Many couples find that they would like to spice up their love life in the bedroom.  Until very recently these couples would linger in the routine, being afraid to broach the subject of changing up their love life with toys and other goodies.  The sexual revolution has led to such innovations as the sex party and reputable companies like, Pure Romance which cater to the couple in need. 

Pure Romance is a company that provides a kind of sexual couples therapy in the form of toys and other goodies to spice up their love life and make sex just less painful and more pleasurable overall.

The products from Pure Romance can’t be found in most local stores.  However, the company does offer them at their online store at: www.pureromance.com.  You can also find them at the many Pure Romance parties being held around the country.  Anyone can host a party to introduce these Pure Romance products to their guests. 

Pure Romance also provides their party hosts with a percentage commission based on the total price of all the products that are sold at their party.  So, Pure Romance parties are a great way for couples to spice up their love life and to pick up a little extra cash if they are the hosts!

This company also features products for singles of both genders.  If you are just feeling a little lonely or want to explore new realms on your own, you’ll find something that suits you at Pure Romance.

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It’s been a banner year for Hollywood couples in 2007.  You’ll remember that Brittany and K-Fed broke up, Angelina Jolie added to her family and Madonna adopted a child from Africa. 

Now, the Top Ten Hottest Hollywood Couples have been selected by ChinaDaily.com.  You can bet the world has been watching the past year’s events in Hollywood and they’ve decided which are the hottest romantic couples. 

Number 10 in the selection of top ten Hollywood Couples is Eva Longoria and NBA Star, Tony Parker. 

Number 9 is Paris Hilton and Stavros Niarchos.  Hollywood couple number 8 is Harrison Ford & Calista Flockhart.  Who knew that these two folks would get together?  Indiana Jones is doing pretty good for his sixties!

Couple number 7 for 2007 is Lindsay Lohan & Harry Morton.  Fabulous Hollywood couple number 6 is Jessica Alba and Cash Warren.  Hollywood Couple number 6 is Keira Knightly and Robert Flender. 

Another hottie naughty couple that comes in at number 4 on the list of hottest Hollywood couples is Orlando Bloom and Kate Bosworth.  The previously mentioned Angelina Jolie came in number 3 on the list with her love toy Brad Pitt.

Another strange union comes in at Number 2 with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.  Last but certainly not least, the number 1 hottest Hollywood couple is Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.  These two love birds just had their first baby in the past year and are still in the honeymoon phase of their marriage.  Of course they are still very much in the public eye.

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In the spirit of the New Year you can easily put together some romantic tips to keep in mind for 2008.  Come up with your own romantic guidelines to ring in the New Year with or use some of these great tips to serve you well in love and marriage.

1. Take a special day together once a month.  Keep the fires burning in your marriage this year with a romantic day or two with your loved one each month.

2. Learn how to argue.  It’s important to know how to argue well and healthily in a relationship.  Take a few minutes this year to refresh yourself in the healthy way to argue without hurting your relationship.  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/health/02well.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

3. Get a small calendar and write down all of your spouse’s and children’s important occasions for 2008.  This includes anniversaries and birthdays.  Then place the calendar somewhere you’ll see it everyday, like on the visor of your car.  You’ll be a hero for remembering all those occasions this year!

4. Resolve to keep any promises and agreements you’ve made to your spouse for 2008.  If you are afraid you’ll forget, write them down!  This can be anything from spending more time with the family to cutting down on alcohol.

5. Make sure you plan for your family’s future in 2008.  Look over your IRA, health, car and house insurance plans and look at life insurance to keep your family in stable finances in case the worst happens.

These romantic tips can serve you well as your New Years’ Resolutions in 2008.

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Romantic Sayings are wonderful quotes that can inspire one on to further and more romantic acts or thoughts of their own.  So, let’s take a look at some great sayings on the topics of love and marriage.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

In other words, Emerson is saying that the past and the future are insignificant compared to that immaterial nature in each of us.  This can apply to a love situation, meaning that the love you share with someone is more important than all of the matters of and concerns that the past and the future bring.  It can also apply to the individual spirit and will power we each contain.

To live is like to love -
all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct for it.
~ by Samuel Butler, Life and love ~

This is an interesting romantic saying.  It’s basically saying that loving is like living because all reason is against it.  Perhaps when one thinks about the miracle of life it can seem illogical and against practical reasoning?  Yet, we all have a healthy instinct for living, and so do we also have an instinct for love as much as we do for breathing.

Here’s one more romantic saying for you to interpret yourselves readers!

