Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness

Your ~ing thoughts sound like this: “Take a nap.” “Don’t psycho-call him, it’s 2 AM.” “Stop eating.” “Put down the drink and go home.” “Get off of Facebook—you love yourself more than that.”

When you have passion, fire and romance in your friendships, why do you need to grasp for it in a lover? Sure, you can have both—but why not let your friendships be equally as passionate? Let romance have no boundaries. Let passionate love surface in all of your relationships.

I, Michelle, am willing to change my patterns in romantic relationships. I commit to seeing my partner as equal to everything and everyone else I love in my life. I promise not to make an idol of him, and to honor him for his inner greatness rather than his frame. I forgive myself and him for my ego’s illusions. From this day forward, I commit to t

The days where I’ve put my work, relationships, money, whatever, before my ~ing are days that life stops flowing.

Believe it or not, it’s best to brush yourself off and have compassion for those who have hurt you.

The Course teaches that when the opportunities to learn are over, the relationship will be replaced by something better (and new opportunities for learning).

Equation. Let go of the rope and expect miracles!

Special Relationships A big no-no in romance is casting your partner as an idol. Lessons from the Course have taught me to “see beyond all idols.” When you idolize a romantic partner, you turn them into your only source of happiness. Without them you feel incomplete. This is a nightmare. The Course teaches, “It is never the idol that you want, but

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She had everything I wanted in all areas of her life. (Note: when people have what you want, do what they do.)