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Sometimes (not often, I must admit), I’m speechless. I really don’t mind losing my voice to the indescribable beauty of a sunset. Or when, surprised by a visit from one of my children, my grin speaks louder than words. I DO mind, however, when I am in a situation that requires me to speak, ... Views: 3175
When a Constellation is “set up,” we always try to start as small as possible. After you state your issue to the group, which generally consists of 15-20 people, I then check in with you about how you are doing. When you are ready, I tell you who needs to be represented in your Constellation. We ... Views: 1155
Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are so pervasive that about a third of Americans have someone close to them who has the problem. This means legions of people have relationships that are stressful at best, and damaging at worst. If your spouse is an alcoholic then alcoholism is bound to affect you ... Views: 1101
I just want to give you a short quiz on what you think love is. A, Do you think that love is about reciprocity? B, Do you feel that love is about openness, honesty, and sharing? C, Do you feel that love is about calling someone ten to twenty times a day, monitoring their Facebook page like it ... Views: 1496
Family Constellation therapy or better said Family Constellation work (as it is properly named) is a therapeutic process that was developed in the second half of the 20st century, by a man named Bert Hellinger.
Today Hellinger is known as the father of phenomenological psychotherapy. ... Views: 1144
Just rewind back to when you were a child and you used to play with Barbie and Ken dolls. If you were a boy, you probably played with small action figures like He-Man and GI Joe. You put so much imagination into those toys. After all, you needed to bring them to life. Each toy had a story ... Views: 1631
There are many people we trust in life but once that trust is broken how can we trust again? To be honest I am not sure we can but in different types of relationships there are different levels of trust. If a partner lies to you and you find out how do we deal with that? If adultery is the trust ... Views: 2122
In this world there are two kinds of people; takers and givers. Takers are the type of people that will take anything from you. Takers will take something material from you, or they will simply drain you emotionally. Takers only care about themselves. Takers do not care about your ... Views: 3225
Being able to trust is an important part of life. And this not only relates to trusting other people, it also relates to trusting oneself. Having trust in life, is another expression of this. This could be trusting in some kind of god for some and for others it could simply be a sense of trust ... Views: 5130
Dear Dr. Romance:
I read "Letting Go Takes Love" and it really spoke to me. I am in a situation and I was wondering if you could give me quick advice. I feel the need to let go of someone because he basically doesn't know what he wants. We have been going back and forth with the issue over a ... Views: 1654
The Mindset Train
There are times when our thoughts and actions do not necessarily fall in line with what would be to our greatest advantage in life. Instead of being proactive toward living a better, more fulfilling life, many of us go through times when we inadvertently limit our actions, ... Views: 2260
Decision making is very complex as many concepts play their role to make it happen. For most of the time, we don’t know which concept is leading ourselves towards an immediate decision. These are hidden concepts that make our background to work within our brains. Here, I am least interested in ... Views: 1554
Change-Conflict-Into-Intimacy
Do you Feel like your Relationship has Become a Battle Ground?
Does Your Relationship Seem More Distant Each Day?
How Is It Possible to Change-Conflict-Into-Intimacy?
You might be scratching your head wondering "How is it possible to turn ... Views: 1817
When we begin a relationship we start off by revealing parts of ourselves, our likes and dislikes, what I like to call our preferences. These include things such as politics, religion, our favorite movies, the food we like, basically our thoughts, views and beliefs. If we agree, like and accept ... Views: 1697
There are two most common elements that hinder us in reaching our goals. These two come together and block our roads to the life that we want. When we learn to overcome them, there’s no way that we will not land to the path that we wanted to travel.
Worry and Fear come together and are our ... Views: 1511
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
-- Unknown
When you're stuck in a situation you can't control, how do you handle it?
Really think about that.
