An intimate wedding celebrating nothing but love. Lexi and Dan were so kind and relaxed on their wedding day. They were so present with each other and their son. The bond Alexis has with their baby boy is so pure and to capture it on her wedding day was bliss. Cheers to a lifetime of love and new adventure!


Gifts for her and him from Cyprus’ most exciting makers!
If 2020 taught us anything is to love harder and choose gifts that spark joy. We all need it right now. This year Valentine’s Day might be a bit different but when this day comes around, you do everything in your power to wow the special someone in your life with a gift they’ll cherish forever!
While flower deliveries, gourmet chocolates, and teddy bears are the main go-tos gifts, this year think outside the box with unique and thoughtful Valentine’s Day gifts for her and him, always by small local businesses and makers in Cyprus, including makers who have featured in our blog before and dozens more.
Since Valentine’s is not celebrated only by couples, this list can be used to find something for that special someone, and is full of carefully curated gift ideas for men and gifts for women that will definitely make them feel the love on Valentine's Day and beyond.
Some picks are meant for self-care days (aromatherapy boxes), and others are romantic gifts (customized art pieces), but all of them show your exact feelings to the receiver.
If you are still recovering from your Christmas spending, don’t worry: our creatives have something for every budget! Just browse through our extensive gift shop, gift sets and gift boxes collection, and discover the gift that will make their heart skip a beat once again!
To make your life a bit easier, we asked our editors to pick their favourite Valentines gift ideas for her and for him, and you can find them all here:
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!


I always like to use these two little “tests” in my head to decide whether someone is marriage material or not – not that I’ve met many people who could tick these boxes. I usually tell my friends this “little trick” when we’re discussing the opposite sex. It generally pisses them off when they realise their girlfriend (who I don’t like) doesn’t make the cut.
I have a friend who I will not name (let’s call him ‘Mike’) that insists that he’s going to have to cheat on his girlfriend eventually, although he “loves her” and would never want to date anyone else.
He acts like he has no choice, and that it would be selfish of him if he ever let her find out (ie got caught) because it would hurt her feelings. This self-rationalising justification is gross, and tbh I’ve lost a lot of respect for the guy. He’s of weak moral character and it shows. My ex used to say he was a “loser”.
But we delve into the reasons and rationale behind what’s going on, and how you can avoid becoming like ‘Mike’.
There are two main tests to figuring out if this person is right for you. The first test’s credit goes to Waitbutwhy.com
1. The Personality “Traffic” Test
If you had to drive them home after a date, would you be hoping there’s more traffic on the way because you want to spend more time talking? – Are the conversations you have that good and exciting? If the answer is a resounding ‘yes’, move on to test number two:
2. The Attractiveness Test
How do you know if the person is of a physical standard that you’re happy with? In other words, where should you base your standard on how ‘hot’ your life partner should be? Well, ask yourself a simple question. Is the sexual chemistry and attraction you feel to the other person good enough that you would immediatley be willing to bet that you’d be happy to have sex with this person, and ONLY this person and no one else for the rest of your life?
If the answer to these two above questions is yes, you might have just found yourself an outlier.


Are Arranged Marriages Better for Society?
Marriage is a long time tradition. However, in the US, most marriages end in divorce. And no one knows how to stop the proliferation of failed marriages. There are even marriage counselors who end up in divorce court. Since the choice of a spouse is the most important decision a person can make, they should not do it alone. Your parents and grandparents know you, your family values and have a better sense of discernment when it comes to assessing a potential mate. They will not only examine the love interest they will pay close attention to the family. Perhaps this is the reason there were such low incidences of divorce in the past. Your family was intimately involved in your choice of a spouse. This article explores the litany of benefits of being part of an arranged marriage.
Relationship As a Spiritual Path
Relationships offer a spiritual path to transformation and ultimately the divine when partners share authentically. It’s an ever-present opportunity to grow a path to spiritual transformation and ultimately the divine when partners open to one another.


