Rekindle Your Relationship
“Kids take every sexual impulse out of a marriage.” That’s what Meg Ryan stated in the hit movie, When Harry Met Sally…. And she wasn’t far off base. Babies are miracles, and when they are born, it’s easy and appropriate for couples to spend every moment wondering at the new life. But sometimes […]
Sharing information can be a therapeutic outlet that helps a spouse vent his or her feelings somewhere other than on the person they’re angry at or confused about. It also allows the spouse some feedback from a trusted friend or therapist about the situation that is being shared. In addition, some people process information by […]
When a partner loses a job, the effects on both members of a couple can be challenging. Here are some tips to get through that time:
1. Don’t panic. You didn’t lose the job. Your partner did. Stay steady. Keep doing what you were doing. Your panic will fuel derivative issues between you and your partner […]
Text-Message Etiquette
Breaking up by text is not okay, but Britney wasn’t really breaking up with Kevin. She had her attorneys serve him with divorce papers, and she sent him a final flip off with a text message. The breaking up happened before that. It was private and the press was not privy to it.
Text messaging, […]
Respect is hard to teach because by the time people realize that they want it, they’ve grown up without it. It’s not impossible to learn, but the reason that most people who don’t have it have grown up without it, is because the people around them have not had it.
Respect and self respect are behavior […]
Fashion — whether it’s beauty or clothing — has it’s pendulum that swings back and forth, and as a result of the backlash to “too skinny” models and actresses, there is now a public embracing of full figured models and actresses. There is a natural instinct for women to look to “alpha” women to lead […]
One of the most obvious ways that I see women sabotaging themselves is not knowing what it is they want when it comes to a man. Oh, sure. They THINK that they know what they want, but more often than not, they don’t know what their deal-breakers are, and what they are willing to compromise […]
The biggest news in wedding gifts has to do with divorce! Because the divorce rate is so high, there are increasingly more and more second and third weddings. These second and third weddings are different from traditional first weddings, and so, too, are the wedding gifts.
Registering for gifts is fine — for first weddings. […]
Why are so many single women — either divorced, widowed or never married — in the middle section of their lives, wondering how they got this way?
The Widowed Woman
Women alone in middle age because they are widowed, are just circumstantial singles. There was nothing that they did or didn’t do to make them single at […]
The wedding colors a bride chooses are one of the most important decisions to be made. The colors will affect pretty much every other decision regarding the wedding. Here are some tips and advice for considering and choosing colors:
* If you have a favorite color, use it.
* Consider what colors are flattering next to your […]