2010-02-08 - Ideas For Expressing Yourself This V-Day
I just read an article called “8 Tips For Renewing Your Relationship This Valentine’s Day” by couples therapist and educator Marty Babits, LCSW, BCD. Babits wrote a relationship advice book “The Power of The Middle Ground: A Couple’s Guide to Renewing Your Relationship” that is actually top on my list of relationship books to read right now. Ideas about balance and adaptation are the underlying themes throughout all of my articles about relationships, so I’m looking forward to finding out what this professional has to say about couples finding a middle ground.
In Babits’ 8 Tips, I picked out my favorites [...]
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Ideas For Expressing Yourself This V-Day
2010-02-06 - Valentine’s Day Couples Date Ideas
Who says Valentine’s Day is only for two people? It can be a day to celebrate the love of your honey, your friends, or some combination of the two. Sometimes couples who are good friends with another couple can have just as great a time. Here are a few ideas if you’re celebrating February 14th with another couples.
Game Nights
Game nights are great fun, and in this economy, it’s a night of cheap entertainment. Games like Cranium, Settlers, and Apples to Apples are perfect for couples to play.
Movie Night
Romantic comedies work best in this setting, but hey, [...]
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Valentine’s Day Couples Date Ideas
2010-02-05 - Online Dating Meets Love At First Sight
A new mobile app called Urban Signals cleverly combines the technology of GPS-enabled phones with online dating profiles to connect people instantaneously. Urban Signals allows you to use a map on your phone to spot other singles around you and instantly send or receive messages. It sounds like a pretty fun idea to me!
Aubree Nichols, the founder and CEO of Urban Signals, designed the program after living in New York and developing a fascination with urban behavior and “missed connections.” It is definitely true that sometimes you are walking down the street and just spot someone who looks cool, attractive, [...]
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Online Dating Meets Love At First Sight
2010-02-03 - Jack Cards Winner
Did you enter the fabulous giveaway we held for Jack Cards? If so, today is the day we announce the winner! As always, our winner was chosen randomly using random.org. Our winner was the fifth commenter, tanyetta. Congrats to her! Remember that if you didn’t win, Jack Cards are a wonderful and affordable product (and service, if you have them mailed out) so be sure to visit their website.
As part of the giveaway, I also asked you all for the sweetest thing you’ve ever given or received for Valentine’s Day. Here are some of [...]
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Jack Cards Winner
2010-02-03 - Is This a Good Date Activity?
I get asked a lot what is a good (or bad) date activity. Typical questions are something like:
“Is going to a movie a good first date?”
“I love football, but will my girl want to watch the game on a date?”
“Can we head to the gym as part of a date?”
The answer to all of these questions is, sure! With a caveat: your date has to be into the same activity or interest as you. For example, on the football date question, of course you both can watch the game and have it be a great time. [...]
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Is This a Good Date Activity?
2010-02-02 - Keep Valentine’s Day Romance Throughout the Year
By Guest Blogger Dawn Meisch
While the traditional gifts of Valentine’s Day of flowers and candy are wonderful, this year surprise your special someone with a gift that will last throughout the year. It’s important to show our loved ones we care the entire year, not just one one day. Thoughtful ideas to create more romance throughout the year will be more appreciated than a one-time gift of a candy heart and a bouquet of roses.
There are many gift options that keep the fire going all year long.
A “Love Note” Mailbox - Buy a small mailbox with a usable flag, and [...]
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Keep Valentine’s Day Romance Throughout the Year
2010-02-01 - Why Online Dating Has a Bad Rap
We recently talked about online dating and whether it was for “desperate people.” (Result: no way!) Then, last week I was talking with the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta, and one of the questions they asked me for whether online dating had a bad rap.
Want to know what I said? The answer might surprise you but I said online dating did have a bad rap! But it shouldn’t. Online dating is a great way to get introduced to people, but here are some reasons why it gets a bad rap.
People Who Have Never [...]
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Why Online Dating Has a Bad Rap
2010-01-31 - Help! I’m Obsessed With His Past
The past can make a strong and ugly appearance in the present…if you let it. His past experiences related to sex, love, drugs, or bad decisions could get into your head and haunt you forever. Why did he do those things? What does it say about who he is? What does it say about you? The questions could keep coming and you can be certain that you will never get any answers that help you to get over it.
I’ve experienced and witnessed many many relationships where one becomes absolutely obsessed with the past of the other. These usually occur when [...]
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Help! I’m Obsessed With His Past
2010-01-31 - Get a Date by Valentine’s Day!
We’ve talked quite a bit about Valentine’s Day the last few weeks, but I realize there is some pressure to go out on February 14th. Besides that, some of you really, really enjoy the holiday (and there is nothing wrong with that.) So if you’d like to go out and don’t have a date yet, here are some ways to get one. These suggestions are for a date – not the love of your life! In other words, it may be someone that you just go out with once. That’s okay. Remember, dating is [...]
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Get a Date by Valentine’s Day!
2010-01-29 - Ways Facebook Can Improve Your Dating Life
Facebook is one of the most fabulous ways to keep in touch with people around. It can help you and your friends stay connected, and can even reconnect with someone you’ve lost contact with. It can also improve your dating life. Here’s how.
Getting to Know Your Guy or Girl
Why you should not friend your date too quickly, when you do become pals on Facebook, it can help you learn that much more about them. What do they use Facebook for? Are they kind to people? Do they comment nicely on others pages or pick [...]
