How old does it get before it gets too old being in love with someone always ready to control or correct something about you? Does it make any sense for another human, even if he’s your boyfriend, to control your life by telling you what to eat or which outfit to wear?
Even if you are married to the man, there is a clear line between having respect for your partner and being enslaved to his wishes. It appears that many people don’t understand that even when you are in a relationship. You still have a personal life to live an independent choices to make.
Do you usually feel bad about your outfit immediately you put it on-not because it is not good but, because you know your man wouldn’t agree that he can be seen in that outfit?
If he is a fashion lover, it is a problem if he doesn’t agree with it-he will say he doesn’t like it and you will feel hurt. On the other hand, if he would like to wear something different, he will say he does like it and you will feel like you are controlled.
That is why I think it is so important to have a man who respects you and likes you for who you are. He may not agree with your style, but he will be there if you need him. If he doesn’t agree with how you look, it means he doesn’t like you, but he will still be there for you.
I don’t know what it is in me, but I don’t like men who are in control and who don’t love me the way I am. I love my boyfriend and I want to be in love with him forever.
I know that my boyfriend is a cool guy and I love him, but I know he is not like that all the time. The only reason why I know that he isn’t is because he doesn’t tell me. When he is in control, I feel like it is too much and that I will never be able to be in control of my life.
I know that I will never be able to be in control of my life and I know that he isn’t, but I still want to be in control. If he had to choose between me and my style, he would choose me.
Do you think that your boyfriend’s style is really the only reason why you want to be in love with him?
Do you think he is just looking for attention?
Do you think he is just looking for a good time to show off his cool style?
Do you think he is just trying to please you because he loves you?
I don’t know what it is, but I do know that I want to be in love with him forever.
When you are in love with someone, you want to spend your life with them. You want to have a family with them. You want to be with them forever and be with them forever. You want to give them everything because you love them.
If he is just looking for a good time, he will give up on you eventually. He will not be able to love you forever and he will not be able to see you forever.
I know that my boyfriend has a good sense of fashion and I love him, but I know he isn’t always in control of his life and I know that he doesn’t love me the way I am.
I know that I want to be in love with him forever because I know he loves me and because I know that I can never be in control of my life.
My boyfriend just wants to be in control and he doesn’t want to be in love with me forever.
When I was a teenager, I was in love with a boy. We had a very short relationship, but I still remember the feeling I had the first time I met him.
He was so cool and he had a very good sense of fashion. I wanted to be in love with him, I wanted to be around him forever, and I never knew what it would be like with him.
I didn’t know what I was in for but I knew I would never find someone like him. He was so cool and he was in love with me, and I knew that he would never love me like that.
He was in love with me, but he never told me. We didn’t have a lot of time to talk and I didn’t know what I was in for.
I was in love with him and I knew that I would never be able to be in love with him, but I wanted to be. I wanted to spend my whole life with him, but I didn’t know what it would be like.
I didn’t know what it would be like with him, but I knew I wanted him forever.
He was so cool and I knew that he was in love with me, but I didn’t know what it was like.
I knew that I wanted to be in love with someone forever. I knew that I wanted to spend my whole life with him and I knew that I never would be able to be in love with anyone else.
You are not in control of your life. You are not in control of your boyfriend’s life. You don’t have to accept his rules about what he wants you to wear or his rules about how he wants you to act.
You can choose what you want. You can decide to be in love with your boyfriend forever. You can choose to be in love with your boyfriend, even if he is not in control of his life.
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This is so beautiful. It really is melting my heart.
Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would.
You imagine life to have those little moments that you see in movies. The beautiful second your eyes meet with hers and you walk up to her to speak those thoughts screaming so loudly in your head with her responding with the sweetest words a man could ever hear, “I love you too.”
That magical night where you bring the girl of your dreams to prom. The moment where you hold her close and dance under that spotlight shining brightly onto you and her. The band happens to play just the right song to end just the perfect dance with just the perfect kiss.
Sitting alone in orientation anxiously awaiting for the awkward bonding sessions you have with these guys you’ll never see again only to have the most beautiful girl sit right next to you and charismatically introduce herself to you. “Hi, I’m Jess!” she would say, and you would answer with a funny joke and beginning the story of how you met your college sweetheart.
Walking around the bookstore, one that’s right on the outskirts of downtown, listening to the calming tunes of Bon Iver and you reach out to grab “Emma” by Jane Austen when her hand touches lightly on yours. You awkwardly stumble with words while you try and explain to her that she could have it while she says the same to you.
But nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Those sweet words turns into awkward laughter that inevitably turns into a slow disintegration of the relationship that once was. From “Hey! How’s it going?” to “Hi, I’m good. I have to get to class so…”
That magical night ends in loneliness, envy and a bottle of Jack as you sit alone on your table watching her sharing that moment under that spotlight with a guy called Seb.
That lonely moment in orientation is still, at the end of the day, a lonely moment where you walk in by yourself and you step out with newly made friends yet feeling even more alone than you did walking in.
The bookstore will never be the miracle that fate brings to you. “Emma” will be reached out by you, held by you and purchased by you as you pay $20, smiling politely at the cashier and leaving for your home about one and half hours away.
Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Nothing ever turns out like you thought it would. Reality can never align with expectations. And the day you realize that you would want so hard to cry, but you won’t because as sad as you may be, you will still have hope that tomorrow will be the day you hold that girl’s hand and dance with her in the middle of the street while homeless Joe is playing Iron and Wine on his broken radio. You and her smoking that last Marlboro, watching the ashes fly away and you finally kiss her in the middle of the crossroad.
And I will bring you back to all that you said when you would call me friend.
You may hate me, but I’ll remember to love you.
2 a.m in the morning listening to Zeppelin. That’s a first.
I know you say there’s no one for you, but here is one.
Will it be my heart, or his?
And it all came true.
The sun at that place we were.
Take my plans and throw them all out
Recklessness is thy name, yet
As I do what I see fit, it is important to remember
What it was then
For love, anything for love
The logic, the reason;
It shall cease to exist. It is important to remember
The essence in which what our love was and not what our love is
Writing to my dear, sweet love leaves the thoughts so genuine to my heart
My honesty, my sincerity; placed unto this sheet
I shall tell her and finally let her know my feelings, my love
I love you, I miss you, this sunset I give to you.
I’m still a single man after 17 years of wishing and hoping. All I ever desired was a love that’s as beautiful and simple as a regular romantic-comedy formula. Meet the girl, fall in love, sudden troubling circumstance but in the end still fall back in love with each other. My stories almost always ends the same way: meet the girl, fall in love, troubling circumstance, catostrophic end. My first and most heartbreaking love, S. She and I met when we were young. I loved her and I was told she loved me too. I treated her like trash and she never spoke to me again. Years following, I fall asleep thinking about her and only her, always tearing up with regret. She wasn’t the ideal girl, though she was absolutely stunning, but she was the one that I loved irrationally. She was emotions.
The second girl, A, was and is my best-friend. Our relationship was a comfortable likeness that was bordering platonic to romantic. There was nothing like spending the afternoon, sitting on a set of stairs, watching the sunset with her. Our story ended when she left the country. It was the saddest end to any of my stories because our relationship was left intact but just limited by the distance. She was comfort.
E was the third. She and I officially met in my last year of highschool. Intellectually, she was the perfect girl. She was beautiful, smart and so witty with words. While I doubt she ever saw me the same way I saw her, she and I developed a relationship. An awkward one. She was so perfect and she hung out with me. I was left intimidated and ultimately left a fool. She and I don’t talk anymore. She was my ideal.
When I left for college, I thought things were going to change. I thought I would finally meet someone and have an uncertain yet content relationship with. I was wrong. Sure, I’ve met someone; in fact, I met 5. But within the 5, I narrowed down to one based on intellectual commonality. This lead me to J. She plays piano, she’s bright, and she’s extremely hardworking. While she is no E, she still seem way out of my league. I like her but our story ended on very uncertain terms. Through our shortlived relationship, there was probably many misunderstanding. Her post-poning our hangout to my erupt exit from our conversation. In the end, I found that one ounce of courage to ask for her number so I can find her again the following semester. She gave it to me, with some strange glares and almost insincere agreements. I felt like there was some disdain from her but nonetheless, I texted her. Till this day, this moment, Tuesday, 6:31am, December 18th, 2012, she has yet answered me. I really hope she is the one. Not the one girl I marry, but the one who I finally make it to the romcom end with. But I’m so tired of this continuous chase. I’m so tired of never finding the one. I feel defeated. I really, truly hope she is the one that can pull me out from this dark, sad ditch of a predicament. I hope she can be my future.


