Passion is intense feeling, strong excitement, strong affection, love, intense desire and enthusiasm. You can have passion for anything or anyone. We all have a basic need to feel passion.

In other words, passion or being passionate is the fire in our eyes, in our bodies and in our lives that drives us forward–whether it’s for our work, our hobbies, or for our relationships.

When people lose passion or fire in their lives or in their relationships, you can sure tell it. They go through their lives as if they are on auto-pilot and the joy just seems to have leaked out of them.

When people have passion for life or their relationships, you can also see it and feel it, even if they are quiet about it. Having passion is a way of living every moment of your life to its fullest.

Whether you are waiting in line at the bank, helping your children with homework or talking with your partner, a co-worker or family member—when you have and are living your life with passion, your heart is open to experiencing the joys of connecting with others or even with yourself.

To us, having passion means being truthful, being both powerful and vulnerable, having a willingness to stay and go deeper, taking responsibility for creating what we want in our lives, being open and allowing inner radiance to shine through–and of course being open to connecting with others, as well as with ourselves.

Our list could go on and on and you would probably have other ways of defining what it means to you that would also work– but you get the idea.

What we have discovered is that when it comes to having and feeling passion, you know when you have it and you also know when you don’t.

We were just thinking about a time recently when the two of us had a misunderstanding that could have turned into an ugly situation but didn’t because neither one of us closed to the other. We kept our hearts open to each other and continued working out our differences while we went about our daily activities and work. That’s having and keeping passion for each other and for keeping our relationship alive, growing, close and connected.

Having passion can mean many things in your life and your relationship. We invite you to decide what you are passionate about having in your life and then be open to doing what you need to do to keeping it that way.

Susie and Otto Collins are Relationship Coaches and authors who help people create lives that are filled with more passion, love and connection. For more tips on turning up the heat in your love relationship, sign up for their free mini-course at
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Isn’t love the greatest feeling of all? We all love our mother, father, sister or brother, but nothing compares to the feeling of being in loved with someone. We can all talk about this feeling, but we can truly understand it once we feel it. There are now so many ways to express your feelings. And one of them is by sending love cards.

“I love you”, “I miss you”, “thinking of you” and many many other thoughts can be sent to your beloved one, to your family or friends with the help of love cards. In the unfortunate case the dear ones live far away, you now have the option to send them a card that will express your feelings to them.

But first, let’s learn something about love cards. The most popular love cards are obviously the valentine’s ones. The first love card is attributed to Charles, the Duke of Orleans. In 1415, because he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, he chose to send his thoughts to his lonely wife this way. He wrote romantic verses and sent them as small letters to his beloved one. You can see this love card, as it is preserved in the British Museum. These cards became more and more popular, that, in the 16th century, because he feared for the souls of his English flock, sermonized against them.

Years after that, by the end of the 18th century, manufactured love cards, decorated with hearts, cupids, flowers and other love signs appeared on the market. From that moment, love cards became the most popular way to show your love to someone. The love cards were hand painted, decorated with silk, laces or satin, glass filigrees, flowers, gold-leaf and even perfumed sachets. You could even consider them works of art.

The most popular love cards are obviously the Valentine’s love cards. Anyway, here is the story of Valentine’s Day. Around the year 270 The Roman Emperor Claudius-II forbade his soldiers to marry. He thought that marriage causes emotional disorders and the soldiers would concentrate less on their duties this way. At that time, a priest named Valentine saw that people suffered so he decided to perform marriages in secret. Unfortunately, Claudius found out about this and arrested the priest. After that, on 24th of February 270, Valentine was executed. Before his death in the prison, the priest Valentine wrote a love letter to his own sweetheart, Asterius, on the 14th of February, and signed it “from your Valentine”. Since that moment, these words have lived on and Valentine has been remembered for his romantic compassion.

Nowadays, you can find love cards about everywhere. There are thousands of thousands of store that sell such things. Also, the internet is probably the main source of love cards. You can find hundreds of specialized love cards. You can customize one with your message and send it to someone, or you can have one emailed to him or her. E-cards are now very popular, and you can find one on any theme: love, hate, laughs, fun, friendship and so on. They are even customized to fit all the occasions, like birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving Day, Halloween and so on.

So, don’t bother thinking on ways to show your affection to someone. It is much easier, and sometimes cuter to send someone a nice love card. You can come up with your own message, or you can choose one that already has one, and just sign it. More, you can express your feelings with funny love cards or with singing love cards. I bet your girlfriend will be impressed if you will send her a love card with a nice message and with tones of her favorite song.

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Over the centuries wedding dresses have changed, but a bride has always wanted her dress to be special, to make her look more beautiful. Centuries ago, only the rich could afford materials of red, purple, and true black; therefore, the wealthy brides would wear dresses of color adorned with jewels. The bride would actually glitter in the sunshine. The dress with flowing sleeves or a train was a status symbol, for the poor had to use material as sparingly as possible. Factory-made materials, with their lower costs, caused the lost of the original meaning of the train of a wedding gown, but it became a tradition over time.

