't think of a better way to spend it. To me, it's naturally invigorating. I feel alive. It's not for the infirm. There is a specific methodology for achieving a goal: First, the goal must be specific. Secondly, it must be measurable. Last, a deadline when it must be completed. Identify resources required.

I am no expert at love. The very word makes me nauseous and sets my body to a defensive mode. But I have had my heart broken once or twice. Badly. By some pathetic loser by the way. Lucky for me, I'm a quick learner. I made ridiculous mistakes of cosmic proportions and learnt a thing or two.

Russians are very emotional in their private lives, contrasting with their stoic public face. A Russian woman is a very emotional creature, which is deceiving because they seem reserved at first.

Discover 3 huge barriers that inhibit couples recovering from infidelity to survive the extramarital affair and rebuild their marriage.

What would marriage be if not for the annual celebratory ritual we have all come to know as the anniversary? Today, an anniversary is right up there with the biggest money-making gift-giving holidays, but it wasn’t always this way.

The vehemence of your feelings towards a partner who has let you down does not necessarily mean relationship is over. The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.

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.

A broken heart cannot exist unless you are withholding love. This can be confusing because how can you love someone who hurt you, broke your trust? But you need to see these as two separate things. One is love, what is hurting you, holding it back. The other is your pain, which is caused by the assault on your expectations.

Love is the most universally sought, most profoundly cherished, the most humanly persued element in the universe. Yet, it is the most abused, misunderstood, undervalued commodity in all of human existence. Why? We are stupid. How do we deal with this? Here are 22 suggestions that will turn the tide in your life and the lives of anyone who chooses to read and follow them.

Eating a heavy meal at night is a romance killer. With a full belly, and all available spare blood down there trying to deal with it, how could one expect to be the model of passion with all that going on. What is left is TV and sleep. So romantic!

In matters of love and sex, of course, as with many other things, men and women are not in the same page. Men need sex to give love; women need love to have sex.

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.

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.

Many people have deeply loved someone long after that person was not in their lives anymore. I have been through this, and I know how difficult it can be.

When I was a younger man one of my girlfriends had told me I hope you get struck by lightning. I thought to myself the chances of me being struck by lightning or about a million to one. However they are not quite that high and in fact I used to like to go jogging in the rain because I was a very good runner in high school and college.

Realising how little time we have, puts a whole new perspective on life and makes you realise how precious life is. Now if you consider your relationship, do you really want to waste the best years of your life on failed relationships, one parent lifestyles and lonely nights? Save your marriage before it's too late!

But one thing is for certain, finding that person rather than settling for someone less than what we are wanting is never good. Okay, that is my opinion, but think about it for a minute. If we have high standards and certain specifications to meet our needs, in the long run aren’t we robbing ourselves of happiness if we choose badly or settle for less than what we want?

As it is ending a relationship is difficult. It is even harder for the person in the relationship who is giving all he/she has only to find out that their partner has been unfaithful. How do they handle it?

This article is written to remind families to let go of the past and make every effort to come together with an open heart and learning attitude.

This is a series of short articles about men and their preferences. Men are not difficult beings, or the enemy, as some women would like us to belief. They are simply different. By understanding and accepting their men, women can save their relationships and keep their sanity.