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Dating After a Failed Marriage – Relationship Advice
You were happily married. May be for a while. And you split. It can be imagined irrespective of the length of a marriage, a divorce does leave immovable scars. And the mere thought of seeing someone again can be dissuading. Love is all about being vulnerable to someone – why go through it again?
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5 Tips On How To Save A Relationship
We often enter a relationship hoping that all will be wonderful and filled with joy. Before you knew it, suddenly you realize that your relationship becoming unfulfilling. The spark has somehow died off. If you really value the other person and the relationship, these 4 steps is the way you can save a relationship.
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Feelings and Risk
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.
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Sacred Love - Never Go Back
A sacred relationship takes two. Sometimes one or both people, are just not ready. To move into a sacred relationship, the individual you choose must be ready. If they are desperate, they say, “Got to this” and “Got to that”, and they are not ready. If they are always saying, “You should be like this”, or “You should be like that” then they are not ready.
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Being Normal - Learning the Art of Happiness
Here are a few laws, a few simple laws. If you apply these laws, you might change the cause of your own, and others unhappiness. I hope they are of interest to you. Then, instead of trying to fix and make yourself better (which you can’t) you might start to smile and celebrate the beauty of life, by trekking up to the summit of a hill in Nepal, or kiss a baby instead of trying to fix what isn’t broken.
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From Breakup To Bliss - The Prevalence of Ambivalence
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.
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What Everyone In A Relationship Wants
Most people are searching for only four or five things in life. I believe the major ones are: love, acceptance, appreciation, validation and to connect with other humans in a meaningful way. What are you searching for that you don’t have in your life? Let’s take a brief look at each of these:
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Men: Winning The Woman Of Your Dreams
What makes for a happy relationship? What makes one couple have a successful relationship while another couple flounders? Is it just luck? Why do some men get the Woman Of Their Dreams while others get stuck with controlling women? Or, frigid women? Or, manipulative women?
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For Long Term Relationships Look at the Whole Package
Using online dating sites when you are looking for a long term relationship is a brilliant way of getting a quick result. Not only do dating services save you from going out night after night in the hope that you just might come across Mr or Mrs Right but they enable you to find profiles which match specific criteria and provide you with a far better chance of progressing towards a long term relationship.
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The Years of Chasing after Men
It may not be politically correct to tell you that a woman should make herself beautiful, sexy, and feminine. However, if you don’t, then that nice, sweet, but unbeautiful, un-sexy, and unfeminine woman may spend many lonely, unhappy years being politically correct and unnoticed by most men.
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Victims Blame, Victors Learn
Do you blame yourself because a bad relationship happened to you?
Blame can keep you in a victim mind-set long after the relationship has ended. Victors learn that they don't have to make do with the harsh, second-hand beliefs, values and judgements that people foist on them. Victors are people who claim the same rights, hopes and dreams as other people. Are you ready to be a victor?
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Relationship - Men Also Get Abused By Women
Emotional and physical abuse is believed to be only for women. Men are the abusers and women the victims. Don't women abuse men? Yes they do get abused and mercilessly. A woman can be brutal when it comes to blames and accusations.
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How You Can Really Read A Smile
A smile can be very reassuring. How often do you take a smile as meaning that things are more right, than wrong, with your world? that the person smiling is friendly, rather than hostile?
Most people smile to convey a degree of genuine warmth and friendliness. Some don’t. A few simple criteria can help you see beyond the mask.
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Falling in Love, Being in Love and Expressing Love
This brief article explores ways to more effectively communicate in your intimate relationship. Relationships tend to be our greatest source of joy or our greatest source of pain. How effectively we communicate typically makes the difference.
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How You Can Avoid Bad Relationships and Find Your One True Love
Do you find 'decent' men boring and 'creeps' exciting?
Then you're among the majority. But, as you've learned, creeps make for disastrous relationships.
So why are you attracted to them? The short answer is that although you live in the 21st century, your basic biology and psychology are still Stone Age. So you (unconsciously) look for a 'tough guy' to protect you and your children from the sabre-toothed tigers.
This article -- based on my four decades as a psychotherapist and 25 years of marriage to a wonderful woman -- will show you how to choose the right man.
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