Have the necessary conversation before the big day, says local man
As wedding season approaches, Larry Fisher, who is 70, and has been with his wife for nearly five decades, thinks that couples on the brink of betrothal ought to take very seriously pre-marriage discussions.
For years, Fisher has compiled a list of things that people should know before they get married, a collection cobbled together from personal experience and input from others. The result is a document containing 80 points, which Fisher calls, “Some things I would want my daughters or grandchildren to know before getting married.”
“It would be my hope that everyone can find a partner and have happiness and be fulfilled in a marriage,” said Fisher. “I also understand that we live in a throw-away world, and some do not really think about those cherished words they say at their wedding ceremony, like ‘For better or worse’ and ‘For richer or poorer’ and ‘Till death do us part.’ I have to admit that I have been blessed to be in my 49th year of marriage and have a wonderful wife. Not only can she cook and sew, she can fix almost anything around the house, she is my best friend, and she does not mind me going golfing.”
Fisher said that he has seen the oft-quoted statistic that 50 percent of marriages end in divorce.“When you go to the altar, you don’t think that it’s going to be you, because you’re in love with this person. But it’s still 50 percent.”
“When you go to the altar, you don’t think that it’s going to be you, because you’re in love with this person. But it’s still 50 percent.”
Fisher attributes much of this 50 percent to things that people fail to discuss leading up to their wedding.
“My niece found out later that her husband had sizable debts, and that put a real strain on their marriage. These things should be found out before,” he said.
Many of Fisher’s recommendations involve transparency on financial issues, since money is well known to be a primary cause of failed partnerships. They range from broader matters, like whether someone is a saver or a spender, and to more specific ones.
Point 33 suggests that people become aware of their partner’s current credit card debt, while Point 40 suggests reviewing expenses, net income, assets and liabilities, and previous tax returns.
Fisher’s checklist also urges couples to think deeply about communication before marrying.
“Two people who cannot be emotionally open with each other can never have true intimacy and love,” reads Point 72.
“We tend to be afraid to share what we feel because expressing it makes us vulnerable; it’s dangerous. With the person you’re considering marrying you must be sure you feel safe. How do you know if the two of you are emotionally open and honest? The next time you have a conversation with your partner, ask him or her, ‘What do you feel about me right now?’ or, ‘How does what I just said make you feel?’ If you can communicate like this with each other consistently, you have the potential for building an intimate relationship.”
Fisher is a devout Christian, and, though not a Catholic, he praised the Catholic practice of extensive counseling of a couple prior to their making their vows. He said also that he believes that religious faith gives greater gravity to marriage—that it is something sacrosanct and not to be done lightly.
“If you’re into the Bible, it says that a woman must submit to her husband, but it also says that a man is supposed to be willing to die for his wife,” said Fisher.
He said that he has had many differences of opinion with his wife over their half century as partners, but that they have always been able to resolve these disputes.
“You mature together over time,” he said. “Some things that used to bother her about me aren’t a big deal any more.”
Despite his hope that marriage leads to a mutual maturation, Fisher’s checklist cautions against an expectation of change. Point 47: “What irritates you about your guy now will really play on you after you’re married. If he is a total slob and a night owl when you’re an early bird, don’t kid yourself into thinking he’ll change once you’re hitched. Assume that any negative qualities you’re seeing will remain negative, and be realistic about what you’re willing to live with. So decide what’s a deal-breaker and what’s not before your boyfriend becomes your husband.”
Point 47 hints at a need for flexibility, and Fisher otherwise emphasizes that individuals must think deeply about what they are willing to adjust to, and what they are not.
“What are your ‘non-negotiables’ in marriage? What is unacceptable, no matter what? What do you see as an ‘unforgivable’ offence? What would be your response to it? It's crucial to know what things your partner will not tolerate in a relationship so that you can avoid problems before they happen,” writes Fisher, who also recommends that couples think about their position on marriage counseling.“Marriage does not start at the wedding and goes on forever all by itself,” he said. “It needs to be worked on day by day. And it will be only as good as the investment you make in it.”
“Marriage does not start at the wedding and goes on forever all by itself...it needs to be worked on day by day. And it will be only as good as the investment you make in it.”
In addition to formal marriage counseling, he says that it’s important for people to know who has influence over their partner.
“Your mom? Your best friend? Your sister? Who has the ability to change your mind? Who influences the way you think?” he says.
“It’s important to know who your partner listens to and respects; it's especially important to know what kind of advice your partner will be receiving from those people, as one day he or she may be going to them for advice about your marriage.”
Fisher advises that anyone with suggestions for additions contact him at [email protected]


Here is my sweet baby loving up some grass when we went to a craft festival over the weekend. She doesn't get to play in our grass because our dog loves to make messes out there. Lol..
I have found that although I enjoy hanging out with friends, I am happiest when it is just our little family together, enjoying the day. There are about 30 pictures of us hanging out with our picnic, and we had a great time. Will reflect back fondly on this day.


A few days ago when my husband came home from work he gave me a hug and a kiss and told me that I was going to love him. I replied that I felt that we firmly established that fact already. He said you’re REALLY going to love me now. He then pulled several packages of Reeces Peanut Butter Cups out of his bag.
Out of all the candy in the US this is the one that I miss the most and is the hardest to find! Of course, I love my husband no matter what, but it’s always extra nice when he brings a treat home!
If you want your own they can be found in Sainsburys for about 31p a pack!


Love is a community working together to create kindness, compassion, acceptance, listening, and appreciation. Love is sharing the Path of Spirit and Our Lives with another. It is forgiveness, sacrifice, openness, willingness of heart, and devotion. It is the awakening of Great Spirit in our hearts, in our relationships, and in our world
Love is the willingness to merge our thoughts and emotions with another. Love is the willingness to do this even when it hurts. The path of spirit calls for us to blend our minds and hearts so thoroughly with Great Father and Great Mother that we are no a longer separate melody but One Loving Eternal Symphony.
The first criteria of true love is acceptance, the second is giving. When we are filled with love we demonstrate that love by seeing the needs of the loved one and doing what we can to fulfill that need. This can be as simple as supplying a drink of water to someone who is thirsty. Love is giving freely and generously to others. It does not have to be accompanied with aroused emotions.
Receiving is often harder than giving. Sometimes it is because we don’t recognize what is being offered as a demonstration of love. Someone might ask us to chop wood with them because they want to share with us. We might see this as a chore not a gift and do it grudgingly, if at all.
Everyone desires to love and be loved. Stories, songs, poems, and world events are based on some version of this eternal truth. The Masters have often told us that love can never be wrong. For this to be true, our love must be based in non-harm. We cannot harm another and claim that we are really beings of love. Our love must also be anchored in acceptance of others as they are.
Unconditional love, Ama Marai, has to be both personal and impersonal. It must be inclusive. It is the greatest treasure of the path of spirit to discover the capacity to love everyone. True acceptance is to imagine the worst person you can and then to know that entity can be forgiven, accepted and honored with love. When this is possible, then unconditional love is possible.
Beloved Spirit Mother and Father
Help us to be open to the people around us.
Show us the paths of loving kindness
and assist us to walk those paths in joy.
Teach us the ways of love
that we might learn to exchange ourselves
for another in true sacrifice.
We accept the touch of your love upon our minds-
our hearts and our lives.
Change us into beings of love.
Let my heart be a vessel of love
Le my thoughts be a blossom of love.
Let my words be an expression of love.
Let my actions be the fulfillment of Love.
Together may we merge
into the infinite possibilities of love.