Modern couples, apparently, want to be realistic about what they promise.
Vows like “For as long as we continue to love each other,” “For as long as our love shall last” and “Until our time together is over” are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow — a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure.Further along, the article quotes a psychologist, Diana Kirschner, who says that she “. . . can understand why some people, especially children of divorce, would find it difficult to promise eternal love.”
“We’re hearing that a lot — ‘as long as our love shall last.’ I personally think it’s quite a statement on today’s times — people know the odds of divorce,” said New Jersey wedding expert Sharon Naylor, author of “Your Special Wedding Vows,” who adds that the rephrasing is also part of a more general trend toward personalizing vows.
Yeah, pledging eternal love seems daunting. This bit of realism may actually be helpful. But first, let’s sort out the relationship between love and marriage.
Love and marriage, crooned Sinatra, go together like a horse and carriage. Nice rhyme, and a generally accepted idea. Love certainly pulls us into marriage, but the temptation is to carry the analogy too far, imagining that love pulls the marriage along.
But love is not up to the task. As Ambrose Bierce observed, “Love is a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer says it without the cynicism. Giving advice to a young bride and groom, he wrote, “It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
So don’t promise eternal love. Instead, promise to stay married. Promise to be nice to your spouse when you’re feeling pissed off. Promise to treat each other with respect. Promise to talk and promise to listen. Promise to try to see things from your spouse’s perspective. Promise to say “thank you,” “I love you,” and “you’re right” as often as you can, and promise to say “I’m sorry” as often as you must.
And promise to keep your thinking unclouded by trendy notions.


Maa is a tribute to Manjeet's beloved mother who passed away.
The pain of the loss of his mother, and the remembrance of the happiness, the special moments and experiences his mother had shared with him, inspired Manjeet to write the song “Maa”.
This inspired Manjeet to write the song “Maa”.
The lyrics of the composition reflect the feelings of mother and child for each other. “Maa” symbolises the divine relationship between mother and child, a bond which is like no other, and which is a blessing from the Almighty to all mothers and their children.


My husband and I (and our dogs) just spent the weekend with my parents (and their dogs), celebrating the 4th. The 4th, our Independence Day, also happens to be their wedding anniversary-this year celebrating 29 years.
Isn’t that amazing? 29 years.
Every memory I have of us as a family included pets-dogs, cats, even a rat or two. And so, many of my current skills as a dog-parent came from seeing how my mom and dad raised me and our animal brood. There were clear boundaries in our house, the things we could do and the things we couldn’t. There was roughhousing and hide-and-seek, and many games of tug-o-war. There was, even more memorably, the cuddles-the hugs and “keesis”. We had a happy house. My parents loved me, my brother, our animals.
And they’ve been married for 29 years!
My parents have rescued countless dogs in the years they’ve been together, and recently had to let go of our runt, Cinderella, the 17 year old Basset Hound we got while I was in high school. In her absence, my parents mourned. And when they were ready, they went to an adoption event and got Charlie. Charlie is at Catahoula Leopard, a big, ooey-gooey love bundle of a dog.
He pairs well with Sara, their aging Akita mix, in both size and love of belly rubs. At some point, I’ll have my dad write a post about his furbabies but in the interim, they are mentioned here to showcase the love my parents have for one another, for their pups, and for us kids.
“My parents loved me, my brother, our animals.”
As my husband and I figure out our future regarding parenting human babies, I’ll take a few lessons from my parents in the interim: Be weird, be happy, be loving, and above all, be present. Life is too short for anything else. I’m learning from the best.
I am so grateful for them. Happy 29th anniversary, your first 4th with Charlie! Here’s to many more (and an extra photo, just because I can!).
Please share your favorite 4th of July story! Barkswell would love to hear from you!


Fluid behavior is determined to some extent by its temperature. A later section discusses the relationship between pressure and temperature in a gas.
A temperature scale is established by choosing two observable physical effects which are dependent upon temperature and assigning numerical values to them. The Fahrenheit and Celsius (previously known as Centigrade) scales use the freezing and boiling points of water as the two reference points:
The Celsius scale is most widely used in industry, but the Kelvin scale is important in determining the changes in gas pressure or volume with temperature.


My scary valentine.
Honestly when you look at me what do you see?
On my side when im with you its like blue skys green grass and trees
I never understand why you try to make me think so hard
Who knew our love would even get this far.
I mean your light darkskin
Makes me grin
I gwt weak in my knees when i see you then . #emptylove heeling scars
Wishing it would heel
My scary Valentine.
I could never understand why you dislike me the one you love at times.like i do everything wrong not YOUR WAY . And the sad thing is 82411 ….istill love you. Treat me bad then make me sad . And once again love still here. #empty love
Funny me and my baby go through this shit everyday


