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- ***The Perfect Wedding Gift - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzThe Perfect Wedding Gift By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz "the marriage doctors" Award Winning Authors of the NEW Hardback Book Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage The best wedding gift of all is the gift of marital success! While we ...
Views: 2464(22 votes) - ***Caring For Aging Parents Can Challenge Your Marriage - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. We are “baby-boomers.” Like some 80 million Americans, we were born during the period 1946-1964. We are that generation of Americans born to what former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called, “The Greatest Generation.” Our parents survived the Great ...
Views: 4912(32 votes) - ***How to Fall In Love Again with Your Spouse - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Let’s face it – we love our spouse more than life itself. And frankly, we cannot imagine life without them! But the truth is, from time to time, our love for each other needs renewal. While love can be forever, it often needs nurturance, ...
Views: 9450(42 votes) - ***Democracy And Love On A Beautiful Day - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2008 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzDemocracy and Love on a Beautiful Day By Dr. Charles D. Schmitz and Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Authors of the Best Relationship Book of 2008 INDIE Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Available at GoldenAnniversaries.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and at ...
Views: 2378(26 votes) - ***Simple Things Matter in Marriage – Even in Venice! - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2009 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Have you ever been to Venice, Italy? Wow, what a wonderfully romantic place! When you ride in a gondola together by Marco Polo’s house, stroll on St. Mark’s Square while holding hands, enjoy the grandeur of the Doges Palace, or share a bottle of ...
Views: 2643(26 votes) - ***You Are Always In My Heart - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Recently, we discovered a new singing group called Pink Martini. Our daughter put us on to this group several weeks ago so we downloaded them from iTunes. We have been grooving to their sounds ever since! They are utterly delightful and we highly ...
Views: 4942(23 votes) - ***Open Marriage for Mo’Nique and Sid - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Just when you think you have heard it all, along comes Mo’Nique! Here is what she says about her marriage to Sid -- "Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That's not a deal-breaker," she says. "That's not something that would ...
Views: 5789(47 votes) - The 3 Biggest Mistakes Couples Make to Kill the Passion - by Submitted on May 22, 2009 from Jan RobinsonPassion is energizing and inspiring, a great big wonderful “YES!” that fills life with a sense of greatness and purpose. When you have passion, life is fun and juicy. In relationship, passion is a deeply affirmative force. When there’s passion--for one another, for spending time together, for ...
Views: 6673(7 votes) - "21 Things I Appreciate About You" - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Lex SisneyA close friend told me a wonderful story yesterday. I want to share it with you so you can make someone you love feel really, really good too. A husband and wife recently celebrated twenty-one years of marriage. Still deeply in love, the wife has been battling episodes of depression and it ...
Views: 5241(8 votes) - Embracing the Divine Masculine - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2009 from Harold BeckerLife is a beautiful interplay of imagination and manifestation. Known in other ways as feeling and thought, feminine and masculine, yin yang, each requires and adds to the other. In an amazing dance that allows us to create and recreate our world, these energies continuously merge into each ...
Views: 3866(4 votes) - Gifts that Embody Love & Memories for your loved ones - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2009 from mila zhangShopping for your loved ones can be almost daunting at times. This is especially true if they are the type of person that already has “everything” or they tend to buy themselves whatever they want, leaving you with no ideas for holidays, special occasions, weddings, retirements, anniversaries ...
Views: 722(4 votes) - ***The Ten Essential Virtues of Love - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. This morning, a great friend of ours sent along an article that we were really taken with. For those who have read our book, Building a Love that Lasts (Jossey-Bass/Wiley 2010), you may recall a chapter entitled, “A Tribute to Lasting Love” (pp. ...
Views: 8948(47 votes) - "Even If You Lost the Parent Lottery, You Can Have or Find True Love" - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2009 from Sandra DawsonI lost the parent lottery. My mother was verbally abusive and my father threatened my life for 18 years. I am one of the happiest people you will ever meet today, and I am excited to be telling you how you can transform your life too. You can have true love or find true love and success in ...
