Relationship and Marriage! – Page 3 – Life Lessons by Jenine Marie

Characteristics of Love: Love Does Not Envy

Envy is an interesting thing. It’s more than jealousy. It wants what someone else has, is or does. Sometimes envy even wants to live the life of another. It can truly go too far, and it happens. In Buddhist tradition, all suffering or discontentment comes from wanting what we can’t have. I think it alsoContinue reading “Characteristics of Love: Love Does Not Envy”

Characteristics of Love: Love is Kind

Kindness shines its light as a reflection of love especially during times of distress. As I explained in a previous blog post, there is a difference between being “nice” and being kind. Kindness takes compassion and empathy. It fulfills its power by giving to another without expectation of anything in return. It is an actContinue reading “Characteristics of Love: Love is Kind”

True Love and Sexual Intimacy

Love should be simple, and it really is, but we make it very complicated. Love has its own attributes and when we know them we know love. God describes love as something based on character and not a feeling. Love is patient, kind, long suffering, etc. We think, or believe, its supposed to be aContinue reading “True Love and Sexual Intimacy”

How to Attract the Right Romantic Partner

Every person on this earth desires to “couple.” It’s a part of who and what we are. We are designed to be in relationships of all kinds, but the deeper and more profound relationships are the romantic love relationships we typically seek. Romantic connections are the relationships that teach us the most in life, notContinue reading “How to Attract the Right Romantic Partner”

Were You Intentionally Hurt?

Passing by a mother with two little girls I could not help but witness one little girl bumping into the other. She had lost her footing and suddenly there was a scream of discontent everyone within a range could hear. “You hurt me!” She began to cry, her face turned red, and became angry, lookingContinue reading “Were You Intentionally Hurt?”

Staying In Integrity While Dealing With Narcissistic People

One of the more difficult people to deal with in relationship are those who are narcissists. For some reason this has become a buzz phrase to attach to anyone who seems to be “in to themselves”, but a true narcissist is more than just a cliche. A narcissist can spin someone’s head around so fastContinue reading “Staying In Integrity While Dealing With Narcissistic People”

How To Choose the Right Friends

Choosing friends might seem very simplistic. We meet someone, we have a rapport with them, and we become friends, right? That is a simple version of how it most likely happens to the majority of people. If God created our universe to attract to us what we are, then more often than not we chooseContinue reading “How To Choose the Right Friends”

Online Cheating

Do I really want to talk about this one? Sometimes God nudges me in directions that I really don’t want to go but it is necessary. This morning it happens to be online cheating. It comes up so much more often than most of us realize. Our techie age has created wonderful ways to meetContinue reading “Online Cheating”

For the Men: Be Her “CONSTANT”!

There are two definitions of “constant” Occurring continuously over a period of time A situation or state of affairs that does not change From the original Latin, it comes from the word “constare” which means “stand”, and translates “staying resolute, or faithful”. Can you see where I am going with this already? Since I amContinue reading “For the Men: Be Her “CONSTANT”!”

What Will a Good Marriage Cost You?

I know this title is a strange question. I’m not going to go into dollars and cents. The subject is so much deeper than that and so much more important. My dear, to everything in life that is worth pursuing there is a cost. It makes no difference what that is. If there is somethingContinue reading “What Will a Good Marriage Cost You?”