March 12, 2010

The Man on the Horse- Do We Care How He Smells?

To be honest I like the latest, hottest commercial on television because it is funny, not because the man selling the product is good looking from head to toe and has a voice that could whisper in my ear anytime. The sensuality is a plus. But it is a good commercial, it’s a funny commercial and the [...]

March 11, 2010

Divorce Has No Age Limit

Kristen Houghton, author and Lifestyle Writer

At the end of my couples seminar the woman who had organized the workshops approached me. After telling me how much she had enjoyed all the workshops presented that day, she said,

“There’s something that is never included in these workshops, though. No one ever discusses the divorce rate of [...]

March 2, 2010

A Celibate Marriage: the pain and unhappiness in an era when sex sells

“We are living in a time when it seems as if sex is used to sell everything. From laundry detergent to pancakes, from make-up to hair dye, sex sells. We are inundated with it.”

I was doing a seminar on Sex, Love, and Marriage. During a break a well-dressed, pretty but nervous woman came up to [...]

February 12, 2010

My Funny Valentine

My Funny Valentine
 
by John Armor 
 
Remember those features in Readers Digest, “Laughter is the Best Medicine”? Do they still have that? Does Readers Digest still exist? It was in its day perfect for leaving on the back of the toilet in the bathroom — it had short articles when you were in a hurry. long ones [...]

January 25, 2010

The Same Rainbow's End

The first time I fell in love I thought my heart would explode with joy. There was so much excitement about being in love, about having feelings for someone else so strong that each day when I woke up I wanted to know I would see his face or hear his voice. It’s been a [...]

January 22, 2010

Tiger Woods is Where?!?!

The rumor mill is at it again and although there may be some truth to this rumor there is much sadness connected to it. Tiger Woods is in rehab for sexual addiction.

They have got to be kidding? Right?

No, someone spotted him at a clinic in Mississippi where it is said it may take him five [...]

January 6, 2010

This One Thing

Once in a great while you have the privilege of witnessing true, pure, selfless, unconditional love, as our Creator intended it to be, and it totally revolutionizes your understanding and concept of just what real love is. It shakes you back to reality and makes you appreciate what you have with your spouse, as imperfect and sometimes frustrating as it may be. I was fortunate enough to witness this first-hand and I will be forever impacted by [...]

December 7, 2009

Jenkins

Stephen Sangirardi
Bard715@aol.com
Jenkins
 
   Today on his way to work, he saw an advertisement on the side of a bus that showed a man and a woman on the beach merrily painting at an easel and sharing some purported Gin. The tableau certainly caught Jenkins’ eye, because for one thing the couple seemed very unmarried, for whatever [...]

December 6, 2009

“Art is narcissistic foreplay.” Freud

Stephen Sangirardi   “Art is narcissistic foreplay.”  Freud     Bard715@aol.com
                                                        
Mulling lines of chopped meter into dawn
You barely sleep, and your wife is too tired
To bother. You begin stroking yourself
And in no time you’re as hard as mallet,
Concrete, vulcanized—nostalgic for cunts
That marriage discarded. They pop
Into dreams with their sweet moans distant
 
For dreams are mimetic of the cells we [...]

October 18, 2009

Novelist wrestles Asian trophy wives

Christopher G Moore launches Paying Back Jack and risks his [...]

October 14, 2009

The three faces of Steve, or Eve

Stephen Sangirardi 
Bard715@aol.com
The three faces of Steve, or Eve
 
    Do you think Chaucer was a great listener? The great writer must be an intense listener and observer. He listens, uses his empathy, and imagines what it must be like to be the person he is audience to—the wife who has lost her husband to another woman [...]

October 8, 2009

Toilet Paper, Toothpaste and Marriage

 

 

While visiting a spa/winery in Georgia I kept tripping over bridal parties. The Saturday I was there the hotel had five weddings and a silver wedding anniversary party. That Sunday there were three more weddings. I could look out of [...]

October 7, 2009

Curing Depression

Carl Jung

Now here is another brain teaser for your therapist, or should I say mind teaser, the notion of curing someone with depression. Sadly, this is one of the most common causes of problems in marriages, and while we look for help from the professionals they take advantage of that vulnerability with a platform [...]

