Archive for June, 2009
Your Love Guide – Do You Know How To Develop 3 Qualities Of Happy Couples?
What you see will be. If you don’t see a happy road ahead with your romantic partner, it’s time to shift your outlook and interactions. Couples can experience greater happiness when you use these 3 simple skills to enhance the quality and happiness in their romantic relationship.
3 Qualities of Happy Couples
1. Getting Good At Letting Go
Unforgiveness is the cause of most dis-ease and unhappiness in relationships. It’s also is the root of many health issues. The antidote is forgiveness.
Instead of lugging around your heavy resentment, anger, and negative feelings against your partner or yourself, you can leave that old baggage behind you with a simple act of forgiveness.
You don’t forgive and forget. You forgive and remember how you rose above past disappointments or trauma with a resilient, optimistic attitude that frees you to see and bring out the best in each other.
This resilient optimism frees you to see challenges as a chance for positive change and personal growth. Once this growth occurs, be thankful that the challenge has served its purpose and it is easy to let it go.
2. Living Your Dreams Now
When you keep your song unsung inside you as a couple or individual, you often feel a deep frustration that stifles happiness and steals joy. You can choose to sing your song and live your dreams now when you flip your thought switch from stress and fear to gratitude and loving actions.
Happy couples feel thankful for each day and find joy in their daily work and special hobbies. You may not love the work that pays the bills, but you can do it with a loving heart.
Happy couples feel excitement in their future plans and take action each day to realize their dreams.
You show affection and express appreciation each day for the things your partner does to help you fulfill your dream of love.
If you feel bogged down by disappointments and unable to imagine happy progress or feel inner contentment and love, you may need to seek professional help. Once you grow through your struggles with depression and disappointment, you will overcome emotional blocks that stop you from loving freely and living your dreams now.
3. Staying Connected
Feeling isolated, overlooked and disconnected from your partner or from your own emotions, hopes or dreams can make it difficult for you to experience happiness.
Most humans feel a primal need to bond in meaningful, loving ways with other people. Happy couples reach out and build loving bridges in their intimate partnership and in supportive relationships with family and friends.
If you are suffering the pain of being disconnected, an antidote is to reach out and make a connection each day. Offer a loving act of kindness to your partner, to a stranger or a long-lost friend, and notice the joy that arises.
Be loving and kind to yourself, by becoming your own best friend. Healthy self love frees you to extend a loving hand to your intimate partner and open the door for happiness in your romantic relationship.
Your Love Guide – Do You Want to Break Up With Your Past and Have a Love Affair With the Present?
When you feel like your past is weighing you down and blocking your joy right now, you can choose to leave your old baggage behind and start fresh. Or you can stay stuck in pain over lost love, career setbacks, unresolved issues or unhealed trauma from childhood. If you want to get unstuck and start fresh, I invite you to take these 3 steps right now:
Break Up With Your Past And Begin A Love Affair With Your Present In 3 Steps:
Step 1. Remove Your Veil Of Grief
There is no official timetable for grieving past traumas, or lost love, hopes, dreams. How long will you cloud your view of the beauty around you by looking through a dark veil of grief?
You may feel fleeting urges to remove your dark veil and regain clarity in your view of life and love. What’s stopping you? Identify the love block and leave it behind like a heavy, worn out suitcase.
Now you are ready to remove your dark veil. You can do this metaphorically in your imagination, or by conducting an unveiling ceremony in front of dear friends and family who want to help you see and feel the glorious light again.
Step 2. Burn Up Your Pain
First, gather your fuel to make the fire. Tear notebook pages into long strips. On each strip, you will:
*Write down a painful memory, past trauma, or lingering negative emotion
*Jot down names of people who harmed you and name their harmful acts: betrayal, lies, physical or mental
cruelty, abandonment, neglect, etc. You may want to say or shout these things out loud as you write
*List things that you regret saying, doing or things that you failed to do
Now you’re ready to build your fire when you stack these paper strips in a fire-proof container or fireplace.
