Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
8
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Amy Winehouse, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, End of Relationship, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Hurt emotions, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lyrics, Music, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Song Lyrics. Tagged: Amy Winehouse, Betrayal, End of a long term relationship, End of Relationship, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Intimacy, Life, Loss of a Love Relationship, Love, Lyrics, Music, Personal Growth, Song Lyrics, Tears Dry On Their Own. Leave a Comment
All I can ever be to you is a darkness that we knew
And this regret I got accustomed to
Once it was so right
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8
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, End of Relationship, Gay Relationship, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Lyrics, People in your life, Personal Growth, Relationships, Song Lyrics, Truth. Tagged: Relationships, Love, Life, feelings, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Romantic Relationships, Personal Growth, Gay relationships, Gay, Intimacy, Lyrics, Gay Love, Song Lyrics, Loss of a Relationship, Will you still love me tomorrow, Amy Winehouse, Broken Heart, Beginning new relationship, New Love Relationship. Leave a Comment
The beginning of a new relationship brings many questions to mind, especially when both individuals have to take care of their own needs first. To love another, one must first love himself.
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8
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Friends, Friendship, Gay, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Healing, Intimacy, Life, Love, Lyrics, People in your life, Personal Growth, Relationships, Self Discovery. Tagged: 19, Adele, All About Me, Friends, Friendships, Gay, Intimacy, Life, Love Song, Lyrics, Make You Feel My Love, Mental Health, New Beginning, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Special Friend. Leave a Comment
When the rain
Is blowing in your face
And the whole world
Is on your case
I could offer you
A warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows
And the stars appear
And there is no one there
To dry your tears
I could hold you
For a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you
Haven’t made
Your mind up yet
But I [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, People in your life, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: A Little Help from Our Friends, Addiction, Best friend, Bond of love between friends, Friends, Friendships, Gift of friendship, Good friends, Honesty, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Rewards of friendship, Skills to be a good friend, Unconditional acceptance. Leave a Comment
“And when I see you happy, well, it sets my heart free. I’d like to be as good a friend to you as you are to me.” — Joni Mitchell
Friends are one of the greatest gifts and they come as a result of a life that’s sane and manageable. It takes time and energy to [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, End of Relationship, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Close relationship, commitment, Committed, Devotion, end of a relationship, Falling in Love, Intimacy, Intimate relationship, Love, Love is a bed of roses, Loving, Non-attachment, Relationships, Romance, Sexual, The Joy and Pain of Loving. Leave a Comment
“The main motive for ‘non-attachment’ is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual is hard work.” — George Orwell
In popular romances, love is often presented as a bed of roses – without the thorns. We may also have the idea that loving is always [...]
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2
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Courage, Decision, Decision Making, Depression, Dificulty, Dishonest, Dispute, End of Relationship, Fear, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Healing, Honesty, Hurt emotions, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Love Letters, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-forgiveness, Shame, Spirituality, Tough Times, course of right action, deceit, feelings, forgiveness, inspiration. Tagged: Divorce, End of Relationship, Good bye, Grief, Loss of relationship, Love, relationship, Separation, Sunday in the Park with George. 3 Comments
“I left because there was no room for me. But you could tell me not to go. Say it to me. Tell me not to go.” — Stephen Sondheim. Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.
To leave someone we love is to knowingly break a vital connection. Even if we chose to leave, we [...]
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25
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Adversity, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Intimacy, Love, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: 12 Step, Addiction, Can't go on any longer, Chemical Dependency, Fear, Feel Suicidal, Feeling Alienated, Feeling Isolated, Find normal life, Hanging on One Minute at a Time, Higher Power, Isolation, Life not worth living, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Recovery, Self-harm, Stay alive, Suffering, Suicide, Thoughts of Self-harm, When you may not care about anything. 1 Comment
How do we go on when we can’t any longer? When we feel suicidal, we may not care about anything; we feel alienated and isolated. But we’re not. To even keep breathing connects us to life.
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4
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, People in your life, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Acceptance, Acceptance of others, Best friend, Emotional Tools, Friend, Friends, Friendship, Healthy Relationships, Honesty, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Platonic relationships, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Romantic relationship, Special friends, Tools for coping, Tools for personal growth. Leave a Comment
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
More. Some of us have come to believe that more means better. But there are some things where less is more, and one of them is a close friendship. The truth is, we don’t have many special friends, and that is exactly what makes [...]
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20
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Intimacy, Love, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Fear, Holding, Hugging, Male Touch, Nonsexual Touch, Personal Growth, Relationships, Stereotypical Male. Leave a Comment
“I’d never seen men hold each other. I thought the only thing they were allowed to do was shake hands or fight.” –Rita Mae Brown
I, like many men grew up without knowing the warmth of lovingly touching one another. Some of us had fathers who trapped themselves in a stereotypical male role, afraid to hold [...]
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10
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Adversity, Afraid, Awareness, Blogging, Challenge, Changling, Chemical Dependency, Childhood Memories, Consciousness, Courage, Defects, Delusion, Depression, Dishonest, Drug Addiction, Dysfunction, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Past Transgressions, People in your life, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self concept, Self-improvement, Shortcomings, Spirituality, Truth, connection, course of right action, feelings, sobriety. Tagged: Anger, Blogging, despair, Expression of feelings, feelings, Having a Good Cry, Higher Power, Inner Feelings, Inner Life, Journaling, Letting go, Life, Moving On, Outer Life, Outer Self, Past, Past Pain, Rage, sorrow, Spiritual Nourishment, Spirituality, Suppress Feelings, Suppressed, Work Through Difficult Feelings. 2 Comments
I’ve realized that there’s a difference between my ability to feel, my ability to express my feelings, and my ability to let go. I know there are many painful emotions I learned to suppress when I was young, particularly anger or sadness. Other emotions might be difficult to feel because they are connected to past pain.
Yet [...]
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