Views: 2246(5 votes) - ***Baby Boomers: Finding Love—How to Know When You Have It and How To Keep It - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2011 from Boomer Living at Boomer-LivingPlus.comAs relationship professionals, clients regularly ask us how they can tell if they are in love. If you were to ask 100 people, you would likely get 100 different answers. Attempting to define the emotion of love with words is like trying to catch water with your hands—just when you think you have ...
Views: 3650(5 votes) - ***Don’t Ever Say These Things To Your Spouse - by Submitted on May 27, 2018 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Words Matter! What you say to the one you love is important! Negative and hurtful statements can have the power to cut through the very fabric of the bond between two people in love. Words can damage and potentially destroy the foundation of your ...
Views: 1969(5 votes) - ***How is the Current Recession Affecting Marriage? - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. For the past several weeks we have been pouring over as much data as we can get our hands on to answer a question we are often asked – “How is the current Recession affecting marriage in the USA?” The answer is complicated. Here’s what we do ...
Views: 4947(45 votes) - ***Marriage Is Alive and Well In France - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2014 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzBy America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts. Recently, we traveled again to Europe to conduct more interviews with successfully married couples. Since we had not been to France in several years, we were beginning to believe the media reports about how the French did not like Americans. So, we ...
Views: 1846(5 votes) - ***The Silent Treatment - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2009 from Margaret PaulResearch indicates that children would rather be yelled at than ignored. When prisoners are being punished, they are put in isolation, because being isolated is one of the harshest punishments there is - other than physical abuse.The silent treatment is a form of punishment, a way to attempt to ...
Views: 10171(5 votes) - The Flame of Love - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2012 from Payam GhassemlouThe Flame of Love By Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D. On a daily basis, many of us spend a lot of time thinking about our life challenges. We think about all sorts of difficult situations, like financial problems, and make ourselves believe we can’t handle them. Catastrophic thinking ...
Views: 2276(5 votes) - Unconditional Love (starting with you) - by Gay Hendricks says in “The Learning to Love yourself Workbook? Humans tend to demand from others what we are most unwilling to give.
Isn’t that funny. We expect and demand someone to give us what we are not willing to give. Unconditional love. If we expect that from someone to make us feel ...
Views: 21107(5 votes) - Always Stay In Love - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from Lilly WhiteAlways Stay In Love New Love is exciting, fun and just comes easy, it seems to flow. After the new wares off and couples settle into the relationship they begin to go about life. What they fail to understand is being in love can always stay through out the relationship and last. Do not ...
Views: 1190(6 votes) - Romance, Marriage, and Relationships—8 Huge Myths You Need to Know About - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Scott & Stephen PetulloAfter over 25 years of empirical research involving relationships, spirituality, personality and compatibility assessment, matching and observing thousands for love relationships as a matchmaker, and writing a book about soul mates, we've noticed that there are many love life expectations and ...
Views: 1441(6 votes) - *** Cinderella Was Not Saved - She Was a Happy Person All Along! - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2009 from Margaret PaulWould the prince have chosen Cinderella to marry if she was a miserable young woman? If her stepsisters were beautiful but miserable, would he have chosen either of them? Are you living under the delusion that when you meet your soul mate you will finally be happy - that your misery is because ...
Views: 18190(15 votes) - ***Loving Yourself First - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2009 from Margaret Paul"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."--Lucile Ball, 1911-1989, Comedienne and ActressLucile Ball was a very smart woman!Do you believe that if you put others first, they will love and value you and you will feel ...
Views: 10797(18 votes) - ***Does Marriage Improve Your Health? - by Submitted on May 03, 2010 from Dr. Charles and Dr Elizabeth SchmitzAmerica’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts Over the past decade there have been a number of research articles expounding on the positive virtues of marriage and good health. We have reported on them. And as you know, there are some very strong opinions that accompany the research findings – ...
Views: 5135(47 votes) - Is All Protective Clothing Equal? - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2019 from Imtiaz AhmedNot all the protective clothing is equal, it is entirely depending on the type of protection is needed for the employees of the industry. The main objective of the protective clothing is to protect the wearer from different industrial hazards. In most of the cases, industries are having ...