Then light a match on the paper strips and watch your past negativity and pain burn up in flames. When the smoke clears, you are ready for the third and final step.
Step 3. Burn In The Fire Of Love
We are born with a resilient optimism that unites us and helps us rise from the ashes and bounce back from any heartbreak. The secret is to keep that spirit alive, with a little help from supportive friends and positive outlook and actions.
Whenever you need a nudge into the Fire Of Love, you may want to take a look at these song lyrics:
Hearts are meant to be broken
Tears are meant to be shed
Pain and sorrow left unspoken
Armors your heart, your heart in lead
Hearts are meant to break open
Suffer loss, now and again
So in sorrow, flow with emotion
To reach the banks of joy again
Please forgive me my misdeeds
Trust that you are good enough
Hearts bounce back from break ups
Let’s burn in the fire of love
Let’s burn in the fire of love
Hearts are meant to soften
Admit your fears, find your grace
It takes strength to show your weakness
Let’s burn in the fire of love
Let’s burn in the fire of love — Fire Of Love
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Stop Jealousy by Getting Rid of Your "Jealousy Ear Worm"
Last week, we took a much needed day off and the two of us–along with Otto’s son –took a “road trip” to Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to see the Bruce Springsteen exhibit.
With all the music being played and exhibits that had music in them, we certainly came home with our share of “ear worms” …
If you’re not familiar with what an ear worm is…
It’s a song that gets in your head and plays over and over–and over.
You usually can’t get rid of it until you exorcise it by listening to another song or in some cases actually listening to a recording of the song that’s been driving you crazy–or you get focuses on something else.
For us, Bruce Springsteen songs often become ear worms.
While there’s nothing wrong with them, it can get annoying to have the same song playing over and over in your mind until you do something about it to change your focus.
An ear worm doesn’t have to be a song.
It can be something that someone says to you–usually it’s something critical that you’ve taken in and repeated over and over to yourself until you believe it.
For example, someone might make an off-handed remark about your hair and it stays with you all that day and can even run your life for years!
You might be wondering right now what a “jealousy ear worm” is…
Character Development: On Being Human by Belinda McBride
Character Development: On Being Human by Belinda McBride
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
That’s been running around in my brain for awhile, not so much the concept of forgiveness, but the nature of being human. It’s had me a little puzzled, because frankly, the bulk of my writing revolves around people who aren’t human. I write about fallen angels and Fae, werewolves and aliens, and the few humans that make it onto my pages tend to be extraordinary in some way. Why worry about their humanity?
Years ago, I had the opportunity to meet Majel Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek pioneer Gene Roddenberry. She was an extraordinarily sweet woman, and in a talk she gave, she shared something with us that Gene insisted on during the creation of Star Trek. It was a little piece of trivia that stuck with me and guides much of what I write even now.
Star Trek is full of people of various races, creeds, and even species. Some of the aliens are extraordinary in appearance, but Gene insisted on something in particular. No matter how outrageous the alien, it must have human eyes in order for the viewer to relate to the character.
As a writer, I paint pictures with words. My task is to draw a character that the reader can connect with. Whether the character is an alien or an angel, it’s my goal to bring out human elements such as jealousy and lust, compassion, charity and love. I strive to bring out the humanity in every character.
In reading Soul Keeper, you might not like the centaur shifter Kendra, but she’ll make you angry and frustrated at her bad behavior, just like that cheerleader you knew in high school. You might also get a peek at Kendra’s inner fears and desires. She’s not human, but oddly enough, she is. In Belle Starr, alpha were Armand de le Croix is outwardly confident and in control, but has doubts and fears that no one but the reader will share. And Annie Tanaka in Dragon’s Blood is a cop, strong and competent, but every day she rides a boat to work, fighting her phobia of the water as she does so.
