12 Signs You’re in a Healthy Relationship

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1. Never Relive the Past Mistakes are made by everyone, but the biggest mistake in any relationship is to continue bringing them up.

2. Allowing Personal Space If you and your partner enjoy time together, but still enjoy time apart, that is perfectly acceptable. Allowing Personal Space A relationship where one or both people smother one another usually becomes toxic quickly.

3. Mutual Trust Trust is one of the most important parts of any relationship; without it, there is nothing to build on. A secure relationship is a healthy relationship.

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40 Weird Things That Happen When Your Boyfriend Is Your Best Friend

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1. He sees you in true form. There’s right before bed, zit cream and all. There’s drunk you with eye liner smeared on your face and nacho cheese in your hair. There are a lot of you’s he has endured. It’s actually laughable how bad you have looked around him and how little you care.

2. You’ve become so comfortable with each other that embarrassment is no longer a factor.

3. You have each other’s outfit ensembles nearly memorized. “I’m wearing the maroon shirt” “With the tan shorts and brown watch?” “Yup.”

4. You have had moments where you both felt like you couldn’t stand anyone else but each other for the moment.

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11 Struggles Every Sexually Awkward Woman Goes Through

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When it comes to sex and feeling sexy, we’re not all the same — not by a long shot.

For some of us, feeling sexy simply doesn’t look like the sultry and body-free representation we see in magazines, movies and, well… porn. We’ve often tried to live up to the hype and the expectation, but the results are far too often awkward and embarrassing.

Hopefully, we’ve found the subtle humor in the end, but maybe not. Either way, these are the struggles of every sexually graceless woman. Hail to the awkward.

11. You’ve never been more at a loss for words than when your partner wants you to talk dirty

“Ooh baby…” usually begins and ends that sentence. No matter how good you were in English comp, there are not enough adjectives or verbs in the world that could make your dirty talk even remotely sexy.

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Six Years Ago I Settled for Mr. “Good Enough.” This Is What Happened.

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By Leigh Anderson

n the run-up to our wedding, Andy said, Well, we can always get divorced. And I nodded, like we were talking about ordering a risky entrée at lunch—we can always send it back. The marriage proposal, the result of an ultimatum, was the grimmest one in the history of the institution. The wife after Anne Boleyn was more psyched for her marriage than I was.

Don’t get me wrong—Andy was a great guy. Here’s how great he was:

When my mother was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer, Andy, a nervous driver, rented a car and piloted it through the Holland Tunnel, across 78 and down 81 to West Virginia. He drove to the pharmacy and picked up prescriptions, he ferried us to chemo and bought chicken dinners at the Food Lion. My parents, at that point, were living in a post office (perhaps the subject for another story); he accepted this without comment, perching on a stack of Company Store catalogs behind the wall of mailboxes, forking yams into his mouth. Occasionally a postal customer, retrieving their mail, would peer through the box at Andy on the other side; he’d wave his fork at them.

When my mother had finished the worst of her treatment, Andy and I drove to West Virginia in a rented RV, because there was no room for us to stay in the post office. Some friends came along for a Memorial Day pig roast, at which Andy did not have a particularly good time: He’s a New Yorker, an insomniac; he wants to eat Thai food and see movies at the Film Forum. Pig roasts in West Virginia, camping, even camping in an RV—no.

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Understanding Why You’re Beautiful, Yet Still Single

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Written by : Lauren R.D.Fox

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I met this beautiful co-host of a radio show last night, and after I introduced myself, she admitted that she was single and wanted some advice. I had originally complimented her on the poise, professionalism and focus that she displayed during a very wild and crazy show. Although the show was crazy, she was the glue that kept it all together.  I could clearly see that she had a wonderful spirit, so what’s the problem? Why was she still single?

At that moment, the best advice I could give her, and that I give now to you ladies reading this, was to continue to invest in yourself, to be the best person you can be and not to always look for the man that society tells you that you are supposed to have–e.g., “I am looking for a man 6 feet 5 inches tall, 230 pounds, with black hair–and he must play for the Lakers.” Instead, be alert for the man who will work the hardest for you. Look for the man who knows how to run your bathwater, and who is conscious enough to add the necessary salt and minerals to baby your beautiful skin: “Honey, your bath water is ready and the temperature is 82.5 degrees Fahrenheit.”

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