Michael Douglas asked:


With life’s pace quickening everyday, people are looking to escape from the rat race and relax to rejuvenate their body. For life to be revitalising, it is necessary to have a good flow of life force energy in your home to welcome your valentine or “your beloved one”. You can get good energy in your love and life by just making a few changes in your room.

Did you know that Red Roses with thorns are not a happy ending sign if you were to give them to your loved ones? The colour red, unless it is used in marriage, represents bleeding. Red roses with thorns are even more undesirable; thorns represent hardship, so avoid sending your loved ones. In fact, pink, yellow, peach or cream roses (with thorns removed) are wonderful symbols associated with young love!

Did you know that you could face the right direction and find the right love? When using Feng Shui, you can find your sweetheart by sitting in the right direction. Everyone has a personal love (Nien Yen) direction depending on the date they were born. According to the Feng Shui 8 Mansions Formula, each person’s personal Nien Yen reaction brings them happiness and good luck associated with marriage and matriarchal presence.

For men, the Nien Yen direction helps you attract a good and gentle wife who will bear you many sons and take care of your parents. For women, the Nien Yen direction brings you more opportunities to establish yourself as the loved wife of a household, and attract a man who will bring you happiness and prosperity through marriage. So if you’ve managed to ask someone special out for a dinner date, make sure you’re sitting and facing your Nien Yen direction to maximize your Feng Shui luck for happiness! Who knows? the man you dating sitting in the right direction might be the one you have been looking for!

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Did you know that mirrors in the bedroom are the most effective tools to destroy the relationship? Mirrors in the bedroom are really not advised for any type of relationship whether you’re starting out or reliving a romance especially if you’re pretty serious about this person! Mirrors are often said to reflect a third party in the relationship. Mirrors represent another person always coming in between two people. This often means an extra-marital affair but sometimes the third person can be anyone such as a discouraging relative etc? Ever heard of “Two’s Company, Three’s a crowd! So remove your mirrors, hide them or cover them up!

And remember to hold on to your Valentine’s love. Always have everything displayed in your home in pairs; a pair of love birds or a pair of love ducks. Ever heard of ‘Love comes in pairs, single comes in despair’? Make your loved one feel welcome by removing all solitude figures and all lonely pictures of a man or woman. Have fresh flowers in your love and relationship corner (Southwest), and clean out your closets to make room for your significant other to enter into your life.

Once you’ve created peace and harmony in your home with the changes mentioned above, that will nourish your body, mind, heart and spirit, you can have a Valentine’s Day for all 365 days of the year!!

My Relationship Tips asked:


As a dating or married couple, you and your partner should find ways to express your love for one other.

Celebrating your anniversary will rekindle the fire and passion that you found from the very first day that you met.

Whether this is your first or fiftieth wedding anniversary, here are some ways to celebrate your anniversary and look forward to happier years together:

1. Decide on what you want to do as a couple.

Just like any other aspect in your relationship, decide together how you would like to celebrate your anniversary.

Sit down with your spouse and decide whether you want to surprise each other with gifts, or buy something special together.

Check out the symbol of your anniversary year and you can set this theme when thinking up ways to celebrate.

If you plan to buy a gift together, get a separate, smaller token of your love for each other.

2. Be creative in giving gifts.

Be inventive and creative when thinking of gifts to give out to each other.

Sometimes, things that you made with your bare hands can make more of an impact than something that you bought from the store.

You can make a scrap book of the pictures that you have collected through the years. Get your kids to help out to make it more fun and meaningful.

You can also make a video or a simple PowerPoint presentation so that you can view it together.

Insert some background music, make sure that it has the songs that you first danced with, and your spouse’s favorite medleys.

A gift can also be something that is not material. If you use your heart and add a little creativity, you can surely think of a non-material gift that your spouse will never forget.

3. Think up ways to pamper treat yourself and your partner.

You can spend you anniversary luxuriating in a spa.

Treat yourselves to a full body massage, a rose-scented bath or a trip to the sauna.

By pampering and relaxing your bodies, you will also prepare yourselves for a more intimate evening together.

Cap it all off with some fine dining and you will have one of your most memorable nights together.

4. Plan some alone time together.

If it is your first year together, definitely go somewhere private to celebrate. You can go back to the restaurant or romantic spot where you first met or where you had your first date.

Reminisce and tell each other stories about how you first met, and your first impression of each other.

Talking about these things would bring back the reason why you are together in the first place, which is because of your love for each other.

If you are a couple with kids, hire a baby sitter or ask a relative to look after your kids so that you can go out and celebrate.

In your everyday married life, you tend to forget to spend some quality time together as a couple because of all the household chores and taking care of the kids that you have to do.

Planning a quiet evening or having a weekend getaway should help you observe your anniversary in a private and intimate manner.

5. Plan a small, intimate get-together.

Some couples would like to share their love for each other with friends and family.

If, for example, last year you have celebrated your anniversary intimately, why not organize a small party this year?

Send out invites to the original bridal entourage to reminisce your wedding day.

Take a look at your wedding video and check out the bloopers. Have a lot of fun with your closest friends and immediate family on your anniversary.