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Magdalena Stefanowicz-Rutkowska*, Wojciech Matuszewski and Elżbieta Bandurska-Stankiewicz
Clinical Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Internal Diseases, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
*Corresponding Author: Magdalena Stefanowicz-Rutkowska, Doctor, Clinical Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Internal Diseases, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland.
Received: October 03, 2020; Published: November 18, 2020
Objectives: Our aim was to identify the correlation between autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) and the prevalent of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in women with diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1).
Methods: We reviewed medical records adults women with type 1 diabetes diagnosed on the basis of WHO criteria - lasting at least a year and with AITD for at least a year. The control group consisted of women without AITD, selected according to age, BMI, DM1 duration and metabolic control. Anthropometric parameters, parameters of diabetes metabolic control, thyroid and metabolic status and presence of DR were assessed. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between AITD and prevalent DR.
Results: We included 122 women with type 1 diabetes aged 36 ± 13 years. The average duration of DM1 was comparable between the groups, in the study group was 12 ± 10 years, and in the control group 13 ± 9 years. The parameters of metabolic control of DM as HbA1c percentage, the lipid profile and blood pressure did not differ significantly between the study groups. Patients from the study group had significantly higher concentration of TSH, fT4, anti-TPO and anti-Tg than the control group.
Conclusion: After excluding the recognized risk factors for DR in women with DM1 and concomitant AITD, showed a significantly lower chance of developing non-proliferative DR, therefore in this group of patients it is recommended to have standard assessment of TSH and thyroid antibodies levels for the early diagnosis of AITD and possible levothyroxine treatment.
Keywords: Diabetes Type 1; Women; Autoimmune Thyroid Disease; Diabetic Retinopathy; Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis; Graves-Basedow’ Disease
Citation: Magdalena Stefanowicz-Rutkowska., et al. “Autoimmune Thyroid Disease in Women with Type 1 Diabetes is Associated with a Lower Incidence of Diabetic Retinopathy". Acta Scientific Women's Health 2.12 (2020): 21-27.
Copyright: © 2020 Magdalena Stefanowicz-Rutkowska., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


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Mrs. Harry Lehr (1905)
This full-length portrait of Mrs. Harry (Elizabeth Drexel) Lehr was executed in Paris in 1905 by the artist Giovanni Boldini. Born Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, she was the daughter of Joseph William Drexel, partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, and Lucy Smith Wharton. She married Joseph Vinton Dahlgren in 1889 and following his death, married Harry Symes Lehr in 1901. In her autobiography King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Mrs. Lehr describes how her new husband revealed on their wedding night that theirs was to be a marriage in name only, and that he was only interested in her money. After Lehr’s death, she married John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies in 1936.


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How well-matched are our newly-weds astrologically speaking?
In a social media post for his birthday in 2016, I predicted that it would be a big personal year for Prince Harry – not only did I see him finding a sense of purpose and direction in terms of his charity work, but I also suggested that he could meet someone very special, thanks to the transits of Jupiter in his birth chart.
As it turned out, Prince Harry’s first meeting with Meghan Markle, now his bride and the Duchess of Sussex, had taken place just a month before – in the summer of 2016. During their engagement press interviews, he later added that he knew she was ‘The One’ from their very first meeting. So was their meeting truly written in the stars? And what does astrology have to say about their relationship? On the day of their wedding nuptials in Windsor, I thought it might be nice to take a look…
Whilst we are not sure of the exact date of their first blind date, we do know that it was around July-August 2016.
If we look at the transits in their charts around this time, we note some telltale signs of an important romantic connection appearing in their lives:
- Meghan’s Transits – Transiting Jupiter had recently made a conjunction to Meghan’s natal Venus in Virgo, and was still in orb around the time that she met. The transiting North Node, marker of destiny, also happened to be exactly conjunct her natal Venus around mid-July 2016 – around the time she met the man of her dreams. Transiting Saturn, ruler of her Descendant (and therefore her 7th house of significant relationships) had also recently gone over her natal Part of Marriage in the 5th house of new love, joy and passion, and the Transiting Part of Love was virtually conjunct her Descendant.
- Harry’s Transits – The transit that made me think he was about to fall in love was transiting Jupiter’s trine to Harry’s natal Moon in Taurus, which just happens to rule his 7th house. At the time, I also felt that Jupiter’s ingress into relationship sign, Libra, was going to be significant because it would pass over his natal Venus and Part of Marriage, also in Libra. This was still coming into orb in the summer of 2016, and would only have perfected some months later. However, as it happened, Harry was set to have a Venus return around his birthday in 2016, which would have activated this particular configuration the week before and after his solar return – at the very time when his romance with Meghan was said to have been in its first flushes…This leads me to think that it was in fact, during their trip to Botswana that Harry really fell for Meghan.In later interviews, he did say that he found himself falling for her very quickly. This may be further explained by a transit between Harry’s natal Uranus and transiting Venus in Leo, which made a trine from his 7th to his 11th house in mid-July 2016. Stabilising the whole ‘lightning bolt’ effect of this transit, which can often result in that ‘love at first sight’ feeling, was Saturn, which happened to be conjunct Harry’s natal Uranus at the time. This ensured that the connection became more than just a passing fancy and helped them build up a solid bond of friendship which helped to cement the relationship so that could outlast the early fires of passion which may have been stoked by Venus and Uranus.
So what of the long term? Does the synastry between their charts indicate strong compatibility and a relationship with staying power? Let’s have a quick look…
The Synastry Chart
Is the spark there?
It most certainly is! A positive sextile aspect between Harry’s natal Sun in Virgo, and Meghan’s Uranus in Scorpio means that these two were indeed attracted to each other from the moment that they met. The reverse is also true – Harry’s natal Uranus also happens to form a flowing trine to Meghan’s Sun, providing a double whammy of that lightning bolt sensation that often characterises love at first sight. It would also no doubt have meant that these two would definitely have felt a current of electricity pass between them every time they touched.
A meeting between Harry’s Venus and Meghan’s natal Pluto is likely to have resulted in a magnetic pull of attraction between these two lovers. Pluto’s influence is often very intense and compelling, which would have made the compulsion to be near each other very strong. I think it is fair to say that they probably felt drawn to each other in a very powerful way and would have found it hard to stop thinking about each other, or be apart for very long stretches of time.
So far, so good.
But will the connection last?
In order for any relationship to last in astrological terms, there has to be some positive Saturn influences in their synastry to stablise their union and provide long-term staying power. It demonstrates commitment and in relationship astrology, is seen as the necessary glue that holds a relationship together on a long-term basis.
In the case of Harry and Meghan, the planet Saturn also happens to be prominent in both their natal charts (Harry has Capricorn rising while Meghan has Capricorn on her DS), making it doubly important that their Saturns chime with planets in the other party’s birth chart.
As it happens, the pair share a number of contacts between their respective Saturns. Not all of them are positive, however. On the one hand, we have a sextile between Harry’s Saturn and Meghan’s Venus, a definite sign of romantic longevity and maturity when it comes to their connection. This is a couple who make promises to each that they intend to keep, and who genuinely care about each other and are committed to ‘making it work’ – a sound basis for any long-term partnership. In addition, their union benefits from a trine between Meghan’s Mars and Harry’s Saturn. This often helps to keep a couple motivated and give them the energy and focus they need to keep working at the relationship, no matter how tough things might get.
On the downside, however, Harry’s Jupiter is square to Meghan’s Saturn, hinting at possible clashes when it comes to beliefs, ethics and notions around moderation. It is fair to say that Harry is the wholehogger in this pairing and Meghan may have to rein him in a little at times – it’s possible that he doesn’t always know when to quit and can go a bit overboard, especially when it comes to partying and risk-taking. Although this can be a good thing initially, over time, Harry may grow to feel that Meghan is controlling or a bit of a party pooper, while Meghan may sometimes privately wonder why she always has to be the grown-up in the relationship. Something to watch if it is not to end up causing resentment further down the line.
In addition, Harry’s Saturn is square to Meghan’s Sun, which makes me wonder if she may not end up finding life as a royal rather constrictive and ultimately, oppressive, squelching her ability to express herself – something quite fundamental to an actress with the Sun in Leo.
Of course, like all relationships, no synastry chart is free of challenging aspects, so a few humps in the road are to be expected – and I do suspect that this may end up being one of them.
The potential for personal healing
On a more upbeat note, their synastry aspects also show that this relationship has enormous potential to act as a catalyst for emotional healing for both parties. A higher than average number of positive contacts between their natal planets and Chiron, the asteroid associated with the archetype of the wounded healer, is present in their synastry chart. This not only adds a certain sweetness and gentleness to their union, which I think comes across when they look at each other, but also suggests to me that they share a deep sense of empathy for each other’s wounds and vulnerabilities, making them sensitive to each other’s soft spots and unspoken emotional needs.
As a result, they are kind to each other, making emotional allowances for each other’s weaknesses, and most importantly, they may often know just how to nurture the other person, intuitively meeting unspoken needs and acting as each other’s healers and teachers.
Such a combination is therefore crucial in building intimacy between Harry and Meghan. It also makes the relationship into a safehaven – a space in which they feel they can share their troubles, weather life’s storms and help each other to heal the wounds of the past. And let’s face it, if anybody knows about suffering and pain in his childhood, it is Harry. So the influence of Chiron in the mix here says a lot to me about why I think this marriage has the potential to really help them both to grow and learn life lessons.
And when you think about how much Kate, with her emotional maturity, tender patience and strong maternal instinct, helped William to heal the psychological wounds of his past, you can understand why this union is so important to Harry. Through this marriage, he finally has the chance to move out of the shadow cast by his late mother’s premature death and finally have a shot at happiness.
I wish them both well.
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When a girl start dreaming about her marriage, she makes a check list before meeting her Mr.Right.
Here are list of general qualities on their mind:
Must have a hobby:His passion for his hobbies makes him interestingone, highly irresistible!!
Must be loyal: Nobody wants to share her partner with anybody else even emotionally.So disloyalty is a big No No!!
Must respect living beings:His respect towards others gives an assurance of his better human.
Must be genuine:He should be real in expressing his feelings with everyone either good or bad.Nobody likes a multiple disorder personality.
Must be sporty:Sports lovers are again interesting.
Must be helpful: Helping hand in every field of life.
Must be understanding: Every girl wants his significant other to understand her needs.
Must be caring: Caring is sharing very little things,doing works,helping in everyday chores without being asked to.
Should be family person: Love for his family gives an assurance that he will surely love your family too.
Must be truthful: Nobody want a liar as her life partner.
Don’t judge me for this article.I have written this after interviewing over 10 random girls aged 21 and above.


