|
The Missing Piece in the Jigsaw
The other day I found myself 'inadvertently' eavesdropping on the conversation of some two young men. They were talking about Aids, sex and marriage.
|
|
Friends are Funny Creatures
Anyone who has crossed over would agree to that. It’s like when we cross over even the most insignificant things start niggling us. A small comment or a lame joke usually end up in the unchartered territory. And we usually don’t want to mention that we were offended by something that didn’t feel right to us. You see all the perceptions about grown-ups ‘discussing’ their problems are a farce. We don’t ‘discuss’ anything heavier than the weather.
|
|
Relationship: Be a Kind
It is important to keep up a relationship and for that you have to keep a light mood. Along with all the trust and faith, couple should also keep a lighthearted mood.It is perfectly fine to be silly and behave like a kid in a relationship. There should always be a touch of every age in a matured relationship. In a relationship behave like a man, a youth and a kid. It is interesting and exciting to have all shades of life in your relationship. Being a kid is one of them.
|
|
Ready to Accept and Forgive?
The situation requires acceptance and forgiveness. Can you accept and forgive without dwelling on the idea that it is truly none of your business whether the other person will mend the hole that is now part of your heart?
|
|
Verbal Abuse is Never About You
Verbal abuse says far more about the abuser than it ever says about you. If you were to give that abuse a physical image, what would you choose? You can use that image to reject the power that verbal abuse exerted over you once and for all.
|
|
Excerpt from Sacred Love Book - Finding Stillness
The speed of life is complex, exciting and wonderful, but if this is at the cost of love, then the ego has won and love has lost. In our modern world this ego can easily overtake love so we must learn to stop, really stop and be still with our beloved, to turn up. So learning the art of stillness is a major key to sustaining sacred relationships amongst this busy-ness.
|
|
Community Support Transforms Lives of Ex-Offenders
The lives of ex-offenders and their families are being changed through an innovative program: Community Support Advisory Council (CSAC). The program helps ex-offenders become productive citizens while providing needed support to their families. Weekly Overcomers meetings with the community's support makes this a unique program, which is being regarded as a model for future programs around the country.
|
|
Starving For Emotional Intimacy
It is a common thing that people who crave emotional closeness are the very people who consistently get emotional distance from others. We may not see ourselves as emotionally distant because emotional distancing takes different forms: manipulation, nagging, whining, seduction, fakeness, control, intrusion, avoidance, isolation, jumping to conclusions about other people's words and actions, etc..
|
|
Mum Beds Son's Mate?
While I don't want to be seen as condoning the above actions, let's face it, such relationships have occurred for years and in this day and age the very idea and inspirations for such actions are highlighted through films and television programs.
|
|
Reasons The “Marriage Crunch” Theory Failed
There were likely several reasons the theory behind the original “Marriage Crunch” article failed. The author stated in the original text that a woman over thirty had a very small chance of ever getting married if she hadn’t already been. This was in the 80s however and a lot transpired after the article was written.
|
|
The Two Most Powerful Words to Use in Overcoming Relationship Challenges
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?...
|
|
Switchback or Living With An Alcoholic
Life with alcoholic is like a love triangle – you, he, and his addiction. Your partner’s dangerous habit assimilates his time, forces and attention. He cannot belong to you, as he’s not free.
|
|
A Little Patience Goes a Long Way
The lack of patienceis the cause of so much unhappiness and grief in this world, when all it requires is a little time on our part.
|
|
Payback Time in the Family? Don't Even Consider It
Many of us had difficult, even rough childhoods, full of ridicule, poverty, or other limitations. While we may, and do, envy other people and their seeming lack of trials, there are few we would really want to trade places with, if the facades were stripped away. And worse, attempts to get even with other people only cause us to lose traction on the slippery slope we're attempting to scale.
|
|
The Feared and Dreaded 'Relationship Report Card'
Everyone dreaded report card day in school and if you are dreading making your own relationship report card, then you need to buckle down and study! When you rank all of the aspects of your relationship with your spouse, you want (and need!) to score in the high nineties for an A+.
|
|
How You Can Avoid Bad Relationships and Find Your One True Love
Do you find 'decent' men boring and 'creeps' exciting?
Then you're among the majority. But, as you've learned, creeps make for disastrous relationships.
So why are you attracted to them? The short answer is that although you live in the 21st century, your basic biology and psychology are still Stone Age. So you (unconsciously) look for a 'tough guy' to protect you and your children from the sabre-toothed tigers.
This article -- based on my four decades as a psychotherapist and 25 years of marriage to a wonderful woman -- will show you how to choose the right man.
|
|
Relationship Help for Women: Holidays and Love
This Holiday Season, instead of fighting the unsettling feelings,sink into them. Remember that all transitions have wonderful moments and scary moments, and that by staying connected to your feelings, you can navigate yourself to a more fulfilling and authentic New Year.
|
|
How to Solve Relationship Problems
Relationship problems either with your spouse, family, business partners, or other people affect your personal growth, success, and well being.
|
|