by Bliss Darling | May 29, 2020 | Love, Marriage, Q&A, Relationship
My dear friends – I’ve been getting a lot of questions over the last few days about specific relationship challenges. These tend to be common issues, so I thought to share them with you. I hope reading these help you, as well. Margaret (not her real name)...
by Bliss Darling | Apr 20, 2020 | Connection, Emotion, Relationship
As we often say around here, vulnerability is the key to connection. And yet, our egos can get in the way to prevent us from bearing our souls. It’s natural – who really wants to be exposed to the possibility of hurt? However, it is with great leaps, that we can...
by Bliss Darling | Apr 15, 2020 | Bliss, Improvement, Stress
Hello my gorgeous friends. How are you feeling in these unusual times? Strike that – the heaviness of this pandemic, as well as the resulting concerns for our health, our loved ones, and our jobs can be a lot to manage. It’s all a completely understandable...
by Bliss Darling | Mar 23, 2020 | Love, Relationship
Hello my darling friends, I have been thinking of you all. I began writing this last week, while tending to my own family, and it’s incredible how much bigger things have gotten in a short amount of time. This coronavirus is creating all sorts of disruption, and many...
by Bliss Darling | Mar 3, 2020 | Bliss, Emotion, Happiness, Improvement, Love, Marriage, Relationship
It was an incredible dose of reality. “Do you realize how much you complain?” He couldn’t have been talking about me; I was the optimist, the happy-go-lucky, ray of sunshine! Since I was a baby, I have always woken up smiling. How could he have known me for all of...
by Bliss Darling | Feb 27, 2020 | Love, Marriage, Relationship
The conversation of vulnerability comes up so often in our group discussions that I felt it was an important and meaningful topic to address. So many relationship challenges can be traced back to our fear of vulnerability. Naturally so, because many of us learned to...
by Bliss Darling | Feb 18, 2020 | Connection, Divorce, Love, Marriage, Relationship
Trauma affects everyone a little differently, and divorce is no exception. I remember reading that recovery from divorce is estimated at half the years of the marriage; if you were married for ten years, for example, your likely recovery time would be five years after...
by Bliss Darling | Feb 13, 2020 | Connection, Emotion, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Relationship
Will you be my Valentine? Today is my birthday. The day before Valentine’s. As my father and friends who have birthdays near Christmas might say, they always felt, well, a bit cheated. Combination Birthday / Christmas gifts were commonplace. It was indeed rare that...
by Bliss Darling | Jan 23, 2020 | Bliss, Love
Isn’t it funny, at the start of the new year, we gather our thoughts and put together plans and goals for the upcoming year – then, around now, some three or four weeks in, we start to slide back into our old ways. We have good intentions, but we haven’t created...
by Bliss Darling | Jan 10, 2020 | Bliss, Emotion, Happiness, Love
Here at Bliss Darling, we talk a lot about understanding. Learning to understand our own motivations – what and why we do the things we do, as well as discovering our guys’ motivations, and getting behind what inspires them to act – it gives us so much...
