Healthy Relationships Start Within
Finding Prince Charming is not easy. When a potential candidate walks into your life, it is difficult to step back and ask the tough questions. If it feels this good, it must be. Right?
Wrong. When do you want to find out that Prince Charming has a serious flaw or two? Is he self-centered, immature, a narcissist, married, an alcoholic, a compulsive gambler, a deadbeat dad, a wanted felon? Does he have an anger management problem, serious control issues, a sexually-transmitted disease, or worse? Do you want to find these things out before or after you have sex? Before or after you’re involved? Before or after it’s too late?
Love and relationships are an arena of universal fascination and desire, of confusion and dysfunction, of our greatest hopes and disillusionments. Many women ignore nagging questions and red flags in their search for love, and jump prematurely into bed and into relationships because they lack skills and tools for self-care and self-protection. And women have always paid a heavier price for failing to apply a little foresight and do a little due diligence before surrendering to chemistry. Consider the following two sets of statistics: Read the rest of this entry »
Mature Dating – The Facts of Mature Dating Relationships
Well, so you are at a crossroad again, wondering if the concept of dating really works or was just a figment of someone’s imagination. You have seen mature dating relationships all around you, but don’t know to believe if they really are what they seem or if you’re just hallucinating. Luckily for you, you are not the only one who doubts the concept of mature dating relationships; there are many like you searching for answers and continuing to search for their soul mates.
Well, first let’s clarify certain facts. Mature dating relationships do exist and not made up in someone’s head. In fact, there are quite a lot of people who have built successful mature dating relationships and continue to enjoy the benefits that it has to offer. So, now that it is clear that there is such a concept, you should be more than willing to go and try it out. Read the rest of this entry »
Tips In Solving Relationship Problems
It can not be denied that relationships have been considered as the source of a loving relationship that is full of support, enthusiasm and pleasure, whether the relationship is in the family or to somebody you are intimately in love with. And we would like to experience such a relationship to last until death. Hence, we exert so much effort in order to nurture and to make it perfect if possible.
Whether we like it or not it can also be source of sadness and distress when it fails to address the basic elements for a good relationship. This is the reality of what they call relationship problem. To have a relationship problem does not necessarily follow that the relationship we started will automatically doom to failure. That will not be the case to happen. There is still a chance to fix it.
However, we will be required to do some extra effort to keep things intact. There are many couples who take things for granted. They do not bother their relationship problems, still with great hope that the problems will just disappear by itself. They reconcile with each other but never bother to examine what had occurred or why it happened and to find some solutions to the problem. Read the rest of this entry »