By the time we are toddlers we have developed strategies that help us navigate relationships. We learn from interactions with our caregivers that behavior brings forth different responses. A baby cries out, communicating distress: “I’m hungry, my diaper needs changing, I need to be held” – mom responds with reassuring tones: “It’s OK, I’m here, now let’s see what you need.” Mom feels warm and touched as her soothing responses help the child relax. They feel a secure attachment. Both feel joy and comfort in the pleasure of being known for what they experience.
But what happens when an adult is distressed? Much depends upon her awareness of states of mind – hers and whomever she is engaging with.
We can be empathic even when struggling with distress, like feeling ill or sad. However, if we are preoccupied with unresolved trauma* (* traumatic events which continue to influence our state of mind because they have not been sufficiently understood) our ability to be emotionally available is challenged. It is hard to remain empathic in the grip of loss, fear, anger or guilt. Meeting someone in need may trigger difficult feelings like resentment or confusion.
Anxious Attachment Strategy
A father observes that he has a pattern of becoming anxious and aloof when he is busy and his child wants attention. He doesn’t think he has the right to say, “Can you wait until I finish my work and have a shower?” Instead he feels hostage to his daughter’s needs and he becomes fidgety and irritable. Through repeated experiences the daughter knows that if she asks dad to listen to her there’s a good chance he will be annoyed. But she still feels the need for connection and tries to shatter his cold, hard shell. She wants to impress him with her intelligence, but she’s talking to a wall, he doesn’t look up at her. Finally he mutters a subdued, “Oh yeah,” as he leaves the room. This interaction is stressful for both but neither feels free to honestly express their thoughts or feelings. Both father and daughter can be said to have developed anxious attachment strategies – they don’t feel secure when coming together in relationships. The daughter has learned to anticipate discomfort stepping into social situations. Her relational style tends to be aggressive when seeking connection with others – father deals with his anxiety with avoidant behavior.
Why bother knowing about attachment strategies?
Observing strategies we employ for dealing with feelings that come up in relationships, we can analyze how they have evolved and how they impact intimacy. Leaving judgments behind, we are free to consider how we became secure or insecure. Deepening attunement to the ways others relate we learn how needs can be met in relationships.
Working with a psychotherapist to learn about your attachment strategies can be highly effective in changing patterns. Exploring relational styles is empowering – we gain understanding that there is meaning behind our responses to connecting with others. New options emerge when we feel secure knowing ourselves and in being known by others. Patience and practice are essential if we are to make inroads into these complex but not impossible emotional-psychological dilemmas.


This Mother’s Day is different from all the rest. My mother transitioned from this life seven weeks ago and I wish I could have her back! I miss her beautiful heart and contagious laugh. This Mother’s day I remember the strong, independent, free spirit that my mother still is. I am a mother of the two most precious gifts I could ever ask for; my beautiful, strong daughter Trinity and my handsome, hilarious son Lex. I am so grateful for both of them and love them with all that I am. Happy Mother’s day to all of the amazing mothers out there and to those who have lost their mothers I know how hard it is and hope your day is filled with peace knowing her spirit lives on. Rest in Peace my beautiful Moma. I love you “More” (something my Moma would tell me when I told her I loved her).


The cost of divorce has increased ever before. In 2019, the average price of a divorce in 2019 was $12,900 and the median of $7,500. Also, divorces can cause the heartbreak of a divorce, as well as lost productivity The median time of a divorce being 1 year.
An emergency divorce request is an option to be granted in cases where one spouse is doing harm to their partner while pursuing the divorce suit. If either of them are suspect of transferring marital assets of the community to their own personal accounts it could affect fair the distribution. An attorney for divorce can help ensure that your assets are safeguarded during divorce proceedings if someone you believed you had faith in turns out to not be trustworthy.
A divorce from a short-term marriage may also be a simpler option than one that involves a longer marriage. The annulment process can be completed by filing paperwork at the office of the clerk, instead of having to pay the additional cost and the preamble to a judge and lawyer. For a long marriage, though, getting a court-approved divorce may be a risky and lengthy procedure. ty1wmis8lf.


Imagine you and your partner in a painting!
I believe love is love. It doesn’t get simpler than that! I am combining my love for painting and my belief that all people deserve to marry the one they love. I am selecting photos and stories of couples for inspirational paintings, with the hopes that one day these paintings and stories will be complied into a beautiful book.
Just a few requirements to be considered for the project:
- Please send me non-erotic photos. I am looking for photos that express love outside the bedroom!
- Stories can be of how you met, how long you’ve been together and inspirational words about the love you share.
- Understand that your image may be chosen to be painted and shared with a large audience on Facebook as well as potentially published in a book. By sending me your image and story, you are releasing me to use your image and story royalty-free.
- If your photo and story are selected to be a part of the book, you will be contacted and offered to purchase a signed, pre-release copy of the book!
If you have questions before sending in your story, please contact me at Artist@BrendenSanborn.com.


