Tag Archives: love
6 Habits for Creating Connection in Your Relationship
A relationship is like a plant: It needs regular attention to stay healthy. Does your plant have enough sunlight? Is the soil a bit dry? Are the flowers drooping?
When we come home stressed and exhausted at the end of the day, the thought of sitting down for a 20 minute relationship “pow wow” can feel overwhelming. And though date nights...
Unlucky In Love … You Can Make Your Own Luck
When you believe that people are only happy and/or have found love/success out of sheer luck, it’s a roundabout way of telling yourself that not only are you an unlucky person, but that it’s out of your hands whether you will be happy, successful, or in a loving relationship.
Luck regards fortune, fate, destiny, randomness, unpredictability, chance,...
Love and other animals
"Eventually the male becomes nothing but a lump on the female's side – an unconscious bulge where once swam an individual": the Blackdevil anglerfish. Illustration: Getty Images
Some people enter into purposeful relationships and other people enter relationships purposefully. An idea is floating around that there is a missing piece in...
The Power Of Vulnerability – Brene Brown
Brene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
Why You Should Listen to Her?
Brene Brown is a research professor at the...
Origin of the New Year’s Kiss
Where did the tradition of kissing on New Year’s come from? Historians date this practice back to the Ancient Romans who would throw a big party every New Year’s Eve called the Festival of Saturnalia where they would kiss and generally debauch one another as much as possible.
Later on, the English and Germans would celebrate by kissing the first...
The Dirty Secret Of Goddesses
When I first wrote The Tao of Dating for Women, its subtitle was How to Embrace Your Inner Goddess and Find the Fulfillment You Deserve. Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess. Whether it set an impossible standard of perfection or sounded too woo-woo, it just bugged them.
Well, today...
Feel Like You Wasted Years With Mr. Wrong? How To Find Your Mr. Right
I’ve got a question for you: Are bad love habits keeping you single and away from your Mr. Right? See, in the search for love, it’s easy to get sidetracked by bad dates, broken hearts, and bad love habits. And while bad dates and broken hearts are part of the journey toward happily ever after, bad love habits can and should be avoided at all costs.
Are...
Are You Enduring A Long Distance Relationship With A Man?
Most of us have some experience with a long distance relationship – one friend of mine got married within 2 months of starting one, and another (and she lives in a small town in a very lightly populated part of the country) is just about to be married – after only 6 weeks of knowing the guy through online dating – she’s engaged!) – and still,...
Why Men Withdraw And Go Cold For No Reason
The Reasons Why Men Withdraw
If you can relate – if you’ve ever felt close to a man that you thought you knew, but it turned out you didn’t know him so well after all, here’s what might have gone wrong…
In the first few months of a new romance, your brain and that of your love interest release a euphoric chemical cocktail that makes you both...
How Your Relationship “Intensity” Can Push A Man Away
What is emotional “Intensity” in a relationship?
I remember years ago, when I was a single girl in New York City, depressed from my last break-up and trying to create a career in a new city, how one of my girlfriends – Karen – said about another girl friend – Sheri – “She’s just so intense – it’s hard to be around.”
I was pretty...
