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2010 is almost here AND we have a lot to say about new year’s goals and resolutions and here’s why…

If you’re like us you’ve been mulling over your goals, dreams and plans for having the best year ever in 2010 and beyond.

We’ve got some new things we’re going to be telling you about soon but…

As we’ve been thinking about New Year’s and beyond here’s something that shocked us…

We recently saw a list of the 5 top topics that people create goals around for the new year, and it didn’t come as much of a surprise that weight loss was at the top of that list.

But what we thought was weird was that “relationships” wasn’t even on that list.

With all the hub bub this year about cheating and infidelity (and we know this hasn’t ONLY happened this year)–

In our opinion, there is NOTHING more important than your relationships.

The reason we say this isn’t just because we’re relationship coaches and we spend most of our time thinking and writing about relationships…

It’s much more than that…

It’s that if you think about it, everything we do or try to do in life is either about, includes or requires the help of a relationship of some kind.

If you are a parent (or have parents), that’s a relationship.

If you work anywhere, you must develop relationships to be successful in your job.

Governments must form relationships with other government organizations in order to be effective and in harmony with one another.

Even something like an engine in a car must have a “relationship” with the other parts of the car in order to work effectively and efficiently to provide transportation for the owner and passengers of the car.

In our way of looking at things, if you’re going to have something, why not go for the best?

When it comes to your relationships, if you want them to be better than what you have right now, one of the best ways is to continually find ways of improving them–and that starts with intentions and then setting some goals.

In case you’re like us and haven’t written your goals or resolutions for 2010 (or even if you never do it), we would encourage you to include some goals about your relationships.

To help, we’re offering you a few ideas about how you can create growing, more loving, more deeply connected relationships in the new year.

Here are a few ways that have worked for us to keep our relationship close, connected and growing–and we offer them to you…(they’ll work for any type of relationship)

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We’re right in the middle of the holiday season here in the USA and many other parts of the world and not only do we want to wish you a happy holiday…

But we also want to give you something else…

We want to give you a friendly relationship challenge.

We’ll get to the challenge in a moment but first we’d like you to go to this web page and download a copy of the “Magic Relationship Words” you’re going to need to have for the best holiday season ever.

Imagine having over 100 words, phrases and sentence-starters that virtually guarantee that you say it right EVERY time in every situation with your partner, spouse or lover–

Especially here at the holidays…

You’ll want to make sure there aren’t any conflicts that last forever, stonewalling or nasty arguments.

Now for the friendly relationship challenge for you…

If you do this, we think your holidays just could be the best ever.

It will only take a couple of moments…

Here goes…

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Good morning! I’m Anne Scott and I’m an editor at Samhain Publishing. We’ve been around since 2005, and I’ve been here since 2006. I love my job and I’m excited to be entering my fourth year of working for Samhain.

Samhain is an epublisher. Our books come out in digital first. If the book is long enough (somewhere over 50K usually), it is also released in trade paperback ten months later. We publish books with word counts from from 12K to 120K.

While we’re known to some extent as a publisher of erotic romance, we actually publish a complete range of heat levels, from sweet, close-the-door romances to sexy to red-hot. As well as romance and erotica, we publish fantasy and science fiction, as long as they have romantic elements.

One of the great things about epublishing is the versatility it offers. We don’t have a certain number of slots we have to fill with, say, contemporary romance or historical romance—though we definitely love to publish those. We can choose to publish the best stories that come to us, and it doesn’t matter the size (within our 12-120K range) or subgenre. This versatility allows us to publish cross-genre and niche books that might not easily fit at a mainstream publisher, or books that might be difficult to market. That historical set in Africa or that gay futuristic romance set in another galaxy can find a home at Samhain. I love having the freedom to simply buy books that are good

I’ve been busy editing this year and have had a number of different types of books come out in the last third of 2009.

