Date Night : Is it a Fling or Love?

Two young people on a date.

Over the years, Stephanie Pawlak has had her fair share of dating experiences. Some turned out great, others weren’t so great. Pawlak believes that relationships are meant to be fun, exciting, and full of laughter. She now helps men and women become confident, attractive, and successful in their romantic relationships at her site https://flingorlove.com

Pawlak is upfront when it comes to dating and asked a very common question from singles:

Does dating someone mean you are in a relationship?

After studying the topic Pawlak realized many people dwell over the steps of a relationship rather than let it happen naturally.

Does Dating Mean You’re In A Relationship? Is There A Difference?

When Pawlak was young, dating meant being exclusive and telling her girlfriends in high school who she was dating. Now dating is complicated. Relationships now feel like a lifetime commitment and people who want that are shamed for wanting it. So how do you protect yourself from getting hurt? 

Read more to learn about the difference between dating and relationships.
Stephanie Pawlak is Chief Editor and Romantic Blogger of FlingorLove, a website focused on helping people feel confident, attractive, and successful in their romantic relationships.

Stephanie Pawlak is Chief Editor and Romantic Blogger of FlingorLove, a website focused on helping people feel confident, attractive, and successful in their romantic relationships.

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New study: 55% Say emotional bond is cheating | Ashley Madison

survey on emotional cheating surveyed by dating website Ashley Madison

New data from Ashley Madison examines what types of behavior members of the dating website consider to be unfaithful. Why? Technology and social media have increased the opportunities people have to connect and reconnect, blurring the traditional lines of monogamy. Moreover, the data suggests it is the emotional component of an outside relationship, which can be as simple as chatting, that cheaters feel is most deceitful.

Emotional Cheating Survey

According to the survey, most members (55%) believe forming a deep emotional bond with someone else is considered the most unfaithful form of cheating, outside of sexual acts. Other top actions considered to be cheating include:

  • 46% believe sending naked pictures to someone other than his or her partner
  • 44% believe texting erotic messages to someone other than his or her partner
  • 29% believe maintaining an online dating profile

View now the full survey results.

What is considered unfaithful behavior?

For those who are married or in committed relationships today, here is what is considered adulterous behavior, aside from the obvious sexual acts:

  • Maintaining an online dating profile (29%) is considered to be cheating just as much as spending time with an ex-partner is (29%).
  • Forming a deep emotional bond with someone else (55%) is seen as a major form of cheating.
  • Sending naked pictures (46%).
  • Texting erotic messages to someone else (44%).
  • Casual flirting with someone other than me (18%).
  • Thinking about someone other than me when having sex with me (18%).
  • Going out to dinner with someone who is the opposite sex (18%).
  • Communicating with their ex (16%).
  • Fantasizing about someone else (13%).

“Modern monogamy is becoming more and more vague so it really boils down to communication between couples and negotiating the terms of a marriage in an open way,” says Isabella Mise, director of communication at Ashley Madison. “When couples aren’t on the same page, or one partner simply isn’t getting what they need, other options become desirable, even when that’s as simple as finding someone to talk to.”

Considering the layers of infidelity, it seems open dialogue is more important now than ever before–but are couples having the critical conversations about what it means to be faithful to one another? According to 64% of respondents, they do. More than three-quarters (78%) say they have defined, with their spouse, what infidelity means to each other with 75% saying they have agreed on a definition with their spouse.

“People make a conscious choice to cheat, it’s not typically something that people fall into,” says Dr. Tammy Nelson, sex and relationship therapist and author of The New Monogamy: ­Redefining Your Relationship After Infidelity. “Despite defining what infidelity means to one another, one or both people in a relationship could still make the choice to seek an extra-marital affair when their needs aren’t being met. An alternative conversation to have is one that outlines what it is that each partner needs from the other to feel happy and satisfied in the relationship, and how to talk about it when they don’t feel that.”

*Survey of 3,342 members of Ashley Madison between June 19, 2018 – July 8, 2018.

About AshleyMadison.com

AshleyMadison.com is the original destination for married dating and the global leader for affairs. With more than 54 million member accounts worldwide since 2002.

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Love and Fashion: Reignite your marriage in 2017

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Do you need an expert on women’s fashion, health and beauty who is loving her marriage more than ever after 12 years? Fashion entrepreneur Psyche Terry whose new line of size 4 – 24 lingerie and sleepwear empowers women of many different sizes to feel confident and beautiful in their lives and relationships.

How will you reignite your marriage this year?

