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7 Principles of Successful Relationships – Dr. John Gottmans
1. Enhance your love maps –
You know all of your partner’s relevant information, from life dreams to favourite movies, as a best friend would.
2. Nurture fondness and admiration
You have a positive view and deep appreciation of your partner, and express it.
3. Turn toward your partner instead of away during times of stress
“You want your partner to be that confidante” Gover says.
4. Let your partner influence you
You shouldn’t make important life decisions autonomously, as a single person would.
5. Solve your solvable problems
All couples have solvable and perpetual problems, but long-term couples solve those they can and understand there will always be perpetual problems.
6. Overcome gridlock
What often underlies perpetual problems are unfulfilled dreams. Talk about those dreams with the goal of making peace with the problem.
7. Create shared meaning
Develop the big and small rituals that help build the bond with your partner. Rituals range from hosting an annual party to having coffee together in the morning.
A lesson to learn – March
I choose to use money for good, and the universe rewards me with more money
Affirmation: About Money 2
Money flows to me easily, freely, and abundantly
Affirmation: About Money 1
Poem by Edgar A. Guest
(www.ellenbailey.com)
When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free? Continue reading
Miss Me-But Let Me Go – Theme poem
Poem by Anonymous
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Today is not a holiday
It isn’t even your birthday
But I still thought I’d like to send
A special message to my friend Continue reading
Just Because – Theme poem
Poem by Gene Sanders
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Let me tell you what would be a real treat:
A gathering of Know-It-Alls together at a meet
And with Know-It-Alls as far as you can see
Just think what the potential might come to be Continue reading
Know-It-Alls – Theme poem
Poem by Marc Balo
(www.ellenbailey.com)
I never really knew you
You were just another friend
But when I got to know you,
I let my heart unbend. Continue reading
I Love Only You – Theme poem
Poem by Ellen Bailey
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When you walk with God, you can do anything
It doesn’t matter what problems life may bring
You may have your days of ups and downs
But if you call out, He’ll be around Continue reading
Walk With God – Theme poem
Poem by Anonymos
(www.ellenbailey.com)
I used to have a comfort zone
where I knew I couldn’t fail,
The same four walls of busy work
were really more like a jail Continue reading
THE COMFORT ZONE – Theme poem
Poem by Jill Lemming
(www.ellenbailey.com)
Destructive thoughts within our minds
can keep us in despair …
those doubts and insecurities
are not worth the pain they bear. Continue reading
JUST AS YOU ARE – Theme poem
Poem by Regina Riggs
(www.ellenbailey.com)
Too often we don’t realize
what we have until it is gone;
Too often we wait too late to say
“I’m sorry – I was wrong” Continue reading
LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE – Theme poem
Poem by Jason L Gaydos
(www.ellenbailey.com)
Looking at the stars in the twilight sky
Thinking of you as the days pass by
Leaving our love in the hands of fate
Sitting here, alone I wait Continue reading
ALONE I WAIT – Theme poem
Poem by Tina Zeliner
(www.ellenbailey.com)
Through the face of a child
you can see so much
they have very soft smiles
with a warm gentle touch Continue reading