Love
80 Articles & Excerpts
The New Happily Ever After
Cinematherapy for Lovers by Nancy Peske, Beverly West If you're feeling like a solo singer in a Captain and Tennille world, and you're beginning to sound a little off-key, retune your instrument with one of these Make Your Own Music Movies, where happily ever after doesn't always involve a march down
Maintaining 'Good Love' in a Long-Term Relationship
Heart of the Matter by Linda Austin, M.D. As challenging as it is to be aware of your rule book for starting a relationship, it's even more challenging to be aware of the gazillions of rules you unconsciously impose when your relationship becomes permanent.
So Just What Is Love, Anyway?
Heart of the Matter by Linda Austin, M.D. Love is an extraordinary word, an infinite container for all the wishes, fantasies, needs, and impulses we have for connection. It's a one-size-fits-all term that is applied to an enormous range of relationships and emotions.
Introduction
Heart of the Matter by Linda Austin, M.D. You know what it feels like when 'something's missing.' You sense a vague discomfort, a whiff of uneasy numbness that creeps up during quiet moments. Nonsense, you scold yourself. nap out of it. There's no reason to mope. Don't let anyone notice.
The Gods and Goddesses Are Alive Within You
Gods and Goddesses in Love by Agapi Stassinopoulos Three thousand years ago, my Greek ancestors tried to identify the forces playing themselves out in human nature and created the eight gods and seven goddesses of Olympus, giving each of them a name and a story.
Getting Love Right
Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (A Fireside/Parkside Recovery Book) by Terence T. Gorski, M.A., N.C.A.C. On a fundamental level, relationships represent a search for that wholeness, a search for completeness and the ability to feel as one with another human being. In many ways, this striving for unity with another person is a fool's game.
The Enchanted Sea
Enchanted Love by Marianne Williamson Mystical love, like mystical anything, exists in a different realm of consciousness than the one that dominates our daily lives. Emotional enchantment is conjured up, brought forth, and summoned from the underworld.
Narcissistic Love
If Love Could Think: Using Your Mind to Guide Your Heart by Alon Gratch, Ph.D. We are all familiar with the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in the pool. But we are less familiar with the story of his partner, Echo, the young nymph who was cursed by the gods to only be able to repeat
The Power of Loving-Kindness
Handbook for the Heart: Original Writings on Love by Benjamin Shield, Ph.D., Richard Carlson, Ph.D. What is love? Why is it central to our happiness and personal growth? And how can we find it, nurture it, express it, keep it alive? In this inspiring anthology, thirty-four of today's best-known spiritual teachers provide us with answers-and illuminate
Preface
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, M.D., Fari Amini, M.D., Richard Lannon, M.D. What is love, and why are some people unable to find it? What is loneliness, and why does it hurt? What are relationships, and how and why do they work the way they do? Answering these questions, laying bare the heart's deepest secrets, is this book's aim
The First Invitation: Feel Everything
Setting Your Heart on Fire : Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life by Raphael Cushnir To love is to open. To love fully is to open wide. When we're wide open, love rushes toward us and emanates from us. We recognize it as the essence of our existence. Naturally, without effort, the illusion of separation vanishes.
Reviving a Love Story
The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Falling in love feels like an accidental occurrence to many people, but in spiritual terms it is not-it is the entrance point to love's journey. Romance has several distinct phases of its own for us to explore-attraction, infatuation, courtship
Miles and Betty Trimpey
Love Stories of World War II (Random House Large Print) by Larry King In 1998 Betty Trimpey gave her younger daughter, Linda K. Golby, a battered box of letters that had survived thirteen moves, still tied together with faded fifty-year-old hair ribbons. The letters included many that Linda's father, Miles Reid Trimpey
First and Foremost: You Gotta Love Yourself!
Teen Love: On Relationships, A Book for Teenagers by Kimberly Kirberger Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself. Before we get started with relationships, let's take a look at the most important relationship we will ever have..., the one with ourselves.
Opening to Love
The New Intimacy: Discovering the Magic at the Heart of Your Differences by Judith Sherven, Ph.D., James Sniechowski, Ph. D. At the heart of the new intimacy is the capacity to consciously open yourself and take in more and more of who your partner truly is. That's much easier when what you want to take in is familiar, something you already know and like.
The Three Ways of Love
Intimate Communion: Awakening Your Sexual Essence by David Deida In our culture, we have a tendency to use the word love for three very different feelings. We can begin to understand some of the complexities of our intimate life when we untangle these three different threads of our loving.
The Beginning
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little… By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.
Ecstasy When Love Rocks
You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life by Mary D. Esselman, Elizabeth Ash Vélez Ah, the ecstasy of love. Who wants to settle for anything less? From the first second of our first major crush, ecstasy is what we hope for and dream of, that on-top-of-the-world, giddy, whirly, zing-zangy kaboom of a feeling that squeezes your heart
Attracting Love
The Love Magic Book: Potions for Passion and Recipes for Romance by Gillian Kemp It is natural to love another person. Love is both ecstatic happiness and deep despair, both sweet and bitter. Your mind may advise you not to love a worthless or unfaithful person, but the heart will continue to love because it cannot accept reason.
Loving Without Losing Yourself! by Allie Ochs You are in love and it feels wonderful. This love is different and you are prepared to do anything to make it last. To prevent this ship from sinking you work hard to steer this relationship into a safe harbor. In the process you lose yourself and your
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| Advice & Discussions | Am i Mad or have I been played MY fiance and I had a real bad time with me getting outraged at the closeness of one of her male friends whod stayed in her partment for 5 days and during 1 day shed got sexualy aroused on the phone with him in the other room. THIS TIPPED ME and i just felt sick, sHe lives in the usa and i live in the uk so the distance freaked me out, well it got worse. | Am I dumb? I'm seeing this girl but theres nothing official yet in between us. A few days ago she went to a party, got drunk and spent the night with someone. She came to me the next night crying, saying she felt like crap the whole day and apologized. She said she should have stopped it, it didn't feel good but she was just too drunk and in lack of physical contact. | Should I tell her about his infidelity? Hi everyone,
I really would like your opinion and advice on what you would do in this situation.
Basically i found out my partner had been cheating with prostitutes for years about eight months ago. I posted my story a while back. RE: Partner slept with prostitutes for a very long time. | Husband is calling prostitues I was trying to log into my own e-mail account yesterday, and his came up instead because he didn't log out the last time he was in there. So a few months ago he joined an online hook-up site and he's also been mailing craigslist prostitutes. He's caught now, so he says he's going to stop. |
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