Ecologists often collect multivariate data with the aim of determining which of many possible predictor variables are associated with a response. Unsupervised analyses (e.g. principal components analysis, PCA) find axes that explain variation in predictor variables, whereas supervised analyses (e.g., partial least squares, PLS) explain co-variation between predictor variables and one or more response variables. These approaches are not interchangeable, especially when the predictors most responsible for variation in the response are not the greatest source of overall variation in the data—a situation that ecologists are likely to encounter. To illustrate the differences between PCA and PLS, we used PLS to re-analyze data from a case study that originally used PCA. The original study used leaf traits of several Solanum species and asked if the main axis of variation in the leaf traits (i.e. the first principal component axis) varied with habitat temperature and precipitation. They found a significant relationship with temperature, but not precipitation. However, when we instead asked the question “do leaf traits vary with temperature or precipitation?” and analyzed the data with PLS, we found a highly significant relationship between leaf traits and both temperature and precipitation. Examining the loadings of the PCA and PLS showed that the leaf traits that contributed to the overall variation in the data (PCA) differed from those that explained variation in habitat temperature or precipitation (PLS). We also used simulated datasets generated with different covariance structures to further illustrate differences between unsupervised and supervised analyses. When there were many predictor variables that strongly co-varied but were unrelated to the response, PLS greatly outperformed PCA at identifying which of the many predictors were most closely associated with the response. There are many applications for both unsupervised and supervised approaches in ecology. However, PCA is currently overused, at least in part because supervised approaches such as PLS are less familiar.


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I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Mine was very eventful in a good way. We had Christmas Eve at grandma's with my aunts, uncles, cousins, niece, nephew, and the rest of my family. We have been so blessed as a family, lots of love and close relationships. Sunday, we had the immediate family over at my sister and her husband's house. That included a flight around Rome in my brother-in-law's plane.


