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We have powerful desires to belong and to connect with a special someone.
In the U.S. we inherited a model for marriage and relationships that has remained largely unchanged for over 50 years. That traditional model was never intended to integrate our individual needs with the needs of the ... Views: 744
Question:
I have been friends with a guy for around 8 years now and we have a fantastic relationship. However for quite some time now I have developed more feelings for him and I get the sense that he feels the same way, but I don't want to ruin a good friendship. It's funny because a lot of ... Views: 610
Why do some relationships last forever and others fall apart? Here are some ways you can make your partner feel appreciated again and prevent your relationship from becoming a casualty.
Treat your partner as you would your boss, best friend, or best customer.
Think about what your ... Views: 1578
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As a love relationship and life coach, I was asked, “How will I know if he's the one"?
I can offer simple online love live coaching on this one.
For starters you want to get crystal clear about what you want in your committed ... Views: 1263
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Tina from New Zealand wanted to know “How do I get free from my limiting beliefs when I'm trying to attract my ideal soulmate love”?
Great question because negative thinking plays a big role in success or failure especially in ... Views: 1688
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As a coach, giving advice on dating and relationships is my passion. It's understandable to feel skittish, especially if you've been hurt before. You want things to start out on a stable footing, but you feel like your past starts to ... Views: 1136
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Donna from North Carolina wrote me to ask me that question As a Law of Attraction relationship coach, here's the relationship advice I have for her. Donna, I'm so glad that you know that you definitely need to let go of the past before you ... Views: 1162
Understanding Love
Is love easy to understand? What makes it special or what makes it disturbing? What connects? What fails?
This article discusses essential characteristics of love. You will connect to these and connect to your soul mates.
Love is discovery: Love is the process of finding ... Views: 770
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Peter from Florida asks: How can I super charge my romance? How can I improve my current relationship?
Thank you, Peter. It's wonderful that a lovely gentleman is asking this question..You see gals, there are lots of romantics out there. I ... Views: 1460
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Beau from Australia asked me for advice on how he can really KNOW if she is on her way?
Beau, thanks for your question. You're not alone. I get that question asked a lot. Any time it comes to matters of the heart, we can feel vulnerable. So ... Views: 1087
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Fran from Idaho wanted to know “How do I find my ideal partner?”
Well Fran, great question about how to find love.. Before you can attract what you want in your ideal relationship, you need to be absolutely sure what you want and what ... Views: 1888
Is it your dream to find a soul mate? A life-partner who will love, cherish and adore you?
As someone who didn’t meet and marry my soul mate until I was 44, I learned a lot along the way about what does and doesn’t work in the world of love and romance.
Here’s what I know for sure: ... Views: 734
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother."But what if your father and mother didn't honor you? What if instead of loving and honoring you they physically, sexually and emotionally abused you? What if you were scared every day of your growing up years? And what if, when you finally grow up and ... Views: 5113
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki
By nature, I am happiest when I am running, hiking or dancing around my kitchen. My children were dragged onto trails and ski hills from a very early age, I must admit, not so much so ... Views: 655
Question:
I think about sharing my life as an individual who, is independent with a person who is similar and strong in independence and may also seek as I do a relationship which may want to share a life together to learn ,to love, to care for each other, and in all things in marriage. ... Views: 640
Anyone in a long-term relationship knows that the dance of intimacy involves coming together and moving apart. Early in a relationship, intense periods of closeness are important in order to establish the ground of a new union. Just as a sapling needs a lot more attention than a full-grown tree, ... Views: 566
I marry people. I guess I have married more people than most. Whoppi Goldberg and I marched in the National March on Washington for AIDS and I married ten thousand lesbians and gay men there on the steps of the I.R.S.. Since then, I suppose have officiated at 30-40 more weddings of both gay and ... Views: 1067
Did you know that love not only gives meaning to your life, it brings health benefits? Human touch, long recognized as a powerful technique, increases the production of endorphins, growth hormone, and DHEA, all of which lengthen your life span and lower the negative impact of stress. Studies ... Views: 725
Have you ever thought of love as an essential nutrient in your life? That's right. It takes more than just food to keep us healthy.
I call all the parts of life that feed us, primary food. Relationships, spirituality, career and physical activity all fall into that category. Think about it. ... Views: 694
On a scale of 1 – 10, how emotionally fulfilled do you feel in your relationships?
Like everything else in our lives, the first port of call for our personal wellbeing has to be with ourselves.
So, how do we affectionately nurture ourselves?
To be emotionally content and happy within ... Views: 2735
If there is anything I have learned in my own life and the lives of those I have helped, it is that we are all here to create a better relationship
with all those around us as we individually experience our own joys, sorrows and overall discoveries. It is in our attempt to share these ... Views: 1656
Dear Keith and Maura,
I just found your website and podcasts yesterday and they totally resonate with me.
I am a very active youthful 55. I was widowed suddenly at 32 with 2 babies. My soulmate died and I was lost and devastated. I banged around for 10 years raising my boys, working and ... Views: 1508
Everyone at some point in their lives is faced with the cold hard facts that in some area of their life change needs to occur - big time! For many people, their whole lives are about avoiding the changes they need to make. However, life has a funny way of catching up with you, and when it does ... Views: 2271
Are you looking for love? Do you think that the universe has forgotten about you? Maybe that special someone just doesn’t exist. Don’t give up. You are both destined to meet when the time is right. I believe this to be true.
Here is my story.
He walked into the room when I was teaching a ... Views: 660
I can’t remember the exact age that the visions started, but even as a little girl, I regularly saw visions of a single, dark-colored wolf. Figuring that people would think me crazy and haul me away in a straight jacket, I kept this secret entirely to myself for close to two decades.
