The New Testament provides us with many insights and advice-tips about love and relationships. These emphasize, time and again, the importance of loving others and being there for them.
HERE ARE 10 SUCH INSIGHTS:
1. A faithful friend is the medicine of life (Ecclesiasticus 6:16).
2. ... Views: 1845
Trying to develop an intimate relationship but failing time after time is a hint that something you do harms your attempts. Taking a careful look at what this “something” is will enable you to (finally) stop harming your relationships and develop the bond you desire.
SELF-AWARENESS IS THE ... Views: 1595
Many who fail in their relationships don’t take the time to develop their Self-Awareness and understand the reasons for their failure. Why don’t they?
Many think they know themselves well enough to be able to cultivate and maintain a “good” relationship (whatever they mean by “good”). ... Views: 1348
Facebook as a social media offers many functions to its users, from enabling them to connect with friends and family, to develop business liaisons, to dating and meeting others, and on to marketing one’s own expertise and products.
Another role that FB can be useful to the individual, which ... Views: 1053
There are many traits you are NOT AWARE of which control your attitudes, thinking, reactions and behaviors in your relationships. These usually are traits which you perceive to be “negative”; which you are afraid might bring criticism upon you; disrespect; rejection and abandonment.
As long ... Views: 1331
There are many needs of which you are NOT aware that control you and harm your interactions with your partner.
It is only when you develop Self-Awareness and get a grip of these needs that you can de-activate the power they exert over you and stop harming your relationships.
KATE’S ... Views: 1118
There are many messages you have UNCONSCIOUSLY internalized while growing up, which drive you to behave in self-sabotaging ways with your partners.
DANNY (Example 1)
Nathalie accuses Danny of not expressing his love for her. He doesn’t hug her; he doesn’t tell her that he loves her. She ... Views: 1243
The best way to talk about the damage that the fear of being alone causes to those “infected” by it is by bringing up a real-life-anecdote:
REBECCA
Every evening, instead of going home after a busy day at work, Rebecca meets men on blind dates. What would she do all alone at home anyway? ... Views: 1398
The pain of failing to find and cultivate a successful intimate relationship must be horrible to endure. Especially if you have been trying for quite some time to find a partner and develop a lasting bond. Maybe the time has come for you to stop the excessive dating-rush and take the time to ... Views: 1042
You probably have expectations from partners and relationships. They add some “juice” to the relationship: you expect things to happen, you fantasize about them, and you make an effort to ensure they will “come true”. When this happens – it’s wonderful.
But expectations might harm a ... Views: 1109
Your attitudes, emotions, reactions and behaviors towards your partners are often controlled by a belief-system which you are NOT AWARE OF. You adopted this belief-system from your childhood home, your social environment, television, radio, books and films.
EXAMPLES OF BELIEF-SYSTEMS WHICH ... Views: 1018
It is safe to assume that no one has ever taught you the importance of SELF-OBSERVATION: how to look inwards, contemplate your thoughts, feelings, reactions and behaviors. Observation will help you pay attention to your reactions and behaviors with your partners and become aware of the ways in ... Views: 1381
IF BY NOW YOU:
1) Have enrolled with numerous on-line dating sites, shaped your profile, chatted with others, went on many dates, but was never able to develop a satisfying relationship; and
2) Have always blamed your partners (or dates) for the failure of a possible relationship; and
3) ... Views: 1040
We all like to think we have only “good”, “nice”, “elegant”, “friendly” traits. While trying to present a nice “face” to ourselves and our partners, we repress and deny other traits of us, which we think carry “negative” connotations; which are not “socially accepted”; which might bring us ... Views: 1369
The one-million dollar question is: what does it take to find a suitable partner and cultivate a truly successful relationship?
My simple answer is: it takes SELF-AWARENESS: identifying and understanding what stands in your way from succeeding.
You might be surprised to find out that if ... Views: 1377
Has it happened to you that in spite of your desire to have a partner with whom to develop an intimate relationship you found yourself, time and again, with partners that were wrong for you; having the same conflicts and arguments that you’ve had in the past; dissatisfied and alienated?
Have ... Views: 709
Longing for your partner can fill you with joy, good thoughts and anticipation. There is someone to long for; to write poems to; to dream about at night. But if your partner is no longer there, longing can make you sad and melancholic, arousing the feeling of loneliness.
But who are you ... Views: 2143
Are you fed up from blind-dates which lead you nowhere? Meeting the wrong people on dating sites? Experiencing disappointing relationships? If so, the time may have come for you to sit back and contemplate what’s going on and what to do next.
The best way for you to use this time is to ... Views: 977
When you cling on to your belief that you are right and your partner is wrong you often find yourself involved in power struggles and conflicts about “who's right”. Unintentionally, you make “being right” your first priority instead of your relationship. You neither listen to your partner nor ... Views: 1168
You might be surprised to hear that there are many things about yourself that you don’t know – and you even don’t know that you don’t know them. As a matter of fact, you know yourself only up to a certain point. You might fail in your relationships for the simple reason that you lack ... Views: 709
Who doesn’t dream about falling in love, meeting “the one and only”, having a “once-of-a-life-time connection” like in the fairy tales, the movies, and TV series?
At times the modern technology and the social-media provide all these. Just touch the key-board and YOU’RE CONNECTED!
When such ... Views: 1541
There are those who are so talented at taking care of plants that whichever plant they care for will grow and live forever. But when it comes to cultivating a relationship with a partner, the story is different. Is there anything they can do to change this situation?
I've always been ... Views: 1443
A close relationship is something we all desire: to feel we are “one” with our partner; that we know each other as well as knowing ourselves; that we can communicate without words, like with a telepathic connection. But if we expect this to be the rule – rather than the exception - we might harm ... Views: 1434