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Celebrating Traditions—or Why Hosting a Quinceanera is a Grand Thing
And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.
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Are Men Different from Women?
Many people are of the opinion that men and women are the same when it comes to character and personality. But they are wrong. What they don’t understand is men and women were made different physically as well as emotionally. Women may have equal understanding as men, but most of the time they don’t think that deeply to draw a conclusion or solve a problem the way a man solves it. In order to resolve issues...
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Power Dynamics in Relationships
There is a lot more going on in relationships than we can see. What happens when one person has the power but the other person can't see it?
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How Well Do You Know Your Partner?
In many relationships two complete strangers share the same bed. They know little about their significant other. There is dialog that is often superficial, self-centered, critical and judgmental. Few couples really know each other. What are some of the things you do or don’t know about your partner?
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Relationship: Say It With Words
Words have the power to move the strongest of men in the world. Let the power of words strengthen your love life. Lovers often have taken the support of words to express their love. “It’s only words and word all I have to take your heart away”, the words from a famous song that have helped many lovers to express their love, proves the power of words.
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Feelings and Risk
Are you willing to risk a greater degree of pain and disappointment for a higher level of joy, satisfaction, and emotional fulfillment? Every choice in life has tradeoffs. We carefully weigh the possible outcomes, assess our willingness and tolerance for risk, and then make a choice based on our perceptions of the outcomes.
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Tools for Pleasing Your Russian Wife
The number one rule is that you must handle your responsibilities. Next, give her the best sex you possibly can. Be A Good Listener. You need to continually show her that you love her.
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Know Your Man: Two To Tango
It is about time we stopped blaming out our spouses for everything that goes wrong in our lives. What a tendency we have to assign guilt to other people! Everyone makes mistakes, including us, or should I say, especially us.
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Know Your Man: His Children
According to MSN Money (Sept. 2005), not counting Higher Education, which can mount to $150,000, and not counting private schools and hospital bills, a child costs $135K ($40K/year, income) ; $185K($40-70K/year income); and $270K (70K+/year, income). Children 15-17 years old are more expensive. Expensive? Mamma mia!
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Speaking the Truth
'Live your life at the campfire' says Brandon Bays (The Journey), meaning that we don't need to wait years to deal with issues but rather deal with them right here in the now. Whenever you are ready to let go of stored emotions, empty out all the past pain and come to a place where complete forgiveness is possible - let it happen! Your life will provide you with enough opportunities to learn, understand, and let go - WHEN you do each step is your choice.
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People Who Pester You
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.
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Boredom is a Killer, One of Many Common Marriage Problems
One of the common marriage problems, which often materialises early on in a relationship, is boredom. Couples often find that after the honeymoon period is behind them and they have settled in to married life it isn’t quite the constant bed of roses that they imagined it to be.
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Common Marriage Problems – Not Making an Effort
It’s so tempting to take things easy once the ring is on your finger. So many of us decide that the hard work is done and that going forward a marriage doesn’t require any effort. One of the most common marriage problems is to just take a back seat, let life pass you by and assume that married life is for every no matter how little effort you make.
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Tips For A Happy Relationship
There's no denying that maintaining a relationship is a lot of work. Almost fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce, and many wonder how people can maintain their relationships over their entire lives.
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Movies You Shouldn't Watch After a Breakup
After providing the list for CDs to rent and provide entertainment while you drown yourself in tears, blankets, and chocolates, here is the list of movies (no doubt a lengthier one) that you shouldn’t be getting near at.
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Come Together
We all belong to a community of one sort or another. Nursing home - Assisted living site - village or Town. How do you connect to those in your community?
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Paul and Karla: Match Made in Heaven
A love that lasts a lifetime is not easy to find. However when you do find such a love and meet such a person that totally captivates you, there will not be any hesitation on your part to take the plunge and commit wholeheartedly. Such are the feelings of Paul Davis (USA) and Karla Ruzycki (Canada) who found true love in each other.
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Relationship Sabatoge
Sometimes, the enemy is us. By repeating the same negative patterns and behaviors, we often sabatoge our relationships. When we choose partners based on surface credentials rather than values and character, we set ourselves up for relationship failure.
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