Communication in a relationship is so important. In fact, it is the vital key to success. So many couples fail to see the value of communication and just as many don’t know how to communicate effectively. Learning this skill can make all the difference to your happiness.

Many couples are mutually abusive, which means they respond to verbal or emotional abuse with like abuse. It is little wonder then that so many marriages are dysfunctional. It is hard to create an environment of positive, loving communication when you’ve never experienced that kind of environment yourself. People who grew up in dysfunctional families with negative communication patterns often find themselves falling into those same behaviors themselves when they get married.

Once a marriage has broken down, neither partner feels inclined toward communication in a relationship nor do they wish to open up to the other person. Prevention is better than cure, so it is important to learn constructive arguing techniques before a couple marries. But even when things have deteriorated, it is never too late to set things right.

Getting Your Spouse to Open Up Again

Often, both partners in a marriage want to be perceived as “tough.” They don’t want to give in first. They want to show their partner that they don’t need him or her. As a result, the communication gap grows wider. Neither person will confess what it is that is worrying them. Mistrust fills the gaps created by silence. Soon, differences feel irreconcilable and most communication in the relationship is either empty or dead.

If you want to get your spouse to open up and break the silence barrier, there are a few things you need to do.

Often, the reason that your spouse isn’t talking is because he or she doesn’t want to create conflict by confessing their feelings. We all have negative feelings about our spouse or our relationships from time to time. In many marriages, partners zip their lip and say nothing, repressing their feelings until resentment seeps through. In other marriages, partners react angrily towards their spouse and express their feelings through criticism and verbal abuse. Neither option makes for a healthy marriage.

Even if your spouse isn’t saying anything to you, chances are that he or she has a lot to say. It’s just that your spouse doesn’t know how to bring it up, is afraid of your reaction, or doesn’t think it is worth the effort to share with you.

You can get your spouse to open up to you again by creating an environment in which he or she feels safe and comfortable talking. But avoid these tactics like the plague:

- Demanding that your spouse tell you what’s wrong or why they won’t talk. - Accusing your partner of giving you the silent treatment. - Getting angry at them for not contributing their part to the conversation. - Feeling resentful that they’re making life difficult for you.

Instead, this is what you need to do:

1. Practice your own listening skills. Instead of filling in the silences with chatter, allow those silences to remain. Often, one spouse compensates for another’s lack of speech by talking too much. Your partner may feel that you never give him or her a chance to speak because you’re always talking.

2. Cultivate an attitude of non-judgmental acceptance. This means that you unconditionally love and accept your partner, no matter what he or she says. If you often respond defensively or critically when your partner shares his or her thoughts and feelings, you are actually punishing your partner for opening up to you. If your partner tries to open up, acknowledge his or her comments to show that you are listening, but refrain from adding your own opinion until you’ve heard everything that he or she has to say. Sometimes, we just need to be heard, and it feels better knowing that our partner has listened to us all the way through without criticizing or condemning us.

3. Learn how to apologize and mean it. One apology, meant sincerely, goes a long way. When your partner shares a concern or problem that he or she is having with your marriage, don’t resort to an angry retort. Listen carefully, without criticism or a knee-jerk self-defense. If you are too upset to think clearly, tell your partner that you appreciate hearing about his or her concern, but that you need time to think it over. If you come tothe conclusion that what your partner has told you has some truth in it, apologize clearly and directly.

Instead of muttering, “I’m sorry,” look at your partner in the eyes and tell him or her, “I am sorry for…. I am sorry for having made you feel like you did.” By telling him or her in your own words what you’re sorry for - in other words, what you did or said that made your partner feel hurt - you show your partner that you really do understand.

4. Making opening up to one another a positive experience. It may sound wishy-washy or fuzzy, but verbally thanking one another for sharing thoughts and feelings is valuable positive reinforcement. A hug after a difficult conversation can make all the difference. It doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree with your partner; what matters is that you show your partner that you really do care about his or her feelings and opinions.

Every time your partner shares something, no matter how little, express your gratitude. Tell your partner, “I’m glad I know that you like that/feel that way/believe that. I like knowing more about you. It makes me feel closer to you.”

