Couple strolling on the shore

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Relationships are hard work.  They need to be created,  maintained and sometimes, saved from sheer destruction.  It’s a lot for two people to manage,  practically impossible for one.  Sometimes, relationship counseling via a third party is necessary to expose the danger areas and promote healing.

If you’re in a really good relationship, you’ve already built a solid foundation on which it can grow.  Regardless of your personal age, or the span of your relationship, the thrills that you and Read more . . .

Couple talking facing each other

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There is nothing more rewarding than being involved in a loving relationship.  Life is made complete by sharing time with someone who offers and accepts support, enthusiasm and pleasure, whether a platonic friend, a family member or an intimate partner.  It’s a feeling that we hope will last until the end of time.  Loving someone is easy, but it takes care and effort to make the feeling last.

Life’s greatest joy can lead to great sadness and distress if one or both partners fail to address the basic Read more . . .

Couple in an argument

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Being in love is a great feeling to experience. You feel very special to someone who is important to you as well. You feel cherished and your happiness seems to never end.  It is a life of beauty,  of kindness,  of satisfaction,  of happiness and love. Who ever invented this mysterious feeling?  It is stronger than each and every life on earth and encompasses everything that we do. Read more . . .

Couple smiling for the cam

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Everyone loves something.  You can love yourself, love your country, love your neighbor, love your family, love your lover, or even love your enemy.  Some love material things, others live to find their one spiritual life love, their soul mate.  Love is the most precious emotion, and life’s greatest gift.  It’s a complex maze of sensitive and insightful emotions that can elate, mystify and terrify, and everyone treasures it.  Love brings completion to the events that shape our lives. Read more . . .

Old couple walking on the shore

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Having a loving relationship is life’s greatest joy, and ending one brings about one of life’s biggest sorrows.  Ending a relationship is never an easy thing to do.  On the contrary, with your partner’s feelings at stake, it is one of the hardest things to do.

It is often as difficult on the person who is ending the relationship as it is on their partner.  You have been intimate with this person for months or even years, and can’t bear to cause him or her any pain.  You might feel Read more . . .