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Are You A Giver Or A Taker?
Givers in relationships are always looking for ways to help, support, give and be a benefit to their partners. They give because it is in their nature to be generous, kind, giving or supportive.
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How to Stay in a Marriage When Times Are Tough
Divorced spouses are usually no happier after divorce than before except in marriages where there is physical violence. On the other hand, many married couples who had once been unhappy together for an extended period of time were able to turn their marriages around to become happily married even in spite of serious problems.
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Yours, Mine, and Our Emotional Needs - The Marriage Makers and Breakers
A common theme in my articles, on my website, and in my coaching practice is on needs. For our purposes we define a need as a condition requiring relief. There are quite obviously many needs that you meet on a daily basis. Hunger may be one of the first things to come to mind when we think of needs, however, this is more of a physical need and we want to focus on our emotional needs!
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How's Your RQ?
RQ? Yes, relational quotient or relational intelligence. The person with a high RQ puts high value on understanding and cultivating relationships. Invest in securing strong relationships and in a particular way in marriage relationship. This is a perfect advice on successful marriage relationships. Add value to your partner’s life continually and your relationship will grow strong, healthy and successful.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 3: Conscious Listening
Can you say what you mean and have your partner hear what you mean? Conscious Listening is critical to the success of Co-Creating a Conscious Relationship. Both partners must take a role in speaking and listening. You will always have issues, thoughts, feelings, and problems, on your Journey from I-TO-WE, but you will not be able to resolve them without effective communication skills and techniques. This assessment helps you recognize the elements of communication in which you shine, and the elements that need attention.
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A Lasting Relationship
Sex is just a physical and temporary expression of lust while lovemaking is an emotional and lasting expression of trust.
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Affection in Relationships
Lonely. That's what Janette felt when her husband didn't kiss her goodbye before leaving for work. Sometimes his forgetfulness in this area brought her to tears.
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Cuddle and Snuggle
Do you love to snuggle on the sofa with your loved one? Do you plan your time around this romantic time to cuddle and snuggle together? Do you sometimes wish your recliner would disappear when your loved one chooses it instead of you?
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Reality Bites-Breaking the News
There are incidents in our life where we have to disclose some news or have to say something to people close to us...known to us where we are aware that it may hurt them. For Example read the following:
1) You have to tell your sub-ordinate that he is sacked or he has to resign.
2) All in your team got increments and promotions, except two people...disclose this news to them.
3) You father is serious and he is in hospital...sharing this news with your sibling.
4) Your daughter has appeared for “Chartered Accountant Exams” but failed...now share it with her.
5) Giving “honest” feedback to your spouses...about their looks.
6) Giving “honest” comment to your friends about their behavior and habit.
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Setting Boundaries in Relationships
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.
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Thank God, He's Gone
Sometimes when a relationship breaks down, you finally realise that the 'lovely person' you've been breaking your heart over, actually pulled you down. Why your loss can be your gain.
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What Is Your Relationship Blueprint?
There is a secret psychology to love relationships. Most people don't know about it, that's why most people aren't successful at having a long-term romantic relationship. A lack of love is not the problem, it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside you.
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Dealing With Stress in Your Marriage
Marriage can be wonderful experience. However, it can go down hill after being married for several years. Sometimes you just seem to lose your magic that you once had in your relationship.
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5 Reasons Why You Need to Forget Your Ex
Most people take long time to forget they ex after they have been dumped,divorce or heart broken. Keeping ex bad memories in your mind will affectother areas of your life.
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I Ain't Eating No Chitlins
Yes, we Black men and women have some collective concerns, a certain amount of shared pathos , arising from our shared painful past which we are daily changing to a triumphant future - but we are each something more fundamental than a cog in a Great Black Cause. I am, like you - just me.
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The Feared and Dreaded 'Relationship Report Card'
Everyone dreaded report card day in school and if you are dreading making your own relationship report card, then you need to buckle down and study! When you rank all of the aspects of your relationship with your spouse, you want (and need!) to score in the high nineties for an A+.
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Super Relationship Tips: Create A Memorable Non-Occasion
The admen and the marketing mavens have created a cultural expectation around special occasions and calendar events. We are inundated with sales pitches for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, New Year, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and any other day they can find that will make us feel that we absolutely have to buy a gift to express our sentiments.
Dates on the calendar are merely days like any other days. Our relationships are 365 days a year and something this good deserves a celebration at any time and at any place.
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