She Sells Ink Most of us are bombarded with images of love and sex in magazines, TV adverts, and on the radio, but often they idealize, romanticize, or trivialize love. So it's hard to work out what the keys to lasting passion and love are.

She Sells Ink

Although most of us desire a healthy relationship, it's surprising how many of us don't really understand what makes love survive long term. Most of us are bombarded with images of love and sex in magazines, TV adverts, and on the radio, but often they idealize, romanticize, or trivialize love. So it's hard to work out what the keys to lasting passion and love are.

So much is written about it, yet it is an emotion that gets the least attention within families and schools. We're not taught about it -- we just seem to either catch it, pick it up as we go along, or copy our own mom and dad's relationship!



Yet there is perhaps no greater source of happiness, joy, and fulfillment or heartache, despair, or pain than love.



Keeping the glow with your partner is not easy, and no matter where you are in your relationship, it's important to regularly check in on it from time to time to keep it fresh, keep it growing, and keep it watered and nurtured.



With just a slight shift in your perceptions and beliefs about marriage and partnerships, you can re-kindle the flame of love, re-ignite intimacy, and fan the flames of passion if you are open and willing to give it a go.



Interestingly, we say we love the people in our lives, yet we often don't act very lovingly with our words, our tone of voice or our body language, or our attitude toward the very people who are the most important to us. And it's ironic that no amount of money, success, status, or fame will ever come close to the warm glow of a loving and nurturing relationship.



"Women are afraid to ask for what they want because they are afraid at a deep subconscious level that they will get replaced by someone less demanding and more compliant, and men don't even acknowledge that they want or need anything because if they do, it implies that they are not a real man. So we have two people sitting around wanting all these things from each other, probably capable of giving each other many of them, but not talking about it. Then they both feel depressed, both feel resentful, both feel deprived, they cheat on each other, and you have a divorce. It could be prevented by straight talking and clear asking."