'Tis the season to be thankful, in another month to be jolly, and, if you're still not convinced, a whole new year right around the corner to try again if things don't work out for you through this year's holiday season! Holiday times for children of newly divorced parents are often the toughest time of year. They often have strong emotional attachments to days gone by when Mom, Dad, their brothers and sisters and they all cheerfully ate too much turkey and sang off-key holiday carols together. Remember that your joy in being away from what became an unbearable situation for you leading to a divorce may not have registered with your children, who are still in denial and are hurt, angry, and depressed.

Birthdays are considered a special day for celebrants. Moreover, they often get special gifts treatments from their loved ones.

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.

Are you willing to risk a greater degree of pain and disappointment for a higher level of joy, satisfaction, and emotional fulfillment? Every choice in life has tradeoffs. We carefully weigh the possible outcomes, assess our willingness and tolerance for risk, and then make a choice based on our perceptions of the outcomes.

As a leader, and a lover, it is wise to know where you are coming from in relationships with people. As you know already from your reading, you can’t manage relationship if you can’t manage yourself. You can’t know someone else if you don’t know yourself. Otherwise, you will just be projecting onto people, and won’t know anything about your reality or your truth or love.

Give me a few hours by myself, let me alone, shut out all interruptions, and I can bring myself down to my work. I take my pen in hand. I write a few thoughts. I see the future. And realise my responsibility. The more I think of the duty placed on me, the graver since my responsibility. Every idea has weight. I can see the effect of days ahead.

This power struggle is a turn off. I have heard it many times from different men. Why do we always want to prove to men that we are smarter, tough, and independent? Why keep score?

There is a big difference between pain and suffering. Pain is when you cut your hand. You don’t worry about your hand if you know it will get better. Suffering is when you’re not sure that your hand will heal, and you worry about what is going to happen. In relationship, pain comes and goes, and this is normal. Suffering in relationship comes when you hold back love because you are worried about whether your relationship will survive the pain.

One person is head-over-heels in love, but the other is unsure. Neither wants to break up. But the relationship doesn't seem to move forward either. Why does this happen? What can be done? Learn how to deal with an ambivalent partner.

Too many couples focus on the why of getting better. Read on to discover why the what is much more important.

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.

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

The statistics are higher than ever for couples living together. So many people are taking this route rather than to just jump in and tie the not, but let's check out the pros and cons of both sides before making any judgement.

Don't lose the magic of your relationship. Therapist gives you 14 strategies to keep the passion and romance throughout your entire relationship. He even gives 10 more strategies for the couple on the go or for those with children.

Any time a secret society suddenly becomes un-secret - or is, more aptly, penetrated - there is always a mixed reaction to a world that is in equal parts intriguing and pathetic. The society of pick-up artists revealed by Neil Strauss' The Game is no different. But buried among the acronyms and exploits of the pick-up community are some valuable insights...

This is a very common question asked by many people in this world because many people at some part of their life felt as being used by other humans. This is common story in this world. A girlfriend feel used by a boy friend, a wife feel used by her husband, a son may feel used by parents or a friend may feel used by other friends. Humans are really selfish in their motives and can go up to any extent to fulfill them. It is easy to exploit emotions of another human being and use him or her as per own desires, then to do the same hard work himself...

What does it mean to be Canadian? What are the values we embrace? Have they changed?

The key to a growing and vibrant relationship is acceptance of the differences between one another. In fact, the other person's differences may be just what you need to grow stronger.

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

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.

Real, Genuine, Cool guys focuses on women as another person, not as a sex object. Women want to be complimented on their personality and what they have achieved, rather than her God-given looks.

He may be as sweet as sugar, but he's not your type. Can you ever let him down gently?

I have spoken about various games we play in relationships. The games that are mostly negative drain the relationship of its charm and effectively kill all the love and care that partners can have for each other.

All relationships go through trying times; it's how a couple handles those times that makes the difference between staying together and splitting up. A lot of people resort to couples’ counseling in a bid to save a fragile relationship.