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- Navigating Troubled Waters - by "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love." - Sophocles (BC) .
But it isn't always so easy!
Many difficulties in a friendship, including marriage, can be put to the back by the simple act of resignation. Some ideas of one may never suit those of the other, and ...
Views: 632 - IS LOVE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE? - by If you can't answer YES to all of the following questions....then love just might be a foreign language to you.
1. Do you know how to recognize when you are loved totally and unconditionally?
2. Do you know why it is important to love and be loved?
3. Are you aware of the ways you can ...
Views: 641 - IS LOVE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE? - by A Special Report by Bill McGrane, III
If you can't answer YES to all of the following questions.... then love just might be a foreign language to you. 1. Do you know how to recognize when you are loved totally and unconditionally? 2. Do you know why it is important to love and be loved? 3. Are ...
Views: 600 - Do You Love A Man? - by Do you love a man over the age of 40? Dad, brother, friend, spouse, lover, etc? Do you love a man whose family members have had cancer?
Then go get your phone - yes, right now and call them. Or send them an email. Ask them to speak to their doctor about taking a PSA test. This is a simple ...
Views: 611 - Cheat ... and You Cheat Yourself - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2007 from Jan DeniseCheat … And You Cheat Yourself "I know what it sounds like," she says, "but he's the love of my life." What makes her situation so unique is the "I." And that makes everybody's situation unique, particularly in their own eyes. It's easy to look from the outside and observe that he betrayed ...
Views: 805 - Can Your Relationships Make You Sick? Part deux - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Rone de Beauvoir“I can’t help losing my temper, everyone in my family is that way, deal with it!” “You’ve tried everything under the sun, but you’re still fat!” “I hate when you do that, you make me sick!” “I’m just sick and tired of your ...
Views: 1263 - JUDGE JUDY SAYS, "HEARSAY DOESN'T COUNT!" - by Hey Doc,
Every Saturday night, I go to a certain club with a group of my friends to have fun. Every once so often, I see this attractive woman who is always with a new guy that she doesn't seem to be involved with. One nigh while I was on the dance floor, she gave me a "buying signal" by ...
Views: 1537 - Could George Costanza Have Avoided the Telephone Time Waster? - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
What's up, Doc!
I read your articles every week in askmen.com and I consider myself a follower of The "System." I wonder if you could help me out. My brother's girlfriend told me about this girl she works with. She told me that we had a lot in common, ...
Views: 674 - The Rehearsal that Makes a Lifetime Difference Excerpt from Choices and Illusions - by Within every human being exists a propensity for greatness. The gifts may vary, and the greatness may live out in a vast array of alternatives—say from carpentry to rocket science—but the gift that gives one true self-respect, lifts the spirit from “same old, same old,” resides within. It is our ...
Views: 546 - How to Make Someone Fall in Love with You (Based on the Psychology of Falling in Love) - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2010 from M.Farouk RadwanMyths About Making Someone Love You Do you think that love is just an uncontrollable random process? Do you think that if the person you loved didn’t love you back then nothing can be done about it? Do you think that you can't make someone fall in love with you? The Truth About ...
Views: 8739 - Are Truth and Love in the Stars? Here's what I found out... - by As long as I can remember, I've been looking for truth and love. Truth, because I'm gullible and I have been hurt as a result. Love, because I felt insecure and lonely. I figured that there must be someone I could trust to open myself up to who would not ridicule me. As I looked for truth and ...
Views: 531 - The Candle Light Ritual For Couples - by This candlelight ritual is for couples who wish to have a greater sense of communion with each other through spirit. This ritual can help build a stronger bond of love, understanding, and respect. Many of my clients include this as a daily or weekly ritual. It opens the door to more clear loving ...
Views: 977 - Does Love at First Sight Really Exist? - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2010 from M.Farouk RadwanDoes Love at First Sight Exist? Before exploring outer space, people used to think that the earth was flat and that you could fall off the edge if you ever went that far. The same goes for everything else that we don’t understand. People usually try to associate all that is unknown to ...
Views: 1733 - Are You Ready for True Love? - by Have you ever thought 'This is THE one for me' and discovered sometime later you couldn't bear the thought of staying with him or her a moment longer? Has this happened more than once? Do you want to stop the heartbreak cycle? Do you want to meet your soulmate and enjoy a lifetime of lasting ...
Views: 657 - How Honest Are You In Relationships? - by I had always thought myself to be a fairly honest person, and by society's standards I was. But what society considers honest and what true honesty really is, are two separate things. We've been systematically taught in our culture to make lying a part of our lives. We do it so often that we ...
Views: 696 - What Is Love? - by For some reason, throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and un-definable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, allot of it ...
Views: 1023 - Is Love Painful? - by Who hasn't experienced the pain of love? Or is it the pain of love or the pain of rejection? This is where we start getting into all the “add-ons?of love. The love baggage, we might call it. For some reason, many people assume negative emotions are a PART or element of love. Love is not painful. ...
