I cannot name names, but one dear client emailed me this afternoon that she and her beau are apartment hunting and talking marriage, "and it's all due to YOU that we met!" Now, having a "successful" track record is great. Results are great. Really.
But what I am most delighted about? HER HAPPINESS!
I'm so thrilled and delighted for her. Once anything is really official, I'll blog it here and add something to my website on Online Dating and Romantic Relationship coaching.
Whee!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
We've GOT to Stop Meeting Like THIS!
The last time all of my family was together was 2 yrs ago on my grandmother's deathbed.
Before that was my mother's memorial service.
Now it's for my father's memorial service.
We are ALL saying, "We've GOT to stop meeting like this!"
Yes, in the face of death, we still maintain our sense of humor!
The GOOD news is, the NEXT time we will all be together is for my dear brother's WEDDING!
Yeah!
A HAPPY occasion for us to meet!
As an Online Personals and Online Dating expert and coach, I am so glad that he and she are engaged and happy, and indeed, I used a lot of my relationship coaching skills and communication teaching skills with them for building their relationship and working THROUGH things rather than letting them be the point for ending the relationship/breaking up.
I'm thinking of a number of my friends who are in successful long-term relationships, whether married or not.
And indeed, the greatest indicator for long-term success?
Great communications skills.
Now in that COMMUNICATION, once it is TRUE, it is SO important to say, "I love you."
Right now in this stage of the grief, amongst my siblings we are SO careful to say, "I love you," whenever we sign off with each other, whether in person or over the phone.
In fact, well, you know how even saying, "I love you," can start to get perfunctory?
So, we are PAUSING with each other, "really, you know, I love you." And we get it and we CONNECT.
Because we really want the other to know.
Because you never know when it's going to be the LAST TIME you see them or the LAST TIME you GET to TELL them, "I love you."
So, indeed, like James Taylor sings to us, "Shower the people you love with love. Show them the way you feel."
And we are.
How about you?
Are you telling the people YOU love daily and often, pausing to connect and look them in the eye, "I love you?"
God bless!
April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
Before that was my mother's memorial service.
Now it's for my father's memorial service.
We are ALL saying, "We've GOT to stop meeting like this!"
Yes, in the face of death, we still maintain our sense of humor!
The GOOD news is, the NEXT time we will all be together is for my dear brother's WEDDING!
Yeah!
A HAPPY occasion for us to meet!
As an Online Personals and Online Dating expert and coach, I am so glad that he and she are engaged and happy, and indeed, I used a lot of my relationship coaching skills and communication teaching skills with them for building their relationship and working THROUGH things rather than letting them be the point for ending the relationship/breaking up.
I'm thinking of a number of my friends who are in successful long-term relationships, whether married or not.
And indeed, the greatest indicator for long-term success?
Great communications skills.
Now in that COMMUNICATION, once it is TRUE, it is SO important to say, "I love you."
Right now in this stage of the grief, amongst my siblings we are SO careful to say, "I love you," whenever we sign off with each other, whether in person or over the phone.
In fact, well, you know how even saying, "I love you," can start to get perfunctory?
So, we are PAUSING with each other, "really, you know, I love you." And we get it and we CONNECT.
Because we really want the other to know.
Because you never know when it's going to be the LAST TIME you see them or the LAST TIME you GET to TELL them, "I love you."
So, indeed, like James Taylor sings to us, "Shower the people you love with love. Show them the way you feel."
And we are.
How about you?
Are you telling the people YOU love daily and often, pausing to connect and look them in the eye, "I love you?"
God bless!
April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Body Language Expert: Sex, Women and the Truth About What Women Think... (Part 1)
Body Language Expert: Sex, Women and the Truth About What Women Think... (Part 1)
It is so funny when we are blogging in the early days. I posted this. And I have NO idea what my point was. EXCELLENT article, of course,
All the best,
April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
It is so funny when we are blogging in the early days. I posted this. And I have NO idea what my point was. EXCELLENT article, of course,
All the best,
April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
No One Wants to Look Dumb
MSN's new site, the title got me thinking, "No One Wants to Look Dumb. You see, I live here in Silicon Valley. Can we count the brain power? Can we count the universities? Yup. It is oh-so-definitely part of our corporate image NOT TO LOOK DUMB. And yet... well, it's my male clients who sort of sidle up to me, covert, subliminal... "Ah, how can I avoid looking like an idiot in front of girls?" Many of the really sweet sw engineers are NOT the smoothest guys with women. They work with them and know how to assign trouble tickets and resolve them, but actually conversing romantically with a woman, well, that is a WHOLE other thing. Or as Kevin Hogan would point out, THAT is a whole other CONTEXT!The other factor on the other side of the equation, there are DA WOMEN. We can SMELL your masculine fear and intimidation, yes, actually 12 feet away. I'm not kidding. It's actually in your pheromone signature. Your being ill-at-ease with women, we can LITERALLY smell it.
I'll continue to post about some ideas for how to BETTER position yourself with women and girls, not JUST to pick them up a la Pick Up Artists (PUAs), but also actually to establish a RELATIONSHIP. Then you could actually get those bed benefits on a regular basis. Or as I like to say, turn off the TV, power down your laptop, and make your OWN porn!
All the best and enjoy!
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
Friday, April 4, 2008
Freud was Right
April 3, 2008
All girls are so strongly influenced by their fathers. In my case, I married a dear sweet version of my brother. And today my father, John Y. Barry, died. I'll comment on it more later. This weekend I am introspective. He is why I love to receive Pink Roses. For my 16th birthday, he sent me a dozen pink roses to me at school. I received them in the adminstrative offices. I felt like A PRINCESS. To this day, when men give me beautiful roses, I feel like A PRINCESS! Don't you? Shouldn't every woman? God bless and God speed. April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
All girls are so strongly influenced by their fathers. In my case, I married a dear sweet version of my brother. And today my father, John Y. Barry, died. I'll comment on it more later. This weekend I am introspective. He is why I love to receive Pink Roses. For my 16th birthday, he sent me a dozen pink roses to me at school. I received them in the adminstrative offices. I felt like A PRINCESS. To this day, when men give me beautiful roses, I feel like A PRINCESS! Don't you? Shouldn't every woman? God bless and God speed. April Braswell
Dating Coach, Romance Coach, Relationship Coach, Dating Articles,
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