Wednesday, May 15, 2013

3 Steps to Having an A-May-zing Relationship

Relationships are not as hard as people make them out to be, they can actually be (wait for it)....aMAYzing! All the awkward, difficult situations can easily be avoided and the pleasant ones can be enhanced. How? With my 3 easy steps to having an aMAYzing relationship. Read on if you want to do this.

Step 1: Be Happy With Yourself - This might be cliche’ but it’s true. You can’t love someone else unless you love yourself first. Do you have crazy insecurities? Most likely. Do you love your crazy insecurities? Probably not. So before you go out into the world and share yourself with another person, you have to get your stuff together. Find out what you like, what you don’t like and love every aspect of yourself. If there’s something that you want to change, change it and continue to love who you are. 

Step 2: Know What You Want - What do you want to do with yourself? What are your goals? What are you doing to get there? What do you want out of life? Those are the questions you should ask yourself every day to make decisions that will get you closer to what you want. If you are not happy with the direction you’re going alone, how do you expect to happy going through life with someone else. The person you’re with now might be one of the decisions you regret every morning when you wake up. If that’s the case, get rid of that fool, get it together and find someone else. There’s joy in knowing what you want and taking action to get there. And there’s even more joy when you meet that goal.

Step 3: Share Your Experiences With Someone Else - Only when you’re happy with yourself and the direction you’re driving, should you invite someone along to enjoy the ride. You know what you want, you know where you’re heading and if you find someone heading in the same direction, why not share it together. Once you’ve shared enjoyable experiences with that person it’s likely that the two of you will create new goals to achieve together. Things that interest the both of you and align with what you both want out of life. If you can get on that path with another person, you’ll experience happiness, joy, love, all the good stuff you can want out of a relationship.

There’s nothing worse than being in a relationship where you’re expecting the other person to make you feel happy. That’s a tremendous amount of pressure to put on someone and more often than not, they’ll come up short. You’ll notice that 2 of the 3 steps to having an aMAYzing relationship have to do with you getting yourself together. It starts with you! You should realize that only you can make yourself feel happy. Once you do that, then you should find a person to share that happiness with...


Monday, May 13, 2013

Love at First Sight (Guest Blogger)

Today's guest blogger is in love, and isn't afraid to shout it from the mountain top! In an effort to encourage stories of aMAYzing love and relationships, Sandy from Pembroke, Ontario in Canada shares her message of aMAYzing-ness!

Love at first sight is when you first meet a person and you feel as though there’s already a connection. You know in your heart that this is the one for you. It’s like you’ve finally found “your match made in heaven”. I feel like I have found such a match. In my mind he possesses everything that makes him an ideal romantic partner. From that first moment we found ourselves to be instantly compatible and mutually attractive. I know it’s too soon to claim that he is the love of my life, but it’s not too soon to hope. Only time can decide if that claim is correct

A lot of skeptics (like my brother) would say that love at first sight isn’t possible to them (and him). I don’t call it “love at first sight”, but I think of it as feeling that you are brave enough to follow and see where the flow will take you. In life we just have to take chances because you never know what the outcome can be. I understand that we all have been hurt in our past so that makes us bitter and cold, but we all need to let the past be the past and move on. It took me four years to get the courage to speak to the guy I fell in love with the first day I met him. The funny thing was that he noticed me too all those years and he was afraid to approach me. During our first conversation we couldn’t keep our eyes off each other, and since then we’ve been inseparable. I’m happy just being around him, talking and laughing, hugging and kissing. It’s funny because I used to be one of those people who would tell kissing couples to get a room, but now I see sometimes you can’t help but express that affection you have for the other person. 

So where do we go from here? Marriage?!? We’ve spoken about it and living together and I’m all for it. It seems like we’ve been together forever. I may still be naive but I think this is real love. It’s rare that you find someone (or someone finds you) and you click just like that, and I am not one to pass up a good opportunity when I see it. He knows that I come as a package deal (me and my babies) and he accepts that. We communicate a lot and as cliche as it may sound we believe without communication you’ll have nada. Well, that’s my little story. Again, I’ll have to check back with you sometime in the future to really determine the validity of my claims of love at first site. I know that you’ll be rooting for me, and so will I…

Feel free to send me your stories of aMAYzing love to encourage and promote the month of aMAYzing men, women and relationships to relationshiplessons2013@gmail.com this month.