Love
74 Articles & Excerpts
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.
Falling in love for all the right reasons by Margarita Nahapetian When Dr. Warren writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator or a doctor, but as a man who has himself been through the happy marriage. The information provided is valuable, the book gives helpful recommendations on how to create
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.
Rethinking the Purpose of Marriag
Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections by Henry Grayson, Ph.D. Marriage has served many different purposes throughout recorded history, ranging from procreation, companionship, convenience, status, need, and sometimes love. Yet, at the present time in America, I think we can all agree that our system of marriage
Love
Sex, Love, and Dharma: Finding Love Without Losing Your Way by Arthur Jeon We all search for love. We want it. We think it will make us whole. We think that we can finally be happy if we can find the love we desire. We all make the mistake of looking outside of ourselves for that love, looking for somebody who will fulfill
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.
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.
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.
A Renaissance of Love
The Future of Love by Daphne Rose Kingma Love is a mighty power. It is light. It is the energy of life. It brings us into life and sustains us while we live and breathe. Love is an energy, not a substance. It is essence, not matter.
Love in Ruins
Minds in Distress: The Clash of Evolution, Human Conditioning, and Culture in America by Edward E. Loewe Ph.D. Romantic love is an aspect of the human condition which has shown itself to be both a source of jubilation and of pain. Its hallmark is in many ways unpredictability. Love shows no reliability whatsoever in terms of when it will appear in one's life
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
A Radical Geography of Love
The Birth of Pleasure by Carol Gilligan For years, without knowing why, I have been drawn to maps of the desert, drawn by descriptions of the winds and the wadi - dry watercourses that suddenly fill with rain. I began following an ancient story about love told in North Africa
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
Assessing the Relationship Mess
Minds in Distress: The Clash of Evolution, Human Conditioning, and Culture in America by Edward E. Loewe Ph.D. Love and romance are here to stay. They are a lately evolved aspect of the instinctual human responses that promote mating, especially in the western world. And, they are adaptive for continuing the existence of the human species into a future
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| Advice & Discussions | Dating a military wife...by accident. What to do!? 2 weeks ago i met a girl (Amber) at a bar. Her friend (Nick) introduced us.
We had a brief hook up that night. but slowed it down, I was really interested in her and not as a one night stand.
We had alot in common. We hit it off really well and talk every day. | Loss of a Lover I'm sure this sort of thing has been posted thousands of times in this forum however, I just now joined and am in need of advice/help.
In late 2003 (we'll call him Josh) was called up by the army to go to Iraq. His girlfriend who works with me (we'll call her Stacy) was devasted. | OMG! Reading all the posts on this section of the forum made me ultra paranoid! I have had PLENLTY of oppturnities to cheat on my wife, I work part time at a popular bar. Lots of good looking women who basically throw themselves at any barman there. Numbers given with the money, the usual. | The latest news... I have been posting here the last few weeks about my relationship with a married woman. Now she has moved out and they are planning on filing for divorce.
I talked to her for a few hours the other night, and then got drunk and posted in the Infidelity forum. |
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