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ by Bruce Lee ~

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In the spirit of love and marriage, I’ve looked up a romantic love poem by the classic writer, Edgar Allan Poe. 

ANNABELLE LEE 

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

This romantic love tale is hauntingly lyrical and will make a great poem about love and marriage to read at bedtime.

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Welcome to a Merry Christmas Eve friends!  I wanted to share a few romantic stories with you over the next couple of days to help brighten your mood for the holidays. 

Christian marriage partners in particular will enjoy the following story about how God works in mysterious ways.  It’s not about a couple falling in love, but is such an inspiring story I thought I’d present it to you. 

Caller ID is posted over at Christmaswithlove.com.  It’s author is unknown.  After reading be sure to let me know, do you think this romantic story is based on a real event or is a creative piece of fiction?

Caller ID

God works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He? Isn’t it amazing how God works in our lives! On a Saturday night several weeks ago, this pastor was working late, and decided to call his wife before he left for home.

It was about 10:00 PM, but his wife didn’t answer the phone. The pastor let the phone ring many times. He thought it was odd that she didn’t answer, but decided to wrap up a few things and try again in a few minutes.

When he tried again she answered right away. He asked her why she hadn’t answered before, and she said that it hadn’t rung at their house.
They brushed it off as a fluke and went on their merry ways. The following Monday, the pastor received a call at the church office, which was the phone that he’d used that Saturday night.

The man that he spoke with wanted to know why he’d called on Saturday night. The pastor couldn’t figure out what the man was talking about. Then the man said, “It rang and rang, but I didn’t answer.” The pastor remembered the mishap and apologized for disturbing him, explaining that he’d intended to call his wife.
 
The man said, “That’s, OK. Let me tell you my story. You see, I was planning to commit suicide on Saturday night, but before I did, I prayed, ‘God if you’re there, and you don’t want me to do this, give me a sign now.’ At that point my phone started to ring. I looked at the caller ID, and it said, ‘Almighty God’. I was afraid to answer!”

The reason why it showed on the man’s caller ID that the call came from “Almighty God” is because the church that the pastor attends is called Almighty God Tabernacle!!

For other romantic stories this holiday season be sure to drop in at Christmaswithlove.com. http://www.christmaswithlove.com/caller_id.html

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It’s getting to be Christmas in just a few days and beyond the need for family, there is a need to spend time with your romantic lover. Perhaps you could sit back and read this romantic love story to encourage feelings of love and marriage bliss during your holiday.

Mathematical Aphrodisiac by Alex Galt

In the days when John and I used to break up all the time, we made a decision to see each other only casually. Dates were okay, but no more than once a week. We were going to lead separate lives, getting together occasionally when the spirit moved us, but without worrying about commitment.

One day at the beginning of this period, we were sitting together on the floor of John’s one-room apartment. He was knitting himself a sweater and I was reading Fermat’s Last Theorem. Every now and then, I’d interrupt his knitting to read him passages from my book.

“Did you ever hear of amicable numbers? They’re like perfect numbers, but instead of being the sum of their own divisors, they’re the sum of each other’s divisors. In the Middle Ages people used to carve amicable numbers into pieces of fruit. They’d eat the first piece themselves and then feed the other one to their lover. It was a mathematical aphrodisiac. I love that - a mathematical aphrodisiac.” John showed little interest. He doesn’t like math much. Not like I do. It was one more reason for us to be casual.

Christmas fell during this period, and since I hate to shop, I was glad to be able to cross John off my shopping list. We were too casual for presents. While I was shopping for my grandmother, however, I saw a cryptic crossword puzzle book and bought it for John. We had always worked on the cryptic crossword puzzles at the back of The Nation, and for five bucks I figured I could give it to him.

When Christmas rolled around, I handed John the book - unwrapped, very casual. He didn’t give me anything at all. I wasn’t surprised, but my feelings were a little hurt, even though I wasn’t supposed to care. The next day, John invited me over to his apartment. “I have your Christmas present” he said. “Sorry it’s late.”

He handed me an awkwardly wrapped bundle. When I pulled it open, a rectangle of hand-knit fabric fell on my lap. I picked it up and looked at it, completely confused. One side had the number 124,155 knitted into it; the other side had 100,485. When I looked up at John again, he was barely able to contain his excitement anymore. “They’re amicable numbers,” he said. “I wrote a computer program and let it run for twelve hours. These were the biggest ones I found, and then I double-knit them in. It’s a potholder. I couldn’t give it to you last night but I still haven’t figured out how to cast off. It’s kind of geeky, but I thought you might like it.”

