Pass Me Not… I Hope You Don’t, My Love!

Pass Me Not... By Benedict Chidiele

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ust recently (today, September 27^th, actually), I realized that poetry is suddenly becoming a dying art in this part of the world! Long gone are the days when we woo our love interest with the sweet words only good poetry can inspire. Dead are the days when sweet songs are spiced with poetic words and lyrics that it melts our hearts a thousand times over!

10 Keys to an Amazing and Successful Romantic Relationship

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

-          Across the Universe by Beth Revis

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ery often you find yourself in a romantic relationship with that special someone and then wonder how and what you need to do to spice up the flavour and drum up the beat? Truth is: everyone can have an amazing and successful romantic relationship with that special someone if they tried to do the little things well and with more love, tenderness and care. We often think it is the expensive dinners at Sheraton or Eko Hotels, the holiday vacation at Obudu Cattle Ranch or a romantic trip for two to Dubai that speaks “True Love”, but it is the little things you do or fail to do that tells your partner in no equivocal terms, how much you love them and truly care for them. 

10 Reasons Women Stay with a Cheating and Abusive Man (Part 2)

“Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children.”   ― S.M Stirling, Dies the Fire   

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ast time out we took a look into the first five reasons women stay with a cheating and abusive man. That was the first part of the story. Here we conclude the 10 reasons women stay in a cheating and abusive relationship with a man. This second part concludes what has been an enlightening experience for those who can personally or vicariously relate and identify with the problems and issues discussed here. 

10 Reasons Women Stay with a Cheating and Abusive Man (Part 1)

 

“If I treated you the way you treated me, then you would hate me.”

-          Sushan R. Sharma

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ften times you come across a woman who is continually mentally tainted with the failings of a man who repeatedly and blatantly cheats on her and abuses her with little or no regard for her honour or dignity and the sanctity of her life, and yet she stays. She becomes a physical and emotional wreck, devoid of any meaningful esteem and sense of self-worth, and yet she stays. And then you wonder, “Could it be out of love?” 

How to Successfully Manage Anger in Your Relationships

 “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

-          Buddha

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hether it is in your personal or professional relationships, anger in interpersonal relationships can be a stubborn fire whose damage can be really very difficult to quench or put out. Anger can unleash such a terrible wave of destruction that it burns every good thing that once exist down to the very ashes with more destructive elements than the rage of a thousand spreading wild fire.

10 Things You Do That May Ruin Your Relationship

By Benedict Chidiele

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”                                                                    - John Green

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ay too often we take the love and harmony we enjoy in our relationship as a given, and forget that our relationship and love life are to be nurtured and respected. They are to be cultivated and continually watered and ‘manured’ with love, respect, mutual trust and understanding.

How To Build Successful Relationship With Your Partner

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”

                                                         - Joseph F. Newton Men

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uilding successful relationship is not a day’s activity but a life-long process. It’s not something you do in fits and starts, but something you do daily, and with the right attitude. Building successful relationships are the foundations to healthy bodies, sound minds, and gracious and fulfilled spirit. Successful relationships bring about wellbeing of our souls and harmony of our hearts. They are the foundations of true happiness, joy and peace in the world.

How to Know He’s the One to Marry

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."                    - Michel de Montaigne

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very day, ladies are faced with the difficult decision of choosing who’s right for them to marry. Not only are real men scarce in the marital market, but when you finally manage to scramble one out of the bachelorhood battlefield, how do you know he’s the ONE for you? A man may be right for marriage but not right for you.

5 Special Surprises to Give your Love This Christmas

"We loved with a love that was more than love." 

                                                                                                - Edgar Allan Poe

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he sweet smell and feel of Christmas is gradually filling the air with wonderful rings of great expectations. Everyone is slowly but surely getting ready for the festivities of the Yuletide Season. It doesn’t matter your creed or religion, everyone is affected by the celebrations of the Season. But most importantly, Christmas is a time of Love and sharing; a time for building bonds and solidifying bonds.

12 Strong Reasons He Shouldn’t Marry You…Yet. - Part 2

(Continuation from Part 1)

Now, a lot of articles have been written on why he should propose to you, marry you, make you his wife…blah blah blah. Yeah, right. Why shouldn’t he. Both then how often have you asked yourself the question, “Am I right for him?”

12 Strong Reasons He Shouldn’t Marry You…Yet. - Part 1

Now, a lot of articles have been written on why he should propose to you, marry you, make you his wife…blah blah blah. Yeah, right. Why shouldn’t he. Both then how often have you asked yourself the question, “Am I right for him?” “Am I ready for the responsibility been his wife would bring my way?” “Am I deserving of him?” “Am I even a ‘wife material’ (whatever that is)?”

5 Easy Steps To Make Your Man Love You More!

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ver found yourself in situations where you wished he loved you more? Most ladies I know fall into this quagmire more often than not. Can they be chastised for wanting more? Isn’t it within their right to demand for more love and intimacy from their partners? 

How to Get Over that Painful Heartbreak – Part 1

"A broken heart is a heart that has felt love."

-          Unknown

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eing in a romantic relationship can be the best thing to have ever happened to you. The good times, the intimacy, the passionate kisses and amazing love-making, the emotional whirlwind of untold mutual pleasures, the companionship; these are wonders of relationships that make you want it not to ever end. But then like most good things, you and I know relationships do come to an end.  Sometimes, more often than not and much more quickly than it started. Some end in a mutually, less devastating manner.  Others? Well, others could make you consider committing suicide to end your pain and misery.  

Dying Romance

Do we still have true romance in this part of the world? Like seriously, do we still even bother? Sights of quasi romance played out in raunchy beer parlours and 'Ugwa and Isi Ewu' joints all over the place have taken the shine off the once adorned 'Spiritual Romance' our forebears treasured with every fibre of their temporal being.

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

––Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Do we even use such poetic words to describe the love of our life anymore?