Friday, January 22, 2010

How to fix your marriage – The US Factor

Marriage as they say is not really all about staying under the same roof it is a marriage of habits as well. For a marriage to be successful you have to adjust and change. Giev freedom and space to each other. It also is said that marriage may well mean the marriage of two families. Their habits and styles and what not?

The reason why most marriages fail is that you are so typecast in your own way of doing things that it becomes a continuous struggle to adjust to someone’s way of
A stage comes when living under the roof with someone else then simply becomes impossible. Before you reach this stage it is better to get some counseling and advice.

There are a large number of psychologists who have counseling centers where couple can go and get to understand their behavior and the reason behind it and the way to correct that. In front of the marriage counselor it gives you a chance to rant about the other in a meaningful way and it also helps to make sure that you listen to the others point of view in a peaceful manner.

There is one program which I have used in my own personal life and that is the US Factor.


This is programs by Dr. Melnick . This program has 12 DVD lessons, A 232 page workbook and a 800 support number you can call. His philosophy is like the Kaizen philosophy which says that you will work on each small improvement and you will make great strides eventually in saving your marriage. His also makes sure that you both are in it together and you do not go with the feeling that other is wrong and there is nothing in it for me. To learn more about Us Factor there is another blog owner who has written extensively about the marriage and the Us factor reviews. Believe me it is all positive and a worth while to read.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Learn the positive parenting skills – Have a good relationship with your kids

Dealing with kids can be difficult and challenging. It can be frustrating if the kid does not listen to you and you are left tearing your hair ! This can also damage your relationship with your kids as well as make you look like a bad parent.

Now what is the solution to all this. Do not worry as there is this special thing called positive parenting. Positive parenting is a new paradigm as far as the parenting skills are concerned. Now the question that will come to your mind is that what do you mean by positive parenting and where do I learn it ?

There are a number of coaches and psychologists who have been advocating the positive parenting approach and they have dedicated coaching seminars and classes for parents to assist you in learning the skills. One such program is the Total Transformation from the well renowned expert James Lehman.



His view is that kids get belligerent or defiant when they do not find solutions to the problems. His program imparts specific parenting skills with respect to parents imparting problem solving skills to the kids. The main benefit of the program is that you can then become a good parent. You will be able to deal with kid at an intelligent level as opposed to pure emotional level. This helps as then the kid knows that he cannot take the parent for granted and get what he wants with his bad attitude.

The main point to note is that it is important to seek help as parents and adopt new parenting skills as opposed to relying on hearsay and old methods of parenting.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Total Transformation by James Lehman - Parenting Skills 101

Most of us do not know get specific education in parenting skills rather we just rely on our gut feel and hearsay to parent the kids. Well nothing wrong with that however the fact is that it will not give you all the required skills and scientific method to deal with kids. You will be at a loss when you have a conflict with the kids.

Now that said there is a very good program which was recommeded by me to a friend which is by the name of the The Total Transformation By James Lehman

Here are some of the golden rules which he suggest that you should use. I am telling you these so that you can learn more about these with coach itself Mr. Lehman.

rule #1 - Teach your kids how to solve problems. He says that when they do not know how to solev problems only then the kids start to abuse and throw tantrums.

rule#2 - Always make direct statements and it helps in your communication

rule#3 - Do not communicate if the kids behavior is wrong

rule#4 - do not allow bad behavior in a plublci place . In case teens just leave them at the scene and let them figure out the way to reach home.

rule#5 - Unconditional love is good but then the kids can use it against you. So make sure that you love the kid responsibly. This way you love the kid but in a good way and that helps in building a good relationship as well it will make sure that you have the best interests of the kid at heart.

