Why it’s important to stay in contact with your friends when you’re in a relationship. By Stephanie Manley So often when we begin to enter into a new relationship, it is very easy to get swept up by the romance, and leave behind our friends. With the wonderful bliss that you feel when you enter into a relationship it’s easy to understand why we forget our friends and our everyday relationships. Is this the best way to handle a new relationship? Most likely not, sometimes in the tidal … [Read more...]
Why it’s important to stay in contact with your friends when you’re in a relationship.
August 1, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Why date someone that you wouldn’t have as your friend?
July 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Why date someone you wouldn’t have as a friend? By Stephanie Manley Sometimes in dating we so often settle for people that we would not normally have as friends? Why is that? Does the desire to be in a relationship outweigh our standards in love that we will take on a relationship with someone that isn’t good for us? I think that we often let loneliness overshadow our standards that we set. We need to stick to our desires and not engage ourselves into relationships that we wouldn’t … [Read more...]
Why Settle
July 18, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Why Settle? By Stephanie Manley When dating we all too often settle for someone that is not quite right. Why should we ever settle for something that isn’t quite right, especially when it comes to person that you hope to have an intimate relationship with? It may be ok to settle for a hamburger when you really want a steak, but when you’re dating; you’re talking about a relationship that is vital to you as a person. Why not define what you want before hand and then let potential dates … [Read more...]
What is a boundary in a relationship?
July 14, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Relationships: What in the world is a boundary? By Stephanie Manley You might ask yourself, I have heard this word boundary, but I do not know what it means. Boundaries are often mentioned in terms of relationships. Boundaries are a simple concept, but they can vary from person to person. Boundaries essentially keep the good stuff on the inside and the bad stuff on the outside. In the book Making Dating Work Boundaries in Dating, Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend discuss boundaries at … [Read more...]
What is a Red Flag?
July 14, 2005 By Leave a Comment
What is a Red Flag? By Stephanie Manley The focus of many of the last few articles has been on what is does a dangerous person look like, who you should avoid, but did you know that we all have personal red flags available if we just listen to them. Red Flags are signals that we all have, although they may differ just slightly. For some of us they are internal mental grumblings, for others of us it a sinking feeling you get inside, and for some when our bodies are really giving a message it … [Read more...]