Online Style Makeover—To Dress or Not to Dress

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When You Say you're Sorry, Mean It

Just saying sorry when you have done something wrong or hurt another person’s feelings is not enough to rectify the hurt you might have caused. When we are arguing or trying desperately to prove our point, we sometimes unintentionally hurt the person who is listening to us. As soon as we realize our mistake, we immediately say sorry and think that our duty has been fulfilled. We want things to be as normal as they were before. But ...

How to Be a Good Listener

You are rated for your communication skills when you are a good speaker as well as a good listener. A good conversation is the one that lets both parties get equal amount of time to speak. And when someone else is speaking, you have got to listen otherwise you will never be able to assess their opinions.

Memory Foam Mattress Saves Relationship

A memory foam mattress can improve your love life. Find out how changing your tired old mattress for a hi-tech replacement can give your love life a boost and improve your relationship with your sleeping partner.

Heat Up Your Relationship With A Romantic Weekend Adventure

Is your relationship getting a little stale? Are you feeling like you don’t have enough time for each other? Plan a weekend get away for just the two of you. In many cases this is just what the doctor ordered, the love doctor that is!

Relationship Problems? Personality Profiling Can Help

Have you ever wondered just what makes another family member tick? They probably wonder just the same about you! With personality profiling you can discover how to improve any relationship.

Unique Gifts/Unique Gift Ideas: Their Effect on Our Relationship with Others

Whether gift giving out of neccessity or kindness, it is always in style to love, to care and to give. The gift we give is only as special as the thought we put into our giving. The old adage that it's better to give than to receive is well known, but why this is so is not widely understood.

Musings on Gift Giving and Gift Baskets

Traditionally we give gifts at Christmas time and at birthdays. As our society has become more affluent our gifts at Christmas time have become more elaborate and more expensive, especially in the case of our children. Gone are the days when a string of beads, a book, or a soccer ball were acceptable gifts to give our children. Now it is ipods and Tamagochis and Play Stations and X Box consoles.

Unforgiveness Can Kill A Relationship

One of the major causes of relationships is the inability of one partner to forgive the other. Unforgiveness can destroy a relationship. Have a forgiving spirit, mend relationships and enjoy life, for life is short.

Starving For Emotional Intimacy

It is a common thing that people who crave emotional closeness are the very people who consistently get emotional distance from others. We may not see ourselves as emotionally distant because emotional distancing takes different forms: manipulation, nagging, whining, seduction, fakeness, control, intrusion, avoidance, isolation, jumping to conclusions about other people's words and actions, etc..

Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 3: Conscious Listening

Can you say what you mean and have your partner hear what you mean? Conscious Listening is critical to the success of Co-Creating a Conscious Relationship. Both partners must take a role in speaking and listening. You will always have issues, thoughts, feelings, and problems, on your Journey from I-TO-WE, but you will not be able to resolve them without effective communication skills and techniques. This assessment helps you recognize the elements of communication in which you shine, and the elements that need attention.

The 6 Conscious Listening Rules for the Receiver in Discussions

Do people tell you that you are a good listener? You could be an even better listener, especially when your partner is doing the talking. Conscious Listening is an essential part of Co-Creating a Conscious Relationship, and there are rules to help you master it. Read on to see how you can become that even better listener.

The Power of Hope

Do you ever feel hopelessness about your relationship? It's easy to understimate the power of hope in a relationship. And it's easy to confuse misplaced hope with despair. Sometimes starting to acknowledge your own strength is all it takes to restore hope in a better future.