Learn to recognize the various types of relationships and when relationships start to break down. Understand the warning signs associated with an abusive relationship, controlling relationships, as well as many relationship myths. Find out what is the fundamental key to the long term strength of any type of relationship.

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.

My husband cheated on me multiple times. It's really easy to get bogged down in thinking that because of his terrible actions that all the problems in the marriage are his fault.

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

Can you be specific about what intimacy means to you? How about intimacy for your partner? In order to achieve passion in your relationship – to solve the Passion Equation – you both must recognize intimacy. Because intimacy looks and feels different for each of you, it may require more thought and work than you realize. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship, to let each other know you are absolutely in love, you must develop the skills for intimacy. This assessment will help you understand the elements necessary for this step of the equation.

There are times when ending a relationship you may need a little reminder that certain actions will create certain responses. The do's and don'ts to make you feel better faster.

After providing the list for CDs to rent and provide entertainment while you drown yourself in tears, blankets, and chocolates, here is the list of movies (no doubt a lengthier one) that you shouldn’t be getting near at.

Drugs' ability to ease marital arguments. What ways can we relieve relational tension and solve problems? How important is communication, commitment and covenant in relationships today?

There will always be people that drift from one addiction to another. Needless to say, these are not the best candidates for long-term relationships or commitments. However, if you are struggling with a partner who has a simple short-term obsession, you can bring them back into the fold with common sense, passion and support.

We frequently make decisions about love relationships based on fear, disillusionment, or a belief that we have to settle. We are afraid that we aren’t going to find anyone who will cherish us and accept our faults.

Here's what it means to be personally honest in a relationship.

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.

I have read it at many places that why tell your beloved about your past? That may spoil your present relationship. Let me present my thoughts to this. If we are not totally honest and open with our beloved, that means we are not sure about our relationship.

Are you looking for Love by Design? Well you certainly have found the right place. A lot of people go through life completely unconscious and not knowing exactly what they want to have in a relationship until they get into a relationship and find that they don't have what they want.

What is good-mate-itis? Good-mate-itis is a disease that we get when we are well- nurtured, well-supported, and very content within our relationships. We feel little or no challenge to make things better, and we feel it can’t get any worse. We begin to take each other for granted. We “know” our mate will always be there, so we fall into a deep sleep. We are on automatic. BEWARE! This is the time when love falls apart. It falls apart when we get good-mate-itis

At times we can be blind about what is happening in front of and within us. When we choose to take a closer look, the potential for magic occurs as we unfold the layers of deeper connection.

Rhiannon Rose, co-founder of www.loveroflove.com, has developed a seven step process for untangling the emotional web of a broken relationship by restoring readers sense of who they are, their sense of balance, and regaining personal power - therefore attracting new and exciting romantic relationships, or quite possibly, restoring a current troubled relationship.

Couples need to give each other a lot of attention to keep their relationship healthy. But everything around us seems to pull our attention away from our partner. What is left over for our mate by the end of the day may be very, very little. Here are some points for ensuring that we put the time and attention where it is needed.

How many times this week only, you had an encounter with someone who either pushed your buttons or you simply didn’t like, meaning, the chemistry wasn’t there? It happens often. We hate the guts of this or that person, or we think that there is something wrong with them. Somehow we become absolutely critical and thus create an inaccurate and biased image of someone and nothing that person does is quite all right.

When we’re young, we’re taught to play nice and share. Selfishness is a vice, and consideration a virtue. We carry those beliefs with us into adulthood where they work well in everyday life. But, the situation is different when you’re dating.

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.