And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.

When we are children we do not yet have an identity. We learn about who we are through the mirroring that we get from our parents. It is called mirroring to describe the ability of good parents to gently hold up an imaginary mirror in front of the child until they learn to see themselves clearly without harsh judgments. If we do not get enough realistic mirroring during the years we live with them, we remain pretty clueless about who we really are.

Listen - do you really listen to your partner. Here listening to your partner does not mean listening to your spouse at the dinning table or when you are just sitting together and talking. Listening here really means listening with care. Listening to what has been unsaid.

I am no expert at love. The very word makes me nauseous and sets my body to a defensive mode. But I have had my heart broken once or twice. Badly. By some pathetic loser by the way. Lucky for me, I'm a quick learner. I made ridiculous mistakes of cosmic proportions and learnt a thing or two.

The key to a happy relationship is being together with each other. If you have of children then try to divide responsibilities among yourself in the best suitable way so that you get time for yourself.

During hardship, don’t let faith in your spiritual world die. Know that you are always being guided, and sometimes, that guidance takes us into places we never would have chosen. But can you see that this is integrity because you devote something to your existence, and have the willingness to deal with where you are taken? You asked for leadership and you are getting it. Work with the laws of nature and you can find beauty in the darkness, healing. Sometimes we get a flood or drought, a bush fire, and all manner of things come to us even though we never overtly asked for them, the key is to learn from our life, not resent it.

Granted, most men have no clue how to dress appropriately. They truly need help. I wonder why their mothers never taught them that, or perhaps, they never learned.

Perhaps it’s because life has become easier over the years or perhaps it’s just because people have higher expectations than they did in the past but whatever the reason one of the most common marriage problems is to bail out when the going gets a little tough.

Divorced spouses are usually no happier after divorce than before except in marriages where there is physical violence. On the other hand, many married couples who had once been unhappy together for an extended period of time were able to turn their marriages around to become happily married even in spite of serious problems.

Extract from Sacred Love book...... What is the difference between love and fantasy? Well one lasts and the other doesn't..... one causes affairs and the other doesn't. One is the beginning of depression and breakdown and the other isn't.....

Your partner may be good looking. Your partner may be smart and intelligent. Your partner may be a good conversationalist and may have many other qualities. But is your partner honest?

Most couples just go from one day to the next and one year to the next without ever discovering the true meaning of what positive and nurturing relationships are really all about.

Definite and usage of main principles and notions is of the most important requirements set for sociological researches. The categories of family and marriage are the most complicated and hardest to define. First of all, traditions of usual conscience and word usage that are not always correspond to those of scientific and theoretical nature; have impact on their understanding and definition. Secondly, both marriage and family are studied not only by sociology but by a range of other sciences which creates many different approaches to them and accordingly more or less specific and abstract definition of these notions.

At the social, time is the most important resource you will have. Your short-term goal is to meet as many women as possible at the social. Keep your predefined personal criteria forefront in your mind as you approach them.

You walk hand in hand, talking about how lucky you both are to be together. You introduce one of your male friends to him. As you continue to walk, you notice that your boyfriend seems upset. He starts accusing you of flirting. You dismiss his argument as unreasonable and unfounded. He hits you.

If you are sending money, send it Western Union. Do not send money in the mail. It won't get there. Send the money to be paid in U.S. currency. Spell her name exactly or she won't be able to pick it up.

Have you noticed sometimes how some men are naturally successful with women than others and more to the point, how often have you seen a gorgeous women and thought wow how did he get her? Well let's find out how he did and how you could too

Curiosity doesn't always kill the cat. As Isaac Asimov wrote in his New Guide to Science, 'almost in the beginning was curiosity'. Now, relationships are as far removed from science as a Van der Graaf generator is from a blender, but the same rule applies.

My reasons for not trying to change men have less to do with resigning myself to undesirable behavior, than with mutual respect and consideration for a man's feelings. Here's why I think it's not fair to men that we keep trying to change them.

Not everyone feels great all the time. Circumstances change, the environment changes Your partner may feel down occasionally. When this happens, what do you do?

Why is he always stuck in the pub with his mates. Does he prefer a fishing trip with his mates that a day with you and the kids.

Swinging, also called the alternative or 'alt' lifestyle, seems to be increasingly popular among mainstream, middle-aged married couples in America. With this increasing number of people who are into the lifestyle there is also a growing need for interactive ways to meet similar thinking couples.

There are two major questions you’ll be hoping to answer when seeking information about infidelity. The first is, “How can I tell if my partner is cheating?” And if you find out that he or she is cheating, then you’ll want to know, “Can this relationship survive?”

Many of us had difficult, even rough childhoods, full of ridicule, poverty, or other limitations. While we may, and do, envy other people and their seeming lack of trials, there are few we would really want to trade places with, if the facades were stripped away. And worse, attempts to get even with other people only cause us to lose traction on the slippery slope we're attempting to scale.