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| 5 Dating Resolutions for the New Year Posted: 31 Dec 2014 07:56 AM PST The New Year is here, and this means a new chance at love for everyone. You might have made a few mistakes in 2014, but that doesn't mean you can't turn things around from this point forward. The beauty of life is that we are always growing and changing – and this means in our love lives, too. Instead of doing the same old things in your social life, or recycling that old online dating profile, the New Year is a time to toss out the old and start fresh. That said, following are ... |
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| Everybody ‘bounces back’ at different rates Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:23 PM PST It can feel very bewildering and even pressured when we are wounded by something that has happened but somebody is questioning why we haven’t moved on from it yet or they’re struggling to fathom our response to whatever happened. It might be that they’re comparing what they think would be their own reaction with ours, or or it might be that they are technically the cause of the issue and feel that they’ve said or done what is needed for us to move on. It might be one of those situations where they’ve for instance, apologised but what they really want is for us to hurry the hell up and move on so that they can delete the issue from their memory bank. In situations like this, especially if you’re inclined to be a pleaser or certainly inclined to invalidate your own feelings and perspective, you may put you under pressure to move on and forget. You may feel that you’re being too slow. In reality, we don’t all ‘bounce back’ from conflict, criticism, rejection, loss and disappointment, at the same rate. Hell, some of us don’t ‘bounce’ at all and it can be a painful process to navigate the myriad of emotions and thoughts that we may be contending with in the aftermath of something happening. Each person’s pace is their own. We are all unique and no matter what we believe that we may share in common with a person, there are very specific individual and personal reasons that influence our recovery. Our ‘bounceback rate’ as such is influenced by factors including: Whether we tend to bury, run from, hoard or deal with our feelings. Are we living in the past, on the run, bashing ourselves with the feelings and reliving the pain over and over again, or allowing ourselves to feel and move on from a feeling without judging or censoring it? The depth of how much we feel. The more we suppress and repress is actually the more we manifest the pain in other ways. It leaks out and shows up somewhere in our day to day experiences. Yes we’ll feel it intensely when we allow ourselves to feel all of our feelings but that helps in the grieving process. It’s important to note though that people who avoid their feelings or who anaesthetise them with people, things or even substances, can appear to ‘bounce back’ but are delaying and in effect stockpiling their pain. That’s why we shouldn’t feel so envious when a person for example, flits from relationship to relationship with their feet barely touching the ground as they exit one bed to another. Our past experiences. If we’ve experienced similar before then we’re either going to be better equipped to handle whatever has happened or we’re going to feel as if whatever has happened has compounded the previous experiences. Part of what can affect our recovery is whether an experience activates old wounds – we may be transported back to being a certain age. It might open the floodgates for a loss that we either thought we’d dealt with or thought we’d manage to bury. Prior experiences with the person in question. This might be the straw that broke the donkey’s back or it may feel as if we’ve been blindsided. Or we may feel that we can trust them and move past it together. Our reasoning habits. Taking into account our previous experiences, whatever our typical belief response has been when we’ve experienced conflict, criticism, loss etc, has a great deal of influence over how we respond. How invested we were in a predicted outcome. If we had it all mapped out in our mind, we’re likely to experience an imagination hangover as all of that plotting didn’t leave much room for the eventuality of uncontrollable factors. We may have got too caught up in the picture we painted in our mind. Whether we’re stuck on entitlement. Sometimes we inadvertently get stuck on where we feel robbed over a predicted outcome because we feel that we met all of the conditions that we thought would yield a certain outcome and yet it wasn’t so. Sometimes part of the reason why it’s hard to regain our mojo as such is that if we’ve not typically felt that happy with ourselves and we’ve spent a lot of energy trying to please others and be “enough” or “perfect”, it can feel like a real kick in the teeth when it feels as if we’ve practically broken our backs and spontaneously combusted into a doormat willing to meet every need and desire and yet despite us ‘meeting the conditions’, we’re still not happy or it hasn’t worked out. How much self-compassion, if any, we have. Quite simply, the kinder we are to ourselves, the better our recovery. We have to be consciously kind though and that means interrupting negative self-talk and intervening when we engage in destructive or at the very least unhelpful behaviour and thinking. Whether perspective is involved. If we experience something on day 0 and on day 365, we have exactly the same perspective or even worse on it, it’s safe to say that our recovery will be slow and eventually regret will kick in. Day 0’s outlook represents our understanding at that time and growth comes with perspective. We have to be willing to change the narrative especially if it’s very harsh on us and keeping us stuck in a cycle of blame, shame, guilt and fear. Perspective is also influenced by whether we discuss what happened with someone we trust and/or professionals, whether we judge whatever has happened as a permanent statement of our future, and in fact, how many judgements we make about us and life.
It’s not about bearing grudges – quite the opposite. You have a right to give you a chance to feel your feelings and to air your thoughts on something. It’s like, “Can I have a frickin moment to just be?” It’s not about wanting to hold onto something; it’s about recognising your uniqueness including your vulnerabilities. It’s about giving you a chance to understand why you have responded as you have including why something has hurt in the way that it has, so that you can grow your awareness, take care of you and learn from the insights gained.
As humans many of us are inclined to want to bounce back and move on as quickly as possible. We want to speed through the ‘bad parts’, the ‘bad feelings’ but we need to respect the process because we learn a great deal from these and we get stronger too. Everyone bounces back at different rates. Don’t apologise for not being Teflon-coated or for not having the tenacity of a cockroach after a nuclear bomb. The more you keep prodding at you about when you think you ‘should’ be over something is actually the harder it is. Be kind to you. Your thoughts? I will be back on New Years day and I hope you all managed to not only survive but even enjoy the festive season. See you in 2015 xxx      |
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Dating Sites Reviews |
| 4 Online Dating Resolutions To Make For The New Year Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:09 AM PST New Year's Day is about more than nursing a ferocious hangover. For many people, it's also a symbol of new beginnings and a time to make resolutions for the year ahead. And what better way to start than with your love life? The road to the right relationship isn't always smooth. Frustrations and disappointments are guaranteed, like potholes and traffic jams. But sometimes the road is clear, and if you drive for long enough, eventually you'll reach your destination. And ... |
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| Posted: 29 Dec 2014 04:54 PM PST
Are you looking for a way to spice up your sex life? Despite what you may think: how to talk dirty to a guy really doesn't have much to do with the actual words you say. You read that right. It's not so much what you say! The words aren't all that important. It's all about how you say it, what you put into it and how you feel when you say it. 
How you say it
You have to feel it
It can be as clean or dirty as you want
Communicate with him
It's important that while you're doing what's comfortable for you, know what he likes to hear also. It has to be comfortable for both of you. Talk to him about it and work on it together. You BOTH need someone to talk dirty to right!?
Start small and work your way into it
If you're not used to talking dirty or you're not used to talking at all during sex, then you need to get comfortable slowly.
Describe what you want him to do
Not sure what to say? Just start by explaining to him what you want him to do to you, or what you want to do to him. You do want him to do something to you right? Yes, that. Say that!
Let him know when he's doing something you like
You can also let him know what's working for you while he's doing it. Describe it to him. "I like it when you…" This can also be an ego booster for him. Just make sure you're being honest.
Final Thoughts
I hope these tips have given you some ideas of where to start with the dirty talk! The most important things to remember are: only say what you're comfortable saying and pay special attention to HOW you say it. How to talk dirty is more about how you say it than what you say. In order to be sexy, it has to be true for you! Everything else is open to interpretation. 
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