http://daily.chictoday.com Your online destination for all those things that make your life CHIC Today! Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:19:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This generation has often been called "The Entitled Generation". Often this sense of entitlement seems to cross into all areas of our lives. Is instant gratification a bad thing? Well, it is if you always expect your own way in relationships. I had recently posed the question "Does ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/07/08/a-sense-of-entitlement/ Most people underestimate themselves. This is particularly true in dating and relationships. I am amazed at how many people ignore the "red flags". Why is this? The seemingly obvious to others is a lot harder to see when it comes to matters of the heart. Don't ignore ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/07/02/the-relationship-assessmen/ Most young girls want the wedding of their dreams without much thought of what comes after the ceremony. After all, bedtime stories always end with, "...and they lived happily ever after." What startles me most is how many believe marriage is the definition of love. You have ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/06/24/define-commitment/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq-JyRFH2-Q[/youtube] There used to be a popular TV game show in the States called The Dating Game. For those of you who aren't familiar with this campy game show, it involved the contestant asking a series of questions to each of their three potential dates (hidden behind a screen), and use ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/06/19/appearances-do-count/ I encountered a heart rendering story about a young mother that recently had a child and complained about how the intimacy within her marriage seemed to have died. She described how her husband withdrew from her sexually during the pregnancy. Unfortunately for her, this behavior continued and she ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/06/15/help-where-has-my-love-life-gone/ A classic line from An Affair to Remember. For those of you who have never seen this 1957 classic starring Deborah Kerr and Carey Grant, a couple meets on a cruise liner and agrees to meet in New York, at the top of the Empire Sate Building in six months. Well, ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/06/11/i-was-looking-up/ There is nothing wrong with everything being better. There are ups and downs in relationships, but lately it seems people focus on all that is negative. When you focus on the negative, it magnifies it. Focus on the positive aspects and appreciate and be thankful for those areas. If your sex ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/06/10/for-better/ I have been single again only a mere two short years. I have decided to share with you possibly one of the strangest encounters I have had here in Paris. A tragedy. An unrequited love. A passionate French artist that went a little overboard when he met me. It was ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/05/31/you-decide-seduction-by-verse-or-curse/ A love story is usually tragic.  The greatest loves are not the teen-age romances of Romeo and Juliet with family politics.  No.  The greatest romances are those that stand the test of time.  Boring to the outsiders.  There is the absence of drama.  There is the evidence of being a ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/05/15/a-love-story-gay-and-kathleen-hendricks/ A friend and I were talking today about how some people are asking for the prince/princess of their dreams to come waltzing into their lives to make things better.  He shared with me how he once read a personal ad that read, "300 pound woman, who is 9 months pregnant is ... http://daily.chictoday.com/2008/05/04/the-wish-list/