Developing a character for a story is a process of taking a flat, undeveloped name and physical description, and bringing them off the page, complete with strengths, fears and quirks. There are countless methods of doing character development using charts, index cards and storyboarding. I have to confess, I’m not that organized. I just jot out notes as I write.
On occasion, I will skim photos online, looking for a physical inspiration. Other times I sit at the computer, staring at a blank page and letting the character take shape in reaction to the situation, or to their hero/heroine. As a general rule, I start a separate page and list their names, physical description, and then a list of questions about the character: What do they like to eat? What is their secret shame, their kinks, their greatest joy and their greatest fear? Their addictions? What is the worst thing you can do to that character? Those details are where you draw your conflicts from.
So in Belle Starr, the worst thing that could happen to Belle and Armand happened. She became pregnant, uncertain what sort of child her hybrid genes would produce. And Armand regained his memories, pulling him away from his lover and into the demands of his pack. Her conflict was internal, his was external.
You want your characters to have depth, to be complete, rounded humans. And like your friends and family, you will anticipate their reactions to a given situation, and on occasion, they will take you by surprise. Whether you are a plotter or a pantster, intimate knowledge of your characters will keep the story moving. You will be less likely to get stranded in the middle of the story, because even if the story stalls, the characters will want to continue forward.
Belinda McBride is a multi-published author of erotic romance. To find out more about Belinda and her books, visit www.belindamcbride.com
Now available at Loose Id: Belle Starr!
Blurb: Marshal Annabelle “Cowgirl” Oakley is the best law enforcement officer in Interstellar Coalition Enforcement. With her wolf Tucker at her side, Belle is clearly the best man for the job. Unfortunately, the job comes with hazards, and one of those hazards comes in the shape of tall, mysterious Armand.Armand de le Croix is a werewolf with amnesia. He has no idea how he came to be living in Coalition space, he doesn’t know where his people are, or why his inky black hair is now snowy white. He just knows that the tall dangerous redhead is all that he wants, and he means to have her regardless of what he must do to win.When they meet, it’s magic. When they part, it’s mayhem.http://www.loose-id.com/prod-Belle_Starr-934.aspxNow available at Changeling Press: Bad Angels: Falling
Blurb:Just what exactly happens when an angel goes bad?Stripped of his voice, his memories, and his divinity, Rion Hunter falls to Earth in a fiery blaze. After crashing into a muddy sheep pasture in
Scotland, the disgraced angel finds himself face-to-face with an unlikely rescuer: a sidhe-born farmer named Rex.
Rex finds himself rapidly falling for the beautiful angel, which can be risky when the object of your affection just might be psychotic. And if that isn’t enough, the men find that they’ve come to the attention of a ravenous succubus, who has developed an appetite for Scottish farmers.
Falling isn’t so bad… it’s the landing that hurts.
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Bollywood Romance
A few years ago, as I was wrapping up my first class on romance fiction, an Indian American student told me that she had loved these novels partly because they reminded her of Bollywood movies. When I told her that I’d never seen one, she was shocked–and, that summer, emailed me a list of some of her favorites.
Because I’m lucky enough to live in a suburb with a large South Asian population–my son’s best friend is from Nepal, for example–all my wife and I had to do was swing by the public library. There they were, in the “Foreign” section: row after row of films with heretofore inscrutable names like Kal Ho Naa Ho and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, all but a few with subtitles, most of them long enough to watch over a couple of evenings, often with a marked “intermission” halfway through.
That summer, we went on a Bollywood binge. Night after night, after the kids went to bed, we’d stay up watching gorgeous men and women in (mostly) glamorous settings–not just India, but in immigrant communities from New York City (Kal Ho Naa Ho) to Melbourne, Australia (Salaam Namaste). We fell in love with the songs and dances, many with dizzying changes of costume and setting over the course of the number. We got used to the dizzying changes of mood in a single film: not just comedy and drama, but winks of self-parody, tear-jerking sentiment, and the broadest of slapstick humor. Everything on our list was a love story, although the rules of engagement–especially the behavior these plots allowed their heroines–took a little getting used to.