September 18, 2009

Curing Alcoholism

Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage

If you would like to get your therapist’s head spinning ask him or her what it means to be cured and watch as your therapist struggles to answer that question.  The unfortunate reality is the psychology industry, with its biological foundation, has not yet defined what it means [...]

September 17, 2009

Does attendance constitute endorsement?

Whenever I attend weddings, which is a lot less often than I attend funerals nowadays, and it gets to the bit (at least during the Church of England service) where the vicar reads out that marriage is a holy sacrament endorsed by Christ because he attended the wedding in Canaan, I always think “Wow! Is [...]

September 10, 2009

One Kiss

To be honest most mornings I want to throw my husband out of the window. He comes to bed late having spent the early hours on the computer with African and Asian companies, he snores like a train in need of engine work and he is retired. I wake and look over at him wanting [...]

September 9, 2009

Sex Surrogates: The “Logic” of Professional Psychologists Part 3

International Professional Surrogate Association

I am sorry to be so hard on the psychology industry but some of their practices done in the name of “science” bely belief, and I have discovered another concept ridiculous to the point of being hilarious.

Before I go into that concept I do want to discuss what had been my [...]

September 6, 2009

Thrift Store or Saks Fifth Avenue?

Of all sins, sexual sin is the most physically rewarding and brings instant gratification, therefore making it extremely tempting. It is also based on a natural desire. However, this desire, this gift from God, must be used properly and in accordance with God’s will. We all want and need food, and God approves of our [...]

September 6, 2009

When Time Stands Still

When time stands still
All you can do is ponder,
And wonder how you got to where you are.
Could you have foreseen it?
Could you have prevented it?
Will you look back in sorrow
Or consider it a blessing?
You find no answers
But only long for the day
When time resumes.

September 2, 2009

On The Other Side of the Storm

On the Other Side of the Storm
By Angela Posey-Arnold RN BSN
We could not hear the deafening tornado siren as golf ball size hail pounded our metal roof during the vociferous storm upon us. The house shook, my heart beating so fast I forgot to breathe. The air thick as though it was being sucked out [...]

August 31, 2009

My Word

Whether it is in personal, or business matters, I have always tried to conduct myself where “My Word” matters.  If I say something – promise something – commit to something – I give “My Word” and try to follow through with my commitments.  I bothers me tremendously, when for one reason or another, I can’t [...]

August 28, 2009

Question: Is Marriage Dead?

Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"

I’m half way through my two month blog tour on relationships.  The stops have generally been both interactive and productive.  I’ve particularly like the stops where the topics were questions related to relationships.

I wanted to share one in particular, at the Long Relationships blog. [...]

August 25, 2009

KEEPING MEN GUESSING

And we usually guess [...]

August 21, 2009

He Was A Humble Man–true Health Care Reform

By the time she arrived he had seen, diagnosed, and treated at least ten patients sometimes forgetting to charge them. Francie arrived to find her work cut out for her for the day. They worked all day sometimes without a break until dark, or until the last patient was seen whichever came [...]

August 18, 2009

Randy and Susan

Randy and Susan

by John Armor

       Some names just belong together.  Mention one, and the other comes to mind automatically.  Romeo and Juliet.  Tom and Jerry.  Currier and Ives.  So it is with Randy and Susan, who came up this weekend to hike a part of the Bartram Trail and had dinner with us on Saturday.

       [...]

August 17, 2009

Divorce Sucks.

Divorce sucks.  I enjoy being married I truly love it, my first marriage lasted 13 years, but we grew a part and then we divorced; and then I had a long relationship with a girl friend that lasted 8 years; and then I met someone whom I knew from years ago, we got together and [...]

August 12, 2009

A Letter From Your Guardian Angel

A Letter from Your Guardian Angel

 

Greetings to you, my charge, in the name of The Lord our God and Creator Who lovingly assigned me to you. I am always happy when God sends me to do something really important in your life. Great joy filled my soul last week when I intervened in the car [...]

August 8, 2009

A Simple African Band

Just a simple African band

woven of elephant hair

by a long discarded culture

July 17, 2009

CHECK HER TEETH

Let’s try looking before we [...]

July 9, 2009

Celebrate Mother’s Day – Every Day!

