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Monday, June 30, 2008

What's Love Got To Do With It?

What’s love got to do with it? Is love really a second hand emotion? A famous song focused on these notions. So what’s the truth about love? Is it real or is it a second hand emotion?

The truth is, love is something very hard to define. Love is often times indescribable. And most certainly, love is NOT a second hand emotion. There is no question about it – love is real! Love is something you feel. Love is something you know to be true even if you can’t define it or describe it.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Dancing To Love

A Texas friend of ours swears that great love comes to those who dance. And guess what, he makes a very compelling case!

For those of you that have read our new book, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (2008), you will recall our chapter called “The Loving Touch.”

In a nutshell, we have concluded that one of the seven secrets of a successful loving relationship is touching. If you pass the one you love 100 times a day, touch them! Touching acknowledges the presence of the one you love and tells them, “I love you so much I simply must touch you.”

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Essential Virtues of Successful Love and Marriage

This morning, a great friend of ours sent along an article that we were really taken with. For those who have read our book, Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage (2008), you may recall a chapter entitled, “A Tribute to Lasting Love” (pp. 271-274). In this chapter we highlighted the wonderful six-decade marriage of Sandy and Pris, whom we had interviewed for our book.

Over the years, Sandy and Pris have been advocates for “character education” for young people. They have been very philanthropic when it comes to this passion of theirs.

As we thought about the article by Dr. Tom Lickona based on his book entitled Character Matters: How to Help our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues (Simon & Schuster, 2004), we were struck by the similarity of the “virtues” he believes essential for “strong character” and the virtues we have discovered in our research over the years about successful loving relationships.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Love By Bullying Never Works

Don’t you just hate bullies! They try to get what they want by bullying you, by intimidating you, and by making you feel inferior to them. If you are like us, this NEVER works! Yet, so many good folks succumb to the bully. And we wonder why?

So what is a bully? In the simplest terms, a bully is someone who can’t get what he/she wants through normal means. What they want is power. When you deny them that power they resort to forceful means to get what they want.

Here is now it works in love and marriage. One of the folks in the relationship wants something – be it a new car, a new apartment, a new dishwasher, or a new toy of some variety. The other person involved in the relationship does not. As you might guess, all heck breaks loose!

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