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Stop Dragging Your Past into Present Relationships - Part One of Two
Expressed as a two-way bridge between childhood and adulthood, magical thinking is a developmental stage during childhood that serves a very important function in the process of creativity and imagination. Like so many of our developmental constructs, when magical thinking is held onto and not revised in the light of reality it becomes maladaptive.
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Know Your Man: Being A Sum of Parts
We need to understand that, unlike us, a man is a sum of his parts; it is the components that make the whole. By that I mean that, all the various parts of his life can be split off from each other, just like a book shelf.
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Etiquette at the Russian Tour Social
You should treat the women at the social with respect. Given their resources, they have made as much of a commitment as you have. In many ways, they have more to gain and lose than you do.
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Telephoning Russian Women
My recommendation is to first establish a relationship with a woman before calling her. The cost of calling Russia and other CIS countries has dropped dramatically over the past few years.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 18 - Conscious Intimacy
Can you be specific about what intimacy means to you? How about intimacy for your partner? In order to achieve passion in your relationship – to solve the Passion Equation – you both must recognize intimacy. Because intimacy looks and feels different for each of you, it may require more thought and work than you realize. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship, to let each other know you are absolutely in love, you must develop the skills for intimacy. This assessment will help you understand the elements necessary for this step of the equation.
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Seven B's of Healthy Relationships
There are certain principles that apply to all types of relationships, whether they are friendships, romances, business associations or family interactions. We all lose focus from time to time and can benefit from being reminded of the core tenets of relationship success. Being attuned to the Seven B’s, can help you make all of your relationships healthier, happier and more productive, revealing a never-ending loop of continous improvement.
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Friend Finders
All of us have had friends from the past that we lost contact with. Whether it is an old classmate, an old boyfriend or girlfriend or an old neighbor, we all have someone we have lost contact with throughout the years. Perhaps it is because you moved away, or changed schools. One day you decide to look at your old pictures or yearbook, and you remember one long lost friend. You decide that you want to get in contact with them again after years of no communication.If this is you, then you may be asking yourself what’s the first step in locating a long lost friend. Today’s advanced information technology will actually make it easy for you to find your friend. There are many websites on the Internet you can go to for help.
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Friendship Day - Bury Old Enmity
Friendship day is celebrated on August 7, every year. It is a day to wish our friends and meet and have fun together. Can we use this day for something else? That is to bury enmity? Please go back to your school days and trace your friends till now. You will find few persons, with who you were good friends, but on the way because of some tiffs or misunderstandings, the friendship turned to enmity. You no longer remained friends after that.
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What To Do When Your Mom Wants Grandchildren
There will come a time in your life when you mother tells you to hurry up and get married because she wants grandchildren. You may not be anywhere near ready to get married or to have children, but you will likely start feeling the pressure after your dear mother lays something like that on you.
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How To Approach And Talk To Women
Women are not unapproachable. Learning how to read the signs that women carry around makes it easier to make that first step. Because women are only people too.
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Overcoming Differences in a Relationship
Opposite personalities can contribute to the chemistry in a love relationship, but if a couple in a love relationship are too different, they might end up heading in different directions. How many shared similarities are necessary for successful love and marriage?
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Rebuilding Trust
Trust is hard to gain, but easy to lose. What steps can you take to get trust back with some you love?
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Action=Reaction: How to Overcome the Vicious Circle in Interpersonal Relationships
Very often people get involved in a vicious and often endless seeming circle of interpersonal frustration. Our reactions need not be of the same negative content. Instead of paying back likewise, we can choose to react in positive ways by adhering to the golden rule of 'doing unto others as we would wish them to do unto us.' And so we can break the vicious circle.
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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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What If Your Relationship Could Be
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.
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The Revealing Touch
Intimacy has a difficult time with absolute certainty. There’s no room to breathe, and no room to receive reality. And reality is where real love lives. No other place.
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How to Send Money to Russia
If you plan a mutual travel or just want to send money to your fiancee, you face the problem: how to do it in the best way? There are 4 ways and it depends on the sum, purpose and regularity which way is the best. That’s the topic we are going to discuss today.
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