Views: 1097(1 vote) - Are you “Abandoning” yourself in your relationships? - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2010 from Marshall ZaleOften I see couples or hear the sadness of friends who commonly complain about their mates and wish for a paradigm shift. I hear them echo “If they can only be this way” or “If they were more like that.” When I pose the question: ” Why are you in the relationship?”, the answers vary but they are ...
Views: 3433(3 votes) - How to Help Someone With a Broken Heart - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2010 from Greg BakerYou know someone that has had their heart broken and they are so hurt that they seem to withdraw from everyone and everything. You want to help, but you just don't know what to do. Read on for a few suggestions and tips. Now if you did the heart breaking, that would be an altogether different ...
Views: 3567(3 votes) - How to Know iF Someone Is In Love With You - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2010 from M.Farouk RadwanYou Can Easily Know If he/she Loves you It usually takes me less than 30 minutes on the first meeting with someone to know wether he is in love with someone else or not. This is not marketing Hype because after reading Part One and part two (which you are currently reading) of this series ...
Views: 9625(2 votes) - Men Commitment Issues - 6 Things Women Must Know To Avoid Commitment Phobic Men - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2011 from Johnny WayneCommitment is a word that has been crashed in the vocabulary by men which is why men commitment issues are very known today. Fear of commitment is actually not a single fear, but it comes with various fears such as the fear of loss of freedom, privacy, financial damages and compromise. There are ...
Views: 6496(1 vote) - Sharing a few Quotations/Thoughts on HOPE and LOVE - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: Sharing a few Quotations/Thoughts on HOPE and LOVE Shared by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Hope, Quotations, Love, Thoughts, “Inspiration, Spiritual”, Inspirational Writings. Web Site: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 The submitter’s blogs (with extracts from his ...
Views: 2691(1 vote) - What Did Jesus Really Mean? - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: What Did Jesus Really Mean? Shared by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Spiritual Growth, Faith, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Quotations, Thoughts, Thoughts on Jesus, “Inspiration, Spiritual”, Inspirational Writings (enough there now, craig) Web Sites: ...
Views: 1393(1 vote) - 'The God Memorandum' (from 'The Greatest Miracle in the World' by Og Mandino) - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2010 from Craig LockArticle Title: 'The God Memorandum' (from 'The Greatest Miracle in the World' by Og Mandino) Submitted by:Craig Lock Category/Key words: Inspiration, 'The Greatest Miracle in the World', Og Mandino, book "reviews", inspirational books, good books Web site: Craig's new blog with thoughts ...
Views: 5550(3 votes) - *** Getting Love, Being Loving - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Margaret PaulTake a moment right now to think about your real intention when it comes to love: Is it most important to you to get someone to love you - to get love? Is it more important to you to be a loving person - to give love to yourself and others?At any moment, you have one of these two intentions, ...
Views: 3475(2 votes) - *** Happiness and Financial Success - Which Comes First? - by Submitted on May 12, 2009 from Margaret PaulWhich statement do you believe is the most true? Happiness brings you financial successFinancial success brings you happinessYou might be surprised to learn that research suggests the first statement to be the most true. Again, which statement to you believe is the most true? Happiness is ...
Views: 5911(3 votes) - *** Lock and Key Relationships - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2009 from Paul ChekOver the years, I’ve discovered a relatively simple metaphor for understanding relationships and maintaining healthy relations. The metaphor is the lock and key, and you can learn a great deal about your interactions with others and how to make those interactions with others better contribute to ...
Views: 3588(1 vote) - *** Love Asks for Nothing - by Submitted on May 19, 2009 from Margaret Paul"We 'love' another in order to get something ourselves….There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything." -- A Course in Miracles "Love is incapable of asking for anything." Wow! Take a moment to think about that ...
Views: 3109(3 votes) - *** Love: Is This Romance or is This Friendship? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Margaret PaulJames, in his middle 30s, was ready to meet his life partner, get married and have children. After dating many women, he met Cindy. "She is really beautiful, although I'm not sure she's my type. But I think she is perfect for me. We have the same interests, the same values, we go to the ...