Motherhood is a noble profession and a sacred responsibility. As a mother, you are the most important person in your child’s life. Without in any way diminishing the role or importance of the father, it is the mother who has been created to be the loving, nurturing figure in her child’s life. Once children reach school-age, teachers and coaches play a primary role in their lives. Many mothers assume their role is not as vital as it was during those earlier years, but that is a fallacy. The older a child gets, the more vital it is to continue to be available. Mom remains the most important person in the life of her child, regardless of what society, or her child, say to the contrary! Our challenge as mothers is to realize that until our children have “left the nest” and established homes of their own, we are the most important person in their lives. [...]

July 3, 2009

Tom Brown – Epilogue to Second Book

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Below is the epilogue to my second book, She Taught Me To Laugh again.  It is the story of a mid-forties couple who lost their spouses to death.  I describes the trials and tribulations of grieving, falling in love, [...]

June 14, 2009

A Wild Rose

A wild rose sprang up on the edge of the garden.

Amid stones and weeds and hard crusted clay.

Ignored by [...]

June 12, 2009

Once You Are Gone

what will I do once you are gone?

look after the boys

and carry on

respond to your mail

answer your phone

and reassure folks I’m ok alone

May 29, 2009

Book Excerpt: Do We Develop or Not?

 

 

Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage

We know from Darwin’s theory of evolution that the notion of development elicits controversy from many intellectual corners.  If we think about the notion of development through to its conclusion then many established organizations lose their grip on us as individuals.  This question becomes extremely important in relationships. [...]

May 8, 2009

Relationships Advice: Transference Causes Divorce

 

 

 

Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage

Here is the most significant point made in the entire book, transference causes divorce.  This one single point can probably do more than any other to motivate couples to learn how to move their relationships in the right direction.  And for the first time ever on a public [...]

April 29, 2009

Book Excerpt: Are We Biological Beasts or Psychological Beings?

 

 

 

Tim Kellis, Author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"

I want to pose to you one of the most significant questions needed to understand before we are going to solve our marriage problem.  Are we biological beasts or psychological beings?  Unfortunately the belief within the mainstream teachings of the psychology industry is that [...]

April 10, 2009

The “Logic” of Professional Psychologists Part 2

 

 

 

Lenn

I would like to begin this post by stating that yes I am generalizing psychologists with posts like this, but as I get more involved in my project I am running across more concerned psychologists who do understand the notion of psychological healing through forgiveness by unlocking past experiences that cause individuals to have [...]

April 1, 2009

Blog Tour on Relationships with Relationship Expert Tim Kellis

 

 

Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"

Hello

The month of April is upon us and I would like to invite you for a Blog Tour I will be doing this month, and next. The focus on the tour will be relationships, and the discussion is sure to be lively. 

I want to [...]

March 28, 2009

Light, Laughter and Love

A prerequisite for dating me during my late twenties was the ability to carry and load large rocks. When I prayed for my future husband to come along and sweep me off my feet I always added, “And Lord please, let him be strong”.

Live, Laugh, [...]

March 23, 2009

Book Review by Bettie Corbin Tucker from Independent Book Reviewers

Hello.  
I wanted to share with you a recent book review by Bettie Corbin Tucker from Independent Book Reviewers.  To view the review online please visit the following link:

“Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage” Book Review

 

If you would like to pick up a copy of the book you can get it for a 20% [...]

March 16, 2009

The “Logic” of Professional Psychologists

If you want to know why we have a 50% divorce rate you need to look no further than the “logic” used by the professionals.  And I have a wonderful example for you.  Below you will read a comment that someone actually posted to a blog interview I hosted.  To see the full blog interview [...]

March 10, 2009

Roses: A Love Story by an Anonymous Author

Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose.
And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows.
The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door.
The card said, ‘Be my Valentine,’ like all the years before.
Each year he sent her roses, and the note would always say,
‘I love you even more [...]

March 5, 2009

My Inspiration for Writing “Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage”

 

 

Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"

My biggest influence, and the reason I have taken on the challenge of saving marriages, were my parents, who again just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  And their influence wasn’t because of anything they ever said to me, but what they did, [...]

February 19, 2009

Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage Book Review

Here is a book review you might find interesting on “Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage”.  Please visit www.happyrelationships.comto pick up your copy today, for a limited time at 20% off.  Also please visit our blog at questforthehappymarriage.blogspot.com for an ongoing discussion.  

Review

Book reviewer Jacqueline Jung says the disintegration of a love affair sent relationship author [...]