If you’re ready to make 2017 the year of true passion and connection in your relationship, wife, mother and fashion guru Psyche Terry has these tips to help you:

  1. Give yourself a confidence boost: There’s nothing more attractive than a woman who knows her own worth and lets in shine. Wear some sexy lingerie underneath your clothes for a day, just for you, and see how it makes you feel.
  2. Remember that your partner still sees you: Too often when we’ve been in partnership for a long time, we begin to dress, act and feel as though no one is really looking. Yes, this is a comfort zone of sorts, but if you’re trying to spark the flames of passion in your marriage, showing extra care in your appearance can be more of a boost than you might imagine.
  3. Connect on a spiritual level: Being able to experience love with your partner in the context of a shared spiritual connection can create a uniquely powerful level of intimacy and closeness. Laugh, play and pray together to round out the joy in your marriage.

Psyche shares, “You can be married, you can be a parent, you can be best friends with each other, you can be best friends with your kids, you can do all these things because you just love each other that much. Being a wife that’s willing to step it up a notch shows you are a woman who is willing to take care of herself, and that’s refreshing.”

Psyche Terry is the founder and CIO—Chief Inspiration Officer—of her company, UI Global Brands LLC, where her husband is also her business partner. Her new “Inspire Psyche Terry” line launched at select Macy’s stores, Macys.com and QVC.com in January 2017.

About Psyche Terry

UI Global Brands, LLC founder and Chief Inspiration Officer Psyche Terry was born in small-town Michigan. Raised by her great aunt, Psyche strove to overcome limited economic circumstances and today is a successful woman, entrepreneur, wife and mother to three children. Through her #GirlsThatRock program, Psyche travels all over the country sharing inspiration and wisdom with high-school girls, encouraging them to believe in their dreams and apply to college. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Boys & Girls Clubs of Collin County, MI and is a member of Project Help Us Give. Additionally, Psyche is a fitness competition body builder, foodie and nutrition enthusiast. Psyche’s new line of Greek-inspired lingerie and sleepwear, “Inspire Psyche Terry,” was created to help women of a range of body types feel empowered and beautiful throughout the day. A modern-day Wonder Woman, Psyche is changing how women feel about themselves, from the bra strap on out. For more information, visit InspirePsycheTerry.com.

 

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Being held back from love? Learning how to move forward in a productive relationship.

How to find and maintain a productive romantic relationship - advice from Natalie Nelson
With Valentine’s Day coming up, a new assessment tool to help people find if they resonate romantic energy, or are being held back by emotional baggage is available. Natalie Nelson, Energy Healing Educator, Program Developer and daughter of renowned holistic physician Dr. Bradley Nelson is here to give insight to why people seeking healthy romantic relationships are being held back from love and how to move forward in a productive relationship.

Resonating Relationships: The Energy of Romance

Many people have had the experience of dating someone with too much emotional baggage, but what if you are the person with the emotional baggage? You might not know that negative emotions from past experiences can cause you to sabotage relationships or attract Mr. or Miss Wrong. To help people who are struggling to find or sustain loving relationships, Natalie Nelson and her company HealersLibrary.com have created a new guide to healthy relationships titled Resonating Relationships, specifically to help people discover and get rid of the emotional baggage that can sabotage love, romance and healthy, lasting relationships.

“Having been in several relationships and struggled, and seeing alot of people who I know just totally struggle in their relationships, I got really frustrated with all of that because I think it shouldn’t be so difficult,” she says. “And I think that so much of the reason why people struggle is because there’s just things going on that they’re just not aware of. That’s part of the reason why I created this guide.”

Natalie will share tools from the Relationships That Resonate guide and assessment, including questions to help people get to the bottom of what may be holding them back from love, including questions such as:

  1. How stressed are you about your relationship / lack of relationship?
  2. How much control does your relationship issues have over your happiness?
  3. How blocked do you feel from nurturing romantic relationship(s) now or in the past?
  4. How difficult have you found it to communicate calmly with partner(s) now or in the past?
  5. How often do you put aside your own needs or feelings to keep the peace?

Natalie can also share:

  • How family history and traumas affect our ability to give and receive love
  • How to use visualization to find what you want and need in a partner
  • How to identify negative connections with others you must cut to heal and move on.
  • Metrics to help singles and those in committed relationships decide if they are in “Connection Mode” or “Isolation Mode; “Nurture Mode” or “Conflict Mode” and for those in committed relationships, “Harmony Mode” or “Discord Mode”

About Natalie Nelson

Natalie Nelson has spent more than 15 years studying, experiencing and teaching the powerful healing that is possible through The Emotion Code and The Body Code, created by her father Dr. Bradley Nelson. When she found herself in a failing marriage, she became inspired to create a new Body Code expansion program, Resonating Relationships: The Energy of Romance, a system that can affect powerful change that heals people and couples from the inside out. She currently resides in Salt Lake City, UT.

