Basketball has gone a long way since its discovery in the year 1891 by James Naismith. Its discovery encouraged several basketball matches and the first official basketball match was at Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA Training School.

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.

It is not inevitable in a relationship that is growing, that the infatuation that drove you together in the honeymoon period dies. This is no need to part. Instead, celebrate the beauty of a new level of love. Sacred Love. It has to because you want sacred love, not projections to bind you. But couples think because they are not excited by their lover, it is over. No, it is just ready to begin if we can get out of the cave consciousness and into sacred love.

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

Growing up can be really tough for adolescents in the United States. The media portrays perfect celebrities which many children feel dwarfed by, causing them to experience a poor self image.

Don't lose who you are for the sake of a dysfunctional relationship. Too many people waste way too much time trying to understand a partner who only makes them crazier in the process. Learn the better questions to ask.

Don’t you feel special when somebody remembers you? A call from an old friend or tap from the back from your favorite cousin. The feeling of delight spurs in the air, right? What more if you receive a greeting card, wouldn’t you be ecstatic? Then how about sending that delight to your loved ones. In the past you may have to walk through you nearest shop to pick up those greeting cards. Now you just have to go online, browse, few clicks here and there then it’s on its way!

Learning about your spouse's affair is one of the most life changing events you'll ever have to cope with. The initial mental and physical pain can be more than most people feel they can bear.

The ultimate and perfect relationship is something that most of us dream of. So many of us yearn to be that perfect woman, that every man will fall in love with, and constantly visualize that fairytale romance and the rest of our life with our perfect soul mate.

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..

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.

Mary Walton, 84, tells a touching tale of falling in love in wartime.

Setting personal boundaries are like identifying the gates in our invisible fence lines which protects the precious heart and soul inside our bodies. Many people look at boundaries as walls, but rather when we establish healthy boundaries it provides a way to distinguish what we choose to let in and let out. They form flexible gates, not stationary walls It is important to learn about setting healthy boundaries so we can make decisions about what is and what isn’t permissible in all relationships.

Sometimes love is great! Sometimes love hurts. Experiencing love is a Universal need, so how do we heal and love again when our loved ones have hurt us?

We acquire our values from different sources. In the beginning our values are given to us by our parents. Speak truth, help others, do this and don't do that and things like that. After sometime, we get more values in our education.

No relationship is equal give and take. In every relationship, both the partners make adjustments to make the relationship a success. Both give up many choices in life and try to contribute for the continuation of the relationship.

Ordering flowers has long been surrounded with uncertainty, mystery and even fear. Will my flower delivery be fresh? How do I choose the right bouquet? Is a floral arrangement even appropriate? Here's everything you need to know to remove the mystery from flower delivery.

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.

After ending another long relationship, the author realized he was responsible for all his failed relationships. On top of that he found he was not as intellegent as he once thought. He has a plan to make things better.

A second marriage can be challenging if you don’t know what you’re in for. Watch out for these pitfalls to increase your chance of a successful second marriage.

Here are 4 simple strategies that will help you build confidence.

Singles – be patient, God will send you that one special gift – that is as beautiful within as without. Couples – strive diligently to keep that special gift, your spouse, special.

Why, in a family, do bad people, hurt good people? Although shocking, this is really the way many people think when relationships develop problems! This depicts a useless way of thinking.

Remember that the other person you're involved with is not you. So, how do the ways he or she is different from you make your life easier, more fun, better?!