By the fall, the binge had petered out–but it left a mark on our iPod and conversation. And a few months ago, when we signed up for Netflix and Roku, the streaming movie service, we started watching Bollywood again, this time as a family affair.
First came Chak de India!, a wonderful feminist drama about the Indian women’s field hockey team and its coach, played by the legendary Shahrukh Kahn. My son loved the sports angle; my daughter, the girl power message, and the rocking soundtrack; my wife…well, I did mention Shahrukh, right? Next was Om Shanti Om, whose reincarnation / mystery / revenge / love story plot and echoes of older movies reminds me a little of Kenneth Branagh’s Dead Again, but with more humor and a fistful of amazing dance numbers. It’s also contributed lots of catch phrases to our family lexicon, including “What the fish?” and (finger snap) “Dream Sequence!” and, of course, the movie’s big quotable motto: “If it isn’t a happy ending, then the movie isn’t over yet.”
Our latest favorite is a movie set in Amristar, the Punjabi city you might have seen in Bride and Prejudice. It’s called Rab Ne Bana di Jodi, which means something like “A Couple Made by God,” and its plot draws on all sorts of tropes familiar to romance readers : the abrupt marriage of convenience (in this case, to please a father); courtship under a secret identity; healing and redemption through love. Again there’s the mix of sentiment and humor, subtle and broad; again there are lots of winks and inside jokes that I’m actually starting to get. What really wows me in the movie, though, is that it’s a version of Inspirational romance, but with a very different version of religious faith and its relationship to romantic love. My favorite song in the movie, “Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai” (”In You I See God / Oh, What Shall I Do?”), features our hero by turns in a temple (Hindu? Sikh? I’m not sure), then a church, then a mosque, singing a hymn to his wife the whole time. I don’t know if that’s anything special to an Indian viewer–there’s a similar ecumenical theme in another film I liked, the historical epic Jodha Akhbar–but I’ll tell you, it blew me away and has been haunting me ever since.
I don’t know if every romance reader will like these movies as much as I have, but they’re a reminder that romance is a global phenomenon, and there’s a world of love stories out there. To help you get started, I’ve listed a few of my family’s favorites already–and if you want more, here’s the list my student gave me all those years ago, with her notes and a few of mine.
Enjoy!
The ones I’ve talked about: Chak de India!, Om Shanti Om, Rab Ne Bana di Jodi, Jodha Akhbar
My ex-student’s list:
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) “Sweet love triangle between friends”–my kids loved this one, and it’s my son’s friend’s favorite
Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenga (1995) “(classic romance plot, bit of violence too)”
Lagaan: Once Upon Time in India (2001) (takes place in colonial India, more of a historical romance)–a lots of great patriotic themes mixed in with a cricket sports plot that you can, I promise, follow without knowing anything about cricket!
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) “(the one that takes place in New York) (funny as well)” –but also a tearjerker!
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). “Aishwarya Rai is in it. It’s a good example of patriarchal love evolving into companionate love.”
Mohabbatein (2000)–more melodramatic, and more about the men than the heroine
Hum Tum (2004) “(like an Indian version of When Harry Met Sally)”
Dil Chahta Hai (2001) “(follows the love lives of three men)”
Baghban (2003) “(follows the love story of a couple who is older) (my mom’s favorite, she highly recommends it!)”–this one I haven’t seen yet myself, but I’ll pass it along!
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Persuasion, the Cobb and Louisa Musgrove
I’ve been to Lyme Regis very recently – I always love going because I know it is a place that Jane Austen visited often and really took to her heart.
…the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which in the season is animated with bathing-machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger’s eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better. The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest-trees and orchards of luxuriant growth declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again to make the worth of Lyme understood..
Part of Jane’s book Persuasion was inspired by the town – the dramatic turn of events when Louisa Musgrove jumps from the Cobb is a turning point in the book for our heroine Anne Elliot.
