Wow, did you know that there is a “right” way to react when your partner calls you by another person’s name?
I’d react with a body slam, but in the book I am checking out, How to Instantly Connect with Anyone, Leil Lowndes offers tips and insight on how to respond without spewing suspicion-fueled obscenities because, after all, it might just be an innocent mistake.
(Not sure HOW. But whatev.)
But the issue existing made me curious – has it ever happened to any of you? How did YOU react?
I personally think at the point of that, there better be a GOOD reason, …read more

Hey, single lady, do you have a list?  A list?  Yes, a list. A piece of paper or maybe its a file in your lap top, where you’ve listed what you would like to find in a man.

*Funny
*Kind
*Strong
*Loyal
*Sexy
*Open-minded
*Likes kids
*Smart
*Patient
*Tall
*Between the ages of 37 and 45
*Some gray hair
*Smells good
*Values family
That is an excerpt from my list. I started with the bare bones, then I thought, “Funny, but also able to be still and quiet, because I need some peace, too.”
I can remember reading about a love spell of sorts where you make the list, then burn it and send it out …read more

I read something today at cnn.com about the “Real Meaning of Love Sayings.” 
One “love saying” questioned whether or not your spouse should be your best friend. It got me thinking about my past marriage and relationships. I think I’d like to be married again someday – I know I’d like to be in a committed relationship again some day. Would I need that person to be my best friend? 
Here’s what the relationship experts had to say:
Pepper Schwartz, sociologist: I agree. I think you’re asking a lot of your marriage to have the level of confidentiality, truthfulness, and disclosure that a …read more

I set up a online dating personal ad for my mom at Date.com this weekend. Mom is a lovely 63-year-old woman. We live in a small town and I see a lot of mature men around, but meeting them, that’s the hard part. Mom works at a foster family agency and single gentlemen her age don’t come into her work. Her interests include working in the garden, yoga, hiking, dancing…. all put the dancing is a solitary pursuit.  Meeting new people, it can be challenging. It would be wonderful if she could find a dance partner, at the very least.
Mom is cute, …read more

It’s always good to sit down and count your blessings. Also, it’s best if you spend time pondering on the key ideas on which your definition of a relationship is founded upon. For couples, esp for ones who have been together for so long that it’s seems to have become like a routine and no longer feel special, it’s good to assess your own reasons why you’re with someone and not particularly the one you’re with.
I’m sure some may think that it’s taking away the romance out of it but if you really think about it, it would actually bring …read more

Er, pardon the pun.
We all have our ideals when it comes to choosing a partner. We come up with a list either by superficial standards or by principles. I guess it will be tested once we face that moment whether we are going to choose the person who matches all but one trait, physical or personality, which we think weighs a lot. We then face a dilemma that basically asks, will you settle for anything or anyone less than your ideal?
A friend of mine is going through such a dilemma right now. She has found a guy who …read more

It got me thinking — having experienced being left to wonder on the whereabouts of a former partner, er, to say the least — just how much one person can keep personal affairs, er, private. Is it even a common practice? You, as the other half of a whole, are allowed to NOT disclose certain things you consider too personal to share — even to your partner.
I don’t want to sound like the clingy girlfriend here but hear me out on a theory.
I do sometimes prefer that I know where my man is. Two reasons: one, just to know …read more

Infatuation: it stops the same way it starts – FAST.
The few things you do like about the other person – even those strongly held at first – begin to wear thin. All those other things you don’t have in common begin more and more to rear their ugly heads and become more and more obvious. You begin to quarrels, conflicts, even fights, and then doubts about your “love.”
Soon you break up, UNLESS you and your partner become involved in mutually satisfying sexual relations. Then sex will frustrate the usual test of time. …read more