Welcome! I've had so many eye-opening life experiences so I thought I'd share them with you. The menu to the left will take you to the Main Blog Page. Choose the category you'd like to read. Feel free to share your thoughts in the "comments" sections at the bottom of each post. Use the "share" buttons to send posts to your peeps. Let me know if you'd like to share a story as well. Thanks and enjoy!
All in Relationships
I think it's important to know what qualities you want in a person you are going to spend your life with right? When you really think about it, that means every day, day in and day out...for 50 + years. Geez, that's a lot of life to live with someone who doesn't embody qualities you love, respect and admire.
I spent most of my life unaware of the difference between intimacy and sex and how both are inter-related. It wasn't until a few years into my marriage that I realized something was terribly wrong.
I hope you're talking about these things BEFORE you get married. These are real life things that can cause resentment in a relationship if people go into it with unfulfilled expectations. I encourage people who are either newly married or planning their wedding day to get into the discussion of “who will clean the toilets…?” and load the dishwasher, and mop the floors, and pay the bills, and chauffer the kids, etc.
I'm not sure when would be an optimal time to learn about love and what we need in order to feel loved in any relationship. This is a little story of how I wish I would have know about the five love languages well before I got married. It probably would have altered my choice.
Hindsight is 20/20 right? Self-awareness, self-acceptance, confidence are the most important things I wish I had been armed with before I got married. I think if I had done these
After many disappointing relationships and one failed marriage, I finally found him. All the work I did to improve my life paid off. I finally have a partner that is my perfect match.
I'm talking about a real mindset shift. Are you tired of the way your life is going? Are you confused and frustrated by all the bad things that are happening to you? Are you ready to make a change? I was in the same boat, and this is how I jumped-ship.
This post is about my dating journey after my divorce and everything I learned along the way. And truth be told I learned a lot...about myself and why my relationships were always such a struggle.
A journey through my relationships "past" and the things I've learned in order to change my relationships "future".
