Is your spouse too controlling? Are you too passive? Or are the roles reversed? Control issues refer to who’s in control, who’s in charge, or who’s getting their way. Significant control issues are always harmful to a relationship. Here are ten reasons you need to be concerned if you have unresolved control problems in your marriage.

Have you ever felt someone else wanted you to love him or her?

But if you want love. Well that’s a different story. Love means naked, raw, honest, exposed, vulnerability. I hear people say, “I need to trust before I become vulnerable” and that is a horrible lie. The only person you need to trust in being vulnerable is you. Shame makes us worry about trust. Why would we be holding back anything if it weren’t for shame. Shame means we are not worthy of love, therefore, we can’t trust ourselves being open and natural and vulnerable. So we seek out people with the same ego issues and open up to them, only because they agree that we are victims.

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.

This power struggle is a turn off. I have heard it many times from different men. Why do we always want to prove to men that we are smarter, tough, and independent? Why keep score?

Some people have a great relationship with a life partner. They have been happily married (or having been living with another) for quite some time; things are just perfect; and the living together flows like it travels on those fast trains: comfortably, efficiently, and bump-less.

Growing up can be really tough for adolescents in the United States. The media portrays perfect celebrities which many children feel dwarfed by, causing them to experience a poor self image.

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.

Having a relationship or being married is actually the same in relation to women's expectations. Women want their partner to behave in a certain way and also expect from their partner to understand their point of view, agree and next time act without needing any guidance from their part.

A gift of time can be one of the most precious gifts anyone can share; time that can brighten up one's life even just for a brief moment. It leaves memories that will last till the next time.

There are often bumps in the road to marital bliss, even in the best relationships. Should you stay or should you go?

Most often in a relationship, we take each other for granted. We become self-centered and sensitive. We easily get irritated and say hurting words to our partner that destroys a relationship. Instead, be kind to one another and keep that relationship strong and healthy.

Surprisingly a great deal of men come to me while they are still in a relationship; sometimes even in a relationship that they want to keep. Even though I am a dating coach for men; I really am a Coach for Men to Achieve Happiness. The main differences between a relationship coach and a dating coach for men is that a relationship coach is going to attempt to save the relationship at almost all costs, where as a dating coach is going to be concerned with the man’s happiness first then the relationship.

Don't let your relationship fail. Learn about 5 relationship killers and begin to heal the underlying fears that cause these relationship killers.

Don’t wait until your relationship is totally dead to try to reawaken the passion. It takes a sincere effort to be aware of the passion starting to fade and being willing to do something about it.

He's hooked and booked. And yet he gets a second look. Let's explore the fascination that women, both single and married, have for another woman's man...

All of us have had friends from the past that we lost contact with. Whether it is an old classmate, an old boyfriend or girlfriend or an old neighbor, we all have someone we have lost contact with throughout the years. Perhaps it is because you moved away, or changed schools. One day you decide to look at your old pictures or yearbook, and you remember one long lost friend. You decide that you want to get in contact with them again after years of no communication.If this is you, then you may be asking yourself what’s the first step in locating a long lost friend. Today’s advanced information technology will actually make it easy for you to find your friend. There are many websites on the Internet you can go to for help.

We acquire our values from different sources. In the beginning our values are given to us by our parents. Speak truth, help others, do this and don't do that and things like that. After sometime, we get more values in our education.

Relationship Renewal is too often seen as being about how we can get others to change the attitudes and behavior of loved ones towards us. The Secrets of the Pros center on one truth that can quickly change a relationship breakdown into a Relationship Renewal.

Am I completely alone in my view of society or are people actually becoming more rude with each passing day? Read this article and send me your views.

What happens in Eastern Europe stays in Eastern Europe. Or does it? One lucky stag spills the beans on his stag weekend in Tallinn, Estonia's thumping capital.

Being romantic is wonderful and all, but unfortunately, we all make mistakes that can undo all of our romantic efforts. Not to mention, possibly undo the relationship!

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).