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Ways Facebook Can Improve Your Dating Life
2010-01-28 - Is It Okay for a Girl to Propose?
In these modern times, is it okay for a girl to take the lead in a relationship? No ask a guy out and even, to marry her? Women ask out guys all the time, and while I still think guys prefer to do the asking, sometimes they are just shy and need some indication that a girl is interested. Obviously, if she asks him out, she is interested!
But what about the marriage question?
I’ve heard of girls asking guys to marry her. The celebrity Pink is one such gal. I adore Pink, and think she’s smart, [...]
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Is It Okay for a Girl to Propose?
2010-01-27 - What Do We Learn From Jersey Shore Guys?
If you haven’t been watching Jersey Shore, MTV’s newest reality TV series, then you are missing out on an addictive cultural obsession. These eight strangers, who shared a summer in a house in Seaside Heights, NJ, are now being featured in every gossip column and C-list red carpet event.
Pauly D and Mike “The Situation” from Jersey Shore
If you watch the show you will know that the main focus is the three single guys who hit the Jersey Shore clubs every night trying to find a girl to bring home. While I could find it completely offensive that these men just [...]
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What Do We Learn From Jersey Shore Guys?
2010-01-25 - How Texting Can Ruin a New Relationship
Do you remember when you used to have to talk to someone face-to-face or actually reach them on the other end of the phone in order to ask them or out? Emailing and instant messaging have made it easier to get to know someone or start up an exchange with someone you just met, but texting has completely transformed the dating game.
With T9 and QWERTY keyboard phones, texting is extremely quick, easy to access, and always available. You can be in the middle of work, school, or out partying and be able to quickly shoot out or respond to a [...]
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How Texting Can Ruin a New Relationship
2010-01-24 - Why Won’t My Boyfriend Marry Me?
Have you ever seen a couple that has been together a very long time, and yet they still haven’t gotten married? I’m not talking about people that choose not to be married, rather, I’m talking about two people who meet when they are younger, date for years, have one partner that really wants to get married, but the other doesn’t. I know of a couple that has been dating over ten years and the girl is still looking for a ring. Will she ever get one? Probably not.
In my experience there are some common reasons why [...]
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Why Won’t My Boyfriend Marry Me?
2010-01-22 - Hanging Out With Your Ex
I got asked a question recently about whether it’s okay to hang out with your ex. On the surface, my answer is “sure,” but with a few stipulations. If you’re considering hanging out with a brand new ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, here are some points to keep in mind.
Timing Is Everything
The biggest mistake singles make when they first break up with someone is thinking they can immediately hang out with their ex and have everything be just fine. Of course, it takes some time to get over the break up. How much time? That depends on the [...]
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Hanging Out With Your Ex
2010-01-22 - I’m The Only Single Person In My Group
Couples, couples, everywhere! Fiances, domestic partners, husbands and wives, internet dating couples, newly dating couples…sometimes it just seems like everyone is coupled up and there are no more single people left! If you find yourself in a group of friends where you seem to be the only one without an “other half” there are a lot of important ideas to remember so that you don’t let the situation affect you more than it should.
I’ve been on both the inside and the outside of this situation and I know that you can feel depressed, alienated, uncomfortable, and whiny (your coupled-up friends [...]
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I’m The Only Single Person In My Group
2010-01-21 - Giveaway: Jack Cards
I mentioned the fabulous cards available at Jack Cards recently, and the company was kind enough to donate a few as a giveaway item for the readers of Blisstree. Jack Cards has all different kind of cards, so as you are thinking about Valentine’s Day (or cards for break ups, or birthdays, etc.) these cards can be a great option.
The giveaway is five cards that Jack Cards will send to the winner. But here’s something else that’s really great. As critical relief efforts continue in Haiti, Jack Cards is donating 10% of revenues from [...]
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Giveaway: Jack Cards
2010-01-20 - Frugal Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
Being frugal is the way to go! After all, money really can’t buy you love. But when Valentine’s Day rolls around, how can you make your loved one feel special without breaking the bank? Here are some ideas.
Homemade Gifts
Some people cringe at the prospect of getting a homemade gift, but I think it depends on what you give and how. If you’ve got mad skills at something, how could your loved one feel let down with a gift you made with your own two hands? Things like scrapbooks, framed pictures, crocheted or knitting items, or [...]
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Frugal Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
2010-01-17 - Break Up Greeting Cards
I’ve often said that someone should invent a line of cards specifically for those awkward moments in your life when you want to let celebrate a break up. Why not? You get condolence cards when you lose a job or make a life change, why not when you break up with someone? Well now the folks at Jacks Cards have come up with some very fun cards that you can give your girlfriend when she finally dumps that loser she’s been seeing! (Or, when that loser finally dumps her. Sniff!)
Here’s the best part… JackCards.com offers [...]
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Break Up Greeting Cards
2010-01-15 - Why Rebound Dating is Bad
What’s your breakup style? Do you take some time after your breakup to be by yourself and enjoy your friends and hobbies? Or do you launch right back into another relationship? Spending time alone isn’t such a bad thing. After all, taking some time after a break up (especially one as difficult as a long-term marriage) will put you in a better state of mind going into the new relationship. Here are a few reasons why it’s cool to take some time to yourself after a breakup.
Mourning Happens
The end of anything prompts a period of [...]
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Why Rebound Dating is Bad