http://www.relazine.com/feed/ http://www.relazine.com/ Free tips and advice about having a successful relationship. From dating to friendship and marriage. Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:28:36 +0100 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:28:36 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/fear-and-love http://www.relazine.com/love/fear-and-love They say in everything we do, in every decision that we make, either of the two are your only motives behind it- fear and love. Believe or not distinguishing between the two can be very confusing. The best way that we can do is to define the difference between fear and love. The former is characterized by an unpleasant feeling that something tragic is going to happen. With it your heart beats fast, your blood pressure rises, your pupils dilate and your muscles constrict. There are two kinds of anxiouness- healthy and unhealthy. The former is actually helpful, for instance you quit smoking because your husband has chronic asthma. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:14:27 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/true-intimacy http://www.relazine.com/love/true-intimacy Have you ever wondered how it feels to go beyond yourself. Where you don’t merely think of what you want, what you should do or what you shouldn’t. For somebody who has reveled in the carefree and independent life of singlehood, the idea of breaking down the shell of the “I” and letting another person in may somewhat be daunting. That’s basically how it is when a person realizes they have developed profound affection for somebody. Cliché it may have been, but this is what happens when somebody has fallen into the vacuum of “love”. When a person is “in love”, there is the risk of them becoming vulnerable. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:49:46 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/Touch-of-love http://www.relazine.com/love/Touch-of-love Touch of love we can’t get enough of it. It’s a need. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs- men have five basic needs. One of these need are the physical needs like food, water, clothing and shelter, the safety needs like security and protection, the social needs which is the need of the person to belong and to be loved, Self- esteem needs, this is our need to be recognized, and the last but not the least self- actualization, the need of knowing true happiness. If you noticed, almost all of the needs desired by men include the sense of touch- the touch of love. Fri, 5 Dec 2008 05:13:30 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/true-love1 http://www.relazine.com/love/true-love1 The truth about true love is we were deceived. There has been a conspiracy between the Grimms Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Greek Mythology, Shakespeare and those multi-millionaire music and movie producers in Hollywood. The worst part is this plot has been going for ages now. This conspiracy is so successful, it has become a belief. A belief so lived it causes insanity and even death for some. Yes, you know what I’m talking about; I’m talking about true love. Jacob and Wilheim Grimm made us believed during our school age years- true love is our savior from our misery and agony. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:05:01 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/husband-material http://www.relazine.com/love/husband-material Your mom always tells you- “Stop throwing your pearls to the swine.” You never really understand what that means until you have been broken- hearted several times in the past. And have invested so much time, effort and emotions in a relationship. You are tired of being blinded by the “idea” of love; you fail to see if your lover feels the same degree of seriousness in the relationship. As a person, you hate wasting your precious time with irrelevant people. When you are involved in a relationship, you always want it to be the last one. The real one. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:52:23 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/rebound-love http://www.relazine.com/love/rebound-love You swoon, you sigh. He is so romantic, so perfect! He is constantly calling you, giving you sweet nothings. He pampers you tremendously. He tells you every day that he will do anything and every thing you want. Your heart sinks every time he cries by the mere thought of you leaving him. You tell yourself you are so lucky to have someone who feels for you intensely. He is so perfect you ignore the fact he just got out from a 5-year relationship. He is love on the rebound; your friends say it might not work, especially if he is the one who got dump. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:51:21 +0100 http://www.relazine.com/love/love2 http://www.relazine.com/love/love2 “Anyone can love a rose but it takes a great deal to love a leaf... it is ordinary to love the beautiful, but it is beautiful to love the ordinary...” it’s right what they say about clichés, they tell the truth. Before we decide to get involved into something- may it be in business, in friendship or in a romantic relationship, we always ask the million-dollar-question:Is this for real? In this case, we are going to discuss about romantic relationships, which is much harder to fathom than any other relationships. “Romantic relationship” applies to any form-not just between man & women but to anyone who feels something special and unique for someone. Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:19:54 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/platonic-love http://www.relazine.com/love/platonic-love Love is unquestionably the most potent, eternal sentiment known to man. Kingdoms rose and civilizations crumbled in its name; without it, humankind will cease to exist. Sadly, love is also the most repressed of human feelings. Society has erected such rigid standards of what is acceptable and unacceptable to which we have gladly succumbed. Such ready adherence has colored our perception of love and how it should be expressed. As an example, let us focus on platonic relationships between a man and a woman, which most people cynically regard as improbable, if not impossible, ventures. Just what is a platonic relationship? Does exist, and if it does, is such a relationship possible between a male and a female? To answer these questions, we need to examine the philosophy behind it. Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:35:15 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/what-is-unconditional-love http://www.relazine.com/love/what-is-unconditional-love For most of us, unconditional love is a difficult—if not impossible—concept to grasp. In an egocentric world bogged down with terms and conditions, the idea of loving someone unconditionally is akin to inviting a thief to one’s house and giving him a set of keys—pure trouble. Stipulations govern most aspects of our lives—employees are sworn to uphold a code of work ethics or risk discharge; students are required to follow school policies or hazard expulsion; churchgoers are expected to abide by the church set of laws or run the risk of banishment. Our personal relationships are not spared from such onslaught—prenuptial agreements doom a marriage before it has even begun, and marriage itself is regarded as a contract to which husband and wife are bound for life. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:22:31 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/true-love http://www.relazine.com/love/true-love What’s a fairytale without a prince charming, a princess in distress and true love? It’ll probably be just another old story that will somehow fade into obscurity as time goes by. But, the element of true love is what made fairy tales into all-time blockbusters. Yes, everybody wants it so bad, even those princesses who did nothing but wait for their courageous knight in shining armour atop his mighty steed. Even today, everybody wants a taste of true love no matter how elusive it is. Some are lucky to have stumbled upon it, while a lot have simply given up in the unending quest for it. Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:51:05 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/lasting-love http://www.relazine.com/love/lasting-love It is human nature to crave for companionship, so it’s no surprise when most singles dream of being in a relationship. Of course there are some who have a profound fear of commitment and stay with a partner for only a few months or years. But what most singles really dream of is meeting the one person whom they can be with for a lifetime of love. Even those who are already in a relationship, albeit a chaotic one, still hope for the best and make every effort to spend their whole lives with their partner or spouse. Divorce rates may be high, but a lot of people want to avoid breaking up as much as possible, and so do their best to find a way to work out each other’s difficulties in order to have a lasting love. Fri, 30 May 2008 21:45:50 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/love-at-first-sight http://www.relazine.com/love/love-at-first-sight Let’s face it: most of us (if not all) have had this moment of meeting somebody somewhere, and bam! You were convinced that you have found the man of your dreams, or the queen of your heart. Cupid’s arrow hit the spot, and you simply couldn’t take your eyes off of the person. Then you blinked, and by some horrible cosmic joke, you realized that your future life partner was already in the arms of another person. You actually believed that love at first sight can happen to you, but soon discovered that it can only happen again and again to the likes of Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, etc, etc. Tue, 20 May 2008 19:27:49 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/love1 http://www.relazine.com/love/love1 When a couple embarks on a journey called marriage, there’s always a promise of growing old together, of “till death do us part”. Everything seems dreamy and perfect, and it feels like love is all around. What could possibly go wrong? Not even time can take away that magical feeling of being in love. Well, maybe not. Even with the magical feeling, the days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months. Months pass by, and turn into joyful years that every couple proudly celebrate with one anniversary to the next. Then the feeling of being secure and comfortable sets in, and we forget how exhilarating our love was. Wed, 7 May 2008 20:29:04 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/long-distance-relationship http://www.relazine.com/love/long-distance-relationship What’s in a long distance relationship (LDR)? Continents, seas, and mountains stand between two people who apparently love each other. Different area codes, time zones, and often different cultures – a whole new world, in fact – are the realities that a couple in a LDR have to face constantly. Whether your honey is going away on an extended trip or you fell in love with someone in another continent, long distance relationships will always be tougher than you expected. Making a long distance relationship work is hard: it is never meant for the fainthearted. It requires a great deal of trust, commitment and communication as well as a fair amount of ground rules. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:33:56 +0200 http://www.relazine.com/love/falling-in-love http://www.relazine.com/love/falling-in-love Don’t you wish that you could just crack his head sometimes and read his thoughts? It would be easier than constantly plucking petals off a daisy, chanting an endless “he-loves-me, he-loves-me-not’s”. Looking for Mr. Right is never easy, but one doesnt really need special radar to know if your guy friend is falling in love with you. Plucking petals won’t tell you if he really likes you—looking for these telltale signs will. How many times does he look at you? Does he even look at you? If he can’t seem to take his eyes off you, then your guy friend is definitely smitten.