When you have to sit in traffic on the highway for two hours because a truck overturned up ahead and there's no way ... Views: 1463
When it comes to building trust and rapport, there are seven basic principles that we have found to be key. The first of those is as follows:
Avoid Criticizing and Complaining
Any behavior that is negative will inherently go against the spirit of building trust and rapport with someone. ... Views: 1230
To have a happy dating and marriage with the girl you meet, communication and chat Russian women is the key to the successful relationship and happy marriage. Everything about relationship, love, marriage, trust and more is realized by means of good communication with your lovers.For the purpose ... Views: 2724
“The Most Expensive thing in the world is trust… It can take years to earn and just a matter of seconds to lose”
I am sure that you have experienced how trusting relationships are simply easy and flowing, whereas ones without trust require much more work and involve conflict and power ... Views: 1452
When the essence of your life, which is consciousness, connects to something like another person or your work, a commitment is formed. A superficial level of commitment happens when your consciousness connects to the thoughts of something and you are just left committed to your own mind. The ... Views: 1148
Does it seem like every time you start to get close to your partner, she or he finds a way to prevent you from connecting on a deeper level? If so, your partner may be struggling with fear of intimacy.
WHAT IS INTIMACY?
In order to understand fear of intimacy, it is necessary to understand ... Views: 3208
For most of my life, I assumed there was something deep, dark and shameful about myself that would make people recoil in horror from me, if they really got to know me. This belief was unconscious, and it actually took a lot of work for me to admit this to myself. It was necessary, because I kept ... Views: 1954
Self Responsibility
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Sir Josiah Stamp
Self-responsibility, — a concept by which individuals assume responsibility for their own choosing.
Now when it come to the ... Views: 1723
This is my first web based article. I feel joy as I write it, simply because many of my cob webs are gone and I feel like I CAN... do many of the things my prior life said were not possible. It is my goal to offer you inspiration, hope, and a desire to truly clean up and be free... in other ... Views: 1247
What is emotional vulnerability? Emotional vulnerability is when an individual surrenders fully to the joys and sorrows of giving and receiving love. It is when you break open locks and tear down walls—being open and transparent.
The fear of the unknown is what blocks us from giving ourselves ... Views: 7700
Everyone experiences ups and downs in relationships. It is normal for there to be rough patches and little problems in every relationship. Most people manage to get through them by talking it through with their partner (or family member, friend, etc.) and coming to a solution. Sometimes the ... Views: 2120
Do you ever notice how much time you spend trying to “figure out what’s going on” in your life…and in your relationship, if you’re in one? If it ends up being a fair amount of time, how’s it working for you? When you do get some “answers,” what’s the most common result you get from having ... Views: 1285
How to get ex girlfriend back when you live long distance from each other can be tricky. When the relationship ended, she chose to move away, as in a different state or city! Or maybe you’ve always lived long distance and she feels like it isn’t working out that’s why she broke up with you. ... Views: 10028
Special moments are timeless and all of you will love to capture them into immortal frames. There are different incidents in your lives. Life is a long story and so there are many chapters in it. Some of the chapters are so dear to you that you love to remember them forever. These are the ... Views: 1119
I attended a lecture tonight on “TRUST”.
It involved a great deal of audience participation. Many people felt that those who didn’t trust others, did not trust themselves. Some were scarred by relationships where infidelity was involved.
I believe trust is the essential ingredient in ... Views: 1004
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Moving in together is a financial commitment, and so is marriage, so it’s important to consider the tough issues you’ll face as a cohabiting or married couple. Dr. Romance presents seven things you should consider before entwining yourselves financially as well as ... Views: 1322
Fear, worry, anxiety, frustration, and loneliness are all feelings we’ve felt at some point in our lives, if we’re honest. We felt this based on opportunities we’ve had and failed at or opportunities we’ve had and imagined failing. Either way, we choose each of these feelings because they can’t ... Views: 1247
INTRODUCTION
Your partners might often see in you characteristics and traits you don’t acknowledge and accept in yourself. The reason being – you reject and depress these in you if you feel they don’t correlate with the person that you want to believe you are. Listening to what your partners ... Views: 1056
Effects Of Jealousy
People who allow their jealousy to get out of control often become angry and agitated when the person that they link the jealousy to, jealousydoes innocent things. This ultimately could lead to destruction of the relationship or create two very unhappy people who are ... Views: 2480
Wearing precious dresses and looking too smart are the basic dreams of females in this world, while the men are not behind in this race. In current time male and female both communities are greater fond of wearing unmatched, high quality, expensive and beautiful dresses along with a variety of ... Views: 1627
Are you currently sabotaging your relationship and don't even realize where you've gone wrong? This is a common mistake of many women who are unsuccessful in their relationships.
