How did your current relationship or past relationships typically begin? With a lot of talking? Flirting? Laughing? During my epic middle school years, the way I knew I was in "a relationship," and not just friends with a boy, was quite simple. If I sat beside a guy in church (or elsewhere) and he held my hand, that meant he was my boyfriend. When I was twelve, I was sitting in church with a boy I liked and I began dropping crazy hints. I put my hand next to my leg on the pew, then I put it on my knee when I crossed my legs. I even stretched my arm out a few times (subtle, I know), just so … [Read more...]
Celebrity Quotes on Love and Relationships
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” – Keanu Reeves Isn't that the truth?! Falling in love is this mystical/magical experience that couples enjoy. It's almost as if you're floating on a cloud. You can endure car trouble, long lines at Wal-mart, work frustrations, and bad grades with a smile on your face when you're swimming in the ecstasy of that lovin' feeling. There is nothing wrong with having a butterfly farm in your tummy as long as the relationship is being built on more than physical attraction and sweet nothings. When the butterflies stop fluttering … [Read more...]
Are You Burning Your Relationship to the Ground?
Isn't it amazing how much trouble our tongues get us into? So many of my regrets revolve around my tongue! Once, at community college, I was complaining about a classmate to another classmate, soon finding to my horror that the subject of my rant had walked up behind me. She walked away and never acted as though she'd heard me, but I should have kept my tongue in check! After moving in the dorms at Liberty University, my poor roommate got to experience my tongue multiple times when I expressed anger and frustration about the perils of sharing small spaces with others; I'm sure she could tell … [Read more...]
Waffles and Spaghetti in Conflict (Book Review, Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti, Part 3)
We live in a day and age when we can find a book, blog, or YouTube video to help us with almost any problem. It's amazing how many tools are available to boost the chances of marital success. Interestingly, there is also more divorce now than there was before all the help was available. Our culture has taken a definite turn for the worse in regards to commitment and simply sticking it out when the going gets tough. In our grandparents' day, a person got a job with a company, kept it for more than thirty years, retired, and the company took care of him or her with a pension. This wasn't … [Read more...]
Waffles and Spaghetti in the Bedroom (Book Review, Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti, Part 2)
Bill and Pam Farrel don’t mince words when it comes to the area of sexuality in marriage. Honestly, I applaud them for it. So many of us are so shy and standoffish about the topic, but singles need to know what a good married sex life looks like and how to cultivate one in their future marriage. The Farrels don’t, by any means, get crude or too personal, but they are up front about the beauty, excitement, and necessity of good married sex. Maybe you’ll blush and maybe you won’t, but I think you’ll enjoy their chapter Waffles and Spaghetti in the Bedroom. ~smile, blush~ Waffle Sex Last time, … [Read more...]
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