In the cross-genre and niche category, Blood and Roses by Aislinn Kerry is a historical, paranormal gay romance set in Holland. Not easy to pin down in terms of genre, but very evocative and romantic. With vampires.

For science fiction, Happy Snak by Nicole Kimberling is a novel that will be released December 22 in ebook format. There is more than one romance within the book, but the major focus is on the hermaphrodite aliens and the narrator’s developing relationship with them. Excellent sense of humor, wonderful world-building.

But I buy more well-known subgenres too, such as romantic suspense. Beneath the Surface by MJ Fredrick is action-adventure, wherein archeologists on the brink of divorce rebuild their fractured relationship and save each other’s lives while diving off the Yucatan Peninsula.

I wouldn’t want you to think I don’t love to read and buy red-hot romances too. One wonderful example of a straightforward, sexy contemporary is Sami Lee’s Sunset Knight, in which the inexperienced heroine sets out to seduce the playboy hero. It’s a very emotional read.

I’d love to give away a couple of Samhain books. I’ll choose two people who comment below to win their pick of one of the books I’ve described today.

I’d like to take this moment to wish everyone the best in December, and enjoy your coming holidays.

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Sorry I’ve been a bit absent this week, my head was feeling a bit like this:

You see, I let a lot of my hurt from friendships {which are now mended by the way} become an issue in my relationship with Big Kiddo, it allowed for a lot of stress on our relationship. Also, Big Kiddo has been really busy with work and I got lonley. I started getting confused and when that happens I tend to shut down for a while mentally.

I think I am learning the value of compromising. I felt like lately I had been compromising too much, and it caused me to feel angry and neglected. Big Kiddo’s job takes a lot of time, hence I was feeling forgotten. But…I had to make a decision. Do I be supportive and compromise, or lose him? We are trying to work it out, I really love him and want to find a way. He has continued to be there for me, even when he has been busy. I consider our relationship healthy and admire his work ethic.

Right now we only see each other on the weekends…I would like more time. He is going to try and make more time. We will see. He would like me to realize this though, however:

He thinks I should be even more focused on my career…in which I am, but I can’t but help and be a hopeless romantic. Plus my job is only 8-5, his goes beyond the basic working hours because he is working hard for a successful future. I admire that. I would rather be with someone who works hard than someone who does not. I know he is planning for our future. Plus I do have hobbies and interests that can keep me busy, but I also want to spend time with the love of my life. I am sure all of you can relate.

Bottom line, I want my relationship to work. We are both working on compromising.We have given this relationship two years, we are so compatible in so many ways. Our relationship is not perfect, {whose is?} but he is my best friend and I adore him. I don’t want to go through another break up. However I still need to follow my heart and have needs fulfilled.

So…I must know. Those of you who are in relationships, how do learn the value compromise? Sacrificial love? What do you do to be more patient? Especially if someone is in a challenging career, getting a new degree, and has to spend time on their studies.

I struggle with this because I don’t want to get so busy that the world passes me by. But at the same time I want a promising future. Please be kind with your answers, my emotions are a bit fragile these days, lol.

Big Kiddo is self employed, is going to school, and is trying to make time for me and his family. Really hard. I know he tries his best. Hence I am trying to compromise without truly compromising what a relationship means to me if that makes sense.

Anyway…I am feeling so much better today. I am trying to stay positive, because this week I was certainly everything BUT positive.

Thanks for letting me vent. It is Friday, yahoo!!

I can’t wait to catch up on your blogs…
Tonight I am watching New Moon and I have a Team Jacob tee on. Here it is, but mine is in a dark pink color. Ha ha, don’t worry I also love Edward but my friend is wearing a Team Edward Tee so naturally I had to be the opposing side, right?

By the way I am not obsessed with Twilight, ha ha ha, but I did read all of the books and am looking forward to the movie tonight.

Bummer, I missed out on Blessed Friday and Hot or Not this week! Oh well, there is always next week and I am certainly blessed with all of you! XOXO!

Thanks in advance for your time.