The rapture phase of love gives each partner a feeling that is buoyant, lively, and fulfilling. You project onto your partner images of beauty, goodness, and love as if your partner were a canvas waiting to be painted on. The energy of this consciousness shines a bright light across the world, obliterating all the differences in your characters, lifting you and your partner to a higher state of being. You are atop the summit, and you sparkle to one another like diamonds with many facets of light.

Dating has proven to be a good way to meet new friends, romances or even one's soulmate.

Food has the power to connect people and nurture relationships. The way to get into the heart of a person is through the stomach. Dinner parties help you get close to your friends. Sharing food, laughter and wine can be enjoyable and the best way to be with your family and friends.

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.

Each day count your blessings to be alive and able to love. Although emotion may suggest that life is not always fair, never allow the pains, hurdles, and disappointments of the moment to overwhelm your loving attitude and plans for yourself and your beloved. What you don’t appreciate, depreciates. You can never win when you wear the resentful mask of self-pity, and the bitter taste of accusation. They will certainly frighten away any opportunity for love. Never again hold a critical thought for yourself or your beloved. There is a better way.

While many people date for the purpose of looking for a partner purely for sexual reasons, the ultimate long term goal for many is to find their soul mate.

Definite and usage of main principles and notions is of the most important requirements set for sociological researches. The categories of family and marriage are the most complicated and hardest to define. First of all, traditions of usual conscience and word usage that are not always correspond to those of scientific and theoretical nature; have impact on their understanding and definition. Secondly, both marriage and family are studied not only by sociology but by a range of other sciences which creates many different approaches to them and accordingly more or less specific and abstract definition of these notions.

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 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.

Any relationship can be revived if you know the formula and you are sincere in your reasons for wanting the reconnection. Don't take your partner for granted. Do something before it's too late.

The key to a growing and vibrant relationship is acceptance of the differences between one another. In fact, the other person's differences may be just what you need to grow stronger.

Remaining positive when dealing with negative people in your life can be quite a challenge. Use these 7 tips to maintain your positive attitude and avoid getting infected with someone else's negativity.

There are certain principles that apply to all types of relationships, whether they are friendships, romances, business associations or family interactions. We all lose focus from time to time and can benefit from being reminded of the core tenets of relationship success. Being attuned to the Seven B’s, can help you make all of your relationships healthier, happier and more productive, revealing a never-ending loop of continous improvement.

Personal growth is an essential component to an ideal relationship. Here's how to achieve it.

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?

If you are in a state of dilemma, about how to carry forward your relationship. These keys to successful relationship will surely help you out in keeping your love forever.

With hundreds of different birthday flowers and bouquet arrangements to choose from, which one would you like to send?

Opposite personalities can contribute to the chemistry in a love relationship, but if a couple in a love relationship are too different, they might end up heading in different directions. How many shared similarities are necessary for successful love and marriage?

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.

If you are still hurting from a previous relationship then this article will help you to release that pain and move on through simple yet practical techniques

How many times this week only, you had an encounter with someone who either pushed your buttons or you simply didn’t like, meaning, the chemistry wasn’t there? It happens often. We hate the guts of this or that person, or we think that there is something wrong with them. Somehow we become absolutely critical and thus create an inaccurate and biased image of someone and nothing that person does is quite all right.

What memories do you celebrate in your relationship? Read on to discover the importance of celebrating memories and tips for how to do it.

Have you noticed? The farther people live from each other, the more opposite the traditions become. It is obvious that it is concerned with culture and with climate zone and with the composition of the population (for instance, in multi-national countries people are more tolerant to the customs and traditions of others and sometimes traditions get mixed and intertwined).