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Cuddling – Is it the Key to Long-Term Happy Relationships?

Cuddling may be more important to men then it is to women in determining the satisfaction of long term relationships. Do you believe that? Read what one recent research study discovered. Cuddling Brings Long Term Relationship Joy

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Do You Know Your Relationship Mission?

This week’s blog post was inspired by my friend and colleague, Stephen Borgman’s recent blog, Create Your Personal Mission Statement  His immediate source was from a career counseling book entitled by Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?  I have taken the liberty to transpose these 3 basic life missions onto our relationship purpose, mission [...]

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What If You KNEW You Were Loved….

What if you KNEW, without any doubt that you were loved?  Did you know that love often brings up anything unlike itself for the purpose of release and healing?  When two people have been a couple for awhile, when the intense hormones of the early days are no longer flooding their systems, often they start to [...]

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A Message from Men to Women

On my mastermind call this morning, one of my colleagues told me about a powerful video that I am impelled to share with you.  So many women have been living lives of quiet desperation.  If they have followed the model set before them by their ancestors, they will strive to be “good” wives, “good” mothers, [...]

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Savor The Flavor of Love

Love comes in all shapes and colors and sizes.  The media flaunts certain images at us which are seen as the  icons of beauty and success.  Some of us seek love by only viewing the outward appearance which is temporary  at best.    Those of us who are wise and have learned the art and [...]

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What is YOUR Dream?

Recently, I was invited to share MY Dream, My Vision, My Purpose as part of the Dream Friday project. Before creating my video and writing about what truly is MY Dream at this point in my life, I spent several days reflecting back on some of the major influences that I could delineate. I began [...]

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Leader, Manager or Worker: Which One Are You in Your Relationships?

Are you a worker, a manager or a leader in your relationships?Recently, I had the privilege some videos of John Maxwell, author of over 50 books, including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The Power of Attitude, and The Power of Influence, explain with his all his charisma and enthusiasm the difference between leadership and [...]

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Valentine’s Day Love

Valentine’s Day is a day that reminds us to acknowledge our loved ones with gifts, external displays of our internal feelings. All too often, the cards and gifts sent on Valentine’s Day are given half-heartedly, with a sense of obligation and doing what the media sets us up to do. When we do not follow the media dictates, we stand the chance of hurting our loved one’s feelings. What is wrong with this scenario?

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Sweet Love Lasts

Love is sweet, love is tender, love is wonderful. That’s what we would all like to believe and often it is that way at the very beginning. When we first connect with someone new, especially if we feel that special spark of attraction and if the timing and situation is just right for love. That [...]

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Lessons in forgiveness from Elizabeth Edwards

Elegance is a quality that emerges from forgiveness. Peace of mind, love and enjoyment of life also emerge from forgiveness. Elizabeth Edwards stood by her husband during both of his campaign attempts to secure a position in the White House. During the last few days of his vice presidential campaign, she received the dreaded diagnosis [...]

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