All Entries in the "Love’s Reparations" Category
Are You Easy To Love? 7 Keys to Love & Be Loved
Tweet “Being Deeply Loved by Someone Gives You Strength While Loving Someone Deeply Give You Courage.” ~ Lao Tzu ~ **What can I say? I had the best of intentions for dropping a Valentine’s post but circumstances forced a change of plans. Nevertheless, I thought this article by Valorie Burton was worth sharing. After all, [...]
Love Languages: Are YOU Fluent?
Tweet Love Languages: Are YOU Fluent? ** This is an old article that I thought I’d share based on the book “The Five Languages of Love” ** Why is it that so few couples seem to have found the secret to keeping love alive after the wedding? The problem is that what has been overlooked [...]
Will Smith: “Options”
Tweet So, Will Smith was on Ellen Degeneres the other day. Ellen, who’s planning to marry her partner, Portia de RossiDegrassi, noted the Smith and his wife (Jada Pinkett Smith in case ya didn’t know) have been married for 10 years which is HUGE for Hollywood. (And becoming “huge” for the “rest” of the world [...]
PERSONIFIED
Tweet “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ~ Anais Nin ~ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* GOOD LAWD!! I.LOVE.THAT.QUOTE. [...]
Magic & Power Couples
Tweet magic Love… is the closest thing we have to magic You my love… are my abracadabra © Jackie Young ~ 2007 =\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\= Do you know any “power couples”? I have a friend who is…one half of a power couple waiting to happen. AND.THAT.ISH.IS.UP.UNDER.MY.SKIN.IN.WAYS.THAT.DEFY.DESCRIPTION. I sit here thinking about it now and all I can [...]
LOVE SCRIPTS: Love is Blind
Tweet “Somebody” out there is looking at this particular blog, hearing Beyonce and is ready to either write me off or host an intervention. Relax – I like the song AND it fits the topic. Now if I show up with a gift box of all her CDs/videos, THEN you can start the intervention. Anywho, [...]
LOVE SCRIPTS: MAMA MAY HAVE, PAPA MAY HAVE…
Tweet A few weeks back, I was invited to be a “panelist” on a radio talk show addressing relationships – primarily Black relationships (specific title for the show was “Where are the Brothers?”). The discussion ran the gamut – why Black women are “angry”, why we don’t appear to be the choice for many Black [...]
LOVE SCRIPTS: Men (women) Don’t Stay
Tweet If you’ve been to my blog before, you know that Love is often a theme. I’m pro-love. I’m a champion for Love – good love, real love, authentic love, unconditional love. I’m not talking about the fluffy, skimming-the-surface emotion that many of us call “love”. I’m talking bone-marrow deep, sticky, this-ain’t-for-the-faint-at-heart kind of love. [...]
LRIA: Strong Enough for a Woman – but Made for a Man
Tweet **LRIA = Love’s Reparations in Action. ** Why? Because for me, “Love’s Reparations” is bigger than poetry – it’s a movement. Somebody cue Fabulous & NeYo “I’m a movement by myself…but I’m a force when we’re together. I’m good all by myself but you, you make me better.” Yes, I did take down the [...]
Attraction Factor: Indifference
Tweet You know, there’s a lot of dating/relationship information out in the universe. Seriously. And honestly? A lot of it is BAD. Really, really BAD. Some of it is silly, bordering on stupid. Some of it is so very obviously bad. Some of it isn’t as obvious. Nope, I’m not a ‘relationship expert’ but do [...]
