Balance is the constant thread through all of my ideas about achieving successful and happy relationships.  Leading a balanced life can help you to feel comfortable, fulfilled, and confident, which can have a positive affect on your relationships with the friends, family, and significant other in your life.  As the slowness of Summer comes to an end I think it’s a good time to evaluate the changes that might be coming this Fall and ask yourself how you are going to maintain balance in your life and your relationships.

Maybe you have a new job, new city, new school, new goals, …read more

Regardless of how attached you are to your main man, it’s a good thing for both of you to spend some time apart.  Even if you love him more than life itself and think that every event is better with him there, it is a positive event for you and for your family and friends to spend time without him.
In the last year both my brother and sister got married.  Now that they are no longer single it is a rare occasion that my parents and I get to spend time with them without their new spouses.  Although I love …read more

Even if you’re not in a long distance relationship, the relationship that you and your significant other have with the phone is very important.  With text messaging and cell phones making it easy to be in contact every second of the day, oftentimes couples find themselves frequently fighting about issues surrounding phonecalls and messages.
If you are in a trusting relationship, then there is no need for excessive use of the phone to keep in contact.  Unanswered phonecalls and delayed responses to text messages can cause unnecessary stress, doubt, and worry.  It’s possible that your significant other actually loves talking to …read more

Sometimes it’s hard to decipher your relationship with your boyfriend’s guy friends.  A lot of times your natural instinct results in some bad behavior, but if you determine the balance in the situation then you can keep the situation under control.  There are lots of elements that make this a delicate situation, but I think that it’s very important to address it correctly to ensure a good balance in your relationship.

Gaining Approval – You obviously want the guy friends to like you.  You know their opinion matters, so you want it to be a positive one.  But the stress that …read more

I read today about an Atlanta football player who assaulted his wife, after she stabbed him in the leg with a pen, following a disagreement about the player’s choice in Facebook friends. The title is “Falcons Player Quinn Ajinnaka Arrested in Facebook Flap.”  Facebook Flap?  So many time something is attributed to Facebook, when really this is more a case of Crazy-Acting Couple Flap.
The article mentions athletic draftees being spied on by potential teams and players forced to leave groups that are deemed controversial. A couple of months ago, I wrote about my new and my ex-boyfriend.  An old friend …read more

My boyfriend flew home today. I drove him down to the airport this morning and was able to drive back home before he arrived back in Colorado.  Along his route, I got updates like, “…landed in L.A.” or “…arrived early,” and then the photos started coming. That boy and his iPhone… I love the way it allows him to share his life with me.

Here are the things I learned about us this week:
*The first night is tricky, but every night thereafter, I sleep better beside someone that I love. Plus, I feel that I can safely sleep with the …read more

My boyfriend will be arriving in two days. I keep thinking the day is almost here, it’s almost here, it’s almost here… and each day it’s just a little bit more almost-er.
This morning, he sent me a good morning text, as he does every morning. (He’s very attentive that way).
Being that it’s a work morning and he is in a different time zone, it woke me up. I don’t mind, I love any and all contact with him, but the message mentioned, “only 2 more days,” and I was so excited.  I could not go back to sleep.
Instead, I …read more

Today, I ran into my friend, T. She is one of my good-girlfriends, but we’ve never socialized outside of work although she’s invited me to fun things like Halloween parties, the Rocky Horror Picture show, bingo…… yeah, bingo. (I got enough of that when I used to work Bingo years ago during my Spokane days). I’d love to go, but something is always going on with my kids and I can’t get away.
I told T that I have a new boyfriend. She wanted to know about him and where things were going – serious? casual? I wasn’t going to marry …read more

All you Libras out there, I’ve got your Free Will Astrology horoscope for you.  If you aren’t a Libra, then you can take a look at what Rob Brezny has to say about your sign here.
Okay, I picked Libra this week, because my boyfriend is a Libra and I am just goofy enough to be as interested in  his horoscope as I am in my own.
Okay, here goes………
Cracked.com ran an article on “5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won’t).” Here’s a hint about what those things are: fame, wealth, beauty, genius, and power. You might want to go and …read more

Last night , I witnessed the sweetest moment between my daughter, Bailey, and her boyfriend, Greg. I immediately wrote about it and sent it off to my friend. This friend, like me, is a little disillusioned by love, and I thought she would appreciate hearing about someone who is getting it right.
Greg lives with us, because his mother packed him up and turned him out about 3 months ago. He is a great kid, although I’m pretty sure that since he’s only been here a few months, we are still getting the very best of him. Bailey and Greg have …read more