After that Christmas, we were a lot of things, but we weren’t casual anymore. The ancient mathematical aphrodisiac had worked again.

This story came from the site, My Dear Valentine. http://www.mydearvalentine.com/love-stories/short-romantic-love-story.html  Head over there for more interesting romantic love stories.

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Romantic love can sometimes feel the strain of the holiday season, leaving loving couples in the lurch.  You may be courting a new love these days and getting ready to introduce him or her to your family between greetings and dinner.  Or you may be dragging your partner along, grumbling and unwilling.  However, you get your partner to visit with the family for the first time over the Christmas season here are a few tips you can keep in mind to help ease the strain of these introductions on your relationship.

Keep it light!  This is merely the first time your family and your romantic love partner will be meeting for the holidays so don’t use it as a time to reveal deep secrets.  Keep the conversations light.  If possible, go over possible discussion topics with your partner so they don’t get that deer in the headlights look and blurt something inappropriate during dinner.

Explain your family!  Yours is a special kind of romantic love that can withstand anything, right?  However, it’s always a good idea to explain some of the more unique quirks of your family to your loved one before you head over for dinner.  The new guy may be expected to bring the beer.  Or the fact that Uncle Fred likes kissing everyone and anyone who makes the mistake of standing under the mistletoe.  This may be something as common as the fact that your family holds a little prayer before the meal and he or she as the guest may be asked to say the blessings this time around.

Put your family on notice.  Tell the family ahead of time that you will be bring your romantic love partner to the holiday dinner, but they have to be nice.  No interrogations, no teasing and no ignoring your special friend.

Follow these three simply tips and you’ll be sure to cut back on those awkward moments and lover’s spat’s over who’s family is worse.

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Romantic Love Poems are beautiful expressions of that deeper feeling, that idealistic, ever optimistic exultation called, romantic love.  I’ve decided to look up a couple of the more popular romantic love poems available at a site called; http://www.lovepoemsandquotes.com/

The first is a more religious themed one, but I’ve got more if it doesn’t suit.

I Asked God

I asked God for a flower, he gave me a bouquet
I asked God for a minute, he gave me a day
I asked God for true love, he gave me that too
I asked for an angel and he gave me you.

- John Raine –

This following romantic love poem is one man’s discourse on all the reasons why…

My Sweetheart

So often when I am embracing you,
It seems that you exist in this world
only because of me and I exist because of you.

It’s not easy to wander in this world
and not lose one’s way,
but the greatest happiness of all
is in giving joy to one’s beloved.

And if the king can have his throne,
and if the bird can have his Spring nest,
and God can have his heaven,
then I, my sweetheart, I can have you!

- Jonathan Townsend -

This last poem is one lover’s attempt to describe the sensations his love evokes.

Never Have I Fallen

Your lips speak soft sweetness
Your touch a cool caress
I am lost in your magic
My heart beats within your chest

I think of you each morning
And dream of you each night
I think of your arms being around me
And cannot express my delight

Never have I fallen
But I am quickly on my way
You hold a heart in your hands
That has never before been given away

- Rex A. Williams –

I enjoy this site in particular because the love poems featured are both from famous poets, and the submissions of lovers all over the world.  Click on over and check it out.

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I’ve started reading a very old and well worn collection of O. Henry stories last night.  O. Henry is a writer well known for his tales of serendipity and humor.  He also has a few really great romantic stories for couples to read to each other or make as a gift for the holidays. 

Perhaps one of O. Henry’s most well-known romantic stories is, ‘The Gift of the Magi’.  It’s a short tale about a newly married couple celebrating the Christmas holiday.  I’m sure most of you have been forced to read this story while still in school at some point.  However, it makes a wonderful holiday story to revisit with your partner. 

The newlyweds in O. Henry’s tale are basically broke, something which we’ve all been through, yet still want to give each other a gift.  So the wife sells her long shining hair for enough money to buy her husband a set of expensive watch straps for his watch and the husband sells his watch for a set of beautiful combs for his wife’s hair.  Oh the irony!  When they both exchange gifts for the holiday, the newlywed couple realizes humorously that the most important part of the holiday is the meaning behind their gifts.

Another good story you should check out of O. Henry’s is, ‘The Third Ingredient’.  It’s another romantic story that combined with ‘The Gift of the Magi’ makes for a couple of great romantic bedtime stories.  I won’t get too involved in the plot, but a woman’s quest for the ingredients in a beef stew end up bringing two young lovers together.

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