Feb 25, 2012

Are women hard to please?



It depends on who you ask. If you ask this of a current lover she is involved with, you might hear a lot of good things. If you ask a past friend, you might hear differently. People’s opinions are colored by experience. Still, to answer the question, most women are easy to please and will put up with a lot from a partner, will even overlook that time he left her stranded along the side of the road because he was late for the game, but a woman absolutely will not put up with coming home from work and finding a pair of skimpy, smelly panties lying on the floor at the side of the bed and it is not hers. Women go ballistic when men cheat. 


Second chances  


A woman, in most cases will give a man a second chance. For the panties incident, she will give you the usual silent treatment, not make you your favorite midnight snack, withhold sex and ignore you and pout around the house for a few weeks because you have cut her pride and brought another woman to the bed. She is disgusted with you but she is stuck, and eventually she will let you in because she has no other way. She will give you a second chance because it is just easier to get you to shut up than rehash your addictions and problematic behavior over and over and tell even more lies. 

 
Practical thinkers


Women are practical. They think of the school fees, the medical expenses for the second pregnancy, the job she might lose if she takes too much maternity leave, and the thought of doing it all on her own will force her into giving him a second chance. It is not out of the goodness of her heart that she is doing it; it is out of necessity. It is the usual sacrifice that women make; something for something. She is managing her life and not losing a paycheck. A woman can forgive a man and stay with him if it means that her children will be protected – and even if the forgiveness just lasts until the kids are eighteen years old. 


Natural givers


So it is unfair to say that women are hard to please. Some of them are because they have learned the lessons first hand. Women can see around the bend; they know the lines, they know the excuses, and have heard the ridiculous things men come up with when they have been caught with a finger in the pie. Otherwise women are nurturers and natural givers.



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Feb 23, 2012

Change the way you think and let go of fear



Have you suffered in almost every relationship, whether it was professional or romantic because of fear? Do you freeze before an interview? Do you inadvertently wreck a relationship because you come across as needy and insecure? Well, you can change it all by changing the way you think and influencing your brain. Anxiety starts in the brain. You become hot and sweaty. You feel like you’re going to choke. When you don’t nip this in the bud right away, it becomes full-blown fear. And really, when you think about it, fear is just a four-letter word; how much can it hurt? It can hurt a lot and to the point where you choke up with and think you are going to pass out or die. You have an urgent need to pee or throw up, and become even more afraid by the proximity of people in the life, squirming and suffering and feeling so claustrophobic that you want to break down the elevator door.

Owning your fear

A writer posted a comment on my blog recently to tell me that she had so much anxiety that she was afraid to leave the house. I took the time to write to her and respond. She wrote me back to thank me for the article because she felt it had helped her. Fear is like that. It can come upon you suddenly, but it can also dissipate at the same rate. Your first thing to do here is own your fear. Have some time alone at home and think about your fear. Stretch the discomfort of revisiting those memories and images until breaking point. You will see afterwards that nothing has happened; that the sun is still shining and no one has harmed you. Own your fear. Thank your fear for having been with you for so many years. Thank your fear for being your protector. Tell your fear that you are grateful for what you have learned and how it has armed you, but that it is time now to say goodbye.

Mantra for change

When you get up in the morning, first thing is to thank God for another day you have survived. Thank God for providing you with protection all the years. Tell your fears not to worry about you anymore and then firmly and gently tell your fears that you can manage your life without its assistance now and that you want it to go away. Of course, you are talking to yourself, and are reaffirming certain things you want in your life. You are also creating a reverberation in the atmosphere. With the advent of the internet and instantaneous messaging, technology today has provided a way, with the click of a button, to give instant comfort. For that reason and no other, this writer is writing articles and not working as much as she should on finishing writing her new book.

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RAYDA JACOBS - Writer/Novelist/Scriptwriter: Weight Loss, Lies, and Videotape

RAYDA JACOBS - Writer/Novelist/Scriptwriter: Weight Loss, Lies, and Videotape


Rayda Jacobs turns 65 on Tuesday, March 6th

"Thank you, Lord"