And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.

When it comes to love and romance, do we always want to know the truth? While people say they want the complete truth, their actions suggest the opposite.

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The other day I found myself 'inadvertently' eavesdropping on the conversation of some two young men. They were talking about Aids, sex and marriage.

Following traditions in some way bring excitement in you life. There is always something you are expecting. Make it a tradition to celebrate your anniversary at some particular place you both love to go, it could be a restaurant which has its own specialty, a solitary place where you feel close to the nature and close to each other. Follow traditions to keep your married life full of excitement and fun.

A vacation with your loved one can be one of the most enjoyable ways to spend some quality time with each other. Stepping away from the hustle and bustle routine of daily life can easily rekindle old and familiar sparks.

The central idea out here is that always keep with you the mementoes and moments that play a vital role in your life and boost you up when you feel low. These moments are could be anything, a greeting card which you received from your lover when you met for the for the first time ,old movie tickets, passes of a theater or dried flower which your lover gave you long time back.

Dating is not a matching game. You are not out there to find a suitable match for yourself. Are you? You are there to find someone you could spend quality time with and also have a few nice moments. Whether or not this encounter concretes into anything lasting is best left to the future.

The rapture phase of love gives each partner a feeling that is buoyant, lively, and fulfilling. You project onto your partner images of beauty, goodness, and love as if your partner were a canvas waiting to be painted on. The energy of this consciousness shines a bright light across the world, obliterating all the differences in your characters, lifting you and your partner to a higher state of being. You are atop the summit, and you sparkle to one another like diamonds with many facets of light.

I am no expert at love. The very word makes me nauseous and sets my body to a defensive mode. But I have had my heart broken once or twice. Badly. By some pathetic loser by the way. Lucky for me, I'm a quick learner. I made ridiculous mistakes of cosmic proportions and learnt a thing or two.

Americans cannot understand when their wives or their family reads their mail or listens to their telephone conversations. Russians have absolutely no respect for privacy. No Russian word for privacy.

Are you really sure what you want is to learn how to get your ex back? Before you try here's some more things you need to consider.

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.

There are 7 realms of love. In each we see the world so different. Why? Because each realm holds love with a different motive. The lowest is purely physical, the highest is purely spiritual. Relationships slide up and down this scale. Can you free yourself to enjoy the journey?

Many men in relationships might find themselves in situations similar to that of Kevin Spacey’s character Lester Burnham in American Beauty. Somewhere along the way after meeting a woman who you thought made you happy, you ended up making sacrifice after sacrifice. Now, you live day to day numb to reality because you have allowed it to take so much. Your only hope in life is for it all too just end and the sooner the better.

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!

I often hear people scoff at women for staying in an abusive situation. They don't understand why anyone would stay. As a person who has been in that situation, I can shed some light on the reasons a woman may have for staying.

We humans like the idea of spontaneity in our romantic relationships, we look for drugs and other agents that may help stimulate sexual desire, but love is a rebel bird that nobody can ever tame and lust is a fickle mistress not well understood.

I've talked to many men who claim that being a nice guy just doesn't work with women. In my opinion, there is a little bit of truth in this. The reason why that type of man is so appealing to women may not be so obvious though.

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?

Do you ever let the worry of disappointing others interfere with your decisions to do what you really want? Do you feel that this worry is preventing you from being fully honest with your partner? Is this eroding the level of intimacy that is so important in a successful relationship? Well this article is the place to begin to address this problem once and for all.

Do you love or do you lust?

Boundaries not only protect our body and control distance and touch. They protect our thinking, feeling and behavior.

Some of the best lessons come directly from the counseling office. Here's some of the wisdom my clients are sending you this week: 5 things to avoid, and 5 things to do in relationships.