These are just some of the samples of the way James Lehman has taught a lot of his clients and they have gone onto to become very good parents and brought up their kids in a very good manner.
Here is another person who has spoken at great lengths about the merits of  The Total Transformation and he has in fact given a nice summary of what that means for you.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Commitment and Marriage

You love your boyfriend since last six months. In the starting of the love or during the first three or four months you might not think of marriage. You can not keep continue as lovers alone indefinitely and not forward to the next stage of wedding. Have you had he question in your mind that when he will tie the knot in your neck or when he will announce that you are his wife to the public in the church? This means that your lover is yet to commit to marry you. Some of the men will openly tell about his marriage plan and ask your opinion. Many of the boyfriends are reluctant to disclose their wedding plans to the lover because they are worried about the new responsibility after marriage and panic about that. They will try to change the topic when it pin point about the wedding and after marriage future plan.

How to estimate the level of your boyfriend’s commitment toward marriage? One simple test is, open your ears widely and focus the phrases he used when he converse with you. If the words like “we” or “us” are jumped out from his mouth, he is serious in wedding you and will stage soon. You are not lucky if he used the words like “I” or “me”. Still he wants to be in single and yet to gain the mental maturity to reach the next milestone of life called wedding and promoted to the position of husband.

One more symptom is that how he handle his income. You do some research in this line. Does he have any savings plan and retirement plan? Is he looking for a bigger house than his current single room? Is he contact bank and inquire about home loan? Did he call you to have a look to the new apartment or ask your dream about the house to live? If the answer is “yes” for one or more than one to the above queries, he is having a well plan to wed you and ready to enter in to the heaven. Needless to say that your boyfriend is like a cat on the wall and he may leave you, if you find the answer “No” for all the queries.

Is someone stealing your boyfriend?

You will get upset and feel severe injury when you are cheated or break the relationship with you by your best friend or your boyfriend. You consider them as your loyalist and they are the most trusted people by you. It is not possible to tolerate the unexpected things from the people from whom where we have enormous faith. If you get disappoint from your fond boyfriend or from your close friend, you become mad and go to the extreme of keeping vengeance and try to retaliate them. This will make the situation more worsen and invite more unwanted troubles to you. How to control the fire in your mind and cool? Here little number of things is given to shrink your projected vein and pacify you to the direction of handling the situation wisely.

1. Allow her to keep him, if she hijacks your man. This is the wonderful tit for tat. She tried to get your boyfriend and succeed in that with the support and cooperation from him. If he resisted, she might failed in her try. He was also ready to move the sides and deserted you. So his credibility had gone and he may redo the same to his new lover sooner or later. If that happen she will taste the bitterness of lost the lover to another girl.

2. Be grateful to the God to stage such an incident through which you find the true color of your lover. If a girl is snatching the lover from other girl and convert to her belongings, she will not be your friend and ex boyfriend do not deserve to the position you kept him before. You treat your heart by saying that he migrated to other flower like a bee now itself and will be in greater pain if this happen after you marry him or after give birth to a child through him. So take this as a lucky thing and thankful to Jesus Christ to avert the challenge with more magnitude.

3. Add this incident as a page in to your lessons learnt book. You have to start analysis and find answer for the questions like; What went wrong? What forced your ex boyfriend to look for another girl? Is there any particular feature in his new partner and attracted him? Do I have such special magnetic features with me?
At the end of the self examination, you find clues and vital factors which make your future relationship keep in unbreakable state. Who knows, it may do the magic of reunion with your ex boyfriend if you wish the same and chance come.

How to deal with breakup

It is quite easy to develop the rift between lovers. It won’t continue and either of boyfriend or girlfriend might done the patch work in good number of cases. But considerable cases can be found where the rift grows and disintegration happen. This break up is not the nice one and surely at least one of the partners is gone with spoil feelings and busted heart. Many of us are self centric and do not accept that we feel the heat after the disassociation. For the outer world we show that we are silent and strong enough to control our sentiments and feelings. But in the corner of our heart, the pain persists and triggers the questions like “What mistake I did?”, “What could I have done better?”, “What could I avoided?” ….and so on.

