Posts Tagged ‘relationships’

Just When You Thought You Were Over Him …

February 12, 2010

Picture if you will: It’s early October. The smell of autumn is brisk and sharp in the air, breaking through the oppressive humidity of the last few weeks. You no longer arrive at work with your head all sweaty, looking like a used hankie. Your shoes have stopped sticking to the street. Thank god for [...]

Men’s Slough of Despond to Breakup

September 26, 2009

“Men,” says Dr. Eaker-Weil, “are more pathetic than women [hey, she said it, not us]. They’re like sad puppy dogs. There’s no question that they suffer more than women do, because they don’t deal with the conflict for so long that it festers and grows, and when they finally do acknowledge it, the suffering is [...]

Friends or Your Lover? Guys, who do you hang out most?

August 17, 2009

What Friends Are For
But ask most married men how long it has been since they’ve hung out with an old friend from high school or college, and they’ll shrug sheepishly. The answer is often “years,” and we’re here to tell you that’s way too long.

What Happens When Men Open Up

February 3, 2009

When a man opens up more than his mate, he can actually block her from feminine feelings. When a man begins to talk more, share more, and need more in a relationship than she, the woman actually begins to pull away and begins talking less, sharing less, and needing less.

Men with Women Who Do Too Much

February 2, 2009

Men without a deeper understanding are easily frustrated by women who do too much. The busier she is, the less time and appreciation she has for him. He does not feel that he can help her and then fulfill her.
No matter what he does for her, she is always driven to do more. On a [...]

My wife tried to make me feel guilty when she left with her new lover

January 6, 2009

“She angrily blamed me for the divorce despite my desperate attempts to hold things together. In her mind, I failed so miserably as a husband that she was forced to run around with her boss! Are you saying that this transfer of responsibility is typical when one spouse has been unfaithful?”
Guilt is a very painful [...]

The chaotic quest for ‘the best’

November 22, 2008

They say that when women first start dating, their fantasy perfect man is tall, dark and handsome. At the age of twenty-five they change it to tall, dark and handsome with money. At thirty-five, they change it again to tall, dark and handsome with money and a brain. At forty-eight, it’s a man with hair. [...]

How must a husband love his wife? part 3 Protecting her

November 10, 2008

1 Peter 3:7 describes file wife as “the weaker partner” and as such she needs to be protected. Most of us have no difficulty in acknowledging the fact that we are to protect our wives physically. Not many of us, however, recognise that she needs emotional protection even more.

From the children. A mother’s nerves [...]