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- Condoms and an HIV Positive Spouse or Partner
- One of the more devastating moments in a person's life is finding out that a spouse or partner has been diagnosed with HIV. In the end, such a diagnosis results in a whole host of considerations and ...
article data || full article - What can you do when you feel lonely in your relationship?
- When we think of lonely people, we usually imagine single people sitting by themselves. Would it surprise you if you heard that many lonely people are in long-term relationships and yet are very, very...
article data || full article - Matchmaking for Marriage Relationship (C)
- We could see what most if not all the matchmakers are basically applying in matching people is the nowadays "scientific" tools. The phenomenon is overwhelming that almost all people in the matchmaking service industry truly believe compatibility is the golden rule for success...in love and marriage relationships....
article data || full article - Finding Your Muslim Significant Other
- This article debates the issue of ways of finding your Muslim life partner along with suggestions and helpful information about the entire process....
article data || full article - Maui Weddings
- It�s the moment you are waiting for since long time! It�s your wedding and you need to enjoy it with a different touch. Getting married someday is what all hearts in this world desire....
article data || full article - Silly excuses for infidelity: I fell out of love/ I love being in love.
- I find this dilemma rather common for younger couples, probably mid or late 30s and younger.
Usually one reports, â??falling out of loveâ?? and is truly disturbed by this shift. He/she (and this is not merely a female problem!) wants to â??recaptureâ?? those feelings.
This person has found a â??significant otherâ?? who has stirred those dormant feelings and this person once again â??feels in love.â??
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article data || full article - How to keep your love alive?
- I believe that finding, sustaining, growing, and enjoying satisfying relationships is one of greatest joys and challenges we have as human beings. We have generally been blessed with a tremendous desire to love and be loved; to listen and be listened to; to take care of and accept care from others. And yet meaningful, sustainable relationships often elude us – especially as it applies to the opposite sex.
Here are some things I’ve learned in my walk through life - as a divorced single mom, widower, and over 50 remarried - about finding and sustaining a “soul-mate” relationship
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article data || full article - What your parents should have told you about being understood and understanding
- For sure my own parents never said anything to me about this fundamental shift of focus that moves your relationships either toward greatness or deflated -ness. Once my eyes were opened to it I have never looked at a human interaction the same way again.
My eyes were first open by Bo, a good friend of mine. He offered this perspective on relationships, well on any meeting with another human being. It was amazed at the simplicity of it.
So lets pop the million dollar question; are you a person who strive to understand others or to be understood by others? And are you able to catch yourself in the midst of a discussion to clarify which of the two you are focusing on in the moment?
I claim that in any discussion or conflict that is moving in a downward spiral towards negativity, where the parties feel stuck or where the heat of the moment is mounting, that this discussion is going where it is going because there is too much focus on being understood instead of understanding the other person.
A typical behaviour that we indulge into when we focus on being understood is that we have what we are going to say next playing in our head, rehearsing it, while we half-heartedly listen to the other or are just waiting for the other to catch his or her breath for a short moment so we can jump in and say what we want to have said.
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