Relationship Experience: Positive or Negative?

Recently I was reading an article that questioned how relationship experience affects a person’s success in a relationship. By experience it was discussing how many relationships the person had been in and how serious the relationships were. People who have been in more serious relationships have more experience than those who have been in fewer less serious relationships. So should you be looking for someone with a lot of relationship experience? Do people with more experience make better mates? I think that this question is a toss up. There are both advantages and disadvantages to being in a relationship with … Continue reading →

Television in Your Bedroom: Yes or No?

As a society most people feel the need to be entertained. Children are not as in tune with pretend play as they once were. We need video games, television, computers, and more. Most people do not even go for a jog anymore without their ipod. Therefore it is no surprise that televisions are typically everywhere in our homes. They can be seen in the kitchen as well as the family room. In fact while searching for hotels, one that I saw advertised that the suites even had a television in the bathroom. Many newly married couples struggle with whether or … Continue reading →

How Much Support Would Your Mate be for You?

When you take your marriages vows, you vow to love one another through better and through worse. The better part is always an easy one to uphold. However, many couples struggle when it comes to the worse clause. Courtney had discussed in a previous article wives that stand by their husbands through scandals and such. She also talked about how they stand by their man devoted (at least in the public’s eye). There are also women and men who stand by one another through affairs and cheating. Today I want to look at things from a little different perspective. What … Continue reading →

Are You in Need of a Wife Swap?

I am uncertain if the show been exists in new episodes but during the last season I was an occasional watcher of Wife Swap. As many of you probably know, the show is a reality show that allows women to trade places. The two women usually have very opposite personalities and family life styles. There fore the trade is not always simple. In fact it is typically very hard and emotional for the wives and the husbands and children. During the first week, the women must live as the woman that they are replacing. During the second week, the women … Continue reading →

Remembering Titanic: What Would You Have Done?

Back in November when Wayne and I went to visit our families for Thanksgiving, we had the opportunity to see “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Being a fan of the 1997 movie, I was very psyched to see this exhibit. I’d heard nothing but raves about it from others who’d seen it when it’d been in Florida. It proved as amazing as everyone said. From the recreated passenger cabins (both first class and third) to the grand staircase to the many artifacts recovered from the bottom of the North Atlantic I couldn’t help … Continue reading →

Wearing Your Ring after Divorce

Dating, marriage, and divorce all seem to have many unspoken rules and characteristics. They almost have an etiquette all of their own. There are questions that people face over how long you should wait until you kiss, how long should you be engaged, and when it is okay to date again after divorce. In addition to these there are many many more dilemmas that relationships can bring up. One such question that I have to address to you today deals with divorce. In a previous article, I discussed a great new business that I discovered. The business sells miniature coffins … Continue reading →

Who Takes Care of Business?

Being a follower or a leader has very little to do with being male or female or with age. Some people are just born controllers while others are born watchers. In many cases younger siblings will more easily handle issues and take care of older siblings. One may have a more out going personality and feel more comfortable addressing others. The same goes for marriages. One person is usually better at taking care of business and handling problems and issues. The other person may have input and opinions, but there is typically one person that has more initiative and brass. … Continue reading →

Are Little Fibs Harmless?

Granted, I will admit that a relationship should be built on trust and honesty. However, do you ever tell your spouse little fibs? Do you think your spouse ever fibs to you? The fibs that I am talking about really carry no significance other than the fact that you are being lied to! They are the little fibs that I know some spouses tell just to appease the other. I feel that men are much more guilty of these avoidance fibs than women. The ones I am referring to are those little fibs that the husband tells when he says … Continue reading →

When Your Mate Doesn’t Match Your Dreams Continued

One of my last articles proposed a question to my readers. It also gave a scenario. The scenario described a situation where the person that you fall in love with does not match the ideal life that you had imagined. In some cases we cannot control whom we fall in love with. We only discover the major differences after the feelings already exist. After that the only thing left to do is to decide if the relationship is worth sacrificing your plans for the future. There are many things in life that we preplan and have preformed ideas about. Those … Continue reading →

When the Person of Your Dreams Does Not Match Your Dreams

In our quest for happiness in life many of us look for that perfect person in which to spend the rest of our lives. We typically have some idea of what that person acts like, feels like, and even looks like. In some cases we may be greatly surprised to find our gift in a different package. In other cases we find exactly what we had in mind. In addition to knowing what type of person we are looking for, we also know what type of things we want out of life. Most people usually have some sort of outline … Continue reading →