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Do Words We Use Really Matter
I was thinking the other day (No cracks from my friends please.) about the subtle differences between words that are commonly used, sometimes not used or mis-used.
Let me give you an example.
I'm sorry. This simple two word sentence can be interpreted so many ways and have so many different meanings for both the person who speaks them and the person who they are directed toward.
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Relationship: Turn the Computer Off
Whenever you see your partner spending more time over the computer playing video games or surfing the net it means your partner is no much interested in you. You are actually being replaced by a computer. So you better do something to switch off that idiot box that is actually replacing you. You ought to be aware of what is going in your partners mind and how your partner thinks.
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Relationship: Dinner Party
Food has the power to connect people and nurture relationships. The way to get into the heart of a person is through the stomach. Dinner parties help you get close to your friends. Sharing food, laughter and wine can be enjoyable and the best way to be with your family and friends.
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Sacred Love - Healing a Broken Heart; Part 3
But if you want love. Well that’s a different story. Love means naked, raw, honest, exposed, vulnerability. I hear people say, “I need to trust before I become vulnerable” and that is a horrible lie. The only person you need to trust in being vulnerable is you. Shame makes us worry about trust. Why would we be holding back anything if it weren’t for shame. Shame means we are not worthy of love, therefore, we can’t trust ourselves being open and natural and vulnerable. So we seek out people with the same ego issues and open up to them, only because they agree that we are victims.
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Know Your Man: Two To Tango
It is about time we stopped blaming out our spouses for everything that goes wrong in our lives. What a tendency we have to assign guilt to other people! Everyone makes mistakes, including us, or should I say, especially us.
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Relationships: Control or Kindness
If your primary focus in your relationship is to control your partner, then you are having relationship problems. Learn how to move from control to kindness with yourself and your partner.
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Emotions, Thoughts and Acidity
If your thinking is all messed up then acid is going to be produced. Can you see, the foolishness of separating the mind and the body in healing? If you walk around thinking acidic, then treating the body only, is just a money spinner for the practitioner
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It's The Little Things That Count
As relationships mature, grow and develop people can sometimes forget the little things that can have a positive impact on the quality of the relationship. I put these in three categories: Simple courtesies, simple pleasures, and simple words.
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Making Connections through MySpace
MySpace is an online community focused on helping individuals to make new friends or reconnect with old friends. With this type of goal in mind it is not surprising that the vast majority of MySpace members use the community to make connections with other members. This may include staying in touch with old friends and family members, reconnecting with lost friends, making business connections or even meeting romantic partners. This article will discuss how all of these opportunities are available on the MySpace community.
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Boredom is a Killer, One of Many Common Marriage Problems
One of the common marriage problems, which often materialises early on in a relationship, is boredom. Couples often find that after the honeymoon period is behind them and they have settled in to married life it isn’t quite the constant bed of roses that they imagined it to be.
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Don't Wait To Work On Your Marriage
Any relationship can be revived if you know the formula and you are sincere in your reasons for wanting the reconnection. Don't take your partner for granted. Do something before it's too late.
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A Couple Becomes Familiar Strangers
Has your marriage gotten off track? Do you need to rekindle the magic you once had? Author, Mark Webb, gives practical suggestions to find each other again.
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How to Attract Women By Being Different
It seems all the seduction artists say the same thing: be like the rest of the men. Be like the majority. But what about being different? What about doing things none of the other guys are doing? If you want to learn how separating yourself from the rest of the pack can get you more women than you thought possible, read on!
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 4: Conscious Non-Avoidance
Are you and your partner experiencing some form of conflict? Is conflict leading you to avoid each other? When couples feel overwhelmed by conflicts, they find highly creative ways to avoid spending time with each other. When you're not spending time together, it's difficult to Co-Create a Conscious Relationship. This assessment helps you and your partner to recognize the avoidance behaviors you do and do not practice.
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Starving For Emotional Intimacy
It is a common thing that people who crave emotional closeness are the very people who consistently get emotional distance from others. We may not see ourselves as emotionally distant because emotional distancing takes different forms: manipulation, nagging, whining, seduction, fakeness, control, intrusion, avoidance, isolation, jumping to conclusions about other people's words and actions, etc..
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I Ain't Eating No Chitlins
Yes, we Black men and women have some collective concerns, a certain amount of shared pathos , arising from our shared painful past which we are daily changing to a triumphant future - but we are each something more fundamental than a cog in a Great Black Cause. I am, like you - just me.
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