8 Simple Steps to Finding Modern Love (Coming from a girl who was single in San Francisco)
There comes a time in every girl’s life when she realizes that she has absolutely no time for a serious relationship and that she is much better off being on her own romantically. And then there are times when that’s not the case. If said girl lives in a metropolitan city, she may find that her environment supported and fueled her want to be single and independent. But then when she is ready to make a commitment, it’s hard to get into the swing of things…or get others into the swing of things.
For years I was single but not alone in San Francisco. Meaning that I experienced togetherness and love with men when the timing worked out, but that like many relationships in this city, they were more a matter of convenience than a commitment. If either of us lost interest, we had every right to move on. If one of us needed to focus on our career or school was getting hectic, we didn’t owe the other person an explanation if less time was to be spent with them. And of course, many of my relationships were open as well, meaning we could see other people.
And I enjoyed my life the way it was. I’m not going to lie and pretend as though my feelings weren’t hurt when a guy I was seeing took someone else to a highly anticipated art exhibit. Or that my selfishness or the selfishness of the people I was with didn’t get in the way of creating a greater bond with each other. I’ve had all of the natural cliché issues that arise when messing with casual/open relationships. But while I was in college and doing a lot of self discovery, I personally did not have time for a serious relationship. I was the kind of girl who needed all the alone time I could get with my insane internships and part time jobs being juggled with a full course load. And I personally feel I benefited and grew from having a wide range of experiences with different kinds of relationships and people. Luckily for me, San Francisco was a city that supported my train of thought. There were so many dating websites filled with so many interesting profiles, right at my fingertips.
But then there came a time when I decided that that time in my life was over. And that I was suddenly ready for a more serious relationship. It was a feeling that felt like it came to me overnight, although I know that subconsciously that was probably not true. And so I ventured off to find a person I could establish a much stronger bond with. And was getting nowhere with my search fast. I gave the wrong people chances and time, I at times forgot what my goal was, and I ultimately made myself miserable. I was also living in a city that didn’t support monogamous or serious relationships very much, what with online dating being standard, the city being full of open couples and everyone constantly moving in and out of the Bay Area.
But over time, I developed a new perspective on the situation and a new way of looking at myself and the people I went out with. And it resulted in me finding the greatest guy I’ve ever met in my life and creating a new and fantastic life with him. And before you accuse me of thinking I’m some sort of relationship expert, I’ll say this: My current relationship, like every relationship, is far from perfect. And I am far from a perfect participant in it. But it is a great relationship, and it makes me better all the time, and I want to help anyone out there who is as frustrated now as I was last year in finding love to speed up the process and avoid a few of my mistakes.
Something important to note before reading on is that everyone’s experience and journey is different. Some people only have two relationships their whole life and are fulfilled, some date until they’re 35 and then finally settle down. Some feel they learn more from long-term relationships, and some feel they learn more from having variety in their life. Some people are going to have internal struggles and values like mine, and others are going to feel they’re very different from me. That being said, all 8 steps I took to finding love are not going to all necessarily apply to you. Pick and choose what you think is relevant or reminds you of yourself and feel free to run with it. You may just be pleasantly surprised as to what life brings. And for the record, no I don’t think there’s anything wrong or pathetic about wanting to find love. There is something wrong with not wanting to be alone or feeling worthless about not having romance in your life, but romantic love is like anything in our lives: It doesn’t always present itself at the right time. And these are steps that could help someone who is ready to create an opportunity for themselves.
1. Be completely honest with yourself and others. Do you really have the time and energy for a committed relationship?
Weirdly enough, people are more honest with themselves as to whether they have the time and energy when deciding whether or not to get a cat, than when deciding whether or not to let a partner into their life. Just because you are emotionally ready doesn’t mean that you are fully capable of participating in a serious relationship.
And it’s not something that’s necessarily a bad thing, or your fault. Maybe you’re in school and finals will be coming up and you need time to focus. Maybe your job or hobbies keep you up and running 60+ hours a week. Maybe you have plans to backpack through Europe in six months or take on a job that may relocate you.
But I think it’s good to remind yourself of what your short and long-term goals are so you can be honest with anyone interested in you. Be fair to yourself and those around you, and always be open about your goals and intentions before going on the hunt for love. Sure, making that decision may push potential love interests away or cause you to have to put your dreams on hold. But at the end of the day, you’ll be working toward the goal you find most important.
2. If you’re looking for a needle, don’t search in a haystack
All drug-related jokes aside, one must have a great understanding of this if they’re looking for love in a big city. People flock to big cities for great career opportunities and for new exciting experiences…and those plans don’t always mix well with long-term or serious relationships. So as you date around, you’ll realize that the majority of those you meet are going to be looking for something casual or short. And that’s why it’s important to look in the right places for people who are looking for the same thing as you.
Developing a loving and mature relationship from a Tinder meet-up or a night of scoping out the bar for hotties is totally possible, don’t get me wrong. But technically, so is catching lightning in a bottle. If you want to increase your chances of success, find dating websites/apps where people are actually looking to get to know someone. Or where you can actually search for matches based on what their intentions are on the site. Go to mixers your friends invite you to. Start spending time with your friends who are in stable relationships, because more than likely they’re friends with other people who are interested or capable of stable relationships. Maybe they can introduce you to someone. But whatever your MO is, make sure you’re doing the version of it that helps you toward your goal.
3. Rid yourself of any distractions…you know who they are
While you search for that someone special, ask yourself: Is there anyone if your life you could probably spend less time with in order to better focus on your goals? A friend with benefits you often see? That ex of yours who you still sometimes hook up with? That one person in your phone who you call at two in the morning when all else fails? Or even that *ahem* “platonic” friend you enjoy keeping on the hook because you know they’ve got a thing for you.
If your answer is no, you have no one like any of these descriptions in your life, please continue on to tip 4. If you do have anyone who plays a role like what I described above, it may be time to either give them the boot or politely let them know that you’ll have to spend less time with them…or at least change the context of your time together. It may sound ridiculous, but these are all people who will stand in your way of finding love, even if you have a mutual understanding that you don’t want a serious relationship with them.
First of all, they take time and emotional energy from you throughout the week, giving you less time to spend with serious relationship candidates. Secondly, if your relationships with these people ever get mentioned in conversation with people you’re dating, or they get tipped off that you’re still constantly talking to an ex, a friend with benefit, etc, they may get the wrong idea and decide that you don’t take them seriously, whether or not that’s true. I’m not saying you have to tell these people to get out of your life forever and slap them Telenovela style. But I am saying that you shouldn’t continue to devote a ton of time to them. Or you should make your relationships with them truly platonic. And if you’re having a hard time making this change, be sure to ask yourself why this step is so difficult for you, and whether or not this is really a good time to commit to someone new.
4. Regardless of how much you value your time, value it 10x more
I always believe that when it comes to dating, we’re all smarter than we think. Because we’re the ones who at the end of the day deep down in our hearts know what kind of person is good for us. In the back of our minds, we carry all of our values and all of the traits that our past experiences have taught us we can or cannot overlook or live without. So when a friend of mine holds up a dating profile to me or introduces me to someone they’ve met at the bar and asks me what I think, I always know that their decision has already been made. Either they think the person is a great catch and they just want to show them off to me before they go for the gold, or they know that the person is awful beyond belief, but they are attracted to something about them, so they need me to help them off the ledge before they do something stupid.
Very rarely do people actually find someone that fits every single little detail of what they want in a partner, so I’m not telling you that you should make a mental list (or physical one for that matter) of every trait you want in another person and kick everyone to the curb who doesn’t perfectly match the description. But I am saying that if the person has any red flags about them that don’t jive with your values and goals for a relationship, do yourself a huge favor and stop spending time with them. Like I said, looking for love and being a hopeless romantic is not lame. What is though, is forcing yourself on a second or third date with someone you had a boring time with the first time around because you don’t want to be alone that weekend. Treat yourself like the CEO of your own life that you are, and only make time for the important things and people.
5. Avoid The Following Topics on First Dates
While you go on dates with people you take seriously, be sure to avoid the following topics while getting to know them: Your exes, their exes, why your past relationships didn’t work, and any recent dating you’ve been doing.
I know this may sound obvious and cliché, but it’s very easy in a metropolitan city to talk about your exes on one of your first dates. Our exes are big parts of our lives in many ways and sometimes our best and funniest stories have to do with them, but it’s human nature for the other person to wonder if you’re still not over your ex, still think of them fondly, or still hook up with them. And it’s human nature for them to also think that you do like the other people you’re seeing quite a bit if you’re talking about them so much. This thought process may discourage them from calling you back and could cost you someone with a lot of potential.
My boyfriend and I had a fantastic time talking on our first date. We yapped for 6 hours straight until finally a bar staff had to ask us to leave. But neither of us called each other back until way later on when we got in touch a second time. And that was because we spent so much time joking around about people we used to go out with. It made us both assume that the other person was more interested in the past or in the casual dating world to even consider us a potential love interest.
Don’t waste time like I did, complaining about weird things from the past, and spend more time learning about someone new and investing your thoughts and enthusiasm in something right in front of you, and almost certainly more worthy of your time.
6. If You Like Someone, Call Them Back
This may seem like a no-brainer to some, but this was one of the ways I almost lost my opportunity of getting together with my boyfriend. I had a lot of fun with him, but because of my assumptions of his state of mind, I subconsciously decided we wouldn’t end up together and didn’t call him back. He made the same mistake on his end as well.
But a couple of months after our first date, something happened to me that reminded me of an inside joke that we had shared. I decided to text him and have a good laugh about it, and it caused us to go grab food together that week. We’ve been inseparable ever since.
I believe in destiny, and I believe that I was meant to get together with my boyfriend at the time that we did. But then again, if I had been just as stubborn and proud as I had been in the past, I wouldn’t have called him and we may never have gotten together. While no one really can say what would have happened in an alternate universe, the point is I called back someone who I enjoyed being around. And any outcome would have been better than wondering what could have been out of fear. Don’t be egotistical. Take the metaphorical plunge.
7. Don’t Worry About Seeming Cheesy
One thing I’ve noticed about my generation and the people who live in this city is that we really admire stoic people. We admire tough and ambitious people. And associate toughness and ambition with either a blaze or hardened exterior, which shouldn’t always be the case.
With the number of casual and open relationships going on in these metropolitan areas, it’s easy for people to dismiss old-fashioned romantic gestures and expressions of feelings. For some reason feelings are the devil, and acting with a lack of sensitivity for yourself and others is admirable and sexy. Go figure. I’ve fallen for this trope myself. In who I’ve dated, and also how I’ve acted.
And yet you may have noticed that there are constantly heartwarming romance videos going viral, showing couples proposing to each other in sweet ways, or LGBT community make huge strides to gain the rights and visibility to share their love, or elderly couples who have been married for 65 years and still can’t get enough of each other’s presence. Just because this generation is full of career-driven and independent individuals who have to worry about $75,000 worth of student loan debt, doesn’t mean that we don’t love the idea of romance and the idea of that special someone being out there for us.
Not every person wants a serious or even monogamous relationship. Or needs one for that matter. The world is full of options on how to be fulfilled depending on what makes you happy. But there is also nothing wrong with doing what humans have been doing for centuries, and being a little romantic and a lot cheesy. As strange as it sounds, I encourage people to share their affections with those they really like. Because it’s natural for that person to pick up what you’re putting down if you’re transparent for them. Acting cool and aloof or playing games, is kind of fun if you’re just trying to casually date or have sex. But it’s rarely effective when trying to be with someone in a meaningful way. It’s easy to accidentally give someone the impression that you’re not that into them, just by not expressing yourself enough. This impression could send them packing or could make them prioritize someone else over you who has decided to express themselves.
If you think someone is amazing, let them know. Either tell them you’re having fun with them, or do something thoughtful for them, offer to do a favor for them (no not like that,) or even just call them on the phone to talk on a random night. The latter is what worked for me. I’m not telling you to overdo it or to tell them you love them on the third date. I’m not even telling you to chase them or make a fool of yourself. That in itself can push someone away too. But I do think that it’s a good use of your time to show someone who’s special that you see something great in them and that you value your time with them. Maybe they share the same feelings for you and maybe they don’t. The point is, you now know how they feel and can do what you’d like with that information.
8. Remember All Of Your Effort as You Move Forward
If in the end you follow all or a combination of these steps and find yourself in a happy and fulfilling relationship, the final thing to do is remember all of the effort you put into being with the person you really wanted. When you inevitably come to points in the relationship where you’re fighting over small things, or finding flaws in each other, just remember the steps you took to getting with them and ask yourself if these issues are worth fighting about.
Clearly, if this person is at all abusive or hurtful or bringing you down emotionally, I will not stop you from exiting the situation. Not everyone is exactly who we thought they were when we were first dating them. But if the person makes you happy and is good to you, do not forget the effort that went into being with them. You did this for both you and them. A relationship is constructed of people who are ready to be with each other and ready to give and take with someone else. And when both people sign up to make promises with one another, that’s a beautiful thing. This is something I constantly remind myself too: Don’t sweat the small stuff. These days, getting into relationships with people is such a complex and tedious process. Remember that in a world where open relationships and flings are commonplace and socially accepted/encouraged, that someone made the effort to be with you in a different way, and that you did the same back.
No two dating situations are the same as each other, meaning no one will have the same journey as me. However, I hope this has given at least food for thought on the kind of attitude one would need to find a relationship such as this.
Ultimately, the point of this is that you need to give yourself an opportunity for happiness. If that means holding off on dating or sex, do it. If that means casually going out to see what you like, do it. And if that means getting into a meaningful relationship, do not feel cheesy or pathetic for working towards that goal too. The best thing a person can do is be kind and honest to their own selves in order to succeed emotionally. That honesty, inevitably is projected outwards at those you interact with as well.


