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Stop Dragging Your Past into Present Relationships - Part One of Two
Expressed as a two-way bridge between childhood and adulthood, magical thinking is a developmental stage during childhood that serves a very important function in the process of creativity and imagination. Like so many of our developmental constructs, when magical thinking is held onto and not revised in the light of reality it becomes maladaptive.
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One Handed Knot
A relationship can not be properly built and nurtured with only one “hand”, one person. In order for a relationship to work with optimal success, there must be frequent and sufficient help and input. There must be honest non-critical and loving feedback on a continual basis.
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Finding the Perfect 50th Anniversary Gift
A few months ago, I received an invitation in the mail. When I examined it, I discovered that it was an invitation to my best friend’s parent’s 50th wedding anniversary party. I have known my best friend and her family for almost 35 years, as a result I have become very close with them.
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How to Avoid a Relationship Breakdown
Is your relationship headed for a breakdown? It’s not often that a relationship runs into a brick wall without warning. More often than not, there are warning signs and signals that things aren’t running smoothly.
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Relationship: Cuddle Time
Cuddling is an essential part of love. It keeps the freshness of love. Cuddle each other whenever together. When your mate is in bed reading a book, sitting on a couch watching a movie just get close to and say you want to cuddle. Just hold hands while watching a movie or just rest over the shoulder of your partner when he or she is reading. Cuddle each other in whatever way you can. It is just another way of saying that you care and love your partner.
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Sacred Love - Building a Relationship on Truth and Trust, Beyond Emotion and Blame
Emotion is the language of the ego. Emotion is the most wonderful honesty about how you feel, think and see life. But if you think your emotions are anything but a witnessing of your own “unconsciousness”, you may have a big problem in life. Emotions block love. No relationship, sacred or otherwise, can thrive when a couple considers their emotions a foundation. Those emotions are so changeable.
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Know Your Man: Appreciation
We give them to our children. We give them to your friends and family; we give them to our pets. Heck, we even give them to strangers. Let’s encourage, admire, and appreciate our men and they will do whatever we wish.
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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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Common Marriage Problem – Bailing Out When the Going Gets Tough
Perhaps it’s because life has become easier over the years or perhaps it’s just because people have higher expectations than they did in the past but whatever the reason one of the most common marriage problems is to bail out when the going gets a little tough.
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Can't get Him out of the Pub
Why is he always stuck in the pub with his mates. Does he prefer a fishing trip with his mates that a day with you and the kids.
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Loving Words Heal Relationships
The most powerful two phrases that heal a damaged relationship are also the two phrases that are hardest to say. But these phrases are essential in healing relationships for couples. Find out how.
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Making Marriage Work, Part 1
Is your marriage in trouble? Have you lost the passion that you once had? Do you believe that if only your partner would change everything would be fine? In this series, discover a powerful process for making your marriage work.
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Five Reasons to Come First to the Future Bride's Homeland Instead of Inviting Her
Dating with a Ukrainian or Russian girl usually begins with cautious correspondence which lasts for a few months and is followed by a man's visit to Ukraine or Russia. Some men make haste and would prefer to invite the Ukrainian woman to their country at once so that she could see the place where she is supposed to live after the marriage. But the usual practical recommendation for a foreign man is to display curiosity and visit the possible future bride's country first. Why so? There are several reasons for doing that.
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What to Do After You've Been Betrayed
When those we have entrusted with our money, our plans, our strategies, our loyalty or even our love betray us, we feel violated deep inside. We feel crushed. We wonder if we can ever recover from this. It is at this moment of realization that you will make some of the most important decisions of your entire life.
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So Am I: Projecting Our Qualities
How is that that I have great and not so great relationships with different people? What is there that makes me like and be liked as well as hated (or disliked) and hateful (or despising)? Why do I recognize negative qualities in some people and positive qualities in other people?
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