All About Love and Dating

Take time to heal.  Make sure that you are mentally and emotionally prepared to date again. This is one of the most important parts of dating after a split. The end of a marriage or long-term relationship can be quite traumatic, especially if children are involved and you were together for many years.

Find your confidence.  Divorce can do a number on a person’s self-esteem. You might blame yourself for a breakup, think that you are a failure, or obsessively wonder what you did wrong. Stop! Your heart is still reeling, and only time will help heal the happiness and confidence that you lost. Until then, fake it ‘til you make it.

Get out there.  You are not going to meet Mr. or Mrs. Right if you never leave the comfort and safety of your own living room. Make an effort to meet new people, and commit to dating at least twice per month. Ask your friends or family members if they know of any great single guys or gals, or try your hand at online dating.

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Romance rule #1: Don’t expect anything in return

Romance rule #2: Take charge

Romance rule #3: Add a humorous twist

Romance rule #4: Sex should be involved, almost always

Romance rule #5: Prove you’ve got him pegged

Romance rule #6: Suprise your lover with a special gift like some promotional products that you think he/she loved to have or can be useful at work.

Common Mistakes Lovers Make on Valentine’s Day

1) Panic Planning:

Don’t wait to make your plans! Last-minute planning, when panic sets in, almost always ends in disappointment: the best reservations taken, the best resorts full. Thoughtful planning reaps romantic rewards.

2) Complicating the Day:

Keep it simple. Don’t overdo it with complicated plans and arrangements! Dinner at the perfect time at your favorite restaurant is a sure bet, but add a little surprise: bring a bottle of his favorite wine, or have the pianist play her favorite song.

3) Unrealistic Expectations

Don’t expect all your dreams to come true in one day! Love is made of many moments, and they can’t all be lived in one night. Enjoy, appreciate and put into perspective that one special moment you create for Valentine’s Day.

4) Overlooking the Little Touches

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• Instead of voicing the usual "I Love You" in the same old-fashioned way, try to play with words to see their effect and speak out everything that promises to linger on in the memory forever.
• Make sure to spend loads of time together filled with candlelight dinners and clandestine visits to romantic spots.
Fill your surrounding atmosphere with the melody of romantic musical tracks that are free from noisy disturbance and ties the lovers with the music of love.

If your sweetheart finds gadgets and gizmos interesting, gift the most appealing one for him or her. 

Gifting a nice cell phone to your beloved would promise to keep both of you on all-time communication mode.

Though chocolates and greeting cards seem to be a bit run-of-the-mill, they can never go out from the Valentine gift-giving tradition and they will be attracting more and more lovers in all times to come.

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February 5, 2009

Romantic Vacation Ideas

Filed under: Love and Friendship quotes

1 Get away from it all

2 Don’t just go away on your next vacation; indulge in a romantic package with luscious extras

3 Celebrate an anniversary — any anniversary — with an anniversary trip

4 Expect the best — but get it for less

5 Request the honeymoon suite (even if you’re not married)

6 Order breakfast from room service — and don’t leave the room all day

7 Stock your own surprise in the minibar

8 "Hello, room service? Send up a bottle of your best Champagne, two flutes, and a strawberry delicacy"

9 Schedule a romantic dinner

10 Tell her how beautiful she is or how handsome he looks

11 Turn off the TV in your room; better yet, don’t turn it on at all

12 Hand out a stack of love coupons, redeemable at any time

13 Dress for bed

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Valentine’s Day Celebration Menu

Filed under: Romantic Recipe

Paige’s Hot Peppered Candied Walnuts

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 cups raw walnut halves
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Preparation:

1.Preheat the oven to 350º. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Place 3/4 cup of the sugar in a medium, heavy-bottomed skillet and cook over high heat, stirring, until it turns a light caramel color, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the butter and stir until melted. Add the nuts and stir to coat evenly with the mixture.

3. Transfer the nuts to the prepared sheet and arrange in a single layer. Place in the oven and bake, tossing every 5 minutes, until the nuts are toasted, about 15 minutes.

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February 4, 2009

Shakespeare Love Quotes

Filed under: Uncategorized, Love quotes
• Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun. ~Romeo and Juliet

• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. ~Romeo and Juliet

• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?it is the east, and Juliet is the sun. ~Romeo and Juliet

• Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. ~Romeo and Juliet

• Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love. ~Hamlet

• We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep… ~The Tempest

• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• If music be the food of love, play on. ~Twelfth Night

• Speak low if you speak love. ~Much Ado About Nothing

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Meaning when a guy bites his lip when he talks to you?

Filed under: Flirting Tips

Possibilities????

• He likes you for sure
• he wants to kiss you.
• Or maybe he could be nervous
• It maybe means he wants to go down town on you.
• It maybe because people biting their lip meant they were about to deliver bad news. Or maybe he have a surprise to you booking a luxury hotel rooms for a Valentine’s day celebration
• Used to flirt
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February 1, 2009

Couple Guide Questions

Filed under: Uncategorized, Marriage
1. What does my family do that annoys you?
2. Is it ever appropriate for someone to express anger in a physical way? If so,
   when and how?
3. If a fire destroyed your home and all of your belongings, what would you do? If
   you could take out three things before the blaze, what would they be? (Assuming
   there is no one in the house at the time of the fire.)
4. When you are sick and feeling poorly, do you like to be alone or do you like to
   be pampered and have someone close to your side most of the time?
5. Do you think you would prefer a calm, loving, consistent marriage or one that
   was full of excitement, wild times and rocky patches?
6. What makes you feel secure and safe?
7. What rituals could be added to our relationship on a daily, weekly, monthly and
   yearly basis that would help us to remain close?
8. Do you need to hear “I love you” or similar words on a regular basis from your
   partner?
9. Which do you think should have the final say in decisions - logic or emotions?
   Why?
10. What five things have you done in your life that you are most proud of?
11. If your partner had an affair, how would you react? Could you forgive him or
    her?
12. Over the last five years how do you think you have changed for the worse?
    Better?
13. On which topics do you feel qualified at giving advice?
14. If you could live one year of your life all over again without changing a thing,
    what year would you choose? Why?
15. Do you prefer receiving expensive gifts or ones that come from the heart?
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What Men Thinks?

Filed under: Uncategorized, Online advice
• Men need to feel successful, so-much-so that, to a man, failure is death. For them, if they fail, they no longer feel like men. It’s why men commit suicide more often than women.
• Men are most attracted to happy women who genuinely like themselves and
  who enjoy being women. When you’re happy, he feels successful. When you’re a
  bottomless pit who never seems pleased by anything he does, he finally gets
  worn out and leaves.
• Men hate it when a woman tries to change them. What it tells them is that
  they’re not okay the way they are. That makes them feel attacked, which
  makes them put up defenses against those attacks…against you. A defended
  man cannot love a woman the way she wants. You can help him dismantle those
  defenses and once again open his heart to loving you…like in the beginning
  of your relationship when he thought you were the most wonderful woman on
  the planet.
• Since they were boys, men have been taught not to feel. “Pick yourself up,
  don’t cry, be a man.” Those messages were taken to heart and as men, the
  only person they feel at all comfortable being intimate with, sharing at
  least a little of what’s going on inside of them, is their wife. He’ll begin
  to share things he may have never told you before, no matter how long you’ve
  been married. You really are his only source of intimacy.
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