Marrying an older man is not a problem with many Russian women. The greater the difference in your age, the greater the difficulty will be in your marriage as a general rule.

Tips for online dating success. How to develop your relationship online as well as offline by practicing patience, caring, understanding and TLC.

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.

Give me a few hours by myself, let me alone, shut out all interruptions, and I can bring myself down to my work. I take my pen in hand. I write a few thoughts. I see the future. And realise my responsibility. The more I think of the duty placed on me, the graver since my responsibility. Every idea has weight. I can see the effect of days ahead.

Sacred Love is a high and conscious alter on which you place the ritual of bond. It is sacred because there is nothing that can be allowed to intrude on it, a reverence, a devotion. It is a place from which the rest of life, including your work and play, can be undertaken.

Have you noticed that couples who laugh together remain together and seem incredibly happy? How can we better dissolve an argument or a marital storm but with a joke and some hearty laughter?

Ah Men! We love their strength, their build, their way of Being. We love their touch, their voice, the way they check us out. But aren’t there things about them that you wish someone had told you? I have a few.

Most couples are looking for a happy relationship. Happiness is a state of mind that makes a person content. Happy couples have the key that enhances a solid relationship. Happy couples genuinely love and respect each other. Their attitudes towards one another and the way they communicate are a key to their successful relationship.

Curiosity doesn't always kill the cat. As Isaac Asimov wrote in his New Guide to Science, 'almost in the beginning was curiosity'. Now, relationships are as far removed from science as a Van der Graaf generator is from a blender, but the same rule applies.

When it comes to attraction with woman it is or it isn't, once the attraction is gone the relationship between you and her is over. Many times a woman who is no longer attracted to a man will attempt to change him into what she thinks she would find attractive in a man. Some men thinking that there is still something left in the relationship make whatever changes the woman asks in the hope of keeping the relationship alive not realizing that it might already be dead.

Many couples long to get away, but many factors interfere with taking a vacation. Children, cost, and work are only a few of the major issues couples face when planning vacations. Yet time away can be a wonderful way to rejuvenate mind, spirit, and romance.

Can you say that you do not have any emotional baggage? Do you know why certain behaviors or words hurt your feelings? Recognizing the emotional wounds - especially those that are unhealed – is the first step in identifying unmet needs in your relationship. Both partners have wounds and unmet needs. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship you must learn to identify these wounds, see how they impact your relationship, and rectify the situation. This assessment begins the revealing and, at times, painful, experience of healing wounds.

Complacency like many other common marriage problems is a bit like the plague. It's catching and it spreads, you don't hear it and you don't see it and by the time you realise what is happening the damage is done.

In a newspaper last November 25, there was article about observing an International day for elimination of violence against women. It is heart-warming that finally the international world is starting to recognize that violence against women is a growing issue and they need to find a solution to it but after pondering this issue for quite some time I came to the following conclusions:

Relationship is more important than ever in todays fast paced lifstyle. Sometimes our kids 'get in the way' of that necessary work we need to do to hold that relationship together.

A lover, who claims to love, can never hurt his/her beloved. Love demands that you care utmost for your beloved. You are concerned about their feelings. You make them as comfortable as possible.

Any relationship between two people changes as feelings develop over a period of time, and change with life's ups and downs. Methods to test the relationship and afford insights into how we might progress.

Can we mend a broken heart?

Love, or rather, the state of being in love, is sometimes too close to obsession, especially if it is unrequited, but also when, after a major break up, you find it hard to forget the past.

Do you love or do you lust?

She sees a note. She reads it, a smile crosses her face. Ok, ok, I'll play along. She sees a trail of rose petals, she follows to another candle and another note. She reads the note. Looks around, and begins removing some of her clothing. She follows the trail of rose petals into the master bath. As she opens the door she is struck with an awesome sight. A glowing bath, with candles everywhere, and a third note.

This is a series of short articles about men and their preferences. Men are not difficult beings, or the enemy, as some women would like us to belief. They are simply different. By understanding and accepting their men, women can save their relationships and keep their sanity.