Needless to say, you should do something different if you wish to change and improve your relationship. Attempt a ... Views: 1842
Have you ever postponed some thing you really wanted or needed to do until you had a long Wanna-Do List later that never got fulfilled?
Have you ever wished for extra time to sleep a bit more, read longer, or do something different?
After you’ve finally found the time, have you found ... Views: 1118
Last month, I received the following letter from an old friend, Lloyd Barnhart.
"A topic I would like you to cover/explore is that curious phenomena which permits otherwise independent women to be dominated…even abused…by males with whom they share some sort or relationship. Why is it that a ... Views: 1676
Dear Dr. Romance:
I have been together with my wife for about 3 years now. We have worked on many issues in our marriage and resolved most of them; however, there is still one issue that has not been resolved.
It seems that little mistakes I make, such as not taking out the trash when it ... Views: 2029
Do you have trust issues with your partner (and/or someone you’re not romantically involved with)? If you don’t, you’re a rarity. With so many couples I work with, it looks like communication’s a major issue (which it is), but more often than not, the more fundamental issue you’re dealing with ... Views: 1613
Dear Dr. Romance:
Is he cheating on me? Or am I just being paranoid? Me and my boyfriend have been together for 15 months now. A couple of weeks ago we broke up and then got back together after a week. When we broke up he kept texting me, asking “Are you happy?” and ... Views: 1799
Experiencing Mercury Retrograde, we can feel irritated by delays, distractions and miscommunications. Mercury rules contracts, communication, education, thinking, perception, data and transportation. His is a large domain and/or kingdom. For instance, computers and cars can act up during Mercury ... Views: 1544
Thirty years of marriage counseling and twenty-five years of a second marriage have convinced me that fights are not necessary in a marriage. Married couples need to have discussions, they need to solve problems, and sometimes they need to disagree, but they don’t need to squabble, argue, ... Views: 1632
Once you have taken your vows, don't do anything to break that trust. You have both taken vows to be faithful in every way to one another. Now it's time to believe in one another and trust your partner.
You have taken the plunge and made the biggest commitment of your life. But statistics ... Views: 1700
At times people wonder how a stranger – i.e. a psychotherapist or a counselor – can help them with their problems as they feel they are so different from other struggling couples.
“How do they – i. e. marriage counselors and couple psychotherapists - know why we are at this point in our ... Views: 1229
In my last blog I wrote about my plans to travel with my father. By now, we have launched ourselves into the trip and I am in Turkey attempting to remember a language I spoke about 4 decades ago. The point of last week’s post was acceptance. Accepting yourself and others for who they are and how ... Views: 1180
You are happily married and running a home with your spouse.
Congratulations!
Your marriage partner is the single most important business partner you have, and your credit, financial reputation and overall economic picture is closely tied to this person who may or may not have the same ... Views: 1491
Tell me if this has happened to you? You meet a great guy, you start to fall for him and *poof*! He disappears.
Or... you've been seeing each other every weekend and he suddenly has to work this weekend. And the next. And the next.
You've been talking on the phone everyday, but one day he ... Views: 1401
We all have opened up a door or two that should have stayed closed. It’s equivalent to dating an old boyfriend/girlfriend, the feelings just aren’t the same. This happens because the energy’s do not mix well.
You either have a change of heart and think” it’s been long enough,” or “they’ve ... Views: 1312
Wooing is less of an art and more of a science. Whether or not it's your husband, boyfriend, lover, or a seeming "Unavailable Man," there are secrets that every woman needs to learn in mastering how to woo a man. Please reflect on a couple critical questions and thoughts:
- Are you confident? ... Views: 11086