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?

Let's face it – break ups are BAD, to say the least. There are no two ways about. I have quite a lot of really tough and smart guys who stick to a relationship just fearing the worse – a break up. And there are guys who are out of it physically, but still very much in it mentally. After all it’s a matter of the heart.

There are couples who spend very little time together and have wonderful relationships. For them it isn't the amount of time they have but what they put into the time. These relationships are also uncommon. Time is a factor for most of us. We need time to understand, learn, grow, accept and love. These don’t come easily or instantly.

People have become accustomed to the wonders brought by the Internet in this day and age. Even sending postcards or greeting cards to your loved ones have become quicker and easier. These are e-cards and sent via electronic mail.

A thirty-year-old with a child is much more likely to work out a relationship than a twenty-year-old looking for an adventure. Don’t dismiss women with children. She may be a diamond in the rough.

Listening carefully to your partner improves your married life but listening to yourself does wonders. It is equally important to listen to how you talk. Listen to the tone of your talk. Listening is an important factor in a happy relationship. Make your partner feel you really love him or her but for that first learn to listen to how you talk and say, “I love you”.

Dating, dining, dancing, conversing with, and romancing women take a lot of energy, but I can't think of a better way to spend it. To me, it's naturally invigorating. I feel alive. It's not for the infirm. There is a specific methodology for achieving a goal: First, the goal must be specific. Secondly, it must be measurable. Last, a deadline when it must be completed. Identify resources required.

Much of the discord couples experience comes from fear of exposing their true feelings – their love, fears, doubts, insecurities – their true selves. So they hide their truth behind ego...

What would marriage be if not for the annual celebratory ritual we have all come to know as the anniversary? Today, an anniversary is right up there with the biggest money-making gift-giving holidays, but it wasn’t always this way.

Remember that effort you put into your relationship in the first months or year? Remember how important making love and holding hands was before the children came along? Remember those tears of gratitude that welled up in your eyes each time you woke beside your lover, or had candlelit dinners?

It is practically impossible to live with a woman with PMS. Every month, millions of men witness the same ordeal and honestly, they deserve better than to live with hormonal imbalances

Sometimes the concept of overcoming shyness puts too much pressure on an individual and they should instead focus on feeling at ease and confident in a variety of social settings. Although most teenagers do outgrow a sense of shyness, the vestiges of it sometimes prevail into adulthood.

Don’t tell her about other women. They really don't want to know about them. In their mind, I was sleeping with every woman I had ever written a letter to.

Organising your time effectively is crucial for maintaining relationships and remaining mentally and physically fit. Here is what we find out

One of the main reasons that both men and women want to get into a relationship is a fear of being alone. Yet, any relationship that is based on fear is destined to be a very unhappy and unfulfilling relationship. Until you can learn to enjoy your own company you will constantly find yourself getting into relationships that are or end up based on fear.

Your relationship problems may not be either of your faults. Learn Georgette's secrets to creating an environment that fosters a great relationship.

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.

Don’t wait until your relationship is totally dead to try to reawaken the passion. It takes a sincere effort to be aware of the passion starting to fade and being willing to do something about it.

Human beings are social creatures; in our day to day lives we are constantly meeting and interacting with people, and creating relationships with them. Fathers, mother, sibling, friend, lover, co-worker, subordinate – These are just a few examples of relationships which are common to people across the globe.

Just saying sorry when you have done something wrong or hurt another person’s feelings is not enough to rectify the hurt you might have caused. When we are arguing or trying desperately to prove our point, we sometimes unintentionally hurt the person who is listening to us. As soon as we realize our mistake, we immediately say sorry and think that our duty has been fulfilled. We want things to be as normal as they were before. But ...

I read somewhere that the human brain absorbs information at a deeper level when a person is laughing. If that's true, you will learn more about what it means to be a man, according to Jim, than any Dr. Phil lecture.

Spring is definitely in the air, and the sap of all red-blooded males just starts to fizz around this time of year. As the birds start cheeping and the buds start flowering, a guy’s thoughts turn to flirting and fun. No doubt your woman is feeling some of the same frisky thoughts – what better time to whisk her away on a special break just for the two of you?

Here are just a few quotes from people that honored their mothers with these wonderful and memorable words about motherhood.