Having a successful romantic relationship

Introduction

Relevant products

• The Relationship Solution
  If you're ready to bring real, lasting love into your life, or to restore your loving relationship as new, here are solutions that will change the way you look at life and love forever. This program by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks contains all the knowledge, principles, and techniques they have used to help people create intimate, loving, relationships that really work, and that continue to get better and better, year after year. It's the best thing I've seen on how to create - or improve - relationships. The Relationship Solution was originally designed as a complete training system for relationship therapists and counselors. Gay and Kathlyn had already done a lot of work with these professionals and realized that these powerful concepts weren't taught in any therapist's training programs, even though they should be. More to the point, they realized that nobody had ever made these powerful, yet easily mastered concepts available to people that need them in everyday life. And we certainly don't learn these vital things in school!

• Communication & Relationships Course
  This is a free practical course to help you transform your personal relationships - including with your partner - through improving your communication skills. The essence of relationships is communication; and yet, even between people who care deeply for each other, communication sometimes becomes blocked. We cannot put our feelings into words. Our partner speaks but we do not hear. We stare helplessly across an abyss of silence, or in frustration we hurl attacks that drive us further apart. Work on communication skills helps us to break through these sorts of impasse. A PDF version of this course is available on our Free eBook Downloads page, along with more excellent communication materials. Taking the free Communication course further and in more depth, the Mind Development Effective Communication course is another highly recommended option.

• The Magical Wizard Program, Draw Love Into Your Life helps you to obtain the right self-image, so that you attract someone special into your life - someone more wonderful than you may even imagine!

• Hypnosis Downloads
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Useful articles

• Co-Dependence (Lesson 2 of Positive Approach)
  We may be involved in relationships and work situations we know are harming us, but we feel helpless to change them. We may have addictive relations to people and situations. We must have what is harming us, or we must do what (we really know inside) is harming us. We are co-dependent. This lesson will help you start to break free from co-dependency.

• Sex Without Intimacy and Intimacy Without Sex by Kevin B. Burk
  Sex is very easy to come by in today’s society. What most of us crave, however, is not sex, but intimacy. The challenge is that the only model most of us have for expressing or experiencing intimacy is sex. Intimacy requires trust, and trust takes time. It’s very difficult to experience true intimacy through casual sex. Note: along the same lines, see this response on the Forum to a reader's expressed difficulties with sexual performance.

• The Communication & Relationships section of the Counterpoint article library contains a lot of good advice on this topic. To choose one example, Getting The Most From A Romantic Relationship by Alan Detwiler... Romance and love will more likely happen if you allow them to happen instead of making them a goal. Making the relationship better should be the goal. Pay attention to treating each other fairly and helping each other. If love happens, it will be based on believing that both of you can continue to build a good relationship.

Recommended books on this subject

• Fit for Love – find your self and your perfect mate is a practical, metaphysical guide to discovering, healing and empowering yourself - while enhancing an existing relationship or creating the ideal partner, job or whatever else you might want. It is based on techniques that Olga Sheean developed in her private practice as a relationship coach and therapist. These techniques work for everyone and they produce positive results in one's health, career, finances and self-image, as well as in relationships.

• The words you use and the thoughts you have map out the course of your life, including the relationships you find yourself attracting into your life. Can you look back at some of your most significant relationships and see patterns? Many times we attract the same "type" of person over and over again because of our unconscious need to work out past emotional issues.

  As a result, the individuals drawn into your life are a direct result of the energy you send out into the world. The key is to become conscious of the lessons and messages each person is trying to teach so you can move forward from that stage. Placing blame on others only sets the stage for that "type" of individual to reappear until you acknowledge the life lesson. So, as a result, all barriers to real, lasting love are self-made. Powerful realization, isn't it? If you have had problems with attracting a loving relationship that lasts, Nancy Pina's book "The Right Relationship Can Happen: How To Create Relationship Success" offers a step-by-step guide that prepares you to attract the right partner into your life. Lots of valuable info drawn from the book is on Nancy's site: Relationship Advice for Singles.

• And see our Bookstore : Sex & Relationships selection.

Audio Book

• In Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships, Dr. Laura Schlessinger calls for a return to traditional courtship. Courtship allows couples and their families to get acquainted with each other over a longer period of time, and provides structure and guidelines for that important process. Schlessinger asks couples to take a long, hard look at the recurring problems in their relationship - both small and large - and doesn't hesitate to tell them what they are doing wrong and how they can fix it.

Videos
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• Are You Your Mother? Relationship and sex therapist Sandra Reishus shows women everywhere how to avoid their worst nightmare in her book, "Oh No! I've Become My Mother!"
• High School Sweethearts - Can It Really Last? Dan and Jennifer give advice to a young guy who is starting to lose interest in his girlfriend. They touch on issues common to all romantic relationships - and their solution: honest communication.

Podcasts
Listen to these podcasts online now for free...

• Relationship Matters. Ideas, tips and insights to help you improve and enjoy your relationships to the full, be they with business colleagues, family members, friends or acquaintances.
• Relationship Radio. A weekly relationship show that tackles the tough relationship issues such as infidelity, separation, divorce and abuse. Plus it teaches us how to create more intimacy, passion and fun in our lives.

Find further good web site resources on this topic with Personal Development Search. This Google-powered facility looks through Tools for Transformation and a bunch of other highly recommended sites to find just the information you're looking for.

Using this facility with the search phrase "romantic relationship," I discovered Chuck Gallozzi's article Challenges of Love... Just as ordinary thread woven together can form a powerful net, so can two ordinary people joining in love form an indestructible relationship that contributes greatly to society. Along a similar vein, Barbara De Angelis has the following advice to offer. "The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

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