Next, we should think how to get relief from this pain, how to heal this wound in mind and how to continue our life journey happily. This healing is a process and psychiatrists suggest various stages in it. Healing process will vary and take different time duration based on the power of the link you had with your lover.

The first step to healing after the breakup is acceptance. You have to accept this love failure as like the other failures you accepted in your life before. You have to console your mind that you are not the first victim of love failure in the earth; so many historical stories and evidences are available for the same occur to range of people from king to common man. It is easy for the one who trigger the rejection and throwing away the other. It will generate the greater wound mark in the heart of the receiver in the pair of the lovers when the key divide happen in love relationship. You have to understand that your love relationship was broken and admit that you may not obtain your ex boyfriend or girlfriend.

The second step to healing is “forgiving”. It is human nature to commit mistakes in life. Do not waste your time in doing postmortem to find who was responsible for the disassociation. Do not find fault with other partner even if he is the sole owner for this break up. You need to pardon the other party. This does not mean that you are comfortable and justify the worst happening for your love. Pardoning is a good to follow and just agreed the mistake. Then try to wipe out the failure from your heart and mind. Keeping it in mind is dangerous to your mental and physical health.

The third step is “moving on”. This is the hard part of the curing process. There is no doubt that you had lot of trust with your lover and the breakup was a great shock to you. You should take control of your mind and start erasing the events you had with your lover. You need to stop thinking about the incident which led to this separation and about your ex boyfriend altogether. If you are a free and friendly person, mingle with others and try to get new friend, who can replace your “ex” in your mind. So carry on to live and secure the new friend and connect with the new friend and strengthen the bond between you and your latest friend.

Communication is Key in a Relationship

It is not so easy to maintain the relationship with your boyfriend and keeping the love in good health. He may get bored with you and switch his loyal to other new face. This is common in most of the love relationship which is older in one or two years and not reached the next stage of wedding. You may see your love is in danger. Your lover is moving towards with other women and meeting her more often. This could be the indicator to your love is going to crash soon and can be avoided if you take the necessary remedial actions. You may be in a hurry to initiate the preventive measures.

You have to be handling the things with more cautious especially when your connection with your lover is in danger. Your love may get broken if you delay the measures to cover the cracks, so the timing is important and start the actions at the right time. Conflict management is a wonderful subject and it may require in personal life or official life. In simple everyone should have some idea about this while dealing with human being with variety of attitude. You can discover lot of case studies and solution to various situations about conflict in the internet. Just browse and read the solution similar to the one you are facing now. Be firm on your stand and never surrender to your hero. According the study conducted by worldwide, man wants to keep the association and like some one, who will appreciate and give weight to his desires. Guys are inclined towards the girl who is shown interest in his life and involved in his dream. In simple, they expect the woman who is perfectly aligned with their mental wavelength. Men are looking the girls with similar mind set of theirs.

A man expects appreciation from the partner. He gets confused if not able to get from you. He will experiment with other girls whether he can get the things missed from you. He will search the girl who recognize his ideas, speech and allow him to talk more. If you notice that your boyfriend attends the week end parties with his friends and not with you and not inviting you to dinner and take beer without you, it is an alarming bell to you. You should analyze his needs and whether you support him and involved. It is very important to communicate to your lover that you are always with him and support him to reach his wishes and a true lover to him. You have to express this and emphasize more frequently. You have to organize or gift the things which will give more pleasure to him repeatedly. These small things make wonders like scale up his trust with you and motivate him to raise the love and affection with you.

How to Get Your Boyfriend Back?

Are you looking for some ways to get back your boyfriend back? Then I think I can suggest you with some ideas which will be helpful in accomplishing your task. There will always be ups and downs in the life whatever it may be whether it is with relationship or career. Everybody devised that a happy relationship is the one which has been through a lot of ups that is happy moments and less downs that is sad occasions. If you are through a recent breakup then you are in the down phase where you are left alone by the man who just turned his back and left you forever and so you feel to be in the lonely dessert where there is no one to console or comfort you. In that case I can surely help you to get your boyfriend back who will give you his shoulders whenever you need him.