6. Celebrate milestones with a bang.

If you are on your tenth, twenty-fifth or fiftieth wedding anniversary, have a big party. a

Invite everyone who is important to you. You may want to renew your vows, especially if you are celebrating your silver or golden wedding anniversary.

If you are celebrating your fiftieth wedding anniversary, get a gold jewelry or any golden item as a gift to your partner.

The immediate family may shower the couple with golden gifts to celebrate the occasion.

Remember, this is just a helpful guide on ways to spend your anniversary as a couple.

As long as you use your heart and creativity, you will surely come up with ways to celebrate your anniversary with your loved one in a way that you both will treasure for the rest of your lives together.

Pam Kazmierczak asked:


at you’re engaged and you have happily let everyone know the news, it is time to set the date. Setting the date to your wedding is a big deal. The day you get married is a day you will remember forever. It will be the day that you celebrate every year. With this in mind, realize you must pick a date you can live with. When choosing your date there are many things to consider. Some of the basics include what part of the year you want to get married in (or celebrate yearly), if there are any conflicts with your date and if you have enough time to prepare your wedding by that date. All dates are not created equal. There are some dates you may choose to avoid. It may seem obvious, but planning a wedding can be stressful or exciting and sometimes we don’t put all of our effort into picking a date which we can plan our wedding by and that we will be forever happy with.

Holidays

Some people want to get married on holidays but most people choose to avoid these dates. If you do not want to share the spotlight you may want to avoid a holiday wedding, especially a major holiday such as Valentine’s Day or Christmas. Your guests may not be happy with you if you plan a holiday wedding and they have to spend their holiday with you instead of participating in their normal holiday customs, whether they are romantic plans for holidays such as Valentine’s Day or Sweetest Day or more family oriented such as during Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Birthdays or Anniversaries

You may want to avoid having your wedding on birthdays or anniversaries of close friends or family members. If you do choose a date which is important to someone else you may want to consider how other people might feel about you getting married on a certain date. If you really want to use a date that is someone’s anniversary or birthday you should clear it with that person first. Explain why you really want to get married on that date and get their blessing first.

Other Days

There are countless days that you may want to avoid, days that are personal to individual families as well as the general public. If your grandparents are deceased you may want to avoid the date of their death or even their birthdays, marrying on one of their birthdays may bring up bad memories or just the feeling of loss – something you do not want on your wedding day. You may want to avoid days like Pearl Harbor day or even the day Kennedy was shot. To be able to avoid painful days for the family you need to know them, listen to what they do or do not want. Days to avoid are really individual to each wedding and family. If you family or his has war veterans you may want to avoid days that are significant to those wars If your mother is an avid Elis fan or your sister had a shrine to Kurt Cobain growing up would probably avoid the dates of their deaths plus any other dates significant to them.

Still not sure?

Pick the wedding date and ask your family what they think. Find out if there are ary problems or concerns from family members. Address what comes up. Now you can decide if you are keeping that date or if you will reconsider.

Ginger Malone asked:


There are a number of reasons why a couple may find themselves spending Valentine’s Day apart. Couples who are in a long distance relationship, business trips, shifts which prevent couples from being together, sickness and family emergencies are just a few examples of reasons why a couple may find themselves spending Valentine’s Day apart. While you may certainly understand the reasons why you and your loved ones cannot be together on Valentine’s Day it does not make it any easy to deal with this situation. You may still feel sad and lonely if you find yourself in one of these situations. However, there is home for those who are spending Valentine’s Day apart from their loved ones, there are a few ways for making the day a lot more fun. This article will provide information on ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day apart in a number of different scenarios.

First we will consider the case of a couple who is in a long distance relationship. For this couple, they may be used to spending important days such as Valentine’s Day, anniversaries and other holidays apart so it may not be as difficult for them to deal with. However, there are ways this couple can still celebrate Valentine’s Day together. One way to do this is to both rent the same movie and watch it while on the phone together. This may run up your phone bill but if you have unlimited evening minutes you and your partner can chat away on your cell phones while you watch the movie together. You might even consider both ordering the same type of food such as pizza or Chinese food so you will feel even more together for a little while.

Next we will consider a couple who finds themselves spending Valentine’s Day apart do to an unexpected business trip. This can be particularly difficult because the couple is not used to being apart on important days and likely did not have a great deal of time to prepare for spending the holiday apart. In this situation the couple should discuss Valentine’s Day as soon as they realize they are going to be spending the holiday apart. While discussing it they can decide whether they want to celebrate before they separate or after they are reunited. It is also important for the couple to try to at least have some contact on Valentine’s Day even if it is over the phone or through email. This will allow the couple to feel like they are together in some way so they don’t get too lonely. Having flowers delivered to your loved one while you are separated is also a very thoughtful gesture.

Finally, we will consider the case of a couple who cannot spend Valentine’s Day together because one or both of them does work which involves odd shifts. This could include doctors, firefighters, police officers or a variety of other professions. Individuals in this type of situation are probably used to their odd schedule and making time to be together outside of working hours. In this case the best way to deal with being apart on Valentine’s Day is to plan on celebrating together when it is more convenient. This may not seem like the most romantic option but sometimes it is important to remember that you love your partner every day of the year and you don’t have to be together on Valentine’s Day to prove your love for each other.