Relationship tips and advice

(via Relationship advice for January 28 2013)

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. ~ Alice Thomas Ellis

Wake Up with Your Lover

• Wake your lover up with a few romantic lines from Romeo and Juliet.

• Feed each other breakfast.

• Wake up at dawn together and watch the sunrise.

• Make a romantic wish for the day.

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~Albert Einstein

(via Relationship advice for January 23 2013)

(via Relationship advice for January 13 2013)

There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.” —Robert Frost

Good morning! Frost’s quote reminds us that whenever we build a wall, we not only keep something in, but we also keep something out. Have you ever built a wall in your life? Perhaps an emotional wall to avoid hurt in some area, or a wall around your confidence because you are scared to fail? Perhaps you’ve built a wall to keep away a certain type of person?

(via Men have an undeniably strong attraction to females)

(via Men need action!)Some men do have an inborn need to be active. In general, men have greater muscle mass than women and are more likely to use physical activity to express their inner world and to relieve anxiety. For instance, we know that boys are ten times more likely than girls to be hyperactive.

(via Men need to be right and in control)

Throughout the history of humankind, males have been assigned the role of protector. Men are generally bigger and stronger than their wives (not always, but usually). They have put their lives on the line to keep their family members safe. Modern-day men still feel the primal pull to be the brave defender, but without a grizzly bear threatening at the door, they must find other ways to “save” the family; at the very least, they need to have some control in the family dynamic.

Men are raised on such life lessons as “Talk is cheap. Action is key.” This kind of training, combined with the male’s brain circuitry, sets up the male of the species to be a creature of action rather than words. Certainly, men can learn to verbalize their feelings and to respond better to the feelings of others,

(via The fallout of a cheater relationship partner)

In either case, and regardless of who breaks it off or how it is discovered, the one cheated on is impacted in special ways, which can get in the way of future love. Let’s see what they are, so we can counteract them.

The blotted diary. I spoke of this before: the ignominy of being forced to rewrite your own cherished history. It is like having kept a diary, and one day you find you have to take a black marker to it and cross out pages and pages of a life you valued. And the thing is, people aren’t too careful when they are crossing out entries and tearing up photographs.