My Darling Dumpling
Darling, will you run in the fields with me just one more time?
Will you come to my door after a midnight stroll and knock until I answer
Darling, will you be there for me when I need a cry and just need to be warm with your kindness and love in bed?
Can we just do it all one more time?
Will I laugh when I see you and call you until you come over
My darling I will always love you and have you purely in my heart
You were there for me, going with me and going through the same things in the hardest of times
Darling, can I just hold you once more?
Can we have one more walk,
The golden fields
Blessed by the moonlight
Your purple necklace, with the golden bell
I hope you find your heaven, because you have been my whole heart
I still will remind you and search for you at night.


Calling all Dads!
Father’s Day is a bittersweet occasion for me because my Dad died 11 years ago in the summer. This time of year I spend time remembering the man my father became, the man I miss.
My mission on Father’s Day is always the same: I don’t just won’t to tell you what a great father he was. No, I want to tell you who he really was and what he taught me.
My Dad was an alcoholic. He drank heavily, embarrassingly, from my preteen years until 6 years before his death—over 30 years of booze. My life with Dad was one of neglect and a perceived absence of love. He just was never all there, only bestowing upon me sloppy drunk hugs and other unwanted attentions.
In his sixties facing cataract surgery, he quit drinking. With no help from therapists, Al-Anon, or even us, he simply decided to quit and he did.
He died 6 years later on my honeymoon. When he said goodbye to my new husband and me two days before his death, he let me know I had chosen well this time and he said he was glad I found someone to share my life with. Daddy was not an articulate or educated man, so I was impressed with his words and all the unspoken things he was trying to convey. As it turned out, he knew that night that he wouldn’t see us again.
I miss him terribly. His 6 years of sobriety, coupled with his strong, obvious love for me, was an unexpected healing for me. It had never occurred to me that those 30+ years of absence could be virtually erased, that I could—long after the years of counseling—find what I had been looking for: my daddy.
Discovering that my father loved me, had always loved me, started a set of chain reactions that continue to improve my life today, 11 years later.
By finally having a strong, recognizable male role model in my life, I found and married an emotionally stable, non-addictive, loving man who became my son’s best role model. This man took on the teenage responsibility abandoned by his biological father, just as my son has shouldered the responsibility for his stepdaughter abandoned by her dad.
Between my father’s love and my husband’s love and support, I have been able to provide my son with good parenting, grandparenting and “in-lawing”. I am constantly reminded by own experience that I can be a motivator, a supporter and a loving parent and continue to make a difference in my adult son’s life.
Dads, take it from someone who knows. It’s never too late to love your children; it’s never to late to repair the damage; it’s never too late to heal your children; it’s never too late.
Give the gift of yourself on Father’s Day; let your children know you love them; let your children love you because they do—no matter what you’ve done.


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Today is mine and Erik’s 5 year wedding Anniversary! ❤ I truly can’t believe we’ve been married for 5 years! For the occasion I’m sharing how Erik proposed, some wedding photos, and some of our wedding details.
How Erik proposed…
So we were currently living together, and Parker was around 6 years old. He made the mistake of taking Parker with him to pick up my ring. As most parents know kids aren’t that great at keeping secrets. So a few days later we were laying around watching TV and Parker says “Hey Dad, when are you gonna give Mommy that ring?” Erik immediately turns red, and starts trying to play it down. So I start bugging him asking what Parker’s talking about. lol So he goes to his dresser, and gets the ring out to ask me to marry him. I think it’s a funny quirky story. It was the perfect proposal for us.
We got married at Bays Mountain Park. If you’re from Kingsport, TN then you already know where I’m talking about!
*funny picture of Parker being grossed out by us kissing
We actually chose Bays Mountain Park because Erik’s parents were married there. This bench has a plaque with their names on it.
We didn’t have a big ceremony. It was only close family, and a handful of friends.
Our reception was held at Erik’s parents house. My mother in law catered a pasta bar, and made our cake! She was amazing and put it all together for us!
Here’s a picture of the beautiful cake she made!
So we didn’t have a big fancy wedding, and we sure didn’t spend a fortune! But I wouldn’t have it ANY other way! We got to celebrate our love with friends & family, and that’s all we really wanted.
I mean I get to spend the rest of my life with this Stud! 😍 That’s all I cared about.
I will leave you with one piece of advice if you’re newlyweds or engaged! Read The Five Love Languages. It will help you understand what your partner needs, and what you need from your partner!