Views: 842 - Be Selfish In Love - by Who comes first, you or your relationship? Although answering “the relationship?may sound honorable and based on a deep level of love and commitment, its an unhealthy and destructive way to live. It is only when you can honor and love yourself first, that the relationship can be a truly loving ...
Views: 912 - Ingredients of a Successful Relationship: An Interview with Paul J. Hannig, Ph.D. - by In this excerpt of a full length interview with Dr. Paul Hannig, the basic elements for success in love relationships and working on your self will be explored. Utilize the suggestions in the article and you may find them helpful in all areas of your life.
R: What makes for a good, long term ...
Views: 1465 - Love and Communication - Five Languages for Healthy Relationships - by Submitted on May 20, 2007 from Amy JohnsonWhen we are not feeling loved, valued and cared for, many of us tend to be crankier, more depressed, more sure something is our fault or their fault or somebody's fault. We can be less patient, and life can seem more difficult. Some of us pass this off as a bad day, a really long week, a rough ...
Views: 2602 - Is Love A Choice? - by Submitted on May 18, 2007 from Raphael WettensteinWhile exploring the answer to this question I came across a definition in Wikipedia on-line: Love: Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. It is considered a deep, ineffable feeling shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal relationships. ...
Views: 1108 - Soul Mates - by What is a a soul mate? Have you found your soul mate? Many of us go through life wondering these and many other questions regarding soul mates. Few of us ever find the true answers. A soul mate is someone that you feel an instant spiritual bond with. He or she can come in the form of a friend, ...
Views: 761 - Is There More Than One Type Of Kissing? - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from dale mazurekKissing has to be one of the best ways in the world to show good emotions. At this very moment I can’t think about a negative impact of kissing. Oh sure we have heard about bad kissers but even bad kissers don’t hurt any one. There are a number of different ways to kiss. There are ...
Views: 809 - What His Bed Reveals - by Submitted on May 11, 2007 from Diana LaSalleWhen a man takes you on that first tour of his house, he's revealing more than he might intend. This is especially true of his most intimate space - his bedroom. Think about it. Have you ever walked into a man’s bedroom and had the feeling you never wanted to leave—or that it’s time to run, ...
Views: 1308 - Bad Sex Is Good - by Truth: Sooner or later, even sex with someone you love can become a routine.
Sex seems to promise so much. Skin aflame with unbearable bliss. Sobbing embraces of vulnerable rapture. Transcendent merger as utter oneness. But usually, sex is fairly mundane.
Men get hard, pump and grunt, squirt ...
Views: 1588 - How Love Addiction Leads to Break-ups - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2010 from M.Farouk RadwanLove or Need? Suppose that you broke a leg in some kind of accident and had to use crutches in order to move around; as the days pass, you'll find yourself getting more and more used to them. In your current state of injury, you certainly can't walk without them, so imagine how you'd feel if ...
Views: 1348 - Love's Transcendence - by Submitted on May 02, 2007 from Chris FenwickKey #8 Love’s Transcendence "Worship means reverence and humility, it means revering your real self and humbling delusions." -Bodhidharma The 8th and final key found in the novel "the 100th human" is the culmination of all the other keys, as love is not the means to the end. ...
Views: 2540 - Are Your Partnerships Shipshape? The Top Ten Practices of Enlightened Partners - by Partnerships are in many ways like real, seagoing ships. Just like a sailing vessel needs regular, constant care and upkeep, your partnerships need regular care and upkeep. The crew of a sailing ship is knowledgeable in the standard practices of seamanship, which is absolutely required to ...
Views: 1177 - Embarrassing Moments and a Girl Named Summer - by Without much digging into the dusty mineshafts of my memory, I can pinpoint one of my most embarrassing moments. I was in high school and it involved a beautiful girl named Summer.
I don’t recall the exact grade we were in; it was probably the tenth grade. Summer was in one of my classes and I ...
Views: 749 - An Inconvenient Truth - a reflection on the movie - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2007 from Cassandra EveThe Inconvenient Truth – an environmental movie featuring former American Vice-President, Al Gore is making headline news. I would like to comment on the reality behind what appears to be happening with our environment – for there is a deeper truth hidden within these dramatic earth ...
Views: 8876 - Learn to Love Your Body - by Twenty-four percent of women and 17 percent of men say they would give up more than three years of life to be thinner. That’s according to a poll conducted by Psychology Today magazine.
At the same time, studies show that half of American women overestimate the size of their bodies. ...
Views: 815 - Toward Compassion: Understanding the Pressures on Your Husband - by We hear a lot about the Supermom Syndrome but rarely about our Superdads.
We place higher expectations on fathers in today's society than ever before. Unlike previous generations, dads today are expected to take a proactive role in caring for the children physically as well as financially. ...
Views: 704 - Celebrating Fathers - by On Father's Day, we celebrate the guys in our lives. Not just our dads and the fathers to our children, but all the men who have made a positive impact on a child’s life.
A number of recently published studies call attention to the effects of good fathering. Men who play an active role in ...
