Our essence IS love. And love is not pained. Our ego, on the other hand, is easily bruised.

When we feel pain, or the negative emotion that follows pain, we can find comfort in realizing that while our ego may be bruised, our essence is intact. We can find comfort in love, our very own essence, our own embrace.

We are forever learning to be authentic, fearless, and free. We are forever learning to be pure love. Less than that can hurt; but less than that is not really love.

In love,… More

Spend enough time with YOU to truly know who you are, to truly love who you are. And then, you can share all of you and attract The One, without fear of rejection.… More

Despite all our science, many men still talk about what women want as though it’s beyond their comprehension. In light of recent research, maybe men confuse what women want from a long-term relationship with what women want from sex!

Despite all of our political correctness and sexual liberation, maybe society as a whole still makes a more ready distinction between sex and love for men than between sex and love for women.

What women ultimately want in a relationship is simply to be known and loved to the core by a trusted companion (that’s what men ultimately want, as well). What women want from sex, on the other hand, varies from woman to woman, and from one situation to another.

I asked David Buss, noted psychologist and co-author of well-researched “Why Women Have Sex,” to help dispel some of the confusion.

“The takeaway from the book is that women have a complex sexual psychology that cannot be easily summarized by a few things,” says Buss. “Women have sex for dozens or hundreds of reasons, from feeling sorry for a guy to getting revenge on a guy; from consummating a love relationship to scratching a sexual itch; from beating out other females to doing a favor for a friend.… More