How to Argue

Most couples are exceedingly poor at resolving conflicts. But there are a number of techniques designed to help with healthier conflict resolution. Here are some of the most basic ground-rules for arguments. Discuss these with your spouse and agree on them together.

1. Abuse and physical violence will not be tolerated. If things get too hot, take a break or take a walk.

2. Avoid assigning blame. Instead, talk about how your partner’s actions made you feel.

3. Be honest. Don’t argue about one thing if something else is bothering you.

4. Don’t take things personally. When someone is upset, they can say or do things that make it worse.

5. Focus on resolving the issue, not winning the argument. Think negotiation, not competition.

6. If your spouse hasn’t understood your motives or misunderstood what you said, don’t get angry. Explain yourself.

7. No bringing up hurtful events from the past. Stay in the present.

8. No going to sleep on an argument.

9. No name-calling. 10. Once an argument is resolved, forgive and forget.

There is no disputing the fact that effective communication in a relationship is the vital ingredient to its success or failure. Open up healthy channels of communication and your perceptions of each other will change for the better. These new perceptions will in turn affect your general behaviour toward each other and love will inevitably rekindle.

Relationships don’t need to break down if you can find a way to communicate more effectively. There are many tools you can use to turn your life around. Comprehensive information can be found at this site Save My Marriage Today

I have just set up an e-commerce site. It was much more work than I expected.

Why do I say this? I think I came from the wrong perspective. I thought, naively, that I could put an off-the-shelf store up, populate it with goods and products and sit back an watch the orders flood in.

Wrong! So wrong!

If I had to do the same again (which I am planning, actually) I would start off from some guiding principles.

Firstly, i would decide what I was going to sell and to who – what is the product and what age group or style of person was I selling to? Then, sort out the site layout with this in mind. Instead of trying to do it all myself I would enlist, and pay for, the help of someone else. The job would be done much more quickly and effectively – I could then get on and do something else.

The store needs good clean lines and an attractive appearance. Think that YOU were the customer and see everything from the customer’s eyes. What I did was ask on a forum for people’s views and I was shocked at the responses! That was because I was looking from MY perspective, not theirs. Needless to say, I have made changes – it is still not perfect but it is better than it was.

Dealing with payment processors was fun. Which payments should I take and how do I set them up? If you are like me then you won’t have much in the way of IT expertise. So, outsource it – again it will be done much more effectively and experts will tell you things you don’t already know (like you need security else someone is going to hack your data or steal the secure data of your customers).

Delivery? Who is going to ship, how often and to where? How much will it cost the customer and how long will it take? The customer needs easy access to this information or else they will leave.

I am still developing my site but hope to be better very soon

Eric Hartwell oversees Jewels2Love

So, if you didn’t change them, then somebody else did. Or a virus.
A little piece of software has sneaked in through your computers back door, and begins to follow the exact instructions its creator(s) gave it. In some cases it could be to make trouble for you by deleting files you might need sometime in the near future. Your system could work properly, without any errors and you won’t even notice that anything is wrong with your computer. But one day you get repeated error messages, or you experience problems to run certain programs you use. Or you maybe you notice that you have lost documents or other files that you use, and you are 100% positive that you did not delete or move them. This is when you could be at least 99% sure that someone, or something is disturbing your system. In most cases this happens to be a computer disease in form of a virus infection.

Therefore it is very important to protect yourself and your system against viruses. I bet you don’t want your work to take the triple amount of time because your computer is running slow, or to even disappear entirely from the face of the earth. A good thing to practice when you use your computer as a workstation is to take backups of your work. And I must urge you to store files or folders on a separate disk in addition to your main drive. (For example you save your work to your computers hard drive, and then burn it over to a cd, or copy it to a flash disk. In the case of a virus infection you could at least be able to save your work if your computer is wasted. So, remember backup.

This brings us over to another aspect of viruses. That is about the highly destructive ones. Most of them are stopped by anti virus software before they gets to spread too much. But some of them are really tricky and surprises a huge number of users and systems before it is taken care of. The companies that develop anti virus software always have to look for new viruses, because hundreds and even thousands of new ones are created every day. Every minute someone on this planet are focusing their energy on one thing. Guess what.?! The making of a new disease they can spread around the globe. This is why I ask the question; Is viruses pure fun or pure evil?

