• Letting Him Go Without Losing Your Mind: 9 Tips To Help You Get Over Your Ex

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    Getting over someone you love can be very difficult, especially if you’re not ready to let go. But if a relationship diminishes your self-worth, devalues you, or drains you in any way, then it’s probably time to end the relationship.So may women stay in dead relationships, hoping that “somehow” things will get better.Read more…
  • Long Lost Kids

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    It was 1967 and I was overseas in a recon outfit. It had been many months since I had experienced any contact with a love interest from the good old USA. I had gone to mail call almost daily and received nothing but an occasional letter from my folks.Read more…
  • When Your Partner Is Feeling Down, What Do You Do?

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    Isn't it wonderful if we could always stay up and be happy like the sun? This way, a happy mood generates so many positive results. A happy person loves well, thinks well, has a good attitude, is enthusiastic, creative and only wants the good for his family and friends.Read more…
  • Affection in Relationships

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    Lonely. That's what Janette felt when her husband didn't kiss her goodbye before leaving for work. Sometimes his forgetfulness in this area brought her to tears.Read more…
  • How Things Work VS. How Things Look

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    A partial look at how men and women see the world differently.I am about to do something very dangerous. Anytime you make generalizations about how men and women see things differently, exceptions are inevitable.Read more…
  • Mary and Ralph

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    These days, new communications technology allows us all to conduct our social affairs at the touch of a button or the click of a mouse. Text messages, email and chatrooms allow us instantaneous access to friends, acquaintances and perfect strangers across the world without ever having to speak face to face, new dating and social networking sites spring up every day, relationships and marriages are made (and broken) via these channels on an even more frequent and burgeoning basis. But all these technological and social changes are largely confined to the past fifteen or maybe twenty years.Read more…
  • Cuddle and Snuggle

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    Do you love to snuggle on the sofa with your loved one.? Do you plan your time around this romantic time to cuddle and snuggle together? Do you sometimes wish the recliner would disappear when your loved one chooses it instead of you?Read more…
  • Only Ask... And You Will Find Out What He Actually Means

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    Have you ever listened to a question about your values, or a question like: “What’s most important to you in a relationship?” and thought: “That’s so obvious that I don’t even have to think about it”? I know I have.Read more…
  • The 5 Most Important Things In A Relationship

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    Like so many people, F. had suffered an emotionally deprived childhood. She tried to make sense of that world more or less unsupported.Read more…
  • Paul and Karla: Match Made in Heaven

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    Paul and Karla came to know each other on ChristianCafe.com February 6, 2006 when Paul saw "blondie" and wrote her. Initially Karla thought after reading Paul's self-descriptive profile (wherein were his accomplishments and goals) that he might be a bit too intense for her.Read more…
  • Loneliness

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    Loneliness is what?To be alone or to be with our inner self.For most of us being alone is taken up as when no one is with us, we are sitting alone, in a crowd.Read more…
  • Feeling Connected in Relationships

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    Do you sometimes feel disconnected from your partner? Do you feel that you are drifting apart or not being heard? Listening and communicating is more than just the exchange of words and concepts.Read more…
  • Relationships: Taking Care of Yourself in the Moment

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    Maria consulted with me because she was frustrated about the distance she felt in her relationship with her husband, Carl. He wanted to be close to her, but she didn’t feel close to him.“I think the problem is that he often talks to me in a judgmental or condescending way.Read more…
  • Social Skills and Friendship: What are the Signs of a True Friend?

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    The best kinds of people to have around you are the caring kind. They are what we think of as 'true' friends. Getting to know who’s who can be most interesting and sometimes most challenging.Read more…
  • Got Jealousy?

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    What do humans and the frilled lizard have in common? Well, when we’re afraid, we both puff out our faces and ears and try to act really, really scary. The fear in jealousy is so strong that it can sometimes make us humans react to situations like a frilled lizard, just to make sure that our partner gets the point that we don't want them to stray.Read more…
  • Is Someone Interested in You?

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    Have you ever dated someone, and even though you continued to go out there never really seemed to be anything really “right” or anything really “wrong” with that dating relationship? Some people will tell you everything, and others tell very little with their words. What are the signs someone isn’t that interested in you?Read more…
  • Relationship Deal-breakers

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    In the 37 years that I have been counseling couples, I have discovered that there are only a few issues that are true relationship deal-breakers. Many of the issues that tear relationships apart are not actual deal-breakers. Rather, most divorces and breakups are the result of one or both partner’s unwillingness to learn from the conflicts that exist in all primary relationships.Read more…
  • Codependent Relationships: Takers and Caretakers

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    Takers and caretakers – they often seem to find each other! As a counselor who has worked with relationships for 37 years, I can tell you that this is the most frequent relationship dynamic that I encounter.Takers are people who tend to be narcissistic – that is, they are self-centered with an excessive need for attention and admiration.Read more…
  • Steps to Rebuilding Trust After an Affair: Transparent Honesty

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    I recently read an article tooting the reasons why a person who committed an affair might not want to tell their spouse about the indiscretion. It seems that some “experts” share the belief that the truth may do more harm than good and that the motivation for telling the truth is most often to get rid of a guilty conscious.I completely believe that these “experts” are only looking at one part of the marriage equation.Read more…
  • Can't get Him out of the Pub

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    It is funny that, how he always seems to want to do stuff on his own or with his mates. Never with you and the kids. Does it take a heap of bargaining to get him to spend a day with you.Read more…

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