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Know Your Man: His Children
According to MSN Money (Sept. 2005), not counting Higher Education, which can mount to $150,000, and not counting private schools and hospital bills, a child costs $135K ($40K/year, income) ; $185K($40-70K/year income); and $270K (70K+/year, income). Children 15-17 years old are more expensive. Expensive? Mamma mia!
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People Who Pester You
Do you have people in your life who truly bother you in big ways? I call them our soul attachments. Some people come into our lives for many reasons and a few are certainly intended to make us pay some debts to our karma bank or to our thought patterns. They feel and look like those bugs that you want to get rid of but never succeed.
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Yours, Mine, and Our Emotional Needs - The Marriage Makers and Breakers
A common theme in my articles, on my website, and in my coaching practice is on needs. For our purposes we define a need as a condition requiring relief. There are quite obviously many needs that you meet on a daily basis. Hunger may be one of the first things to come to mind when we think of needs, however, this is more of a physical need and we want to focus on our emotional needs!
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Fireworks All Year Long!
Watch out for the 2 biggest things that will destroy the passion in your relationship... simple but powerful methods to keep your relationship full of passion and romance.
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Introduction - From the Chat-Room to the Church
Introduction
Do you think it's possible to find a long-term lover - even a life-partner - in the digital world?
I sure didn't.
I figured it was a great place to meet people for sex, for playing out romantic fantasies in a safe and non-committal environment. Quite frankly, I considered surfing on the Internet for love would be a big waste of time compared to trying to meet someone in relatively safe venues.
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Your Real Odds of Getting Struck By Lightning
When I was a younger man one of my girlfriends had told me I hope you get struck by lightning. I thought to myself the chances of me being struck by lightning or about a million to one. However they are not quite that high and in fact I used to like to go jogging in the rain because I was a very good runner in high school and college.
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How to Attract the Love of Your Life
It's very simple, but some people won't believe it. If you want love from another, if you want the perfect mate, you first have to LOVE YOURSELF.
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Stress Free Relationships
Relationships can be stress producing as well as rewarding. Feelings can be a curse or a blessing. Only robots are left unaffected by emotions within the relationship dance. All relationships, no matter how healthy, require skill and management. Each person needs to commit to creating a healthy relationship for oneself and the other.
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How to Help A Relationship Develop
Some men go through three main phases before entering into a serious relationship. The second phase can prove to be most perplexing and misinterpreted if a woman does not understand the complexity of this phase. If a woman can understand phase two, she can then take steps, allowing the relationship to transgress naturally into phase three. Phase three, of course, is a strong, solid and committed relationship.
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Mum Beds Son's Mate?
While I don't want to be seen as condoning the above actions, let's face it, such relationships have occurred for years and in this day and age the very idea and inspirations for such actions are highlighted through films and television programs.
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Long Lost Kids
It was 1967 and I was overseas in a recon outfit. It had been many months since I had experienced any contact with a love interest from the good old USA. I had gone to mail call almost daily and received nothing but an occasional letter from my folks.
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Men - Why Do You Batter Women?
In this century when we all talk of exploring mars and reaching help to the deep corners of Africa, is it not only surprising and also shameful that some men batter their wives? Whatever we say, we cannot deny that women are getting battered. A syndrome has also been names after this - Battered Women syndrome.
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Kick-Start Your Love Life!
It's time to kick-start your love life! Put your relationship first and date your mate. You and your partner deserve it!
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Advice On How To Cope When Your Loved One Leaves You
I am sure that we have all been through the nightmare of been dumped by our boyfriend or girlfriend. At times it is something that we were expecting, however more often than not it comes as a big shock. In this situation it is very hard to take, and in this article I give free tips on how to cope in this situation.
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The Housewarming Gift, Unique Tradition of Gift Giving
A housewarming gift comes from cultural traditions the world over. But for the most part, a housewarming gift comes from the heart, an act of giving from one friend to another. The true meaning of housewarming can be found when one friend sees the need of another, and tries in however small of measure to give something to help.
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I'm OK, You're Not So Hot: The Root of Prejudice
In the light of day, many dreams seem silly. But in order to unearth the cause of a dream, we must dissect the root of its emotion. Opportunities abound for community and connectedness when we look deeper into our psyche.
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When Things Get Sticky
There may come a time (though it’s not necessary) when things may become rough in your swinging relationship. And some of these times are unavoidable, while others can be prevented.
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Friendship and sharing
Not many of us think about prisons. Why is prison life a punishment? Because you can not move around and meet people. With friendship, we break the barrier that stops us sharing our life with others.
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The Magic of Differences
The differences between the two unique individuals are the substance of their growing romance and intimacy. Like bread and jam, the magic happens when you put them together, yet neither one loses their special taste and texture.
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