Positive Eye Contact Quality time should include loving eye contact. Looking in your child’s eyes with care is a powerful way to convey love from your heart to the heart of your child. Studies have sh...
Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.
One way to express love emotionally is to use words that build up. Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, The tongue has the power of life and death.2 Many couples have never...
It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger.
Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of...
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
Your child, like a flower, will benefit from your love. When the water of love is given, your child will bloom and bless the world with beauty. Without that love, she will become a wilted flower, begg...
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language, the more comfortable we become conversing in it. If we speak on...
Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love.
The desire for reconciliation is often more potent than the desire for justice. The more intimate the relationship, the deeper the desire for reconciliation.
Genuine service demands that we speak the truth in love. We do not serve each other by avoiding one another’s weaknesses.
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our l...
Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day.
A soft answer turns away anger.
Write a love letter, a love paragraph, or a love sentence to your spouse, and give it quietly or with fanfare! You may someday find your love letter tucked away in some special place. Words are import...
When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. —Psalm 94:19
What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.
Third, one who is in love is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. If we have any purpose in mind when we fall in love it is to terminate our own loneliness an...
Sometimes loving means giving. — Carol Russell —