Setting Your New Year’s Intentions for Experiencing Great Intimacy

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Setting Your New Year’s Intentions for Experiencing Great Intimacy
By Karinna Kittles-Karsten

Are you ready to experience a great love life this year?

Great intimacy consists of a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual connection shared between two people who both desire and are willing and capable of being great lovers to each other. If you are ready to have such a relationship, then this is a perfect time to set your intentions for having a great love life this year.

If You Are Single:

It is important to know what you want physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in a partner so that you can easily identify the right one for you. Set your intentions to attract your right partner based on your findings.

For instance, your intention may be to have a passionate and meaningful sexual relationship, an easy, emotionally communicative relationship, and/or a strong spiritual relationship sharing your own beliefs, rituals, and practices together.

Also include your personal intentions for growing as the right partner for someone else this year. Your personal intentions can include: more humor, a greater ability to be honest and honor your needs, to feel more confidence with your physical body, and/or to have more fun with your sexual expression.

If You Are in a Relationship:

Intentions can be made on your own, but they can be even more valuable to your relationship if they are made with your partner. Talk about what you would like to enhance in your relationship together.

For instance:
Do you want to create more quality, intimate time with your lover?
Would you like to have more romance or more dates with your lover?
Do you want to have better, more exciting and/or more frequent sexual intimacy?
Do you want to create a spiritual relationship with your lover?
What else would you add to these intentions?
What areas of deeper intimacy in you needs to be developed to make your intentions for your relationship happen?

Make your intentions and then make them a reality with your lover this year!

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About The Author: Karinna Kittles-Karsten is an internationally recognized relationship expert and author of the new best-selling book "Intimate Wisdom, The Sacred Art of Love." Her appearances on TV, radio, and in print has helped millions develop better intimacy and create more satisfying relationships. For more information go to SacredLove.com at: http://www.sacredlove.com/

Does Your Mate Act Like A Baby When Sick?

I know this is just dead a#@! wrong, but my husband acts like a BIG baby when he is sick...and it drives me crazy:)

Well it could be that he acts like a baby or that women (for the most part:) just get up, dust themselves off, and keep it movin' when we are sick. Even when we are really sick. Because you know what? Stuff will not get done if we don't do it!

Whatever your role is in the home...people depend on you to do it. Your husband. Your children. Your pets. Your parents. Your in-laws. The babysitter. The gardener. Whoever.

And let's not even talk about calling out sick from work - forget about it!

So while I know we LOVE our partners and really wish that they didnt' feel so under the weather - when they do - let's take a little pity on ourselves too. Listening to all that complaining, fetching all that soup and orange juice, when we know that when the shoe is on the other foot -- we MAY get mediocre service at best! OR we get pretty good service with an attitude:)

Well ladies -- that's part of survivin' these relationships that we soooo love! In the meantime, slip him some echinacea every morning:)

Would You Date Someone 20 Years Older or Younger?

There are several famous couples who have done it with great success. And thousands more in the "real world" who have done it as well...

What is it?

Dating someone 20 years older or younger.

Does it work? What are the obstacles? Is it really a big deal or no deal at all?

We talked about this topic in the most recent issue of my relationship newsletter - The Better Choices Ezine. Have you subscribed yet? (Go to the pink box to the right:)

What are your thoughts on these types of relationships? Do you have any personal experience of success or failure?


Let's get real...

Should You Avoid Conflict In Your Relationships?

My thoughts on this have long been brewing because I am a naturally combative person. Only verbally of course. But I do love a good debate. So I wonder sometimes if my thinking is a little skewed -- a little biased towards the confrontation. So I thought about it some more and I realized that I love the debate because as a child I was very non-confrontational.

I wanted all my friends to like me and I didn't want any trouble. Now while that is true for most kids -- it doesn't matter when you're living it. I knew even then...that I wasn't in my full power. I didn't like living in this non-confrontational bubble. I felt there were things I wanted to say that were never heard. I didn't have a voice.

So as I grew older and learned to speak up -- I realized that while it didn't solve every problem -- it did do something even more powerful. People heard me. People listened. People remembered me. And soon...people began to respect me for that. Your opinion...your thoughts... is all you have at the end of the day.

So to hold them back. To stifle them. To keep them locked up at the very bottom of your throat -- is not good. And probably can lead to all sorts of health problems if you ask me!

While I don't want to go out here and ruin anyone's marriage -- I also know that you need to think about the quality of that union if you are incapable of listening to the truth or at least someone's truth. If your relationship - your life is really "all that", you should be able to hear it all and then react like a normal human being -- not a stepford wife!

Live in truth...as much as you can...that's all I'm saying:)