Sometimes the stress of a painful relationship can make you feel like crushing your own head. Have you ever been in a relationship that left you wondering after months and months why you hooked up with this guy in the first place, the reasons are many? People don't believe that they attract the exact person …
Author: Bruce
The Inconsistency of Love
Have you ever wondered why love, supposedly the most welcoming feeling in our lives comes with such great pain? The first time I experienced love but wasn't sure was the love of my mother. I was probably between 6 or 8 the first time I remembered doing something for her that made me feel good, …
My Relationship with God, not Religion.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The above sentence is from Genesis 1, and when I read this—and I have read this more times than I …
What is an Intimate Relationship?
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy. Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate attachment or sexual activity. While the term intimate relationship commonly implies the inclusion of a sexual relationship, the term is also used as a euphemism for a relationship that is strictly sexual. Intimate relationships …
Self-Reliance
SELF-RELIANCE People who lack a sense of self tend to disregard the "details" of life with a carefree attitude, believing that things will all sort themselves out. But things don't always sort themselves out. Taking responsibility pulls you back from the precipice and lets you be self-reliant and self-determined, no longer carried along by the …
Love-Being-In-Love-With-Love
The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, (Socrates never wrote anything), the general and political figure Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The speeches are to …
How Relationships Begin
Does everyone know how a relationship begins? Okay, here it goes then. Quite obviously your first relationship was in the womb, however, the mutuality of that was a bit lopsided in that your creators were the ones who chose to bring you here. But then you were here all covered in vernix, screaming and kicking, …
Anatomy of a Relationship
Relationships begin long before we even know what a relationship is. Life is about relationships, it is not about who can better live a solitary life, there are enough inmates in the world who'd win that segment. In the early stages of life when things were simple and filled with promise, I was a child. …