Expressed as a two-way bridge between childhood and adulthood, magical thinking is a developmental stage during childhood that serves a very important function in the process of creativity and imagination. Like so many of our developmental constructs, when magical thinking is held onto and not revised in the light of reality it becomes maladaptive.

Is your spouse too controlling? Are you too passive? Or are the roles reversed? Control issues refer to who’s in control, who’s in charge, or who’s getting their way. Significant control issues are always harmful to a relationship. Here are ten reasons you need to be concerned if you have unresolved control problems in your marriage.

Sacred Love is a high and conscious alter on which you place the ritual of bond. It is sacred because there is nothing that can be allowed to intrude on it, a reverence, a devotion. It is a place from which the rest of life, including your work and play, can be undertaken.

Have you noticed that couples who laugh together remain together and seem incredibly happy? How can we better dissolve an argument or a marital storm but with a joke and some hearty laughter?

There are high emotions, and there are low ones. The high emotions breed happiness in self and others. The low ones cause much suffering. Of the low emotions, jealousy, anger, and desire are three of the worst.

The speed of life is complex, exciting and wonderful, but if this is at the cost of love, then the ego has won and love has lost. In our modern world this ego can easily overtake love so we must learn to stop, really stop and be still with our beloved, to turn up. So learning the art of stillness is a major key to sustaining sacred relationships amongst this busy-ness.

There are many unconscious forces at work in every stage of a relationship that have the potential for undermining your best efforts to sustain love if you are not aware. Being fully aware is difficult and controlling the outcome is impossible. In this article we'll look at brain development as a biological force that might be at play when you are making relationship choices.

There are numerous challenges, circumstances, people and issues that can have both a positive and negative impact on the quality of a relationship. Here are some of the common ones that can place external demands on a relationship thereby causing it to lose some of its intimacy, integrity, passion and even interest.

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.

Guys listen and make sure to listen good. There is more to life than letting your testosterones lead your life.

What you appreciate grows. Good management is to appreciate things. Make them bigger. You make people bigger by appreciating them. You make businesses bigger by appreciating its assets. You make relationships bigger by appreciating how much you can do together as a couple (rather than as two individuals) and you make yourself bigger by appreciating life, and the gifts you have.

No relationship is without stress, disappointment, problems or frustration. Regardless of whether you have been married for 50 years, dating for 6 months or living together for anything inbetween I will guarantee that sooner or later you will make or have made one of the following relationship mistakes.

Using online dating sites when you are looking for a long term relationship is a brilliant way of getting a quick result. Not only do dating services save you from going out night after night in the hope that you just might come across Mr or Mrs Right but they enable you to find profiles which match specific criteria and provide you with a far better chance of progressing towards a long term relationship.

Does distance really make the heart grow fonder? According to American relationship experts, it does. We find out whether this holds true for the young working couples here who are forced to stay apart...

It is amazing the number of couples that allow the intimate side of their relationship slide. Loss of intimacy is one of those common marriage problems that eat away at the very foundation of a marriage turning what was once a loving and fulfilling relationship into nothing more than a shell.

Does it feel like you and your partner are growing apart? Do you miss that feeling of closeness that you used to have? This article will give you some tips to bring you closer together and improve your relationship.

Lying: Obviously not a trait that one hopes for in a potential mate. Lying: A possible form of mistreatment in a relationship that can have you questioning you own sanity.

Everyone is quite familiar with the problem of physical and verbal abuse in relationships. It sometimes seems to be running rampant in today’s society. These relationship demons are very difficult to deal with and produce such a large amount of pain and suffering. However, there is another form of abuse does not seem to be given the attention that it warrants. This is emotional abuse...

Most women don't want to nag the man in their life - they just want to get through to him.

Treasure your relationship with your loved ones with care because a Good Relationship is priceless! You just can't afford to be simply careless.

Traditionally we give gifts at Christmas time and at birthdays. As our society has become more affluent our gifts at Christmas time have become more elaborate and more expensive, especially in the case of our children. Gone are the days when a string of beads, a book, or a soccer ball were acceptable gifts to give our children. Now it is ipods and Tamagochis and Play Stations and X Box consoles.

Has your relationship gone dry? Is it becoming drab after these long months or even years? Here's 5 steps to exciting a relationship. Keep it fresh and exciting!

Infidelity and the threat of it is the largest single issue that threatens relationships. Many wonder why it has happened, what to do and if it is possible to really re-build trust again. This article addresses these questions and offers specific answers and guidance about what to do. It is based upon Save Your Relationship (21 Basic Laws of Successful Relationships).

Flirting has been glamorized in recent times. The internet especially has created an entertaining and flourishing version of it. A flirt is portrayed as having great fun. Is that really the case? Is flirting worth the cost?