About Dr. Bradley Nelson

Dr. Bradley Nelson is a holistic Chiropractic Physician, a Medical Intuitive, and one of the world’s foremost experts in the emerging fields of Bioenergetic Medicine and Energy Psychology. His bestselling book, “The Emotion Code,” provides step-by-step instructions for working with the body’s healing power. Download a free copy at EmotionCodeGift.com.

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Couple survey: the truth about moving in with your significant other

Are you considering moving in with your significant other? In many relationships, moving in together is a milestone and often a serious test for couples. To gain insight into this significant life event,  Moshells  surveyed 500 people living with their significant others across three different generations. The purpose of the survey was to see how couples get along and co-habitate but this is not your ordinary couple survey. Moshells developed this survey to identify from the beginning of the relationship- what were major turn-ons and turnoffs in a partner’s original living space?- to the biggest battles waged about a shared home.  The results of the survey were then turned into a graphic that tells the story of how people are cohabiting and moving into together. Check out  the infographic at Moshells.com.

Cohabiting Couples and Their Preferences | Moshells
Learn about the pros and cons of cohabiting couples.

What is the undisputed top turn-on early in the relationship for both sexes, at any age? A big bed. And nobody likes a filthy bathroom. When it came time to move in, both men and women thought they had to get rid of more stuff than their partner. What are you biggest pet peeves when it comes to home living? Let us know.

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How your network creates your net worth

By Javone Jones

One of the keys to success is having a successful network because “Your Network Creates Your Net Worth.” I’m no expert in this field but I’ve acquired enough knowledge that enables me to share with you invaluable network tips to help you further your career or reassure you’re headed the right direction in your personal & professional development.

There are 3 steps you must follow to build a successful network. You can apply these same principles to your personal relationships:

Step 1: Networking

Networking is the process of finding out one’s profession and exchanging contact information. For example, when a man sees an attractive woman, he approaches her to exchange contact information such as phone numbers.

You can take this same dating approach and use it for professional networking at an event, function, or even out in the streets.

For me I have always networked with performers because I put together showcases and search for talent. My philosophy is to network with as many qualified people as possible because networking helps me find
who is serious about a showcase after the first meet or revealing of a business opportunity. The purpose of networking is to build and add to your network.
Step 2: Build Rapport

Building is the crucial aspect of creating a successful market. After you network with someone/ exchange information, you began to see what the person is really all about and you find out how the person can fit into your market.

Similar to the first date, you find out if the person is serious about business or a BSer. It’s up to you to decide if you have a solid connect or a conflict of interest.

Make sure you ask the right questions to develop a successful network. By asking questions, you drop those that lack the ability to follow through with business ventures.
Step 3: Establish A Business Relationship

Now after you go on a few dates, you should want to start establishing the relationship you want in the long haul.

Is this person a bf/gf relationship, friendship, fling, etc?

Follow this same strategy for building your network. As soon as you can, set up what kind of business relationship you want to have – consumer, client, business partner, or connect. This is very crucial for those who are networking with the opposite sex. I’ve networked with many attractive women and it is easy to find personal attraction, but the focus should always be on growing each of your businesses and personal relationships. When you don’t ask questions early on, it can sometimes hurt your business / relationship. Be on the same page.
Building a successful network isn’t easy by any means but it can guarantee you success. Follow these three steps and you will have a very successful market.

Thank you for being part of our network.

 

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The Period Test: Preventing Yourself From Being The Hook Up


Have you ever dated a guy that just won’t put a title on your relationship? If this sounds like the relationship circumstance you’re going through, it’s time to put him up to the period test.

Read my examiner article Sure sign he is into you: the period test to learn how to prevent yourself from just being the hook up.

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You Can Have A Ride No Where

Reasons to pick a man with good character & you have self-love / self-confidence all along: See a car as a relationship. You’re driving & the man you’re seeing is in the passenger seat. If you & him always let fear & insecurity guide the wheel the car will veer out of control at high speeds. You’ll be in a frenzy & the sorry dude is just going to jump out the passenger seat to save his own ass. You’ll be left with your own demise. But when you let hope & love float it’s a smooth ride because God has the wheel. Which would you rather choose?

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Fromgirltogirl: Growing with a man and not a boy.

The face behind the Fromgirltogirl.

By Briana Booker

I finally became wise. I was dating boys but finally I’m ready to have a man. A man is a male that carries himself, you & your relationship with respect. He does not act single when you are not around. He does not let his homeboys & want to be groupies disrespect your relationship.

Growing into a woman I need a man and myself want to work as a team. I need a man that loves himself, me and us.

There are no if, &’s or buts. Some guys can be 30ys+ or on their death bed, but remain a boy for life. It takes confidence to become a man. #fromgirltogirl

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