June 26, 2010

Today, 45 years later, we remain committed, continue to have dreams – and love is still alive.   We have grown together while encouraging and supporting each other in our separate endeavors.   Our family now includes two precious granddaughters.

Neither of us would pretend that there have not been difficult moments during the years.  That is part of  life.  And marriage is a relationship; it  takes commitment, understanding and dedication on both sides to flourish.

We celebrated this 45th wedding anniversary with a simple barbecue among friends and family, people who share our values and rejoice with us in the blessings of the moment.  Each of them has played a positive role in our lives over the years.

45 years is neither the beginning nor the end.  However it is a happy event to celebrate.

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Body Clock Is Ticking Faster – And Still No Right Partner

What To Do?

Enlist your friends and family: Let your friends and family help you.  Sure, you’ll meet some frogs… but you may meet your prince..ess…  (No reason for all frogs worth kissing to be men!)  I know, it takes courage as well as confidence and age-esteem to do this, but you have to act on your goal.

• Ask your friends to help you.  And don’t be shy about sharing the values and qualities Right Partner must share with you.
• Accept to meet the person who they want to introduce with them.  Double date with the friends who set you up or go out with a group of friends.   Be game to try something new like riding a Segway through the city…
• Find out how others have met.  It can lead to new avenues of ideas.  -  It may be worth testing a dating service or to join chat rooms on line.

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Body Clock Is Ticking Faster – And Still No Right Partner.
What To Do?

Define “Partner Right”: This is the person you will commit to and who would be the parent of your children.  Research your own heart and mind to know what kind of person you want to share your life.

• Seriously think about your own values.  What is most important to you?  Write these values where you can see them regularly.
• What qualities and values are important for this person to share?  You want to share mutual respect with this person and be proud to raise children together.  What qualities and values are essential for this?
• Make a vision board to represent Partner Right.  Use pictures, words and objects such as an opera ticket or invitation to an event, anything that represents an aspect of the ideal person.  The goal is to picture the interests, values and personality as well as any important physical qualities.  Keep this vision board where you see it.   Add to it, and refer to it regularly.  Imprint it in your mind.

Now step out with personal confidence and age-esteem knowing that you and Partner Right will find each other.

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Live your values: Does it surprise you to find values at the heart of beauty?  Our values are the basis of who we are, our inner essence.  Living in harmony with our values is crucial to freeing our inner beauty and enhancing our age-esteem.

• List 20 values that are important to you.  What couldn’t you live without? – honesty, money, love, adventure, family, harmony?  Prioritize the top 10.

• How are these values present in your life today?  Are some absent?  Are there conflicts between your job or relationships and your values?

• Plan how to build your values into your life more.

Your inner essence, and therefore your beauty, depends on living in harmony with your values.

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