When you look at love, you're looking into the face of appreciation.

Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and undefinable. It is the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory.
We have been given the impression that to define love is near to impossible. Maybe there’s a fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful...less impactful...less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all “stuff” we add on to this powerful emotion. Lets drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it is we are experiencing in the moment of love.

How Do We Express Love?

We do not always express our love. Love is a feeling and the expression of that feeling is separate. It’s an action. There’s a practical reason we don't always express our love for another. It’s an issue of TIME. We only have 24 hours in a day (if you make it up that way). If the expression of love was a core ingredient to love, we would have to be stingy with who we loved, because there simply wouldn’t be enough time to demonstrate our love for everyone! If you see the distinction between the feeling and the expression, you can then love endless numbers of people.

What YOU can do to improve your relationships.

• Talk with your partner openly and honestly.
• Don't sacrifice yourself for the relationship.
• Take responsibility for your feelings.
• Know you can only change yourself.
• Be yourself always.
• Know your intentions behind your words.
• Communicate your wants and needs to your partner.
• Accept them as they are.
• Let go of absolute value judgments.
• Drop your expectations of how they 'should' be.
• Listen with your whole body, mind and soul.
• Express your appreciation and gratitude openly and often.
• Examine your beliefs about love relationships.
• Use humor to defuse difficult situations.
• Examine your desire to control your partner.
• Have a dialogue about your beliefs.

Honesty can be scary but it's necessary if you want a close intimate relationship.

There is more I wanna learn, to wanting to love him more and cherish him the right way.

There is more to trust then to just say i do.

It's about courage to let go and believe.

And that's what I'm learning and it makes me indulge in my self confidence in what we have.

I can't wait to hear your voice.

Good night world.

For baby's home and Lala's sleepy.

Got a date with Joey for being her adviser for the Saturday! Finally some time away from the east!

*RAmblinGs oF a bEaUtiFuL LeTdoWn@ 10:22 PM*