It's a red date and you want your dear ones to feel the warmth of your greetings. Your problem is you’re running out of time to go out and buy them presents. You hardly can pick a nice card to say what you feel since you are too preoccupied with work and won't allow you to be away even a minute.

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.

For those who have been divorced or separated, it can be quite a difficult transition, especially if there are kids involved. However getting back into the dating scene doesn't have to be impossible or difficult. Of course do not jump onto the scene right after a separation, and do take your time until you feel you are ready again.

As a head of the household, you do not have to be a chauvinist.

Definite and usage of main principles and notions is of the most important requirements set for sociological researches. The categories of family and marriage are the most complicated and hardest to define. First of all, traditions of usual conscience and word usage that are not always correspond to those of scientific and theoretical nature; have impact on their understanding and definition. Secondly, both marriage and family are studied not only by sociology but by a range of other sciences which creates many different approaches to them and accordingly more or less specific and abstract definition of these notions.

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.

Have you ever felt like spying on your spouse's computer? Spying on what your spouse does on their PC is not necessarily an indication of obsessive jealousy because there are occasions when it becomes impossible to ignore the signs that your spouse is up to no good on the computer

Relationships can be so exciting at the start. It’s a time when you just can’t wait to see each other, spend every spare minute dreaming about each other and just can’t keep off the phone. Unfortunately as the relationship develops into a comfortable routine, the excitement generally recedes, the need to touch base becomes more infrequent and a period of normality sets in. For many, the excitement is in the chase and for others the feeling of commitment can become a strain, the recognition that the love of your life is only human and has their faults makes you question your judgment, and the disappearance of those little surprises can out a dampener on the whole thing.

As a Dating and Relationship Coach for men I have run into far too many men who equate quality with good looks. For some men this equation is perfectly acceptable. If all you are looking for is a one night stand or a very casual relationship with no strings attached, then it is perfectly acceptable to base the quality of your women on looks alone.

I think we can all agree that most relationships are very exciting in the beginning but if you have been in your current relationship for awhile you may have already noticed that the initial excitement you had is starting to subside and you and your partner may be settling into a dull routine.

Do husbands and wives approach things from different perspectives? I believe they do. This article explores one way that I think this happens, and how we can adapt.

Building better relationships, means building a better life for ourselves and a Better Universe at the same time.

Life with alcoholic is like a love triangle – you, he, and his addiction. Your partner’s dangerous habit assimilates his time, forces and attention. He cannot belong to you, as he’s not free.

Breaking up is hard to do

What if? A very powerful question. If you let it, it will not only open areas of your relationship that need exploration, it can carry into new dimension of what you have together.

Everyone seems to have been through a broken heart or two. With all the practice, you'd think breakups would become easier to deal with. Alas, being dumped is one of the crummiest situations we mere mortals have to surmount.

The statistics on relationships are depressing: in California alone, the average marriage lasts just 5 years. Nationwide, 43% of marriages end within 15 years. Second and third marriages end in divorce 60-70% of the time. Clearly, how we handle our relationships is not working. And yet, 94% of young adults in one study said that having a good marriage is extremely important to them. So, what can you do?

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.