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Tana Marie's Monthly Romance Column and Love Tip Newsletter

By Tana Marie

Recognizing Healthy vs. Unhealthy Attitudes & Behaviors In Love Relationships

• Partners completely trust & honor one another
  
  
• Truth & honesty is pervasive on both sides
  
  
• Kindness, compassion & empathy is evident to all

• Each person maintains his or her own interests & hobbies
  
  
• Each partner loves the others' individuality
  
  
• Both people have & maintain their own space, experiencing plenty of "Me Time"

• Partners know they can always depend on one another
  
  
• Both feel comfortable & safe with each other
  
  
• Communication is easy, free flowing & they share an almost "secret language"
  
  
• Each partner adds value to the relationship
  
  
• Other people enjoy being with the couple
  
  
• Partners are each other's best friend
  
  
• Emotional stability pervades the relationship

• Partners are committed to keeping romance & passion alive
  
  
• They both honestly enjoy one another's company
  
  
• Spontaneity & playfulness exists within the relationship

• There is physical, mental, emotional or sexual abuse
  
  
• No emotional support exists for one another
  
  
• Negative control, manipulation, jealousy and/or ongoing turmoil exists

• One or both partners gives up his or her own interests, hobbies & friendships "for the sake of the relationship" or under coercion
  
  
• Partners are threatened by the others' individuality or successes

• Negative competition exists between partners
  
  
• One or both feel uncomfortable & unsafe around each other
  
  
• Communication is ineffective, strained & causes more problems than it solves
  
  
• One or both partner don't really care about the relationship
  
  
• Affairs or other forms of cheating have occurred/are occurring
  
  
• Partners don't trust or believe in one another

• One or both partners withhold sex, love & affection
  
  
• They prefer someone else's company to that of their partner
  
  
• No spontaneity or playfulness exists within the relationship
  
  
• Performing sex only as obligation or getting put down for sexual desires

• "Relationship Role Models" Listen
• "Put Your Past Behind You" Listen
• "Appreciation Equals Passion" Listen
• "Men Go Into a Relationship..." Listen
• Dating Tip - "Judgements About Love" Listen
• Dating Tip - "6-Month - The Magic Number" Listen
• Dating Tip - "Sexual Rating Scale" Listen
• Dating Tip - "What Do You Want" Listen

• Define Your Dating Goals
• How much energy do you put into sex and romance when you are first getting to know someone, and how much do you put in after you are involved in a long-term relationship?
• "Phases of True Love"
• "What does your partner do that makes you feel most loved?  Do you think your partner is aware of this?"
• Create Your Fantasy
• Love Isn't Just About Valentine's Day
• Make It Your Best Valentine's Day Ever!
• Entice Them All Week
• Life's a Great Balancing Act
• "The dignity the world awards you is in exact proportion to the dignity you award yourself."
• PEA, the Love Hormone
• Long Distance Romances
• "What we wouldn't give to know that it its okay not to feel okay ..."
• Use age-old aphrodisiacs to keep passion alive
• Do you want to really get to know yourself? Look thru the eyes of someone who truly loves you.
• "It doesn't matter how much you love someone, it's who you are when you're with them."
• Want a more solid, loving romance? Ready to live your romantic fantasy?
• "Make life happen through you, rather than letting it happen to you."
• "To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better."
• "It is in the expectations of happiness that much happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness." 
• "In a good relationship, each person gives what they want to get."
• "Once You Accept Yourself, There's No Reason To Hold Anything Back."
• To Keep your Romance on Track
• Feelings are a "Feed Forward System"
• "Surround yourself with people who want you to be everything you can be."
• "The space for what you want is already filled with
  what you have settled for instead."
• Nurturing Record
• Rose Colors & Their Meanings
• 4 Deserving Questions
• Three Roadblocks To Effective Goal Setting
• 10 Traditions that Guarantee Romantic Holidays
• 20 Ways to Make Merry During the Holidays
• "How to make the good things better"
• Best Romantic Lines of All Time
• 10 Secrets for Enhancing Love & Romance
• Dream Sheet
• To Risk
• Elements of a Healthy Partner
• Insights Regarding Love
• Manifesting Affirmations
• Recognizing Healthy vs. Unhealthy Attitudes & Behaviors In Love Relationships
• Secrets For Creating Your Perfect Relationship
• Why Did You Fall In Love In The First Place?
• Emotions are a "Feed Forward System"
• Relationship Empowering Agreements
• Aspects of an Ideal Relationship
• Make It Your Best Valentine's Day Ever!
• Valentine's Day Preparation Checklist
• Unconditional Love
• Creating Your Perfect Relationship
• Create the life you want - NOW!
• Start the New Year Off Right
• Do a "check-up from the neck up."
• What's been stopping you from getting the love you want?
• How Long Does It Take To Really Get To Know Someone?
• Falling in Love with Potential
• How to have a more fulfilling sex life!
• Relationship Tune-Up