Views: 3369(2 votes) - *** Real Love: What is Real Love? - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Margaret PaulMost people would love to have "real love," yet often they have no idea what real love is. Take a moment to think about how you would define real love. Defining love is like defining a particular color to a person who has never been able to see color - you have to feel it know what it is. ...
Views: 3447(2 votes) - ***Single to Engaged in 6 Months-How She Did it and You Can too - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2011 from Pamela VandervoortHas it been years since you have been in a committed relationship? If you answered yes to this question, you are probably feeling pretty discouraged. You may even be wondering if love is just not in the cards for you. Maybe you even feel like just giving up. You have spent the ...
Views: 3316(1 vote) - ***When is it Helpful to Apologize? - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Margaret Paul"When it is helpful to apologize?" asked Patricia, a client of mine, in one of our phone sessions. Her husband, Brent, often expected her to apologize and she was confused about when it was appropriate. The answer to this question is a little complex, because there are two different ...
Views: 4205(1 vote) - 11 tips to create the perfect gratitude journal - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2013 from Louise Jensen“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot” - Hausa Proverb. In my early, dark days of first acquiring a disability I didn't feel I had an awful lot to be thankful for. It was like I had spent my whole life getting to the point where I had a thriving holistic therapy practice I loved, ...
Views: 1272(1 vote) - 40 Years of Learning About Love - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2010 from Michael Goebel"In the end, both Love and Business boil down to simple service to oneself and others" - MHG, 2010 "Love is the answer to all questions and the solution to all problems. All else is illusion" - MHG, 2009 "In the end, the answer is always found to have been back in the *approach*" - MHG, ...
Views: 1419(2 votes) - 5 Sexual Positions for People Who Don’t Love Each Other - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2011 from Ed WalkerSex is important. Few of us appreciate just how important it really is. A linguistics professor recently came forward with a theory that language itself was initially invented with the primary purpose of giving us a way of alluding to sex. Indeed language was only used to communicate ideas such ...
Views: 2961(1 vote) - 5 simple steps to forget someone you love - by Submitted on May 07, 2012 from Raymond FohjemHow would you forget someone you love? Would you continue to dwell in the past memories and ruin your health through thinking or crying for the rest of your days? If you want to stop loving someone, you will and the process is completely easy to follow. We have many types of relationships but ...
Views: 19770(2 votes) - 7 Little Communication Tips with Big Payoffs for Your Marriage - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Rhonda NeelyEven a few little changes can make a huge difference when communicating to your spouse, helping you reduce arguments and frustration. But most of all they’ll help you improve the state of your marriage. Isn’t that, kind of magical? 1. Wake up on the right side of the bed – The first 15 ...
Views: 1254(1 vote) - 7 Top Qualities of a Great Wedding Planner - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2012 from Strings ChampagneHave you tried setting up a business that interests you most and you feel like you really enjoy doing it aside from the fact that you are making more profits out of it? Do you have the guts and talents in organizing events and the genuine interest in people and places? Why not start a wedding ...
Views: 870(1 vote) - 9 Ways to Keep Your Relationship Exciting and Fresh - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2020 from Jaclyn TengThe excitement of being in love is unmatchable and makes you feel like being on the top of the world. However, things can easily get upside down if your relationship starts missing its spark. As time goes on, it is natural for two people to start taking each other for granted; the result is, ...
Views: 583(2 votes) - A Cure for our Fear of Death - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2011 from Mike PolischukIn Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris", the protagonist complaints that he doesn't know whether he should marry his fiancee, and whether he loves her at all. The reply he gets from a fictional Ernest Hemingway contains the most brilliant lines in the movie (quoting from memory): "When you ...
Views: 1816(2 votes) - A Human Without Love Is Not a Human Being - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from David SamuelA human without love is not a human being. To live without loving is merely existing, it is a robots life. To be truly alive, to live, to feel, one must have someone to love. Love must be given to someone who can receive it for the lover to feel love. If love is given to one who cannot ...
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