The rapture phase of love gives each partner a feeling that is buoyant, lively, and fulfilling. You project onto your partner images of beauty, goodness, and love as if your partner were a canvas waiting to be painted on. The energy of this consciousness shines a bright light across the world, obliterating all the differences in your characters, lifting you and your partner to a higher state of being. You are atop the summit, and you sparkle to one another like diamonds with many facets of light.

A relationship can not be properly built and nurtured with only one “hand”, one person. In order for a relationship to work with optimal success, there must be frequent and sufficient help and input. There must be honest non-critical and loving feedback on a continual basis.

When a relationship lasts for a very long time the newness wears off, the excitement ebbs and that's just the way of things, right? I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be that way. If you put in a little effort to keep your love life fresh and exciting, the passion need never wane!

Here are 11 warnings. They are not meant to encourage judgment, moreover, they are meant to help you to respect where people are at. The last person to know where they are at is the person them self, because their lust, emotion, and need to be rescued from their hell will make you the idol they will worship. They will be so attached, yet, complain and struggle, often blaming you for all their problems, when really it was their reality before you met.

All emotion is only half the truth, an illusion; a complete lie. Life is balanced, we distort it by projecting out opinion onto it. We interpret it with our ego and spin it left or right and therefore emotionalise it. By emotionalising things, we can make it safe. And from a love aspect, then we see where we are – out of integrity – and could bring our ego back to balance, if we chose to.

It happens to 50% of couples and many do not know what to do when it happens. There are numerous details that need attention when a married or common law partnership disolves. When you are emotionally consumed you may not be thinking of all the important items that need to be changed, updated, cancelled, negotiated, considered, or addressed.

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.

It’s so tempting to take things easy once the ring is on your finger. So many of us decide that the hard work is done and that going forward a marriage doesn’t require any effort. One of the most common marriage problems is to just take a back seat, let life pass you by and assume that married life is for every no matter how little effort you make.

No relationship is without stress, disappointment, problems or frustration. Regardless of whether you have been married for 50 years, dating for 6 months or living together for anything inbetween I will guarantee that sooner or later you will make or have made one of the following relationship mistakes.

If it's true you can't judge a book by its cover, that also applies to meeting people. They aren't always what they seem.

The above statement is not merely an amateur poet’s attempt at rhyming; it is a fact. More often than not, our sexual problems (and there are so many of them), are all related to what’s going on inside our head. Problems in our sex life might seem just physical, but there’s a whole lot of psychology behind things going wrong in the bedroom.

Have you ever, wrongly, assumed that your partner shared your beliefs and attitudes? Do you make a point of gathering information about a new partner? Or do you just revel in the joy of a new relationship? If you allow love to blind you, what you don't know about your relationship, may harm you.

7 Practical areas to stay clear during the holiday season or any time you're in the need to get that special lady in your life a gift.

My first-hand experience with long-distance, cross-continental, Internet love! (It ain't pretty, but I survived).

Both personally and professionally, our relationships with others have a huge impact on the quality of our days … and, it goes without saying, on our lives as a whole. Part of our learning on this planet is to be able to create healthy, whole relationships coming from a place of love for ourselves AND others. Discover the ingredients of a healthy, whole relationship that will support us in being our best selves and learn how we create these kinds of relationships in our lives.

Thanksgiving is a festival celebrated with great pomp. Spreading cheerfulness all around, it brings together every member of the family. A time marked by togetherness, gratitude, and love, it is a festival of merriment and enjoyment. And to add to the magic and color of the day, special Thanksgiving flowers exist.

If you’re not quite ready for marriage, yet would still like to show your partner that you are committed. A perfect compromise would be to present them with a promise ring. Promise rings are the middle ground between an official and long term commitment and a public announcement or promise that you only have eyes for each other. Hopefully this “one other” is the proud recipient of your promise ring.

It's an open secret that thousands of Western men search for pretty Russian girls and Russian women online. Many seek a relationship leading to marriage. In this article, you'll discover a smart way to build your online relationship.

The differences between the two unique individuals are the substance of their growing romance and intimacy. Like bread and jam, the magic happens when you put them together, yet neither one loses their special taste and texture.

Being alone involves only physical separation. Being lonely includes spiritual and psychological separation, or isolation.

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.