In 16 years of teaching literature, I cannot think of a line that hit me harder than Celie’s declaration about Shug, the love of her life: “Just cause I love her don’t take away none of her rights.” Because this line radically changed my outlook, I work to ensure that my students benefit from its insights earlier than I did. Celie helps readers see that love is far more profound and expansive than monogamy. Neither monogamy nor marriage is love. Nevertheless, to our detriment, society teaches everyone to mistake marriage and monogamy for what is infinitely more valuable, meaningful, and life-affirming.
This essay is my attempt to share what I have learned from queer literature in a way that does not exoticize queer experiences, but instead, highlights how strange society’s most accepted values are. Mainstream culture teaches everyone to assume that when marginalized groups aren’t attacked or ignored altogether, they exist to provide lessons. As a result, when entering a queer literature class, for example, one easily thinks in terms of how these people are “different” and how I’m a good person for being willing to learn about them. Although these lessons aren’t applied equally — and mean something different for straight and queer readers — it’s my experience that queer or questioning students have been taught to hold their own identities at arm’s length, too. I call attention to these tendencies so that my students and I have a chance of avoiding them. Using close reading and critical thinking, we approach queer literature with intellectual rigor, which exposes the limits of our experience and outlook. We see that what mainstream culture has taught us about ourselves limits not only the ways we think, but also the ways we love.
Nowhere is this more true than in the text with which I began, Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel The Color Purple. In this book, Celie, after enduring years of abuse from her husband, finally enjoys a loving and restorative romantic relationship with another woman, Shug. While relishing the life that this union helps give her, Celie receives painful news: Shug met a young man. Shug admits that he’ll probably break her heart, but she is pursuing the relationship anyway. Celie eventually makes her peace with the situation by concluding: “But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don’t take away none of her rights.”
My students and I are always reluctant to admit that we’ve been taught the opposite — that it’s quite appropriate for love to take away rights. Loving someone should mean, straight culture insists, that you will never want to be with someone else. Long before that, you prioritize a love interest over friends you’ve known for years in hopes of finding “the one” for whom you will gladly forsake all others.
These tendencies highlight the widespread belief that marriage, and by extension monogamy, is love. Neither is. So, why have we been taught that they are?
When cultural norms encourage individuals to confuse the monogamous marriage with love, despite all of marriage’s limitations, capitalism benefits. It does so because marriage is fundamentally financial; it’s an arrangement that powerfully determines economic destiny. In fact, the idea that marriage should involve love—not just good financial sense—is fairly recent. However, once love became a way to manage this powerful cog in the economic machine, creating scarcity became a cultural priority.
Love, like energy (as I’ve learned from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein), does not shrink or disappear and cannot be destroyed. It simply takes different forms, so it will never run out. There is no end to how much love one can give and receive.
And yet, for countless people, none of this feels true. None of this abundance feels available.
That’s a sad reality, but it’s also a victory for a culture invested in convincing everyone that there are very few legitimate choices. Capitalism thrives on scarcity, on keeping people scared and committed to competing. Encouraging a particular way of life, especially one with serious drawbacks, requires creating scarcity where there is none—in the realm of love.
Society insists that romantic love is more valuable and meaningful than any other kind. Why else would straight women, in particular, consent to the raw deal that is traditional marriage? (Men more reliably benefit.) Romantic love is supposedly more valuable than any other, and heterosexual romantic love the most valuable of all, so women are encouraged to invest in a relationship that has a 50% chance of failure and a 100% chance of leaving them financially vulnerable if it ends. We’ve been taught to value this relation with our hearts even when it leaves so many of us financially at risk; when it nearly guarantees that our care will be extracted into a larger economic system that does not care about us.
Queer literature has taught me how to imagine love differently. By grappling with authors such as James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Janet Mock, my students and I ask: Do people miss out on feeling the love already in their lives when they are convinced they don’t have true love unless it’s romantic and monogamous? Friends are chosen family, so why are we taught that the love we give and receive from them is less important than the quest for romantic love? How are we taught to ignore what good life partners our friends are because we’re looking for “the one”?
As Adrienne Rich teaches, “Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.” When my students and I are honest, we begin recognizing that we have put traditional marriage on a pedestal, and it occupies that space based on ideas so taken-for-granted that we don’t notice that they’re shaping our desires. Small phrases perpetuated in mainstream culture — the strange lingering, for example, of the “joke” or “wisdom” that God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve — emerge in our conversations to be examined.
Such messages are effective because they seem unremarkable, but James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room helps us notice the cultural work they aggressively perform. Baldwin’s characters expose assumptions about love and marriage that feel like “natural truth,” putting countless people on the same matrimonial path because no other journey seems possible. The novel’s climax offers an unforgettable account of how dangerous accepting “natural truth” can be. David has decided to leave Giovanni to marry Helga, whom he insists he loves.
“You do not,” cried Giovanni, sitting up, “love anyone! You never have loved anyone, I am sure you never will. You love your purity, you love your mirror—you are just like a little virgin, you walk around with your hands in front of you as though you had some precious metal, gold, silver, rubies, maybe diamonds down there between your legs! You will never give it to anybody, you will never let anybody touch it—man or woman. You want to be clean. You think you came here covered with soap and you think you will go out covered with soap—and you do not want to stink, not even for five minutes, in the meantime.”
Giovanni indicts David because he knows David wants a life with him but is forsaking that truth. David places more value on conforming to society’s standards of propriety so that he can see himself (“you love your mirror”) as clean. Intimacy takes many forms, but only certain forms are considered legitimate. But straight society doesn’t simply consider myriad forms of intimacy illegitimate; it casts most as evil and dirty.
If (the few) valid feelings and intimacies are so natural and right, why must they be so relentlessly reinforced? And reinforced in opposition to everything else? Being socialized in a culture that legitimizes so few lives and households makes asking these questions rare. Still, noticing what limits our conception of intimacy is only a first step.
Queer literature equips me and my students to see that love should expand human possibilities, not constrain them. A recent memoir, Meredith Talusan’s Fairest, offers powerful examples. It documents a multifaceted journey, involving Harvard and Boston, England and the Philippines, but its depiction of the relationship with Ralph is especially revealing. Talusan and Ralph are happy as a gay couple as long as Talusan presents as a man, but Ralph grows uncomfortable as Talusan’s gender expression changes. Finally, after an intense disagreement, Ralph relents and makes a promise: “I won’t ask you to take off your makeup again.” Talusan confesses to the reader, “I loved him then more than ever, more than I was capable of loving anyone, but I couldn’t be the man he needed me to be.”
This situation in Fairest drives home Celie’s point about how love doesn’t take away rights. Love makes room for Talusan’s right to express herself, the same way it makes room for Talusan to appreciate Ralph’s truth. Though Talusan’s essence never changes, “just as other people treated me like a totally different person when they perceived me as a woman, Ralph too began to think of me that way the more feminine I became, and that meant he didn’t see the person he fell in love with when he looked at me.” Even more movingly, Talusan’s love—a love that takes away none of Ralph’s rights—is palpable as she confesses, “[My femininity] must have been such an affront to his sense of identity, what he’d had to overcome to come out in the ’80s as someone from a well-known English family, only to be mistaken for straight when he was with his partner and feel as if he was back in the closet again.” Whereas straight culture attaches happiness to a single form, the enduring marriage, this memoir sees love and expansiveness in a range of relations, including those that end: Talusan and Ralph ultimately go their separate ways. This end isn’t a failure: it’s emotional honesty. And when the two meet up again years later, the reader recognizes how love can create abundance, but only if we learn to let it.
Understanding that neither marriage nor monogamy is love has changed how I move in the world: it’s helped me see how ingrained a narrow set of values are in me, and how that narrowness limited even my own expressions of joy. My partner, Craig, and I recently celebrated 23 years of coupledom. We have been together most of my adult life and married for 17 years, but I’ve only recently begun admitting publicly that there’s not much I would change about our relationship. Especially during the first decade, I manufactured complaints whenever Craig came up in conversation, whether I was talking to a stranger or a friend. Aware of the negative messages society sends to single people, especially women—and especially women of color—I never wanted to add to the sense that they were missing out.
It took reading queer literature for me to realize that this habit wasn’t born of altruism. It emerged because I believed society’s lies about single people. Subconsciously, I was convinced that they couldn’t possibly be happy. I believed our culture’s lies about the scarcity of love; I felt, in a powerfully internalized way, that the presence of my love diminished theirs.
Queer literature helped me see that I had foisted misery onto single friends that they had never actually evinced. Then, I started facing the ugliness of my unsolicited (and unfounded) sympathy. Once I recognized my ugly condescension, I began noticing how exuberantly many single people love on their friends! Besides committing to emulate that behavior in my friendships, I became more comfortable with being honest about my relationship with Craig. It is just another version of love, no more valuable than any other. Marriage doesn’t make our union better or more moral, and monogamy isn’t natural, right, or righteous. Fully aware of “the assumptions in which we are drenched,” we choose each other—every day, on purpose.
Loving by deliberate choice preserves my rights and his.
Koritha Mitchell is author of the award-winning book Living with Lynching, editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy, and author of From Slave Cabins to the White House. She is also a professor of English at Ohio State University. Follow her @ProfKori.


So yesterday me and the boyfriend were having a converstion about him going to Montreal, Canada for a weekend or even for 9 days. I am going away to Florida for 9 days to visit my brother. I am going on a family trip and he is going on a guys weekend out to canada. So I asked him who he was going to canada with and he said I am going to take Melissa, Melissa is his female friend since high school. I was like alright thats fine, I dont care, he had a big smirk on his face when he said this. Then he said no I wont take her because I dunno want to put myself through the tempation of something happening because he knew there would be drinking involved and he knew something would have happened. Well he said something along those lines, I just dont remember what he said exactly. So basically he just came out and said that he would cheat on me. Then he said I am am only a guy or something along those lines.
Now knowing that from what he said, should I let him go on this trip or should I put my footdown and say NO?


