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The Relationship/Dating Journey
Everyday I am looking and observing couples and how they interact with each other. I smile at new love and new relationships, because everything is new and fine tuned. You are not aware of the secrets and hidden information that one withholds when starting a relationship. Their exes are a mystery, how they treat their family is a mystery, and their bedside manner is a mystery. The tragedy comes six months into the relationship when you find out they are married, abusive, bi-curious, or a liar. There are many relationships that start out nice and continue to grow stronger and stronger. You become inseparable and the desire to be together is from both…
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Couples as Friends
Do you and your partner share the same friends? Do you have a group of friends that are yours and a group of friends that you share with your partner? These are questions I wonder about, because I use to think that in order to have a healthy relationship you needed to share friends or at least be able to be friendly with whomever your partner was friends with. Throughout the years I have found that it is not necessary. I do however believe that it is healthy for you and your partner to have one or two friends that you share that are couples. Sometimes it would be nice to travel with…
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10 Day Romance Challenge
Okay you hopeless romantics I challenge you to love on your partners for 10 consecutive days. Sex Free Romance. This challenge is good for All that love their partner If you need a relationship boost If you want to take that partner you’re dating to a more serious level If you want to spark some fire in that marriage If you want to rekindle a dying relationship If you want to surprise your partner Okay let’s be real, it’s for everyone whose in a relationship Now the challenge: It is quite simple. Each day will require you to do something romantic for your partner. I will suggest things, but if you decide to…
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My Love Letter to You
In this world of technology and communication being minimized to 140 characters or less do you ever think about going back to the way things use to be. I don’t mean to a world without cell phones, I just mean, maybe handwriting a love letter to your special person and mailing it to them. As a writer I can appreciate the love of paper and pen, but most wouldn’t dream of writing there most intimate thoughts on paper, to the one they love. Instead they whether post on a social media outlet, letting the world know how much they care about their special person. Sometimes all you need to help boost a relationship…
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Dating while overweight!
This is happily Ever Maybe first guest post. We encourage all of our followers to share their relationship experiences. First let me introduce myself. I am a single woman whose faced with three flaws in the dating world. I am over thirty, curvy in size, and I have been burned so I take no shit (for lack of a better word) from anyone when it comes to starting a relationship. I am very up front and I make my demands early on, so no one is surprised in a week or two when I am planning our weekend getaway to some far off island. Now the problem I seem to run into is…
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Always a 10
The old saying goes, A woman should always look her best in public and at home, if they are married or living with a partner. My mom would always say that to me when I was looking less than stellar. She would insist that I make myself “presentable” before my husband gets home from work. She would insist I put on something nice, put a little makeup on, and fix my hair. Mind you, I am raising five children and during the times they were newborns or under the age of 2, she is lucky I brushed my teeth let alone showered. I get it, but I feel differently. I have not been…
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Making Memories
Life has a way of blinding you with working, bills, family, news, and all the other everyday issues that come in and out of your life. Most times you forget what it is like to take a moment and enjoy your partner. My husband and I are guilty of going through the motions and forgetting to make memories along the way. We are aware that our children and working are areas of our life that will always take most of our time, but we should not feel guilty for wanting to take sometime for each other. It is important to allow yourself to enjoy your partner every time the opportunity presents itself. Almost…
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Does your partner support your dreams?
When it comes to pursuing your passion driven dreams, does your spouse support your dreams? I have talked with other women who have had these big dreams, but they are afraid to go after them, because their spouse or partner does not believe in what they want to do. Now I don’t mean their partner feels they don’t have the money or the means to fulfill their dreams they just don’t care about what their partner is doing or they think their idea is unrealistic without giving it any thought. I have met women and men who have wanted to do things that I had seen them pursuing for years and once…
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Salsa Dancing is Like Magic
My husband and I are not dancers. I mean I will do my two-step with a little dip every ten steps but my husband does not dance at all. He does not go to clubs and he absolutely hates live music. I don’t know why, he’s just a different type of person. Every now and then he will entertain the idea of doing things outside of his comfort zone and this night I’m glad he did. We went on a weekend trip to D.C. to celebrate his sister’s birthday, and his sister is like a ball of natural energy. She loves, loves, loves to dance. One of her wishes was for us to…
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When your partner is not religious
How do you keep a relationship together when only one of you are religious? I ask myself this questions many times, because I am married to someone who does not follow religion of any denomination. I grew up with parents who periodically went to church and classified themselves as Baptist. As I grew older I grew away from religion, but when I started having children I found my place in religion again. It was a choice I made without the influences of my parents or friends. I built a community of friends whose belief in God were like mine. I classified myself and my children as Christians, people who believe their is a…