Oh, how natural it seems when you talk about women getting mean to each other and yes, I’m a girl but typing this out. This is something more brutal than men getting mean to each other. We girls are jealous to each other, and YES that’s a bitter truth. There are lot of people in the world, some are cueet, some may be fluffy, some may look like actresses and many more to go. Therefore, woman vs woman seems very natural. Many people laugh it off, like its natural. It feels like our DNA wants to compete. Starting from bullying each other’s, calling sluts or commenting.
So, let’s move on to our main concern- why?? Woman vs woman
All the girls reading out this story can relate to what I’m writing. Girls are particularly intolerant of sexy peers. Like, you do not want your romantic partner to be friends with sexy peer, RIGHT? You don’t want that because you are jealous. “Aurat hi Aurat Ki dushman hoti Hai” we have heard this phrase many a times. Which tells us how women can demean each other in the worst way possible. Guys usually say “gossip aunties” which directly refers that we are mean. Mean in the worst sense.
What a bitch? Why? Because she’s more beautiful than you or she has more achievements than you or she can put her opinions better than yourself. “Look she is hanging out with another guy; she is such a slut” why? Because she is not hanging out with her boyfriend. You listen these words more from girls compared to guys and yes that’s undeniable truth.
Every country is putting efforts to empower women but how we get the same place in the world as men have till, we don’t bully each other. This fight between women makes us weak and we loose our respect RIGHT?
So how to stop this? I’m not talking about awareness camps or doing social things. The focus is to change oneself. If you see a girl prettier than you and has many achievements compared to you, don’t just flaunt yourself and start doing illogical things. Maybe as squirrels do, she has collected more nuts compared to you. But you have nuts too and you cannot waste them. So instead of being mean you can take it as a positive point to bring a change in you and get a better version of yourself.
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The Mississippi sheriff suing R.Kelly, Kenny Bryant, plans on questioning the legendary R&B singer under oath. This will take place as part of a lawsuit Bryant is bringing against the singer for allegedly having an affair with his wife and hence ruining his marriage and life.
The Mississippi man sued R.Kelly last year accusing the singer of the accusations spelled out above. Mississippi is one of a few states that allows a person to sue another for breaking up their marriage.
Bryant sued R. Kelly, accusing him of carrying out an affair with his wifeand ruining not only his marriage but his life. Mississippi is one of the only states that allows a person to sue another for breaking up their marriage (the other states being Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota and Utah).
Bryant claims the singer became involved in an intimate extramarital affair with his wife, Asia Childress, in October 2012. He further accuses R.Kelly of carrying out an affair with his wife for five years. Bryant even claims Kelly gave his wife Chlamydia during their affair.
Bryant claims his wife even suggested they move to Georgia at one point, however, Bryant states she did so in order to be closer to R. Kelly. Bryant agreed to the move but says he was unable to find a job and as a result was left in financial ruin.
R. Kelly denies ever having an having an affair with Childress.


Recently I friended my friend's boyfriend on Facebook. Several months later they broke up and I unfriended the ex boyfriend, sending him a very nice note about my allegiance to my original friend and the need to keep that bond strong by breaking virtual friend ties with him. He was lovely about the unfriending and we parted ways very amicably.
Just yesterday another new boyfriend of a friend friended me on Facebook. I told my friend about my social media etiquette policy on friending and unfriending boyfriends and she was grateful for the update.
Lesson: it's totally okay to unfriend people's ex's.


To my husband:
I wanted to write an open letter of gratitude. I am flawed. We couldn’t get pregnant because of me. When we were going through fertility treatments, i was thankful that you already had a daughter of your own. I was already a failure, i couldn’t imagine failing someone who was childless. You did everything I asked of you, and you did it all out of love. I couldn’t ask for a better husband.
The physical, emotional and financial stress of infertility can ruin a marriage. We stayed the course the entire journey. We did everything we could do and made all of these choices together. I know if we would have wanted to adopt or to do IVF, we would have found a way to raise the money. You would have found a way for us to do it.
I was terrified that I would resent you for what you have–a biological child. Infertile couples are 3 times more likely to divorce. Unresolved grief can destroy a relationship. You came to therapy with me, prayed with me, came with me to my appointments, and held me as I cried. Typically, women are more upset about infertility than men. I was upset, and you stayed by my side. You were there through my insecurities, depression and stress.
My flawed fertility made us stronger. When we started dating, we had a plan for our life together; nothing has gone according to plan. I feel very honored and blessed to call you my husband. The morning of my hysterectomy, we prayed together. We said a prayer out loud, as we held hands. That day was my last pregnancy test. My last negative pregnancy test. I know the journey will be long, we will always have hard days, but it will be okay. I love you even more. I believe you came into my life to help me get through this loss.
We may not have a baby together, but we have been blessed. Thank you for sharing your life, your patience, your support, and your love. Thank you for sharing your daughter with me. Thank you for the five dogs we have. Thank you for building this life with me. Thank you for asking me to marry you.
Your Flawed Wife.


The saying “it takes a village to raise a child” feels especially true with a child on the spectrum. Being a parent is no easy task, but some of the burden and life lessons aren’t always just in your hands. The relationships we make as a child are very important. Our children may interact with teachers, relatives, other adults, and of course, other children on a daily basis. These relationships matter, and making them meaningful can have lasting and positive impacts on your child’s development.
In this post, we’ll break down a few of the common meaningful relationships your child can make, and how best to support your child in making and maintaining those relationships.
1. Teacher & Child
Arguably one of the most important relationships your child can have with an adult that isn’t you, the child and teacher relationship is multi-faceted and complex. For one, your child’s teacher is in a position of authority which can be rewarding or challenging depending on how your child handles the authoritative figures in their life. On the other hand, they are also a reliable source of trained support that can serve as a role model.
The best way to support your child’s relationship with their teacher is to start with open communication about what your child’s needs and abilities are. Starting this way ensures they are well-informed to what kind of assistance your child may need in the classroom. Ideally, they will be able to devote an appropriate amount of time to ensuring your child has the right support for their success. Taking this a step further would be consulting school counselors or higher ups to see what support they can offer.
Equally as important is consulting your child about their relationship with their teacher. Communicating that they should feel comfortable trusting their teacher is important. Check-in regularly to see how your child is feeling.
2. Child & Relatives
Family is important. Beyond your immediate family, your child may or may not have regular contact with extended family and relatives. Either way, ensuring your extended family is aware of the best ways to support and interact with your child is crucial. We recommend discussing that information with any relatives your child will interact with regularly. Keeping them up to date on your child’s development can provide for a meaningful connection and support system. Beyond that, encourage your relatives to be open with you about how your child interacts with them. This can inform you of how best to build on those skills your child is displaying, and where they may need some more practice.
If a relative is particularly eager about helping out with childcare or being heavily involved with your child, encourage them to do so. As long as those relationships are healthy and well-supported, there is no such thing as too much help. This can also encourage your child to develop their general social skills and become more trusting and open. As always, just be sure to set firm boundaries where needed to ensure everyone is feeling good about their involvement.
3. Child & Friends
Perhaps the most difficult to support as a parent, your child’s relationship with their peers and friends can support them in some amazing ways. Studies show that children in “mixed” friendships, where one child is neurotypical and the other is on the spectrum, can greatly benefit both children’s development and social understanding. For one, the neurotypical child is exposed to the subtle and not so subtle differences between themselves and children on the spectrum, which can help foster a wider understanding for autism and other special needs. For your child, having meaningful friendships can help develop their social skills and build on their network of support.
For many children, these relationships will come naturally as they spend time together in classes or on the playground. For those children who have a harder time making friends on their own, parents and caretakers may need to do some more legwork. The biggest barrier to parents is that your child’s interactions with their peers happen outside of the home. We recommend solving that problem with scheduled play dates. Get in touch with the other parents to setup a time that works and be sure to lay ground rules so everyone has a good time.
If you need a little more structure than that, make it a specific autism-friendly activity and be sure everyone knows what makes it accessible. These are great opportunities for learning moments for both parents and children. This can also build a friendship between yourself and the other parents, which in turn can strengthen your children’s bonds.
As with the other relationships, discussing with your child frequently to check-in on how they interact and feel about their peers can be crucial. Describe and visualize what a healthy friendship looks like and help them identify what connections those are in their own lives.
Building these relationships with your child can strengthen a network of support that is crucial to their healthy development. The key to all of these connections is, as always, open and honest communication.


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I’ve been with this guy for about six months. I’ve been drawing his portrait ever since we started dating back in December. Last weekend I drew him on a paper towel with a ballpoint pen. It’s my favorite drawing of him right now.
Went to LA last weekend to celebrate cloudhead’s birthday. The lovely Katie Hitch posed for a few drawings.
Also, tonight I attended the oaklanddrinkanddraw for the first time to meet some dope local artists. Looking forward to next Wednesday!
These poor slobs have been haunting my sketchbook for about a year.