You have probably been looking for a Billie Eilish Valentine’s day card to send to your lover, right? You’re in luck! Musicians Institute decided to celebrate this day of love with things that we love: MUSIC.
We thought about two artists we think really gather the MI spirit. We chose Billie Eilish for her fresh approach to vocals and lyrics, her inventiveness, and how she is leading the next generation of young musicians. We chose Ozzy Osbourne because he’s a classic rockstar: a bit brash, honest, confident, puts on a good show, and, really, doesn’t take anything from anyone.
Both of those sounds a lot like our MI students and MI alumni. 😎 Anyway, here are your custom MI Valentine’s Day cards to show your friends, lovers and bandmates how much you really love them.


Simone van Groenestijn | cym
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“Cym” explores the relationships between virtual reality and reality. On the one hand, she is always on the move and defines her journey using thousands of photos under “cym.at/home”. On the other hand, she lives on an old farm in East Styria, where she researches the relationships between the network and nature.
“I expect new impulses from IMA through a collaboration with artists from different areas in different situations. "


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An exciting new six part series following the lives of several individuals and their families in Britain and Europe before and through the First World War.
Times are changing…
Lady Frances Ashbourne and her friend Lettie Hallenby risk everything for the sake of Women’s Suffrage, but when Frances’ parents order her to marry to save the family fortune, will she give up her principles, as well as her freedom?
Lord Edward Pemberton has gone too far. Rather than just bedding his latest conquest, unbeknownst to his family, he’s married her and now he needs to find a way out, especially as his parents have just suggested he find himself a wife. But will his desperate solution have unforeseen consequences?
Rosa Blum is madly in love with penniless artist Max Sommer, but when her parents find out, they decide to pay him off, rather than let him ruin their daughter’s life. Rosa is heartbroken when Max disappears and throws herself into her music, hoping that one day love will find her again. But secrets rarely remain hidden for ever…
Lucrecia Rossi didn’t mean to push the count’s son over the cliff edge, and she wouldn’t have done, if he hadn’t tried to rape her… a second time. Now, she needs to escape, and her father and brother have the perfect plan. All they need to do is to move away and their troubles will be far behind them…


"If a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what. So trust me when I say if a guy is treating you like he doesn’t give a shit, he genuinely doesn’t give a shit. No exceptions."
This makes me so sad
Thats fucking true
Sometimes you get so vulnerable for a moment, three sentences of a conversation, and then you go right back to laughing unabashedly like a child and I adore it.
WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT LOVE WITH PLENTY OF CITATIONS
by bob schofield
how there is not really a word for someone you are always almost loving.
THIS IS A CAT IN A HALLOWEEN COSTUME PLAYING WITH A TINY PUMPKIN THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
School starts in two weeks and I’m moving again in a month!!


The morning of February 20th my mom called me. I had just sent her a funny text while I was lying in bed nursing Emery. I thought she was calling me about that. Instead, she dropped the news that my father was dead.
Of course I lost my breath and didn’t know what to say.
My parents were together for 20 years and had my sister and me. They owned a business together that my grandfather had started. When I was 15, my grandfather had a surgery that left him in a coma for 18 months before he finally passed away.
My dad changed after that. He left the family and my relationship with him was never the same after that. We were very close growing up, but he left, and it was hard for me to understand as a teen.
At the time of his death, my dad had remarried and his wife was ill and living back home with her family. He was in the process of remodeling his utility closet and was having furniture delivered the day after. I don’t know why he did it. I never will. He didn’t leave a note. None of this makes sense. I can’t understand it.
We hadn’t talked in a few years for reasons that are personal. He visited us a few times when Bryan was at Walter Reed. But he never got to meet Emery, and that breaks my heart into a million pieces.
Bryan encouraged me to reach out to him when we got pregnant. I couldn’t do it. I didn’t want her to be hurt in some of the ways that I had been. I teetered back and forth on what to do. I had forgiven a lot and wasn’t sure I was ready to do it again. I can’t seem to fully grieve as he didn’t want a funeral or memorial service. It doesn’t feel real and I can’t truly break down when I have an infant to care for all day.
I am left with guilt and regret but I have to process that. I have to remember the good times. My dad was a good father while I was growing up. He was a successful businessman. He loved fishing and to be outdoors. We loved having long conversations on the phone or hanging out in the woods. We took amazing family vacations every summer for weeks on end. He taught me to water ski, fish, ride horses, and patience.
Bryan is doing the best job he can to support me. He isn’t much of a conversationalist but he is an excellent listener. He spent hours listening to my mom and I talk with all his family. He has held me as I cried. I begged him to never do something like this to Emery. Watching him with Emery reminds me of the times my dad spent with me. It is healing but also painful to watch.
Rest in peace, dad, you were loved by many. I miss you…
This is one of my favorite memories of us at the daddy/daughter dance.


For those of you who know my family you will understand why these photos are so hilarious! For those of you whom we have never had the pleasure of meeting in person... They look JUST like the members of our family (well, in personality anyway)!
Top row: Drew and Rachel
Bottom Row: Gretchen and Alexandra


Before I met him, I would dance in the shower.
When he was in my life, I would think about showering with him.
After he left, I would sit on the ground in the shower and cry.
When I got over him, I showered so quickly there was no time for dancing, fantasies or tears.
Someone can invade the smallest parts of your life,
you won’t even realize it until you dance in the shower again
and wonder why you ever stopped.
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that last fucking picture
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When the Challenges are from others
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