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The Secrets of Relating: Expanding I Am Presence

The Secrets of Relating: Expanding I Am Presence

Are you ready to piece together, embrace, and fulfill who you are and all your desires? Here is how:

It is time to write your own saga of love! This video conversation will help you answer the Who, Where, When, What and How you can shift into personal confidence and trusting within, so you can build relationships that support both partners in expansion. Are you trying to be a “good girl”? A “good boy”? To make someone happy? Do you create relationships that feel like a “bad Karma”?

women drinking coffee

Helping Others In Relationships Helps Your Own

Let Operation Beautiful inspire you—help a friend be happy in love and you just may be, too.

Earlier this year, blogger Caitlyn Boyle began "Operation Beautiful," a movement that encourages women to tack inspirational Post-It notes onto the mirrors of public bathrooms. By reminding other women that they are beautiful, the movement's participants transformed the way they saw themselves. That simple act of kindness got us thinking—can helping people with relationships improve our own love lives?

Woman and man in bed

Why Women Cheat

Unfaithful women confess why they cheated and, of course, how it made them feel.

According to a new study cited in The New York Times, infidelity is on the rise. The study also concluded that young women are closing the gap on what has largely been thought of as bad behavior for men—apparently, nearly as many women are cheating on their partners and spouses. This did not surprise me in the slightest—a large number of women I know in my age group have cheated on boyfriends. So why do women cheat? What are the circumstances that led to their infidelity? And how did they feel about it in the aftermath? After the jump, 13 anonymous confessions from women who have cheated.

the other woman

Dudes With Girlfriends Are Sometimes Easy

The other woman shouldn't get all the blame for cheating.

Throughout history the other woman has taken the brunt of the blame for cheating. But infidelity takes at least two people (if not three or more) to really take hold. Let's put the onus of infidelity back on the cheater, shall we?

Woman and two guys

Do You Overlap When Transitioning Boyfriends?

Advice on how not to be, or date, an overlapper.

When I asked an old friend why she hadn't just broken up with her live-in boyfriend instead of beginning a messy affair with a married neighbor, she snapped, "Don't be stupid—nobody leaves a relationship without having another one in place." Oh, please, I corrected her. Of course they do. People fall out of love or get angry and leave without a safety net all the time. But as I thought back, I realized that for as long as I knew her, she never had. Even when she pretty much hated the one she was with, she stuck it out until she'd lined up his replacement. I could never understand why. My friend is beautiful, successful and very smart; surely being single for a little while wouldn't end her world.

neil patrick harris, how i met your mother

One-Night Stands, Karma & CBS

Three CBS sit-coms in one prime-time featured karmic implications of one-night stands.

Monday night's CBS lineup had an intersection of three interesting things: sit-coms, one-night stands and karma. Somehow the programs How I Met Your Mother, Two And A Half Men and Rules of Engagement all featured plot-lines revolving around men receiving comeuppance for bad behavior regarding one-night stands. Is the universe tell us something through Neil Patrick Harris, Charlie Sheen and David Spade?

Jessica Simpson Thinks Tony Romo Rules

Jessica Simpson Thinks Tony Romo Rules

Jessica Simpson spouts off to People about her love.

Jessica Simpson may have jinxed her romance Tony Romo by opening up a little too much in People magazine. Or at least so goes conventional wisdom. Maybe she's in love and just wants to shout it from the rooftops (or magazine pages) and doesn't care about who knows.