To every question in your life there is an answer for sure. But the real problem is that because of the emotion breakdown you simply don’t see the solution which is there before you. This happens as during the relationship breakup or any other emotion problems people do think a lot through heart rather than through their brain which is never partial to anything and gives answer reasonably. During this emotional turmoil you will act in such a way like crying and begging to him to come back rather than acting wisely which will really make him move away from you.

You have to be in command of your feelings and should stop weeping. Do not call your ex boyfriend and request him to love you. You should not deliver the dialogue with him said that you can not imagine the life without him. Don’t afraid and pessimist about the love. Stop taking any effort to meet him in person to express the desperate need of him. Man doesn’t like the woman who is completely give her self respect for the sake of restoring the lover. So if you want to get back your ex lover, you should not involve in the list of avoidable mentioned above and keep you cool and don’t surrender yourself to him.

To restore the affair with your lover after the space was developed, you have to take some bold steps. It will be tough for you to do, but no other way exists, you have to do those. Make him aware that you are least bothered about the break and you are going forward in your life as usual and the break didn’t halt your life.

Take a voyage to holy places or move out of the town to meet your parents or cousin. Do not try to contact him over phone or inform him about this trip to him.
He may wonder why there is no phone from you and the no clue about your where about will disturb him. This thinking may take him to feel the vacuum because of missing you. Let him to realize the love and your value. Provide some time to happen this. At this critical time, just ring him up and convey that you are welcome the break up and inform your best wishes for his future and disconnect the phone. From that he may get surprised and understand that you can live without him, he wish to reestablish the love with you and voluntarily come to you and will take all the steps to revive the love and starts loving you more.

Qualities of a Good Boyfriend

Do you think you have been a good boyfriend? Are girls/women are good enough to distinguish between a good boyfriend and a bad one? What are the qualities that a boyfriend should possess so that he is considered good? Because, a lot of women make the mistake in differentiating between good and bad boyfriends thus, resulting in distress or despair. Most of the men will really use you than consider you for having a relationship. Thus in order to avoid being hurt it is necessary to know clearly how to identify the good boyfriend from the bad.

I have been analyzing this with some of my friends who gave me their suggestion about what they think, they need in a boyfriend. To my friend Amy, a good boy friend is somebody who trust and helps at any occasion and should be ready to do anything for her any moment. He should also know the small sweet things like getting flowers or cards even there is no special occasion in order to share the love and affection. Also he should be true to you and should be open enough to share anything. According to my friend Jane, who is one step ahead that along with other qualities like honest, loving and caring he should also be good at bed otherwise she thinks it might not work that much well. This might be little exaggerating but still it got some point to consider for a lot of people.

One more friend Lisa said which seems to be more natural to me. As she goes on like this, that he should love me for who I am both inside and outside. And they should never try to dominate or controls you or try to make you act like what they want. To her, most of the boys or men out there, just want to manipulate the girls for sex and nothing more. Initially they will be good and sweet and once they are done with what they are aimed for then they will simply leave us and start looking for some other. Another friend Laura said that he should be genuine and he should be there in the right moment when you think you need him. If he is serious about you then he will do consider about mingling with your family and friends and he should be somebody who should also respect your ideas and never ever try to force you not only in sexual relationship but also in general.

Though there are views of some of my friends, but it still got some general theory about the qualities of a good boyfriend which I hope both the boy and girls became aware now. So to all those men out there who want for sure to get into serious relationship that in general women wish to have the boyfriend to be kind, caring, loving, honest, thoughtful, understanding and gives and takes respect.

You could have heard of the famous song which is like this “girls wanna have fun”, but in truth they really want to be loved and treated with full respect. If you have decided to commit with your girlfriends then love them as it is with all their plus and minus as everybody will have both and make them know how much you love and care for them as this will really flatter them. Thus you can have a nice and happy future with your girlfriend for the rest of the life.