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The Warning Signs of Disconnection and How to Reconnect with Your Partner

Family, Life

All relationships have their ups and downs but a prolonged lost connection with your partner can possibly lead to divorce. You may miss the early warning signs of disconnection signaling that the bond between you and your partner is breaking down. Emotional disconnect may not be immediately obvious because it can creep up on a relationship stealthily. One partner may be overloaded with work and come home too tired to talk or spend time with the spouse. Or maybe both have grown in different directions and taken on new interests that keep them apart physically and mentally.

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Originally posted on October 13, 2016 @ 5:40 am

4 Destructive Behaviors That Ruin a Relationship

Life, Relationships

Have you had a series of relationships that all ended badly? Were they all marked by emotional turbulence and a cycle of breaking up and making up? If you see a recurring pattern in all of your intimate affairs of the heart, maybe you shouldn’t be blaming lady luck but start looking inward, into your own behavior.

Destructive behaviors are not gender-specific. Men and women have them and they can bring down many a relationship more than infidelity or addiction. These actions and attitudes make for unhappy marriages or partnerships fraught with anxiety, depression, contempt and anger that cause physical and emotional distress.

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Originally posted on September 15, 2016 @ 12:57 pm

5 Common Techniques Your Boss or Spouse Uses to Manipulate You

Life, Relationships

One of worst things that can happen to you is to marry a manipulative spouse or work for a psychopathic boss. They have a bag of techniques to manipulate you and the problem is, you usually won’t know it until it hits you hard, and that could take years.

The effects of being manipulated creep up on you insidiously and chip away at your emotional, mental and spiritual well-being slowly but surely. It changes your behavior and perception until you have little left of your self-esteem and sense of identity.

Manipulators deliberately use underhanded influence to distort and exploit another person’s mental and emotional state to control him or her. The balance of power shifts steeply in favor of the manipulator and you become a puppet acquiescing to every demand.

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In the office or in your own home, here’s how to tell if you’re being manipulated. Ask yourself these questions: a “No” answer may be a hint that you’re living with, or working for, a manipulative person. [Read more…] about 5 Common Techniques Your Boss or Spouse Uses to Manipulate You

Originally posted on August 19, 2016 @ 7:36 am

Eight Characteristics of a Happy, Healthy Relationship

Life, Relationships

We are smack dab in the middle of spring, which means we are also in the beginning of wedding season, and love seems to be in the air. For some, this can be sweet and sentimental, while for others this can be a difficult and emotional time. If your friends’ “I Do’s” are bringing a lot of questions to mind, whether about your single status or about the relationship you are in, keep some of these relationship insights in mind and be on the lookout for happy, healthy relationship characteristics. Know what you want and know when you need to walk away. [Read more…] about Eight Characteristics of a Happy, Healthy Relationship

Originally posted on May 2, 2016 @ 3:10 am

Do Sex and Happiness Go Together?

Life, Relationships

Happiness is that one thing everyone is looking for.

Many people, when asked about what they want, would say “To be happy” – without batting an eyelash. And that’s normal! Who wouldn’t want to be happy?

As such, we all look for ways to become happy. We associate happiness with different things such as family, friends, romantic relationships, money, and status.

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Then there’s the saying that it’s the journey that matters. Stop chasing after happiness. Live in the moment, and you’ll find it. [Read more…] about Do Sex and Happiness Go Together?

Originally posted on March 6, 2016 @ 10:30 am

Letting Go Of Love

Healing, Life, Spirit

Love is an addiction. No, seriously, it is.

This isn’t just a metaphor – our brains react in precisely the same way to love as they do to heroin and crystal meth. Despite what culture has been telling us for centuries, love isn’t supernatural. It’s a profoundly natural phenomenon, with identifiable neurobiological components. This doesn’t diminish it. Our bodies and brains are incredible entities, and the fact that they can create and perpetuate love simply adds to the wonder of the thing.

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But what about when our addiction is taken away from us? When the brain has a ‘love habit’ and love is suddenly denied it, we go into a truly horrible form of withdrawal. What can we do to get through this, without damaging ourselves or others? How do we go through this thing called letting go of love?

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Originally posted on March 4, 2016 @ 8:00 am