It is never easy to break up with someone you still love.
It is never easy to break up with someone you still love and whom you have spent several years with. It is even harder breaking up with someone you have been through many trials and tribulations with because you have a lot invested and there is a fear that your investment may pay huge dividends for someone else. We hold on with the hope that our beloved will change for the better all the while witnessing evidence that this “change” isn’t going to happen anytime soon. It is important to know when its time to cut your losses and call it quits.
Single? Turn your Valentine's Day from drab to fab!
Unrealistic expectations can cause a great deal of emotional pain if you are alone on Valentine’s Day!
Longing for what is not there in front of you rather than seeking joy in what is! I often think of the old saying, “God never gives you more than you can handle.” There is great truth in this even when it feels like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Inch by inch you move forward with conscious intent until you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You have survived! Now what?
Are you sick of being afraid of intimacy? Are you ready to have emotional intimacy in your life?
Why would someone be afraid of intimacy? Don't we all want to feel close and connected with someone?
Yes, of course we want that, but there are very real fears that keep us from opening to emotional intimacy in a primary relationship.
The Fears
What is the first fearful thought you think when you think of feeling close to someone?
Find out why you're still thinking about the past and learn how to take the next step.
One of the hardest stages in the relationship cycle is moving on. Many of us ask the question, "Why am I still thinking about my ex?" We've all suffered through nights when we couldn't sleep because thoughts about the ex just wouldn't quit. That's normal. Here are 4 reasons why we continue to think about the past:
1. Lack of closure.
Author Bonnie McEneaney shares hope from beyond, as well as love lessons for all women and couples.
Bonnie McEneaney, an author, former business executive and mother of four, lost her husband on Sept. 11, 2001 after he experienced premonitions that his life would end in a terrorist attack on New York City. Ten years later, Bonnie opens up on how the tragedy strengthened her spiritual bond with her deceased husband and what all women can learn about love based on the signs she's received from beyond.
Tiger Woods' former fling says her fiance "was meant to die because he was too good."
"I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good ... I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced ... [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island."
How are you going to get through your first, or yet another Father's Day without your dad?
How are you going to get through your first, or yet another Father's Day without feeling raw, abandoned, or left behind? After my father died while I was a child, it took years before I could pass through a Father's Day and not feel sad and confused as I was left with all of the questions I never had a chance to ask as I grew up. As we grieve the loss of a father, sometimes it is easier to go through the process if we know what to expect as our heart heals.
Guess what? Anniversaries and other "special" days are all man-made. It is we who gave them meaning. Which means we also have the power to give them un-meaning. What do I mean by that? A day that, by everyone else's calendar, is just another Saturday could be a real minefield when we attach significant meaning to it.
What to do with, and about, all of our conflicting emotions?
From deep inside me, and all around the world, the news about bin Laden’s death has created conflicting emotions that seem to be downright overwhelming. I'm aware of the fact that for me, so much of this emotional upheaval has to do with the fact that I witnessed excruciating emotional pain while doing the volunteer work I offered in the aftermath of 9/11.
How do you mend a broken heart? What do you do when your dreams come crashing down around you?
How do you mend a broken heart? What do you do when your dreams come crashing down around you? When all you hoped for appears to be lost, and when the lines of communication have been cut?
Here are five ways of integrating the loss:
How to cope with a gay relationship breakup and bounce back with a new lease on life
INTRODUCTION
"It just hit me out of the blue when Mike left me. We hadn't really been together all that long, but I thought I'd finally found my true soul mate. Now it's over and I feel totally rejected, like nobody's ever going to want me again. It's so hard finding a decent guy and now I have to start all over again; I don't know if I can. I feel like a failure at relationships. I just don't know what to do." --Eric
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