Basketball has gone a long way since its discovery in the year 1891 by James Naismith. Its discovery encouraged several basketball matches and the first official basketball match was at Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA Training School.

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.

A relationship tends to become boring if you start losing the intimacy and passion. You need to enjoy being together in an intimate way. Make your intimate time together special. Surprise your mate with a candle night dinner, soft music, a bottle of wine and a variety of passionate things for your lover to be together.

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.

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.

Presents will never make up for the lack of presence.

Speed Seduction is a patented concept produced to aid men in enticing a woman of any age, status, and personality. It aims to boost up the confidence of men. Speed Seduction is filled with methods and trainings to effectively make men successful with the women they desire.

A common theme in my articles, on my website, and in my coaching practice is on needs. For our purposes we define a need as a condition requiring relief. There are quite obviously many needs that you meet on a daily basis. Hunger may be one of the first things to come to mind when we think of needs, however, this is more of a physical need and we want to focus on our emotional needs!

The gift of roses has a history steeped in symbolism and mystery. Learn the meaning behind their colors, and send a more personal message.

There is nothing quite like trusting someone and finding out they've betrayed you. Now is the time to make it or break it. You choose.

If you are looking to correspond with a prison pen pal there are a number of websites that will help you. These websites will give you databases that list prisoners by gender, location and where the inmates are from.

Presents a unique understanding of jealousy. They offer an easy, four step method to communicate through the jealousy in order to strengthen a relationship.

How can you tell if your husband or you wife is cheating on you? There is no concrete formula for finding out, but there are some important indicators that logically merit suspicion. Here are some of them:

I read somewhere that the human brain absorbs information at a deeper level when a person is laughing. If that's true, you will learn more about what it means to be a man, according to Jim, than any Dr. Phil lecture.

When it comes to romantic relationships, it is common for arguments and disagreements to arise. These challenges come up as a way to help us move forward. But what we often do is throw out a relationship, instead choosing to create a new one with the hopes that the new one will be different (generally the new one mirrors the previous). The key question is what if you treated your relationship with your partner the same way you treat your relationship with yourself?...

He opens up to you and shares his deepest feelings. The next day, he's distant - and may be actively avoiding you. What should you do?

Despite what you might think, a fast car and a gorgeous face are not the only ways to attract a member of the opposite sex. Even if you feel that you have some major flaw that keeps you from finding a mate, it’s virtually guaranteed that someone out there will find your particular package irresistible. So let’s take a look at some more inventive ways to attract a lover for Spring…

Communication is the key to any relationship. With bad communication, problems crop up at unexpected places. This is a classical case. I am feeling very hurt because of what you said. When did I say that?

Are you thinking about leaving your relationship or have you left your relationship and are looking for closure? In this article, we are talking about how to create and get closure with your past relationships.

I used to paint when I was young. I was a dancer. I loved hiking. I loved outdoor sports and so it goes on. I used to be is the common theme. I have forgotten about all that, because my partner does not like that?

Modern communication technology is supposed to make us more connected at a time when we're all so busy. But if we're not careful, it can actually interfere with our ability to be close and present with our friends and loved ones.

Having a broken heart is nothing to laugh about. If your heart has been broken in the past (whose heart hasn't, really?) or is broken now, you know exactly what I mean. Besides the depression, all sorts of negative feelings pile up on an already stressed body and not only feel like dying but you might also develop a serious illness that may indeed kill you.

We take for granted our role in American culture, but what does it really mean to be an American? How do we define ourselves among world cultures?