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What Makes A Great Relationship Great?

Are you willing to be different than most. Great partners in relationships are willing. And they have a better life than most. They wake up and go to bed feeling better than the people who only make half hearted efforts towards the one they supposedly love. Mark Webb, Licensed Marriage Therapist returns with another excerpt from his bestselling book, How To Be A Great Partner.


You Can Go Home Again

Going home is a wonderful gift. I got to see a good friend after 26 years and we hadn't changed a bit


Living Tribal in a Democracy

Tribal living has survived for millions of years. Yet today few choose it as their lifestyle.


Women's Guide to Splitsville

Welcome to Splitsville! Whether you're on the verge of a life-altering, world-shattering break up or have just been through one with Mr Ex who once used to be your heart and soul, this article is for you. And let me assure you, we have all been there before. It is a hard path we all must take.


How To Find The Right Man To Share Your Life With

These are the things women should know to look for, to know whether they've found the right man. A man's perspective can really help.


Money, Sex & Children: How to Cope With Life’s Greatest Battles

In any relationship problems mostly arise due to money, sex or children. These are life’s greatest battles everyone has to cope with in order to survive. Resolving issues over these conflicts could sometimes be very difficult but learning to accept them as natural consequences of any relationship will help a great deal in solving them. Keep reading on to find out how to avoid problems related with these matters and live a happy and fruitful life.


Finding the Perfect 50th Anniversary Gift

A few months ago, I received an invitation in the mail. When I examined it, I discovered that it was an invitation to my best friend’s parent’s 50th wedding anniversary party. I have known my best friend and her family for almost 35 years, as a result I have become very close with them.


12 Rules That Will Bring The Love You Want In Your Life

If you seem to be going nowhere with your love life, if you are tired of months and years of unhappy relationships that lead nowhere, it may be that you are not following the right advice


Hard Work is Bad Management - Business, Relationship, Self

Hard work is bad management not only relates to business. It is totally true in relationship and self health. If it's hard work, meaning stressful, long hours, not enjoyable, tiring or boring, then it's time for change. Big change. Because bad management destroys things.


How To Be Open To Receive

Most marriages that are troubled have these giver and receiver roles firmly fixed. In marriages that are happy, these roles will fluctuate between the partners regularly, depending on where the need is greatest. Where does most of your energy go during a normal day?


Why Breaking Up May Be The Best Thing To Happen To You

Nobody wants to go through the pain of a break-up. But take the time to learn the lessons from your failed relationship and in time you'll understand why it was the best thing that could have happened to you.


For Women: What To Do If Your Man Is Shutting Down for No Reasons - Why Has He Become Distanced?

A couple, as man and woman, will share feelings and each other constantly during a relationship. Often times a man can become self centered, distant and uninterested in what you do or how you are.


Letting Go is Hard to Do: Reflections on Relationships

Letting go can feel like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. The relationship may have ended weeks or months or years ago, yet you can't get him or her out of your mind. We want to deny the relationship has ended. Letting go allows you to close one chapter of your life and to be able to start a new one with a clean page. If you keep thinking about an ex either with love or hate or fear or find yourself comparing all your dates to a former partner you are having trouble letting go.


Meeting New People Was Never So Easy

Making new friends is hard for a lot of people, especially when they move to a new place. What they don’t know is that they can meet new people everyday without even trying! Many new people that you meet while doing your daily chores end up being your closest friends. Keep reading on to find out how to meet new people without conscious effort and how to extend that meeting to future relationships. You will also find out about many online sources where you can go to make new friends.


Codependent Relationships: Takers and Caretakers

Takers and caretakers - they often seem to find each other! As a counselor who has worked with relationships for 37 years, I can tell you that this is the most frequent relationship dynamic that I en...


The History of Graduation Day, The Cap and The Gown Worn

The graduation ceremony is a cultural tradition that is considered a rite of passage. The ceremony marks a transition from one stage in a student’s life to another.


Relationship Quiz - Are You Angry At Your Partner?

Anger is the natural reaction of helplessness and frustration. When we feel that we are being forced to suffer, we get either angry or feel very helpless. When we feel victimized, we get angry with our abuser. What about your relationship? Are you getting angry with your partner for any reason? Can we quiz on that?


When You're Looking For A Way Out

If you're looking for a way out of a bad relationship but feel unequal to the challenge, maybe you need to 'chunk down'. It only takes strategic, small changes to rebuild your confidence and sense of self. Then you can identify your best way out and pursue it, free from fear and hesitation.


Anniversary Gift Ideas

A jubilee of any sort is a definite excuse to celebrate and to acknowledge a sense of fulfilled experience. It is another opportunity that serves to extend good will and appreciation. As also to acknowledge that those who travel alongside enrich the journey.


Keeping the Love Alive: Maintaining Good Feelings in Any Kind of Relationship (Part One of Two)

Have you ever noticed how enthusiasm and affection between two people can dwindle as time goes on? Whether it’s a romance, friendship, or work relationship, sometimes the air goes right out of your sails, seemingly for no reason.


What Happened to Politeness?

Am I completely alone in my view of society or are people actually becoming more rude with each passing day? Read this article and send me your views.


Start Saving For Love

There's no limit to the team efforts you can create that will both increase your intimacy, and also improve the future of your life together.


Super Relationship Tips: Use Your Car As A Retreat

Perhaps early in your relationship, one of the few places you could be alone together was in a car. The wonderful thing about a vehicle, whether car, truck, SUV, or motor home, is that it insulates its occupants from the world's intrusions. Alone with your partner in a moving or parked car allows for intimate conversation, touching, or kissing, with nothing but the radio or outside traffic to affect your focus on each other.


Super Relationship Tips: Put Your Affection In Writing

In a good relationship, we pay compliments to each other all the time. We love receiving positive feedback and try to go out of our way to let our partner know how happy we are to be with them. But verbal remarks fade so quickly. Make them last by putting them in writing where they can be revisited later to re-trigger their positive response.



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