My personal guess is: None of the above. I think there is a combination of the really old part of mankinds mentality that is to fight or cause trouble if we are pissed about something, and the creative minds that construct these sicknesses to make trouble for most people possible. They get the feeling of having the upper hand, and that they have done some damage. The only problem for them is that virus creators won’t see the despair in your eyes when you realize that you have lost your latest week of work because of their creating. The only thing they can do is to monitor the global expand of the infection, and look at statistics on number of infections, computer crashes and so on. But mostly I think they are just having a really good time just by knowing that a lot of people are suffering huge losses after they did a “good job”, because this was their intend in the first place.

To conclude this little article I feel that I have to explain to you once more the importance of a proper anti virus solution installed on your system, backups of the things you care about, and that you know that some viruses are a joke, but some will really cause you serious trouble. By visiting the website link below you will find more useful information about viruses, and other threats that exists online. There are also a collection of quality protection software at very reasonable prices.

Raymond Johansen is CEO/Founder of FreePcAssistance.com - A website dedicated to online security. Visit our website to find out why is your computer running slow or if you would like to download a good free spyware removal tool.

My friend came to me because of the problem he had with his wireless connection. So we started to track down possible problems to find the solution. But his computer was somehow disturbed. In fact the computer was running slow, and didn’t response to any commands at all. We tried to cancel several processes in order to free capacity, but no luck. It seemed that the computer had a lot to do and couldn’t get any free power to even shut down running processes. In my eyes, this clearly seemed like my friend had been another innocent victim of cruel intentions and hard work.

With his computer running so slow, we decided that we should simply try to restart the system, and try to gain control over it again. So we pushed the restart button. It went black, and then it booted up for a second.
As soon as it came alive again, we both looked at each other with wide open eyes. We could not believe what we saw. “Non system disk” was the message we got. It meant that his main drive on the computer was empty. No system files installed. We were gasping.

He lost his whole system because of an infection of viruses. As a disease it broke down his system, like a human disease will do to our body. He lost his music collection, his latest couple of days of work, and a lot of private stuff. He did not take any backups, only the work he had done a couple of day earlier. He could not believe it. It was like the world collapsed he told me.

I have no problem understanding him. I had a crash when I lost my whole list of merchandise. All together over 300 000 items. That was one very grey day. I then saw that a simple little thing could have spared me for all those weeks of work after that. A backup list. One single cd, memory stick, dvd, diskette, or anything that could store my extra copy of the list.

I sit here to day and I know from years of experience that backups are very important. But to ensure that your computer is quick and healthy also, and don’t collapse entirely, I seriously recommend that you get yourself a copy of some quality protection software. There are two more things I strongly recommend you to protect yourself from. If you would like to know what they are, and how to stand up against them, please visit the website described below.

Raymond Johansen is CEO/Founder of FreePcAssistance.com - A website dedicated to online security. Visit our website to find out why is your computer running slow or if you would like to download a good free spyware removal tool.

Some aspects of parenting are relatively easy, while others present us with more of a challenge. One area which often causes parents some difficulty is that of discipline and, in particular, teenage discipline.

As adults we are familiar with the concept of punishment and accept that poor performance or bad behavior frequently results in our being punished. If you don’t study for your professional examination then your poor performance in your exam is punished by awarding you a low score. If you don’t perform well at work you’re punished with delayed promotion or the withholding of an anticipated pay rise. If you’re found drunk and disorderly in a public place you’ll probably be punished by spending a night in a police cell and receiving a fine from the local court.

In simple terms, punishment is nothing more than one side of the justice equation and the purpose of justice is to carefully weight the facts of a case and then to render a fair judgment and, where necessary, to hand down an appropriate punishment.

Just as we have learnt through our own experience that every action has consequences and that these can sometimes be unpleasant or painful, our children also need to learn this lesson. But teaching them this lesson is not always easy and this is especially true when it comes to dealing with teenagers.

Before you can attempt to handle this thorny problem you have to realize that it will take considerably objectivity on your part, as well as a good sense of proportion. Just as our courts have to make an effort to separate out fact from fiction to get to the truth and then respond appropriately, so we as parents have to operate in much the same fashion when it comes to disciplining our children.

