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Article Navigation Free giveaway of self-help information I've Got a Secret! Actually, Michael Webb has 50 secrets. He's been talking with couples for over 20 years and he has discovered why some relationships are "blissful" while others couples argue and fight. If you want to know their secrets on dealing with in-laws, holidays, friends, work and other "hot" issues, click here Dating Secrets Here is a link to Michael's newest book Blow By Blow Questions, Questions and More Questions by Pat Stevens After you have had a few dates with someone and you think it might be going somewhere, you begin to ask more serious questions about their childhood, family, job etc. Eventually the relationship might progress to where the really tough questions must be asked. Like "have you ever slept with someone without using a condom" or "how much debt do you have"? There is no easy way to bring up these questions. Recently, I received a copy of Michael Webb's newest book, 1000 Questions for Couples: What you absolutely must know about the person you are with. This book is going to make those difficult questions much easier to ask. The questions start off easy like "Has anyone dear to you died? How did you handle it" and "About what things are you most selfish." They slowly progress (just like your relationship should) until you get to those questions that you simply can't avoid if you are going to commit your life to living with someone. There are questions on drug addictions, abuse, child rearing, finances and lots of questions about sex. And because these questions are coming from a book, you don't feel like "you" are asking them. A special bonus that I really liked was the option to get 3-5 of the book's questions emailed to me each day. That way I could forward the questions on to my beloved and we could each read over them and forward the answers to each other that night. I can see where this would be very valuable for those in long distance relationships. While there are a lot of questions in this book that are crucial for couples in the dating stage, the majority of the questions are useful for people who are already married. If you value your relationship, I urge you to ask these 1000 Questions for Couples Have you read KISSING 101 ???? Your relationship will never be the same. The dictionary says that a kiss is "a salute made by touching with the lips pressed closely together and suddenly parting them." From this it is quite obvious that, although a dictionary-may know something about words, it knows nothing about kissing.
If we are to get the real meaning of the word kiss, instead of going to the old fogies who compile dictionaries, we should go to the poets who still have the hot blood of youth coursing in their veins. For, instance, Coleridge called a kiss, "nectar breathing." Shakespeare says that a kiss is a "seal of love." Martial, that old Roman poet who had ample opportunity to do research work on the subject, says that a kiss was "the fragrance of balsam extracted from aromatic trees; the rise odor yielded by the teeming saffron; the perfume of fruits mellowing in their winter buds; the flowery meadows in the summer; amber warmed by the hand of a girl; a bouquet of flowers that attracts the bees."
Yes, a kiss is all of these ... and more.
Others have said that a kiss was: the balm of love; the first and last of joys; love's language; the seal of bliss; love's tribute; the melting sip; the nectar of Venus; the language of love.
Yes indeed, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.
For a kiss can never be absolutely defined. because each kiss is different from the one before and the one after. Just as no two people are alike, so are no two kisses alike. For it is people who make kisses. Real, live people pulsating with life and love and extreme happiness.
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and thought I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,m they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophedy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
The spectrum of love has nine ingredients:
Patience: "Love suffereth long"
Kindness: "And is kind"
Generosity: "Love envieth not"
Humilty: "Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up"
Courtesy: "Doth not behave itself unseemly"
Unselfishness: "Seeketh not her own"
Good Temper: "Is not easily provoked"
Guilelessness: "Thinketh no evil"
Sincerity: "Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth"
Love is PATIENCE. This is the normal attitude of love; love passive, love waiting to begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its work when the summons comes but meantime wearing the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Love suffers long; beareth all things; believeth all things; hopeth all things. For love understands, and therefore waits.
Love is KINDNESS. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure. For that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I will pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Love is GENEROSITY."Love envieth not."
Love is HUMILITY. After being generous, you put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. "Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up." Love waives even self-satisfaction. Love hides even from itself.
Love is COURTESY. This is love in society, love in relation to etiquette. "Love doth not behave itself unseemly." Politeness has been defined as love in small doses. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love. Love cannot behave itself unseemly.
Love is UNSELFISHNESS. The only greatness is unselfish love. Things cannot be great, they are only things. Even self-denial in itself is nothing. Only a great purpose or a mightier love can justify the waste. There is no happiness in having, or in getting, but only in giving. And half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and serving others. "He that would be great among you, " said Christ, "let him serve." He that would be happy, let him remember that there is but one way -- it is more blessed, it is more happy, to give than to receive.
Love is a GOOD TEMPER. "Love is not easily provoked." What is temper made of? Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness -- these are the ingredients of a dark and loveless soul. In varying proportions, also, these are the ingredients of all ill temper.
Temper is a test for love, a symptom, a revelation of an unloving nature at bottom. For a lack of patience, a lack of kindness, a lack of generosity, a lack of courtesy, a lack of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolized in one flash of temper.
Love is GUILELESSNESS. The possession of guilelessness is the great secret of personal influence. You will find that the people who influence you are people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in an atmosphere of love they expand and find encouragement and educative fellowship. Love "thinket no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action.
Love is SINCERITY. Love "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth," A quality which includes the self-restraint which refuses to make capital out of others' faults, the charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, the sincerity of purpose which endeavours to see things as they are, and rejoices to find them better than suspicion feared.
If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion, but a strong expression of character which can only be built up by ceaseless practice. Goethe said, "Talent develops itself in solitude; character in the stream of life.." That chiefly is where men are to learn love.
Love itself can never truly be defined. Light is something more than the sum of its ingredients -- a glowing, dazzling, tremulous ether. And love is something more than all of its elements -- a palpitating, quivering, sensitive, living thing.
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