Persistence is the key to achieve the transformation to greatness. Anyone can become a great partner regardless of past experience or lack thereof. If you are a person with a sincere heart and honest efforts, you will achieve the status of greatness. It will be a result of your willingness to risk and your persistence to stay with it even when it seems that you are not getting anywhere.

And I stopped and thought about how these traditions come and stay. About how generations of children have celebrated religious heritages with bar/bat mitzvahs and christenings and baptism parties; about how American girls have Sweet Sixteen’s and how Latin girls have Quince’s. About weddings. And how these events occur just once in a lifetime. Once or twice in a family.

Still controlled by the fear of expressing what you feel deep down? Till when will you keep that affection that you feel for your buddy, friend or workmate? Better let go of what you feel, now that you still have the time and opportunity. Tomorrow may be too late. Can't say those feelings in person? Shake off your doubts and fears with free greeting cards online! With E-cards around, you can freely express your emotions without having to say it in person.

People have become accustomed to the wonders brought by the Internet in this day and age. Even sending postcards or greeting cards to your loved ones have become quicker and easier. These are e-cards and sent via electronic mail.

Tips for online dating success. How to develop your relationship online as well as offline by practicing patience, caring, understanding and TLC.

Listen - do you really listen to your partner. Here listening to your partner does not mean listening to your spouse at the dinning table or when you are just sitting together and talking. Listening here really means listening with care. Listening to what has been unsaid.

I am no expert at love. The very word makes me nauseous and sets my body to a defensive mode. But I have had my heart broken once or twice. Badly. By some pathetic loser by the way. Lucky for me, I'm a quick learner. I made ridiculous mistakes of cosmic proportions and learnt a thing or two.

A relationship tends to become boring if you start losing the intimacy and passion. You need to enjoy being together in an intimate way. Make your intimate time together special. Surprise your mate with a candle night dinner, soft music, a bottle of wine and a variety of passionate things for your lover to be together.

Discover 3 huge barriers that inhibit couples recovering from infidelity to survive the extramarital affair and rebuild their marriage.

After seven years of marriage Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and movie star Ryan Phillippe have called it quits. How could this be? Just months ago in her Oscar acceptance speech, Reese Witherspoon thanked her beloved husband, and now they're divorcing. Wasn't this a fairy tale marriage? Learn the REAL reason Reese, Ryan, and hundreds of celebrity couples seem unable to find or keep the partner they are looking for.

The empirical study of social facts is a methodologically complex process. We do not observe societies or other social facts directly.

All emotion is only half the truth, an illusion; a complete lie. Life is balanced, we distort it by projecting out opinion onto it. We interpret it with our ego and spin it left or right and therefore emotionalise it. By emotionalising things, we can make it safe. And from a love aspect, then we see where we are – out of integrity – and could bring our ego back to balance, if we chose to.

In matters of love and sex, of course, as with many other things, men and women are not in the same page. Men need sex to give love; women need love to have sex.

Sometimes men find it terrific to stay all weekend at home in his PJs, without shaving, brushing teeth, combing hair, or showering. They will do this to de-stress and not to embarrass us. It is the time when they let go of his ordinary activities and roles and almost literally enter their caves.

'Live your life at the campfire' says Brandon Bays (The Journey), meaning that we don't need to wait years to deal with issues but rather deal with them right here in the now. Whenever you are ready to let go of stored emotions, empty out all the past pain and come to a place where complete forgiveness is possible - let it happen! Your life will provide you with enough opportunities to learn, understand, and let go - WHEN you do each step is your choice.

Relationships with good friends are always wonderful. Is that true? Have you ever had the experience with someone you dearly like as a friend that it just feels exhausting to be with them sometimes? One reason might be the ‘cardboard image’ effect.

There are no deeper wounds that are harder to heal, than those inflicted by lies and deceit. Do you stay in the game or pack up your bags and move on?

There's no denying that maintaining a relationship is a lot of work. Almost fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce, and many wonder how people can maintain their relationships over their entire lives.

We all belong to a community of one sort or another. Nursing home - Assisted living site - village or Town. How do you connect to those in your community?

What friendship can be when one or the other perseveres, and the other is humbled.

As a species, we are gradually moving from self-centered, adversarial uses of power to collectively sharing power for the mutual benefit of everyone. We are shifting from a paradigm characterized by “me or them” to “me and them.” We are lifting ourselves into the realm of co-creation.

Detecting deception is more difficult than most people realize. Is someone lying to you or telling you the truth? It is often difficult to determine.

If you've been through a bad relationship you won't want to make the same mistakes again. These 12 pointers wil show you how to recognise the warning signs the first time you see them.

February is the second month in our calendar year. This month we celebrate and focus our attention on relationships. Relationships are a critical part of our lives and influence us in many ways. Positive relationships contribute to our sense of satisfaction, positive self regard, and balance. Within positive relationships, giving is a joy and receiving is a privilege. Not all relationships serve us; however, if we recognize this fact and sit in our integrity when the time comes, we will endure with certainty and confidence.

What if? A very powerful question. If you let it, it will not only open areas of your relationship that need exploration, it can carry into new dimension of what you have together.