There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa: she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth. In all their walks he had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation was delightful to her. The hardness of the pavement for her feet made him less willing upon the present occasion; he did it, however. She was safely down, and instantly to shew her enjoyment, ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He advised her against it, thought the jar too great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain, she smiled and said, “I am determined I will”: he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by half a second, she fell on the pavement on the Lower Cobb, and was taken up lifeless! There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death. The horror of that moment to all who stood around!
Far from running up these steps myself I found it quite terrifying – descending from the top is the scariest way down especially when there is a gale howling! Walking along the top of the Cobb is exhilarating but even in fine weather there seems to be a good chance of getting blown off – not for the faint hearted!
Jane Odiwe
Illustration by Philip Gough
Don’t Tempt Me
Behind The Veil
by Loretta Chase
Zoe Lexham, the heroine of my latest book, DON’T TEMPT ME, has spent twelve years in a harem. The harem was/is by nature a secret place, but here are some things I learned:
1. Brazilian wax a must. According to HAREM: THE WORLD BEHIND THE VEIL, “It was considered a sin to have hair on one’s private parts…The women removed hair not only from their legs and underarms, but from all body crevices, even nostrils and ears.
They spread themselves with a burning paste, which was later scraped off with the sharp edges of mussel shells.” A later version of the paste (still used in some parts of the world today) is made with sugar and lemon. Elsewhere, hot beeswax was used. Tweezing, too, for those tricky spots.
2. Sleep your way up the corporate ladder. A large harem was like a corporation. The CEO would be the top woman (the Sultana, in Turkey), with the equivalents of vice presidents and managers and administrative assistants and so on down the line to the lowest level slaves. With status came jewels and nice clothes, better quarters, more servants, and power (including over the master).
A slave who’d mastered the arts of pleasing men–music and dancing, reciting poetry, and, of course, sex–might be freed and become a pasha’s wife. Or she could become the master’s concubine and work her way up the corporate hierarchy. It definitely paid to develop one’s erotic skills.
3. Eunuchs are complicated. Not everyone realizes that loss of reproductive parts doesn’t necessarily mean loss of desire. This would explain why many eunuchs were moody: Surrounded by beautiful women whose lives are dedicated to sex, these men can feel lust and love while lacking the equipment for the follow-through. But there were different kinds of eunuchs; not all lacked the equipment, and even those who did were able to satisfy women.
Some eunuchs of a great household were simply servants for the men, while others served and guarded the harem. They, too, had a hierarchy. In the harem, the chief eunuch was an extremely powerful man.
4. European girl kidnapped, sold into harem slavery–really? Yes. I found a documented case. Aimee DeBucq de Rivery, a cousin of Josephine de Beauharnais (Napoleon’s first wife) was kidnapped and ended up in a harem. She was 21 at the time, fresh out of convent school.
Here’s one of the less fantastical paintings of a harem. Though it’s later in the 19th Century–and imaginary, since Lewis wouldn’t have been allowed into a harem–the interior corresponds to drawings of early 19th Century Egyptian interiors.
Click Here and you can take a tour of the Topkapi Palace–on whose harem the lesser ones (like my imaginary one in Egypt) are modeled.
And, yes, more is unveiled in my book. Meanwhile…
Is there anything else you’ve ever wanted to know about harems? Is it your idea of heaven or hell? A place to visit or to live in? If you were in Zoe’s or Aimee’s shoes, what do you think you’d do?
Birth of a Romance Hero
By Debra Mullins
What makes a romance hero? Well, you take a hunky man, add a dash of danger, a smidgen of sexiness and a streak of kindness…mix well, then insert into book.
I wish it were that easy.
One of the reasons I love writing romance is because of the hero. What woman doesn’t love to fall a little bit in love with a guy who is protective, strong, vulnerable, loyal, kind-hearted, smart and has a great sense of humor? He might be dashingly handsome or homely-yet-attractive, but it’s the heart of the hero that captures us as readers. We cheer for him even as he makes mistakes. We want him to be worthy of our heroine.
