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Relationships in Times of Crisis: Can you Save your Relationship Before it Goes into Recession?
If you are worried about the financial crisis, then you now have one more thing to be worried about: you might not only lose your money, you could also lose your love.
If the financial crisis affects you, the result can be a relationship in crisis. Even the greatest love can take a hit in financially difficult times. Many couples are currently experiencing a relationship in crisis, caused by the global financial crisis. Relationship counsellors, divorce lawyers, and real estate agents all confirm the sad trend. Summer should be the time for sun, love, and happiness, but at the moment more couples are fighting and even separating than celebrating a summer wedding. There’s a clear correspondence between the financial crisis and relationships in crisis and that connection is most clearly visible in the pace where all the trouble began.
You might remember the Wallstreet Wives who made headlines last year with their support group Dating A Banker Anonymous. According to their blog, „DABA is a safe place where women can come together – free from the scrutiny of feminists- and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown has affected their relationships.“
But not only bankers’ relationships are affected by the financial crisis. During financially secure times, the love and marriage industry booms. In safe times, you marry your partner, buy a house, and have children. But not now – the number of weddings is down from previous years. A relationship in crisis is the first visible effect of financial worries eating away at a couple’s personal resources. This leads to quarrels at home, already existing issues will surface, issues that have been glossed over will erupt and cause trouble. Read more
Need Help with the Ladies? Old Spice Relationship Advice is not as Old Fashioned as you Think!
Relationship Advice from Old Spice? Why on earth is my Grandad’s after shave giving out relationship advice, you ask? Well, first there was the new, pretty cool Old Spice ads, that let you know that the Old Spice man is a pretty cool dude – and that it was only a matter of time before men would want to be him and women would want to be with him.
Mission accomplished, you might say – I no longer think that Old Spice smells like old man, I think it smells like this sexy, muscular man and yes, I do want to look – or at least smell – like him.
But that’s not all from the new Old Spice man. He’s also dishing out relationship advice to twitter users. For example, he explains how to get as close as humanly possible to looking like himself: Read more
The 4 Great Advantages of Living in a Relationship
We talk about love week after week, about how easy it can be to find a partner through online matchmaking and how that special person can change your life. But we usually take it for granted that our readers know the advantages of living in a relationship – and that they want that for themselves, too. Today we are going to list the advantages of living in a relationship, just in case you don’t know them yet.
Living with a relationship is, in short, full of advantages and benefits. We are used to articles telling us about the unavoidable problems that living together brings with it: sealing with a messy partner, lifestyles clashing, arguments about the remote control… However it is not common to talk about the advantages of living together in a relationship, because we just accept them as normal. Read more
Facebook and Dating: The New Relationship Rules
At first glance, Facebook and dating look like a great combination. You can connect with a person you met on a night out without all that pesky “can I get your number” business. If you know their name or if they are friends with your friends, you can look them up and send them a friend request. Once that is done, you can cyber-stalk away…
Facebook and dating combined let you find out a potential date’s likes and dislikes, see where they hang out, which parties and concerts they will be going to. You can even trace their Facebook and dating history by scanning their wall for posts from exes!
Once you are sure that Facebook has told you enough about this potential date, you can try dating for real. Then, when you get past the dating stage, Facebook allows you to make your relationship official, leaving little room for ambiguity. Once a person’s relationship status changes, you know where you stand.
BUT, you guessed it, there is a downside to Facebook and dating, which we is why we have compiled a few rules that any single should take to heart if they want to combine Facebook and dating.
Facebook and Dating: 5 relationship rules for social media
- The first relationship rule is one that counts for any actions on Facebook, but especially for dating: If you wouldn’t tell your parents about it, don’t share it on Facebook. For most people (depending on your family) that means no drunk party pics, no lewd sex jokes, no embarrassing fan pages. If you stick to that rule, you don’t have to worry about a potential date being put off by your Facebook profile. Read more
Blog Action Day: Fight Climate Change “twogether”
This year’s Blog Action Day is focused on climate change and blogs around the world are contributing their own view on climate change and what could be done to prevent it.
As a blog on love, relationships and matchmaking, we would like to look at the effects of people living as singles vs. living in a relationship on climate change. Living “twogether” in a relationship is far more eco-friendly than living alone, so any couple living together – even without much of a green attitude – is doing more to fight climate change than a single person with the greenest intentions.
Here’s how couples contribute to the fight against climate change:
- A shared home is more environmentally friendly than individual households. A couple requires less space than two singles, which means less building, less land claimed for residential development, less CO2 emissions from construction work.
- Couples can save on heating, as they share a living space that only needs to be heated once. Also, don’t overrate the effect of body heat when you cuddle up in bed
Who needs an electric blanket, when they have the one they love to keep them warm at night? Read more