Views: 594 - The power of listening from your heart in Relationships! - by One of the most difficult things to do in relationship is to listen--truly listen from your heart without blame, judgement or "you ought toos and you shoulds."
It's also difficult to take the time to listen without allowing distractions to pull you away from what the other person is saying. It ...
Views: 947 - Feeling Your feelings in Relationships - by Most people go to great lengths to hide or deny their feelings about their lives, their work, their relationships and most things that matter to them.
Psychiatrist Dr. David Viscott in his tape series "Emotional Resilience" says, "If we were to live honestly, our lives would heal themselves." ...
Views: 678 - How To Build Trust in Relationships - by How do you build trust in relationships? We've found the secret is constant communication, one moment at a time. We both came from dead-end relationships from a state of vulnerability but with a strong desire for a different kind of relationship--a relationship filled with passion, love, ...
Views: 1291 - Why it's Impossible to "Forgive and Forget" in Relationships - by In every relationship you're involved in, It's inevitable that something will happen in the relationship that will cause you to be upset with the other person or the other person will be upset with you. Now, we've all heard the expression "forgive and forget" but we believe that "forgive and ...
Views: 1405 - The Relationship Miracle That Can Happen More Than Once - by While searching the web recently for the perfect movie to go to, we stumbled across a trailer for a movie called "Someone Like You."
We didn't see the movie,but we did figure out from the film clip that it was about a woman who just couldn't seem to create relationships with men that worked. ...
Views: 718 - Looking Back.at Your Relationships In The Past - by A few days ago Otto was having a conversation with someone that he couldn't get out of his mind. In this conversation Otto was telling this person about some challenges he was having in his life. This person told him that a wise person once counseled him that when things in your life aren't ...
Views: 710 - How do you want to be loved? - by To have a relationship that really works loving your partner is not enough. You have to love the other person exactly how they want to be loved. Just as importantly, they have to love you how you need to be loved. That’s what makes our relationship work. We’ve taken the time to specifically ask ...
Views: 12514(1 vote) - Get Smart! About Modern Love - by Let me stress this point very clearly. There are no set “rules” for love in the 21st century. Love is not a game which requires you to abide by rules. When you are dealing with human emotions, you are dealing with deep, heartfelt, unpredictable feelings. But one thing that has changed the way ...
Views: 1240 - Sexuality and Spirituality – Strange Bedfellows Or Natural Partners? - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2007 from Anthony FleschSex. Possibly the most loaded word in any language, and with good reason. Sex reaches deep down into who we are at our core, and tells truths about us that are undeniable. Freud tapped into this over a century ago, and his insights still reverberate across the decades, and did a lot to break ...
Views: 844 - Use Your INTUITION - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2010 from marla stoneI walked down the isle headed towards my first husband. There was a screeching voice inside my head that said "Don't do it". Did I listen? No. I just kept walking and smiling. I noticed the melody of the harp and the calming violin, the beautiful flowers my step-mother picked out ever so ...
Views: 951 - Are You Honest In Your Relationship? - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Becky DeGrossaMy clients often report that they’re upset with their partners about something or the other. When I ask them, “Did you tell him or her that you were upset?” they routinely say, “No.” Why Not Be Honest? Often, we neglect to tell our partners what we’re upset about because we • Don’t want to ...
Views: 1128 - What is Love? - Part 6 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemyLoving the Wave or the Ocean Part 6 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Robert Elias Najemy When we limit our love to a specific person (we do not mean sexually, but rather emotionally, mentally and spiritually), it is difficult to experience love in its highest expression. We love ...
Views: 725 - What is Love? Part 5 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemySpiritual Universal Love Part 5 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Robert Elias Najemy A later stage in our spiritual maturation process is the development of spiritual universal love where wisdom or spiritual discrimination is now added to our love. We now perceive all forms as ...
Views: 1347 - What is Love? - Part 4 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemySelfless Love Part 4 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Robert Elias Najemy Selfless Love for a Specific Person An essential stage in the evolution of love is being able to love others regardless of their behavior. Probably the closest most of us have come to experiencing such ...
Views: 811 - What is Love - Part 3 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemyLove, Pleasure or Affirmation ? Part 3 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Robert Elias Najemy Needing Others for Pleasure Let us examine how our needs for pleasure and affirmation can limit and distort our experience of love. We create relationships that give us pleasure and ...
Views: 704 - What is Love ? Part 2 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemyLove or Need for Security ? Part 2 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Our Love is Mixed With Need Our love is still mixed with a considerable amount of need. Love wants to give. Need wants to take. Sometimes what we are seeking to take is very subtle and requires deep inner ...
Views: 765 - What is Love ? part 1 - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2007 from Robert NajemyPart 1 of a 6 part series on the "The Stages of Love" Love is our greatest need. Is it our highest most fulfilling state. Do we really love or are we simply attached to, identified with or dependent upon the persons we "love"? Is our love free and unconditional, or is it mixed with various ...
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