Fashions changed from gowns of color to ones of white, or a variation of white, but since it wasn’t a practical shade for most purposes, blue became another favorite, as did pink. In the 1800’s, gray became a color for wedding gowns for brides of lower classes because the dress became re-used as the bride’s Sunday best. For those who had to wear a dress that would be used for regular occasions after the wedding, many brides would decorate the dress for the special day with temporary decorations.

The “traditional” wedding dress as known today didn’t appear until the 1800’s. By 1800, machine made fabrics and inexpensive muslins made the white dress with a veil the prevailing fashion. By the nineteenth century, a bride wearing her white dress after the wedding was accepted. Re-trimming the dress made it appropriate for many different functions.

As times passed, women’s fashions changed. Hems rose and fell, but the long dress, with or without a train, remained the length preferred by brides. Sleeve lengths and neck styles changed with the current fashions, but mainly remained modest. Full sleeves, tight sleeves, sleeveless styles came and went and came again. Simple designs to elaborate have been found over the years.

Today’s wedding dress fad appears to be the strapless dress, which looks lovely on some figures. Some brides still want styles of the past.

The main consideration for a bride-to-be is what is appropriate for her to wear. Style should match her figure and her financial means, as well as the setting for the ceremony. For example, a larger framed woman should try on the dresses she likes, and then choose one that flatters her. Every bride wants to look lovelier on that special day. If she has $500 to spend on a dress, then she shouldn’t be looking at $5,000 dresses. If the wedding is to be held in a garden, a heavily beaded dress maybe should be avoided.

Appropriateness is the key word as a bride searches for the perfect dress, whether in real life or written into a story. A full length mirror often tells the truth either place.

An author and poet on a site for Writing.Com/ Poetry Contests, Vivian Gilbert Zabel currently has three books published: Hidden Lies and Other Stories, The Base Stealers Club (using the name V.Gilbert Zabel), and Walking the Earth:. This article is submitted in affiliation with Prye.Com/ Prye.Com/ which is a site for Prye.Com/ Wedding Invitations.

Borne of the science fiction and fantasy fan scene, the subculture of Furry fandom is a thriving genre in the fetish world.

We’re not talking here of ‘plushies’, those who fetishise stuffed ‘plush’ animals like teddy bears. Nor are we referring to the Furries who enjoy a non-sexual devotion to cartoon animals from comic books and animated TV shows. Instead, we are looking at Furverts, the label given to people who sexualise their cartoon characters.

The Furvert scene emerged in the 1980s and, in the main, Furvert activity deals with creating or collecting illustrations of imaginary furry characters and/or role-playing in online sites like multi-user dungeons (MUD’s) and other interactive fan sites.

The crucial feature of furry fandom is the anthropomorphic nature of the characters. That is, fictional animals with human traits such as walking on two feet, talking and wearing clothes. If we imagine an eroticised version of Little Red Riding Hood, where the wolf walks and talks in a human fashion, and then move on from the vicarious into role-play and sexual activity, we are very close to understanding the enjoyment of the Furvert.

Some Furries scorn the adult material and activity, claiming that it gives Furry fandom a bad reputation. This is somewhat understandable given that much of the origin of a Furverts enjoyment is in material aimed at children.

However, that is to misunderstand the subculture. Whilst many furry fans are adults who enjoy themes that are considered unsuitable for children, Furvert activity is not about paedophile behaviour. To outsiders, the combination of childhood imagery and sexuality can be disturbing but Furverts have no interest in sex with children. It is about “grown up” childhood dreams and fantasies.

As well as engaging in cybersex, for the serious Furvert there are furry summer camps and conventions, where people interact with other Furverts in role, sometimes in homemade costumes known as fursuits. Interestingly, a very high percentage of the Furvert scene is comprised of gay men. Some consider this the case because one of the original convention organizers was a gay man who promoted it to the general gay community. But, there has long been an affinity between some gay men and Disney animated movies and characters. And it should also be noted that creative costuming and performing are more acceptable among men in the gay community than in the straight community.

Increasingly, Furverts are beginning to explore BDSM scenarios and BDSM fantasies, particularly pony play, where the anthropomorphic nature of furry fandom is contradicted to the extent that it is the human taking on animal traits. However, the use of bondage and other sado-masochistic behaviours in this more extreme fetish does not reflect the Furvert subculture in general. To your average Furvert the sexualised cartoon character is enough and, despite the media focus on the more extreme aspects of furry sexuality, the wealth of material reflecting this shows that not all Furverts are engaging in furry cybersex or running through the hills in their favourite Disney costume, regardless of the highly entertaining mental image that conjures up.

Claire Gaskin is a social researcher and co-founder of two successful dating sites: fetish-mate.com fetish-mate.com and music-mate.com music-mate.com