OM NOM NOM.!!!!!!! :D Heyyy I'm Schaefer!!
I'm taken but the most amazing guy ever. I've known him my whole life and I've always had a crush on him and it took me just last week to finally tell him that and he had the same feelings for me, I couldn't be happier :)


Female sexual dysfunction-Problems
Has your sex life lost some of its spark because your body feels unresponsive or you're just not interested? You might take comfort in knowing that as many as four in 10 women have the same problem at some point in their lives.
If you have persistent or recurrent problems with sexual response — and if these problems are making you distressed or straining your relationship with your partner — what you're experiencing is known medically as female sexual dysfunction.
Female sexual dysfunction has many possible symptoms and causes. Fortunately, they're almost all treatable. Communicating your concerns and understanding your anatomy and your body's normal response to sexual activity are important steps toward gaining sexual satisfaction.
You can develop female sexual dysfunction at any age, but sexual problems are most common when your hormones are in flux — for example, when you've just had a baby or when you're making the transition into menopause. Sexual concerns may also occur with major illness, such as cancer.
Your problems might be classified as female sexual dysfunction if you experience one or more of the following and you're distressed about it:
- Lack of sexual desire -your desire to have sex is low or absent.
- Inability to become aroused -You can't maintain arousal during sexual activity, or you don't become aroused despite a desire to have sex.
- Lack of orgasm, or sexual climax -You cannot experience an orgasm.
- Painful intercourse-You have pain during sexual contact.
Several factors may contribute to sexual dissatisfaction or dysfunction. These factors tend to be interrelated.
- Physical. Physical conditions that may cause or contribute to sexual problems include arthritis, urinary or bowel difficulties, pelvic surgery, fatigue, headaches, other pain problems, and neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Certain medications, including some antidepressants, blood pressure medications, antihistamines and chemotherapy drugs, can decrease your sex drive and your body's ability to achieve orgasm.
- Hormonal. Lower oestrogen levels during the menopausal transition may lead to changes in your genital tissues and your sexual responsiveness. The folds of skin that cover your genital region (labia) become thinner, exposing more of the clitoris. This increased exposure sometimes reduces the sensitivity of the clitoris, or may cause an unpleasant tingling or prickling sensation.
In addition, the vaginal lining becomes thinner and less elastic, particularly if you're not sexually active. At the same time, the vagina requires more stimulation to relax and lubricate before intercourse. These factors can lead to painful intercourse (dyspareunia), and achieving orgasm may take longer.
Your body's hormone levels also shift after giving birth and during breast-feeding, which can lead to vaginal dryness and can affect your desire to have sex.
- Psychological and social. Untreated anxiety or depression can cause or contribute to sexual dysfunction, as can long-term stress. The worries of pregnancy and demands of being a new mother may have similar effects. Longstanding conflicts with your partner — about sex or any other aspect of your relationship — can diminish your sexual responsiveness as well. Cultural and religious issues and problems with your own body image also may contribute.
Emotional distress can be both a cause and a result of sexual dysfunction. Regardless of where the cycle began, you usually need to address relationship issues for treatment to be effective.
When to seek medical advice
If sexual problems are undermining your relationship or disrupting your peace of mind, make an appointment with your doctor for evaluation.
Female sexual dysfunction is generally divided into the following four categories, which are not mutually exclusive:
- Low sexual desire. You have diminished libido, or lack of sex drive.
- Sexual arousal disorder. Your desire for sex might be intact, but you have difficulty or are unable to become aroused or maintain arousal during sexual activity.
- Orgasmic disorder. You have persistent or recurrent difficulty in achieving orgasm after sufficient sexual arousal and ongoing stimulation.
- Sexual pain disorder. You have pain associated with sexual stimulation or vaginal contact.
Sexual response is a complex interaction of many components, including physiology, emotions, experiences, beliefs, lifestyle and relationships. If any one of these components is disrupted, sexual drive, arousal or satisfaction may be affected.
Non medical treatment for female sexual dysfunction
you can improve your sexual health by enhancing communication with your partner and making healthy lifestyle choices.
- Talk and listen. Some couples never talk about sex, but open and honest communication with your partner can make a world of difference in your sexual satisfaction. Even if you're not used to communicating about your likes and dislikes, learning to do so and providing feedback in a non threatening manner can set the stage for greater sexual intimacy.
- Practice healthy lifestyle habits. Avoid excessive alcohol. Drinking too much will blunt your sexual responsiveness. Also, stop smoking and start exercising. Cigarette smoking restricts blood flow throughout your body and less blood reaching your sexual organs means decreased sexual arousal and orgasmic response. Regular aerobic exercise can increase your stamina, improve your body image and elevate your mood, helping you feel more romantic, more often. Finally, don't forget to make time for leisure and relaxation. Learning to relax amid the stresses of your daily life can enhance your ability to focus on the sexual experience and attain better arousal and orgasm.
- Strengthen pelvic muscles. Pelvic floor exercises can help with some arousal and orgasm problems. Doing Kegel exercises strengthens the muscles involved in pleasurable sexual sensations. To perform these exercises, tighten your pelvic muscles as if you're stopping your stream of urine. Hold for a count of five, relax and repeat. Do these exercises several times a day.
Your doctor also may recommend exercising with vaginal weights — a series of five weights, each increasingly heavier, that you hold in place in your vagina — to strengthen pelvic floor muscles. You gradually work up to heavier weights as your muscle tone improves.
- Seek counselling. Talk with a counsellor or therapist specializing in sexual and relationship problems. Therapy often includes education about normal sexual response, ways to enhance intimacy with your partner, and recommendations for reading materials or couples exercises. With a therapist's help, you may gain a better understanding of your sexual identity, beliefs and attitudes; relationship factors including intimacy and attachment; communication and coping styles; and your overall emotional health.
Sex therapy is a short-term form of counselling, generally involving 5 to 20 sessions with a sex therapist. A typical session may be one hour every week or every other week.
During the session, the counsellor will give the patient "assignments" to do at home, such as:
- Reading books about sexuality
- Touching exercises that are designed to take away the pressure to perform during sex
- Practicing better sexual communication skills
Sex therapy may be useful for treating erectile dysfunction if a man is able to have a normal erection during sleep, the results of his physical examination and blood tests are normal and he is generally in good health. Sex therapy may also be helpful when erectile dysfunction is caused by stress, such as: work worries, financial worries, relationship conflicts, and poor sexual communication. In these cases, sex therapy may be the best treatment option.
Does sex therapy work?
Sex therapy is most effective when a man’s sexual partner is willing to be part of the treatment. Studies have shown that for men with stress-related ED, having the partner involved in the therapy resolves the problem 50%-70% of the time. When the man must go through counselling alone, the results are somewhat lower.
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Here’s to a happy weekend and a happy Mother’s Day!
To me that also means celebrating all the special woman in our lives, who aren’t necessarily our own mothers. The women I admire the most is Rosalie. Her kindness, creativity, love of gardening and reading, patience, honesty and spunk make her a very special person! Visiting her in California every summer is the highlight of my yearly road trip. Thank you Rosalie, for being a part of my life!
Have a great weekend celebrating the wonderful woman in your life!


Isla’s boyfriend is Elliot. He is four and she thinks he is amazing. When they are on the boat to school together she turns around and puts out her hand and says “touch me.” When he comes over to our house she says “Elliot can share my toothbrush.” She holds his hand, she always sits close to him and/or stands close to him. He is so polite to her but he really wishes she would leave him alone. Every once in a while Isla gets so aggressive with her feelings that Elliot hauls off and hits her. She cries for a while, but then she gets over it. How do we teach her that she is not supposed to chase but be chased?
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1So now we are in 8th grade and he still hasn’t asked me out. The bad thing is we don’t talk anymore. The girl he was friends with before me, told him that I wasn’t good and told him a whole bunch of lies about me to try to get him away from me, I guess it worked. But now that he’s gone I love him. Mar 28, 2014 · After a few years I met him at a mutual friends party and we started talking I could not help myself so I had ask him to be honest and admit he has kids, finally he admitted to having only one child and said the child’s mother moved to France and would not allow him to see the child, this man literally made me wonder how someone can be so ... Gd knowledge10. after/before/without/by/on/in/in spite of/instead of etc. + gerund. EX. 2 Paraphrase the parts in bold type using gerundial phrases, mind the prepositions. He is good at it. 4. He likes to talk music. He gets pleasure out of it. 5. The child usually drinks milk before going to bed.Remember to stop at the crossroads. I stopped talking to him. Both possibilities are correct.Ppg base coat clear coat system


This year’s Saint Valentine’s Day won’t be any different from the last 6 years except Ginger will not be with us.
Every year on this day, I give thanks and love to my partner and friends (and to you my online friends), and let them know how special they are in my life and how grateful I am for their friendship, love, support and kindness. And I also celebrate this special day with Wiggley, Mr Big and PF where they each will get a special treat and extra big cuddle.
I always wish Valentine’s Day was a public holiday, so I’ll make up the lost time by celebrating it a day before. Be kind to each other.