When I create a hero, it usually starts with an emotion. Whether I get the inspiration from a song or a movie or some other place, it starts with that intangible feeling, whether good or bad. It might be that the hero has to learn to deal with the bad emotion or that he has to learn how to earn the good one. That’s where the heart of the hero lies.
In my new book, TO RUIN THE DUKE, the hero is trying to avoid feeling the pain of the recent loss of his wife and unborn child. Especially the unborn child. Yet in order to grow as a person, he needs to deal with these emotions. So how better to make him do that than to bring in the heroine, who shows up with a baby on his doorstep?
Watching Wylde resist the lure of the innocent baby—a child the heroine insists is his, though he knows it’s not—tugs at the heartstrings even as we watch him ruthlessly track down the man who has been impersonating him all over London. The heroine—who was friends with the baby’s mother before her death in childbirth—is determined to make sure Wylde takes responsibility for his child. She does not believe his protestations of innocence.
The one thing Wylde always wanted was a family of his own. He desperately wishes his son had not died. And now here is another little boy who needs a home, a son everyone believes is his yet isn’t. Wylde can hardly bear to be near the child because it reminds him so painfully of what he lost. He is tormented by the situation, yet being a good guy he does not turn Miranda and the baby out into the street. He provides for them until he can discover who the father is—especially since it might very well be the same man he has been hunting down.
The thing that makes a great hero is a man who doesn’t get going when the going is rough. Wylde sticks around despite his personal torment. He does the right thing by helping Miranda, who has nowhere else to go. And forced to deal with his own dark emotions, he eventually does find peace with the situation.
Does he make mistakes? Sure. Does his personal torment sometimes make him act less than noble? Of course. But he learns from all of his missteps. He immediately regrets his actions and seeks to make amends. And this turns him into the man the heroine can fall in love with.
This turns him into a hero.
Romance heroes linger in our minds because they are the men who prove themselves worthy of love. By finding the courage to show their vulnerabilities and their strengths, they open up their hearts…and steal ours.
Who are some of the heroes who linger in your memory?
Bravo Hollywood – Two Summer Films May Seduce Sexy, Smart,Successful Grownups Into The Theater
Millions of savvy adults are staying away from the movie theater because the mindless, soulless, heartless content of current films isn’t worth the cost of a babysitter, popcorn and a coke. Your boycott may end happily. Hollywood may seduce sexy, smart, successful film lovers back into the theater with two summer films for grownups:
Care for a few lessons in French cuisine while you chew on the delicious life story of legendary chef, Julia Child?
In JULIE & JULIA, brain dame Meryl Streep portrays the saucy French chef who won our hearts with her recipes and joi de vivre. Amy Adams co-stars as Julie Powell, who blogs about the recipes perfected 4 decades earlier by Julia Child.
This film is directed by infinitely wise and entertaining Nora Ephron. Make a date for its summer debut in theaters on August 7, 2009.
Curious about what the late French Author Collette knew about Cougars and their Boy Cubs?
CHERI is an adaptation of two novels by Colette, written long before those predatory terms were used to describe relationships between older women and younger men who love them.
Michelle Pfeiffer stars as a courtesan who loves a much younger man (Rupert Friend). Ms. Pfeiffer returns to theaters as CHERI on June 26, 2009. Let’s join her and show hearty support for Hollywood’s bold risk of making films starring women of a certain age.
Did you notice that these two summer films were inspired by legendary French women? Traditionally, French women are seen through the eyes of love and revered as they mature in power and passion like fine wine.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if this spirit caught on in our youth-obsessed America?
Bravo Hollywood for offering two inspiring summer films for grownups. Take your friends with you to the theater to savor these summer treats. Millions of ticket sales may be the only signal that encourages Hollywood to continue making films about the great adventures and personal triumphs of women of a certain age.
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Dedicated to your dating and relationship happiness,
Hadley Finch