Let’s look at an example.

Your sixteen year old son comes home later than agreed having spent the evening with friends and this sparks a heated argument in the lounge which ends in your son announcing that he’s going to get himself something to eat. A moment later you hear a loud crash coming from the kitchen and entering the room you find a broken platter and the leftover turkey spread across the kitchen floor and your son banging his fist on the kitchen counter and swearing loudly. How should you react?

The problem here is that you didn’t actually see what happened and there are several possible explanations for the scene in front of you. However, you and your son are already angry with each other and your natural reaction is to respond based on that fact.

On the one hand, it is possible that your son took the platter out of the fridge and, in an expression of his anger, deliberately smashed it on the floor. On the other hand, it is possible that, because he was distracted by your recent argument and wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing, the platter slipped out of his hand as he was taking it from the refrigerator. It is also possible that, as he was setting the platter down on the counter, he accidentally brushed his arm up against the hot kettle, which you had boiled just a few minutes earlier to make yourself a cup of coffee, and that the platter had been knocked to the floor when he instinctively pulled away from the kettle.

The danger is that if don’t establish just what happened before you react you may well take the wrong action and make an already difficult situation even worse. The secret is to remain objective, discover exactly what happened and then act appropriately. So, start by taking a deep breath and a moment to compose yourself and then simply ask your son calmly and quietly what happened.

Let’s look at two possible scenarios.

The first is that your son brushed against the hot kettle. Here an appropriate response might be to make sure that he hasn’t injured himself requiring medical treatment, to help him clear up the mess and get something to eat and then allow him to go to bed. This will calm the situation and give both of you a bit of breathing space allowing you to sort out the problem which sparked the original argument the following day when you’ve both had time to consider the situation.

The second is that your son deliberately threw the platter on the floor. Now tempers are already high and you’re certainly not going to get anywhere by pouring more fuel on the fire. Possibly the best answer here is to tell your son, again quietly and calmly, to clear up the mess and go to bed and then to leave the kitchen before he has a chance to respond and start the argument up again.

At this point he may or may not clear up the mess and a common trap to fall into is that of focusing you attention on this as the main issue. It would be all too easy at this point to turn the mess in the kitchen into a battleground and to make a stand in order to assert your authority. The broken platter is not however the main issue and, at this point, it’s not really important whether he clears up the mess or not. If he does then that’s fine but, if he doesn’t, then simply wait for him to go to bed and clear up the mess yourself. The following morning when you’ve both calmed down and had a chance to sleep on things you can then deal with both the original argument and the broken platter.

By remaining object and taking the time to both find out exactly what has happened and to consider an appropriate response your son will benefit in two ways. First, he will receive a punishment that is appropriate to the action he has taken and second he will learn that it is possible to deal with situations maturely and with self-control even when emotions are running high.

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Most security software developers out there claim to have the best solution, and that their system will give you a trouble free internet experience. This is very far from the truth. Infact no software out there deals with every malware(viruses, spyware, adware) that exists. This is things that evolve very quickly, and new ones in dozens are created and spread online every single day. It takes a huge effort to update anti-software solutions to be able to deal with all the latest threats in every category.

Very many internet users also tend to trust the large and respected companies such as Symantec (The creator of Norton) and other big ones. Well, this is of course something that is normal in the everyday life. You like to know that the doctor that is going to do a surgical procedure on you has done a few procedures in his life or else you wouldn’t be able to trust him, right?

In this industry on the other hand, it seems that this could be the opposite. People who develop spyware and viruses are interested in harming most people and systems possible, and then the logical thing to do is create a “parasite” that breaks through the most used security systems such as Norton. This is why we have tested Norton Internet security’s integrated anti spyware function versus other systems that are primarily created to deal with spyware. The results are devastating. Norton is by far the best anti spyware killer. In fact in my eyes one of the worst ones. But their firewall is working great though.

So how can you be comfortable with the security software you have? My opinion is that you test it for yourself. Find out what is working for you and what you need to be better. I am personally most bothered with the anti spyware removal software. This makes sense because this is the kind of threats that evolves most quickly. And the reason to that is money. Big money. Huge efforts are laid in the creation of spyware. They spy on your actions on the net to be able to target you with ads and popups. When your system is so infected by spyware that the different spywares are competing with eachother for the available resources, the result will be a slow computer.