How do you date your best friend’s sister? Easy.
Step one: Pretend you want her to set you up with someone else. That will bring the two of you closer.
Step two: Go on date with lots of random women, proceed to get stupid drunk and talk about your best friend’s sister, thus gaining the courage to finally make a move.
Step three: Randomly show up at her apartment and confess your love. Women love that, right?
It all seemed so simple. A fool-proof three step process that will guarantee the love of you life to fall madly in love with you.
At least–that’s what I thought was going to happen. But my attempts to win over Julia Westin backfired in more ways than I can count. The thing about Julia? She’s smart–really smart–and her wicked gaze cuts through all the charm I’ve tried slinging her way. She’s not interested in games, my gifts, or my stories. She might want me too; but she’s not giving in that easy…
USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.
I love anything Meghan Quinn writes. Meghan can write a restaurant menu and I’d read it. I just adore her writing.
The Secret to Dating Your Best Friend’s Sister was a super cute read. I loved Bram and Julia a lot, these characters were so lovable. This was a cute fast paced laugh out loud read. Recommended for those who love a friends to lovers, even if it means the best friends sister.
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Our society is full of children who happen to be mothers. What am I trying to say? They are teenage mothers, and giving the children positive parenting skills is hard because they are not mature enough to be parents. So, as a mother of 10, I have drawn up tips for building positive parenting skills to help with a child’s upbringing.
What are Parenting Skills?
Without understanding the word, parenting skills, you can’t act to it. so, am going to be giving you the definition. Parenting skills refer to the abilities, knowledge, and strategies that parents utilize to raise and care for their children.
However, these skills include a wide range of competencies that promote the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of children. Effective parenting skills are essential for creating a nurturing and supportive environment that fosters healthy growth and well-being in children.
Tips For Building Positive Parenting Skills
Show Love And Affection
As a parent, you need to express your love for your child through hugs, kisses, and kind words. Physical affection and emotional warmth create a strong bond and promote a sense of security.
Take the time to listen to your child attentively, ask open-ended questions, and engage in meaningful conversations. However, active communication builds trust and understanding between you and your child.
Set Clear Expectations
Establish clear rules and expectations for behavior. Be consistent in enforcing these boundaries, and explain the reasons behind them. Furthermore, it helps children understand what is expected of them and promotes a sense of structure and responsibility.
Use Positive Reinforcement
Praise and reward your child’s positive behaviors and achievements. Positive reinforcement encourages desired behavior and boosts your child’s self-esteem.
Practice Active Problem-Solving
Teach your child problem-solving skills by involving them in finding solutions to everyday challenges. Encourage them to think critically, explore alternatives, and learn from their mistakes.
Allow your child to take age-appropriate responsibilities and make decisions. Supporting their independence helps build self-confidence and self-reliance.
Be a Role Model
Children learn by observing their parents. Model the behaviors and values you want your child to adopt, such as kindness, empathy, and respect.
Take care of yourself physically and emotionally. Set aside time for activities you enjoy, get enough rest, and seek support when needed. When you prioritize self-care, you’ll have more energy and patience to be a positive parent.
Manage Your Own Emotions
It’s normal to experience frustration or stress, but it’s important to manage your emotions constructively. Take a deep breath, step away if needed, and find healthy ways to cope with stress. Respond to your child calmly and avoid reacting impulsively.
Seek Support and Learn Continuously
Reach out to other parents, join parenting groups, or seek guidance from professionals. Share experiences, learn from others, and stay informed about child development and parenting strategies.
However, building positive parenting skills is an ongoing process, and it’s okay to make mistakes. Be patient with yourself and your child, and focus on building a loving and supportive relationship.
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You spent so long wondering and asking, "How can anyone love me?" And you counted your flaws but didn't have any fingers left for strengths. And when someone finally said they loved you, all you could ask was, "Why?" instead of telling them that you love them, too.
My best friend seeing me away to prom. I love you.


A Chance by Emleigh Walsh
Romance or Love Story
Is it a romance or a love story? Is there even a difference? I think there is. When I think of the genre of romance I see a big bucket that holds all kinds of stories dealing with the heart and emotions. Then there are many sub-genres included in this over arching topic like contemporary, historical, and paranormal. But I think we are missing one important sub-genre: the love story.
Now you may be asking, “What’s the difference? They’re both about love and they both have happy endings.” While this is true, the way they both deal with emotions and relationships as the stories are told is quite different.
Let’s look at a love story. In a love story the reader is taken on an emotional journey through the heart of the characters. While they may end up with a happily-ever-after they will typically go through quite a bit of emotional turmoil and lessons learned before they reach the end. Danielle Steele writes amazing love stories. The ending is usually very happy and the main characters find peace and love. But the stories revolve more about the characters feelings than the journey they had to go on.
Throughout a romance, however, the reader goes on a journey with the destination a happy ending. While the emotions of the heart are definitely present, the reader is traveling along the romantic road as the love grows with the characters. So rather than the main focus being the deep feelings you see in love stories, a greater part of the tale is focused on the adventure of the romance that takes the characters from beginning to their happy ending.
Even though I love both types of stories, my favorite is a romance. I enjoy taking the excursion with the characters as they reach their happily-ever-after. After all, life is a journey; why not add a little romance to it!
If you want to read about the journey that Stephanie and Chance take to find their happy ending, pick up a copy of “A Chance of Fate” at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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We are reaching out to women in or near New Braunfels to join together and rejoice in our Father. Whether you attend church or not, all are welcome to attend. We are not affiliated with a church and are an independent ministry hoping to serve the women in our community.
Women have countless things that connect us to each other.
Faith brings us to the table to share our journey with other women.
Every day God gives us each more to learn and somehow leads others into our lives.
Through faith we meet and bond with our sisters to share our experiences together.


Every day I struggle between “I wanna look good naked” and “treat yo self.”
i dont trust people who dont let their dogs or cats on the furniture u are mean u are cold hearted
Everyone is getting married and I’m like ughhhh. I wanna get married. I know my time will come in the near future. It’s just a weird feeling calling someone your boyfriend when you know that they are so much more than that.


Divorce or Separation
When a marriage starts to breakdown to a point of no return, end it in divorce or separation.
Separation may be wise, where the parties choose to remain connected through property or children, and can remain civilly cordial and friendly.
Divorce is necessary when civility and proper social conduct cannot be maintained, as well as when both parties would like to cut-clean and start over fresh.
Not all divorce is bitter, and not all separations are permanent, but it is certainly wise to seek counsel anytime you turn towards that path.
Child Custody and Support
Where both parents are well adjusted and socially apt, joint custody of children is advisable.
Whether or not joint custody is possible for any number of reasons, child support is almost always necessary.
Michigan has very specific rules regarding child support and custody, it is important to have an attorney on your side if you want your opinion heard.