In my ... Views: 668
Here's the thing to know about love, sometimes it feels great, like a sunny day in the Northwest after 26 days of rain, but sometimes it feels like the early stages of flu- unsettled, achy, loss of appetite. Ok, well maybe not as bad as the flu, but love lives can be irritating, like an insect ... Views: 539
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
A few months ago a friend gave me a small African Violet when he came over for a dinner party. It was very sweet and a thoughtful change from the usual ... Views: 2026
"Why don't I have friends?" asked Isabella in one of our phone counseling sessions.Isabella, 25 and very attractive, was having a problem that many people have. Sometimes, if people don't keep their high school friends or meet friends in college or at work, they may have trouble making ... Views: 5047
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
We know how you feel! Starting over is really difficult when it comes to love and marriage. Getting a divorce, breaking up, or losing the one you love due to their death can be overwhelmingly painful.
The simple truth is this – you entered into ... Views: 3843
"Karezza is the greatest beautifier... it maintains youth and is one of the best health exercises." -- William Lloyd.
"Now to you, the man, I speak: Lie down beside your partner and begin to caress her gently with the softness of your ... Views: 2069
You’re rolling your cart down the supermarket aisle, when you bump into (literally), your friend whom you haven’t seen in – well, awhile. She asks “Where’s your husband?” and you say “Oh, I dunno – probably doing something around the house.” Your friend laughs and says “Well, I knew it couldn’t ... Views: 1695
I love this question: "How do I get a girlfriend?" Fundamentally, this question is inefficient and leads to a dead end. It's the same when someone "wants a family" or "wants lots of money". It is the perfect example of asking the wrong question while at the same time not knowing what you really ... Views: 2280
In this present now moment there is a simple question each of us can quietly ask ourselves and by embracing its affirmative answer, we open a whole new reality of potential before us. This is most likely not a question you may have ever considered for yourself or one that you have heard ... Views: 2190
We are at a beautiful moment on this planet where a new world is being birthed based on integrity, dignity, harmony, peace and love. The most obvious signs that this is well underway is that everything is changing and nothing seems to make sense. In fact, in many ways it appears to be the ... Views: 2135
Perhaps the greatest awareness we can focus upon in our life is the wisdom of unconditional love. It is a simple choice each of us can make that leads to profound change and births a new reality within our present moment, the only moment we ever truly have. It is also a personal choice that ... Views: 2099
I come to you today with a reflection and reminder of how special, important and loved you are. I also come with encouragement and knowing that one by one and day by day we are building a new world together based on peace and love. Despite all outer appearances to the contrary, each of us is ... Views: 2195
We are such amazing beings of infinite capacity and potential. Our boundless imagination, coupled with our wondrous will, allows us to bring our ideas into outer reality. Through our thoughts and feelings, we can literally create and experience that which we dream of in our heart of hearts. ... Views: 1068
There is such beauty and potential that surrounds us every moment. We can take notice of our rhythmic breathing and how this simple process nourishes every cell, gaze up at the sun and realize how it too is supporting our existence, or we can go within into our imagination and appreciate the ... Views: 1276
We are at a wonderful crossroads of potential right now on our precious planet. For the first time in our collective history, we are capable and prepared to dream a different possibility for earth and all her many life forms. We have within us the balance of love, wisdom and power to bring ... Views: 1143
By America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts.
We are eternal optimists – make no mistake about that! With us, glasses are always half full, not half empty. The sun is always shining where we live! We are eternally hopeful that tomorrow will be a brighter day – and it usually is! We love life ... Views: 5192
? Aren’t we all grateful today we have social media where we can all connect like never before in our human history. Isn’t it exciting that from the comfort of your home you can make a friend or find your true romance and love?
? We are living today in remarkable times, and I wake up every ... Views: 1740
When you live in the Love Response, you live a life filled with more balance, love and joy.
Why?
When you experience fear, anger, worries, anxiety, physical
illness or anything else that is unpleasant, the physiology of your
mind and body shifts into negative.
What do I mean by ... Views: 638
How many of you are unattached, single or just plain feeling you are in a loveless relationship? Do you feel your life is empty? Are you seeking love?
Authors, poets, songwriters, and the like from every age, have written more about love than any other emotion. Why do you suppose? Could it be ... Views: 2870
If you have been married for any length of time you know full well the amount of work that has already taken place. Yet, there is still more work looming.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some short cuts to experiencing more blessings in a marriage?
While there are no easy tricks or short ... Views: 662
The Encarta World English Dictionary defines "confidence" as "a belief or self-assurance in your ability to succeed."We all know people who appear to be very confident professionally, yet when it comes to personal relationships, appear to be very insecure.Personal confidence ... Views: 4711
We have a program in our dorm where we spotlight three residents and basically bombard them with questions for an hour. What happens is three people sit on a couch, each give a one to two minute summary of the basics in their lives (family, hometown, major, etc.) and then the rest of the hour is ... Views: 1179
“It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.” Simone Weil
Something snapped in me tonight. I didn’t see it coming, although the fog of exhaustion and the kink in my ... Views: 681
One of the most universal desires we have as human beings is to find love.
Most of us want to find romantic love. To find a soul mate, someone with whom we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings. Someone to share the joys and sorrows of our daily lives and to walk beside us in this ... Views: 1400
As a staff support officer I am seeing an increasing number of people who are sadly splitting up having been together, in a lot of cases, for many years. They say that the magic has gone and they have grown apart, and perhaps they have taken each other for granted over several years. Each has ... Views: 1410
You deserve a sense of self-worth and a comfortable relationship with Love and Money. Whether or not you're making this happen, is indicated by Venus in your birth horoscope. Like all the other planets, your Venus is in one of twelve signs. Since the orbit of Venus is close to the Sun, it may be ... Views: 1271