Raymond Johansen is CEO/Founder of FreePcAssistance.com - A website dedicated to online security. Visit our website to find out why is your computer running slow or if you would like to download a good free spyware removal tool.

You have most likely been one of the many victims of spyware. There are several thousands of them online today, and still growing at an incredible rate. They are designed to spy on what you do online, which pages you visit, what information you send, or even to steal the codes for your bank accounts or other accounts. Some of them will only spy on you to be able to target pop-up ads on your computer screen. If you have installed a pop-up blocker, they won’t bother you. But some are using a new type of pop-up called “pop-under”. These ads slips through a pop-up blocking software because they are not a small pop-up window, but a new full-blown webpage that lays over everything that is on your computer screen.

So, if you are experiencing that your computer is running slow or hanging, even after you have installed a fresh operating system, then you should try to check for spyware. They infect you from suspicious sites, especially porn sites and wares (pirate) sites. Very often you are asked to install a codec to play a video or something. You go ahead and install it, but no video appears, and nothing seems to happen at all. This is when you probably have to look for spyware again. To find these creeps, you will need a spyware detector. There are many good ones, but there are also many that isn’t that great. So you will need to read some reviews and tests to find the one best suitable for your needs. This brings me over to another type that I urge you to be aware of. They are really sly, and you might not believe it when you read this, but I assure you that these things exist.

Again I talk about a new breed of threats. But this kind is very tricky to get rid of. Maybe you have noticed that a security warning from “security center”. It claims that you have a serious problem with your system, and you need to fix it right away. You are asked to click on the button to fix it immediately, or to fix it later by closing the warning. No matter which button you push, you are sent to a website which is offering you some fantastic anti-spyware software. Be aware. This is nothing but spyware that has infected your system, and the only problem you will get rid of with this software is the spyware they have created themselves. It won’t fix anything else. For most people this security warning looks pretty scary, and they will go ahead and purchase this so-called anti-spyware software. Well, you will most likely get rid of the warnings that pops up constantly. But remember that the problem was created by the same people that offers you the fix. I don’t think they deserve any money at all.

I hear a question coming up now; how to get rid of the disturbing warnings without paying? I have a solution that has worked for me all the times I have been infected. That is to format the harddrive and reinstall the OS(operating system). But this is no method that I prefer, since it takes a lot of time, and you have to set up your computer again. We are talking about several hours of work here. So, before you go ahead and do this, I recommend that you scan your computer with every piece of anti-spyware and anti-virus software that you posess. Maybe you are lucky and get rid of it, but in most cases it is stuck. Anyway, it is well worth a try. Or ofcourse, you could pay the thirty bucks, or whatever it costs, and you very easily solve the problem. Again, this is nothing I recommend.

Just to mention it, these warnings is more a disturbance than a real threat. If you decide to reinstall your system, you absolutely have time to take backups. They are relatively harmless, but very annoying. So in time you want to get rid of it. Which method you choose is up to you of course.

Raymond Johansen is CEO/Founder of FreePcAssistance.com - A website dedicated to online security. Visit our website to find out why is your computer running slow or if you would like to download a good free spyware removal tool.

Treasure hunts are one of the most popular corporate events. They take place all over the UK every single day; in towns and in the country, on foot, on bicycles and in cars.

One of the reasons why treasure hunts are so popular, aside from the fact that they are great fun, is that they have something to offer everyone. Whether your preference is for action or cerebral challenge, for example puzzle solving, a well written treasure hunt will have something to appeal to most participants.

Themes integrate very well into the treasure hunt format and one of the most popular examples of this is the spy themed treasure hunt. This event may be based on James Bond or spying generally with the writing following the theme and challenges suited to it, including dead letter drops and following agents placed by the organiser.

More or less any theme can be used, including nationalities. Treasure hunts can also be organised abroad and they make an excellent base for sight seeing as clues take teams to famous locations and interesting places.