Marriage is the union between two persons which is in the form of a legal contract. According to the Federal law no. 28 of 2005 of the United Arab Emirates (hereinafter referred to as ‘the law’), marriage is a contract entitling one spouse to have legal enjoyment with the other in order to protect his/her chastity and build a stable family under the husband’s care on grounds that enable them to muster its burdens in affinity and mercy. Marriage is therefore a union of two persons that is recognized by the society to be lawful and chaste. In an ideal society, this union through marriage is eternal but the reality is different.
The rate of breakdown and dissolution of marriage is very high. The contract of marriage is said to be dissolved if it contains an impediment contrary to its requirements or if something prevents its legal continuation. The law provides for certain requirements for a valid marriage such as the marriage should not be between two people who are so related that they fall under the prohibited degree of relatives or such other impediments or the free consent of both the parties, etc. Further, prevention of legal continuation refers to situations where it becomes impossible for the spouses in the marriage to continue to live together due to certain diseases or cruel behavior of one towards the other, etc. In such situation the marriage between the two parties is dissolved. Such separation may occur between the spouses either by divorce, dissolution or by death. But before finalizing the separation of the parties to a marriage it is the duty of the court to try to reconcile the spouses before it decides on separating them.
Once separated by divorce, the parties to the divorce cannot remarry each other. This impediment is placed for the spouses to take the contract of marriage seriously where they cannot get in and get out according to their whims and wishes. There is also an exception to this impediment that is if the divorced woman marries another man, consummation of marriage destroys the repudiations of the previous husband and thereafter if the woman is divorced by her husband in such case she can remarry her previous husband.
Apart from these, the law provides for two essential effects of separation or dissolution of marriage. The first is that of a waiting period known as ‘Idda’ while the seconds pertains to the ‘custody of the children of the marriage’.
The period of ‘idda’ that is the waiting period after the divorce is basically a period of time gap that is to be maintained between the separation from the spouse and the contracting of a new marriage or the meeting of any men. This period is to ensure the paternity of a child if the woman gets pregnant during this time period. Therefore it is basically to ensure that the woman does not have sexual relations with any other man during this period and therefore in case she is pregnant it is the spouse from her dissolved marriage who is the father of her child and he cannot question the same. Thus it is a protective provision for the women and the children.
In cases of revocable form of talaq (divorce), Idda practice serves another purpose also, it serves as a period of time during which the husband may revoke the talaq and resume their marriage.
This waiting period generally initiates from the time of separation but in case of suspicious copulation between the spouses, the period shall initiate since the last suspicious copulation. Depending on the cases and reasons for the separation, the period shall initiate accordingly. In case of abandonment, the waiting period begins from the date of abandonment; in case of judge-decided separation it begins from the date of separation, in case of death of the husband it begins from date of the death. Further, in case of deciding a divorce, separation, dissolution, the nullity of the contract or adjudging the lost husband dead, the waiting period shall start from the date the judgment becomes final.
As discussed above, the waiting period is provided for in order to ensure the paternity of the child in case the woman get pregnant during this period, therefore such period shall not apply to the women who have been separated from their spouses before the consummation of their marriages.
Where the marriage is consumated but the woman is not pregnant at the time of separation, the waiting period is to be calculated as follows:
- a. Three full cycles for the woman who is still having a menstrual cycle.
b. Three full months for the woman who has never had menstrual cycles or for the woman who has reached menopause, but if she menstruates before the end of the three months, she shall continue her waiting period for three additional cycles.
c. Three months for the woman whose menstrual cycle is long or if her menstrual cycle is irregular. If she has a regular cycle that she remembers, she shall calculate the waiting period accordingly.
d. The lesser of the three cycles or one year without menstruation for the woman whose menstrual cycle stops before menopause.
Apart from the period of ‘Idda’, another important effect of the dissolution of marriage is that of the custody of the children of the marriage. Marriage is the bond that forms the basis of initiating a family where the children born out of the marriage are nurtured and supported by the husband and wife together. This is the ideal situation which is broken by the separation of the spouses. On separation of the spouses the very important question that arises is regarding the custody of the children, as both the husband and wife have equal rights on the child it is always a matter of dispute.
The term ‘custody’ is defined by the law as the keeping, bringing up and taking care of the child without interfering with the right of the guardian of the person. Custody maybe of two types: legal custody and physical custody. Legal custody is where the court awards the custody to one parent and physical custody is used when the parent who does not have the legal custody only has a right to visit the child on weekends or specified days. The Personal Status Law also governs and regulates the custody rights of both the parents in the event of separation. Generally the custody rights are given to the mother, but again it is a flexible rule and the final decision of custody is taken by courts after considering all circumstances and determining what would be in the best interests of the child.
For legal advice regarding the subject, please call +971 4 4221944, or call 800-LAWYER (529937).


Life can be really confusing sometimes. Someone who you thought you knew well can be a completely different person deep inside. Even someone you thought you could fall for and be meant for can break your heart. I don't miss him but I miss having someone around. The nights are lonely. And when I go to look at my phone to see I have no calls or texts it can hurt.
I'm also the only one of my friends who does not have a significant other. Which makes it hard. Its nearly impossible for them to hang out with me since they are all always working or with their boyfriend or girlfriend.
I hope that I can find a guy that can accept me for me and understands that I have other obligations other than just him.


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I love playing a role in someone's love story . . .
Not that it comes up in conversation often, but when it does, I like to take credit for the relationships I’ve helped out.
Probably the most notable was my college roommate. She had a guy interested in her, and she turned him down. A week later I asked her to help me with my homework. My homework was to ask someone to share a problem with me and listen. Just listen. And not give any advice.
So that is what I did. She starts talking about how she realized she misses this boy. She misses his texts and misses him coming around. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? I’m listening. And listening.
She keeps saying she doesn’t know what she should do . . . but I do. I know what she should do.
I keep mentally reminding myself to do the homework and not give advice, but finally I can’t take it. I tell her she has to call him. Call him and tell him to come over and talk and that it will all work out from there.
He is seriously at our apartment within five minutes.
They had such a wonderful, sweet, open conversation. I should know. My other roommate and I were listening at the top of the stairs. I wonder if she ever told him we eavesdropped that night . . .
Well, it all worked out. They got married and 10 (or so?) years and three kids in, they are going strong.
I also helped out with Erin and her match; although my part in the story isn’t as dramatic. She needed somewhere to be, and I told her to be with me. She came and lived in my basement in Cedar City. After a bit she starts going out and being social, and I think, “I’m so glad she has made friends.” But really she hadn’t made any friends.
She had met a boy.
I think you can figure out where things went from there.


Nawazuddin’s estranged spouse Aaliya, who’s presently in Mumbai, is lastly feeling that there is a man who genuinely cares for her. In a really CANDID and EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with ETimes this afternoon, the woman received into the small print of her new relationship.
Right here is the dialog that transpired:
You could have stated that you’ve got somebody in your life now whom you’re in a relationship with…
Who’s he, other than the truth that he’s within the IT sector and comes from Italy?
I might nonetheless like to carry again his identify. I had uploaded an image with him.At present, I’m giving ETimes extra photos. He’s somebody whom I stated earlier, has given me immense emotional assist.
However how did you each fall in love with one another?
I met him at a buddy’s social gathering. He was continuously me. I might sense that he was liking me. However even I fairly appreciated him there itself. He was sitting very quietly in a nook and talking very gracefully with each visitor. And, I fairly appreciated his face; he has good options.
So, did he come up and speak to you then?
No, not on the social gathering. It occurred a lot after that.
Nicely, he requested for my quantity from my buddy. She gave it to him after which known as me to ask if it was okay. I stated ‘No downside’. After a while, I received a name from him.
And what did he say?
He stated he loves my eyes and he was drawn to me. To this point, after my points with Nawaz, many males had proposed a relationship and/or marriage. However I might by no means really feel with them what I felt with this individual. I do not know the way however I might make out that he’s not attempting to make the most of me.
When did this name come?
A couple of 12 months in the past.
A couple of 12 months?
Sure, so we saved speaking on the telephone. After which, I used to be in Mumbai for a couple of months. The telephone conversations continued and we determined that we must always meet once I attain Dubai again.
Did he ask you out otherwise you requested him out?
He requested me out.
Nicely, we’ve been courting since then. We go to cafes and chat, we sit at eating places and eat collectively.
Inform us extra about him…
He stays alone in Dubai and he’s very targeted on his work. That is one other high quality that I like in him.
Marriage in thoughts?
No. We now have determined that this relationship is just not with a tag. However we’re clear that we need to stick with one another for the longest time potential. Bahut sukoon mil raha hai. Bahut acha lag raha hai. I’ve somebody in my life who could be very involved about me and cares for me lots.
Is he settled in Dubai?
For now, sure. His visa is for 3 years.
Will he be coming to Mumbai?
Sure, he’s planning a visit to Mumbai for few days. It could occur quickly.
Did he know that Nawaz is an actor?
Are you staying with him?
No. We dwell individually.
How typically do you meet one another when you find yourself in Dubai?


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