All Articles Tagged "romance"
Dates that Won’t Break the Bank
(Bankrate) — People on a blind date and longtime married couples alike are finding ways to date for less. In fact, having a frugal mindset could save money while helping you make a positive impression. ”They’re not (avoiding) dating anymore because of money; they’re just doing some clever and some inventive things,” says Whitney Casey, author of “The Man Plan” and a contributor to online dating site Match.com. “It’s cool to be frugal in a recession.” Cheap and even free dates can be just as memorable, without taking a big chunk out of your paycheck or creating credit card debt. There’s no evidence of a correlation between how much money you spend on a date and the kind of memory that’s created, says Jeff Yeager, an author based in Maryland whose books include “The Cheapskate Next Door.” ”Never hide or be shy about your attitude toward money, even when you’re first dating,” he says.
Michelle Obama’s Valentine’s Day Advice
(News24) — Here’s Michelle Obama’s advice for couples this Valentine’s Day: laugh with your partner. She says it’s what she and President Barack Obama do, and it seems to be working. Their marriage, although tested throughout the years by his political ambitions – for the Illinois Senate, the US Senate and later the presidency – is going on 19 years. ”I think a lot of laughing,” the first lady said at a White House luncheon with reporters who asked about the Obamas’ union. “I think in our house we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage. ”So we still find ways to have fun together, and a lot of it is private and personal. But we keep each other smiling and that’s good,” she added. It also helps that Obama is “very romantic.”
Nine Signs You’re a Jealous Lover
Okay ladies. You’ve found someone special. He or she is making your heart flutter and your toes curl on a regular basis and they seem more than happy doing that. Yet you just can’t quite relax and enjoy the feeling for fear they may be participating in some…extracurricular activities, if you will. Here are a few signs of a jealous lover; if you find you identify with too many of them, it may be time to change your ways or change your partner:
Where on Earth Is Your Prince Charming & His White Horse?
As young girls we visualized being swept off of our feet by our Prince Charmings. Oh how times have changed. Now we’re lucky if our Prince Charming even arrives, let alone whoo or wow us. While the hope of finding love isn’t a far-fetched notion, the beliefs that we shared as young girls are fairy tales that have been replaced with the somewhat harsh realities of what being in love really entails.
As we’ve grown out of our naïve anticipations we suddenly realize that those fairy tale love stories must have been reserved for fairies only, because real love is sometimes far from what we could have ever imagined. While love isn’t always a fairy tale, we still hold on to the hope of finding and sustaining real love, just as we did as young girls.
Now as adults we don’t necessarily have to let go of the ‘fairy tale’ love stories completely, but for the sake of not being naïve, we should re-mix these beliefs with doses of ‘real life’.
How to Introduce Your New Love to the Fam this Holiday Season
As the holiday season is rapidly approaching, many of us will be taking the bold step of either going home to meet their lover’s family or bringing him/her home to meet their own. Here are a few tips to ensure the introduction goes as smoothly as possible:
Is Your Relationship a Team Effort or a Solo Act?
Even the healthiest relationship isn’t balanced at all times; there may be spaces where you are giving 60% to your partner’s 40 and others where you might just find your capacity to receive to be far greater than your ability to give. However, if one person is consistently making all the effort and sacrifices, then your romance may be headed in a dangerous direction. Here are a couple of things you want to be mindful of while making sure your love is symbiotic, not parasitic:
How Not To Ruin Your New Relationship
Nothing like the honeymoon stage of a relationship. You’re both all smitten and on your best behavior and everything is peaches and cream. Meeting each other’s friends, learning life stories. If the treatment you get and give ain’t all great and sweet in the beginning…chances are it won’t be later on (MESSAGE). If things are fabulous and fresh as they should be at the start, you want to hold on to that for as long as possible. Here are a few tips for preserving the new love glow as long as you can.
And the Nominees for Best Movie Couple Are…
Sure, celebrities have their own spouses at home, but there’s a certain je ne sais quoi that actors and actresses render to the big screen, when they’re coupled together. A movie couple can leave us cheering for love and/or re-evaluating our own romantic relationships. And – if paired correctly – the image of a movie couple can live in our minds for a lifetime. For that reason, we’ve decided to nominate some of the best on-screen couples in movies we love, and allow you to either vote, or add to the list.
Without further ado, the nominees for ‘Best Movie Couple’ are…
Advice for Lovers: Don’t Say The Wrong Name
Mind-blowing sex is a beautiful and honorable gift within the context of marriage. It is truly wonderful when sexual intercourse between spouses is so good that their neighbors really do know their names. Oftentimes, however, a spouse can cause adversely affect their sex life in a significant way by screaming or moaning the name of another person, especially a past lover. Some cynics and commentators may state, “What the big deal?” Well, there have been numerous documented cases where spouses, especially women, have been strangled and murdered calling their spouse by the wrong name in the heat of the moment. Now, if you and your spouse are role playing and you have both agreed to call each other different names, then it is obviously fine. If not, you have made a serious bedroom blunder. To avoid severe repercussions and to preclude your neighbors from hearing the wrong name, it is recommended that you implement the following actions to prevent an embarrassing mishap…
20 Good Ways to Refresh Your Relationship
Do you feel like your sex life has gone down the drain or that it is difficult sprucing things up in the bedroom? Do you have a faded interest in sex, period? For all you romantic birds who are eager to invigorate your love lives in some way, shape or form, these are the 20 most inventive ways to rejuvenate your sex life. According to MSNBC, sexual intimacy has the ability to promote a healthy lifestyle equal to that of a structured diet regiment for both men and women. It carries those enrichments that are practical to the human anatomy. Take a look:
