Seven Strategies To Help Avoid The 7-Year Itch!

Seven Strategies To Help Avoid The 7-Year Itch!

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eharmonyadvice is offline eharmonyadvice — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  November 21,2008, 5:28pm

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How can couples fail-safe their chances at happily ever after? Read on for our strategies on long term relationship success!
 
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LonelyStarState is offline LonelyStarState Post #2  November 22,2008, 12:46pm

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1. Use condoms!


2. Hydrocortisone


3. Bathe more often and change socks once a day


4. Buy a bamboo back scratcher for those hard to reach places


5. Insist that your hottea!!! grows her finger nails.


6. When no one is looking, reach down and scratch!


7. Apply baby oil before you spank your monkey
 
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Can you guys use a simpler language? I mean those idioms kept throwing me off on almost every other sentence. The information is so ambiguous; it discouraged me to read on, right after the first strategy. You need to use an 8th grade English, if you really want to put a bug into most of your reader's ears.
 
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yeah i'd rather be intimate with a Dodge Viper SRT-10. I'd express my needs by launching a massive burnout. and i'd kiss it goodnight. :-)
 
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juriedrey is offline juriedrey Post #5  December 7,2008, 2:27pm
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Honestly. I think that the human species is not designed for long term relationships.
We evolve, learn, tire, develop, change to quick and grow to old.
I'm in a great relationship for almost nine years. And I feel like giving up.
We get constantly reminded by people how great we are together. Maybe we are great pretenders.
O yea. And never, ever, ever, ever get married. It's a bull... religious thing that just messes things up.
Sorry. But the truth sucks.
 
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juriedrey wrote :
I think that the human species is not designed for long term relationships.

Our modern culture, with its inherent values and morals, is the culprit, social engineering is at work. At least that's my conclusion based upon my life experience, both lived and observed.


It's rare to find a truly interdependent couple these days because such a couple is a very powerful unit. Instead, our culture produces people who are either codependent (the "I can't function/live without someone" types) or counterdependent (the "I don't need anyone" types) because this makes them weak and easier to control. Divide and conquer; one of the oldest tricks in the book.



Managing our human relationships is a skill. Therefore a positive application of social engineering would be even the most basic schooling in the mechanics of human relationships, however we see little to none of this in any of our educational systems worldwide. The question to ask then is "Why not?" Happy people, happy world? The problem with a "happy world" is that it would be much less profitable for certain powerful interests, so something as simple as teaching ourselves, and our kids, how to achieve and maintain healthy human relationships is out of the question. Conflict, and the financing of it, are the two most profitable enterprises in all of human history, and they will remain so, over our unhappy, miserable or dead bodies.



"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of the Bankers and pay for the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
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juriedrey wrote :
Honestly. I think that the human species is not designed for long term relationships.
We've also seem to be designed to fight, war and murder each other. That doesn't mean we can't see if there isn't another way of living.
 
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WE also have to remember that society, especially the media, offers lots of visual temptation to stray.  Also nightmarish divorce tales cause many people who shouldn't be together to remain together.  Before making any committment and thus getting to the 7 year point, live together for a year or 2 to see if there's true compatibility and moreso the ability to communicate with each other while also being sensitive to each other's needs.  It's a huge order to fill.
 
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