The treasure hunt event can be merged with other event formats to increase the experience and level of challenge. One idea which works particularly well is to combine a treasure hunt with a murder mystery, which will see teams dashing around collecting clues in an attempt to solve a fiendish crime.

Treasure hunts on mountain bikes in the country are very enjoyable and the New Forest in Hampshire is an alluring location, combining wonderful scenery with local pubs where events can finish with a good meal and the opportunity for vital social team bonding.

One of the most popular locations for treasure hunts in the UK’s fabulous capital, London. This city combines history and tradition with fascinating attractions and a reliable transport system so a large area can be covered.

London treasure hunts can make use of buses, the underground, London taxis and specialist transport such as people carriers or even stretch limousines. Experienced treasure hunt writers will know how to send teams to the most interesting and inspiring locations while avoiding the main tourist traps. No-one wants to spend their time queuing.

As a team building activity the treasure hunt is an ideal choice. The team is given a distinct task which must be completed in a specific time using limited resources.

A successful plan must be developed and delivery will depend on confidence and reliance on all members of the team. Good verbal communication is vital to business success and this activity will bring this to the fore.

In summary treasure hunts are a well established event format which can be developed to fit the objectives of more or less any event, whether it is purely a fun and memorable occasion or something linked to specific business goals. Most importantly of all, however, they appeal to the broadest possible section of a group both physically and mentally.

Progressive Resources Ltd runs a variety of corporate events including treasure hunts and themed events.

This time we’ll learn about 2 main room that give biggest effect to our life

Bedroom

In 24 hours of our life we spend most time in this room, around 8-10 hours or even more than that. Let we check it. We sleep around 6-8 hours, after that we are usually take some activity school, or working, after that we come back home and first our destination is bedroom, almost 1/3 of our life is spent in this room, that’s why this room is affect more than another room. So it has to give a positive energy to our life, because we sleep to refill our powerlessness.
Some forbidden thing for apply to bedroom:

You are forbidden to put your bed with directly across to the door! It will give a bad effect to your health. Is this logical?

Let we think about the possibly side,
Wind will directly blow our body when somebody else opens the door, eventually it will make your health be dropper.
The second reason is you will not have nice sleep because you’re the door is below your body, so you will more concern about some body who’s come in, because you can see that person’s face well, you must get up first to do that. Of course it will give the nice less effect to us.

Our energy will be absorbed by television if your TV is put under your feet. To avoid this is you have to be always pull the cable from the electricity before you sleep, or move it up to the another place.

The second main place of your room is your main entrance

You must often pass this place. It is looks like the “mouth” of your house, energy will come in and out together with you, whenever you come in or out too. That energy is various, some positive, some else negative. That we have to do is how to avoid the positive energy go out, and in the other side we have to prevent negative energy come with us from outside.

One a simple thing to realize it is put the mirror above our door from outer. It is expected to prohibit to negative side from outside, because that mirror is trusted can reflect back a negative effect and keep the positive energy inside.

The forbidden thing
Don’t put a some wide leaf plants in front of our door. It will prevent all energy to come in including “positive energy”.

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Some people are believed in feng shui (“Fung Shway” in the spelling). What is Feng shui exactly we don’t know. What is the basic theory to apply this for our life, what is forbidden things or allowed things to be applied on, we really have no idea. The problems are appear, it’s caused by so many illogically theory that completely different or even be contradicted some times. It certainly makes some conflict among us.

Basically, “Feng shui” is quite same as our religion, what we believe that’s what we do. All of these are according to our mindset. How much we believe, or even be maniac of it, or we just believe the thinkable and reasonable concept, that’s up to us. For example, some theory said that kitchen that s located in the centre of some house is can get burn easily. It can be some logical reason, why that theory is true, because the kitchen is always due to fire, if it put in the middle that’s indicated that fire can burn the some things around easier than if we put it in the corner of some room.

In interior design field. It can be one jail of our creation as an interior designer to apply what we can express. But we can’t reject our customer that’s trust in Feng shui, to be applied to our design. What can we do is, we have to know, at least the basic of this theory to impress that we are know more than our customer about this thing. So it will be your choices to believe it or not, and it become your consideration to learn about it or not. The theory of it is progressing and will much more theory that’s illogical which give to us, especially if we work in Interior design field.

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