Bring connection and fun to your entertainment evening

Inviting over friends tonight?  Entertainment of TV, Cards, or one of twenty year old game titles everyone has played so many times before.  Looking for one of the best couples board games which also includes a healthy dose of connection for couples?

I found one article about couples connection on the internet.  The internet became the necessary choice after I went to Target and then Walmart and found essentially the exact same small selection of old board games.  Maybe if I was ten again there might have been one me or my company hadn’t played before, but that is not the case.  I need a game for adults that’s a fun game.  And also, one that does not involve trivia or other mindless memory crap that my wife hates.

Enter my Google search for best couples board game and up came a great choice on Amazon.com.  No shipping charges and arrived two days later.  I also checked the couples connection board game website and am linking it here.

I am happy, I hope my search helps you.  Play on – enjoy the neighbors and old friends.

Keeping men happy in a long term relationship

Relationships like the seasons of our lives have many cycles and passages.  Over time familiarity can breed predictability and cause thoughts and reactions to become patterns.  After observing a recent arrangement between two of me friends I realized that they had been together so long that they could push each others buttons like someone playing the keyboards at a heavy-metal rock concert. For me it was easy to see if they just took a little breather from the attack and defense positions and just used some of those stress reducing partner pleasing flirty dating words from days gone past they could actually stop this banal exercise in insanity.  Insanity defined in this case as ‘doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result’.  I went searching for things on the topic and came across this article, I submit it here as an interesting view on the topic.

Gender roles changing in relationships

We are all individuals when we’re single or not in a relationship.  As we join with others these dynamics slowly change as we become a couple or “item” as they say.  Our social interactions with others change from radiating “who we are” to radiating “I am couple”.

Here’s a connection to a humorous article which addresses this change as couples connect and also talks about the additional gender roles we assume once we say “I do”.

Seeing sunshine when I am mad | Anger Management

Stress when your partner does something that makes you mad.  More stressful because you have told that person how that action makes you mad.  Anger and frustration in your relationship can be managed by just looking at your partner and finding something good you feel about them.  This little action will buy your angered mind some time to get it together enough to approach your partner and get some change, or resolution, to this stressful incident. Another article which deals with using this method to achieve happy relationships is also helpful to read, and then practice until purrrrfect.

Stress at home|Let those who stress you provide relief

I know what my days are like when I come home to the kids and this article talks about that feeling.  I am going to try this stress relief method in my relationship.

Can you build community at home

Back in the ‘olde days’, circa 1900, families gathered in the parlor and played the piano, sang, read books, and performed little plays and vignettes.  That was real quality family time and real connection with family back then.  Now it’s a little different.  Getting all together in the living room is very hard and then finding something everyone likes to do is almost impossible.  A new social activity is bringing those days back.  Connect to this article and read how.  http://dotellthegame.com/blog/family-relationships/building-community-at-home-–-connecting-parents-partners-and-kids/

Compare social networking to being there has moved…

I found this article speaks to some of the concerns of communication today.  Is anyone listening.  Even as I write this I realize I am just putting it out there as a one way communication.  Like Facebook, texting and twitter there is really a “posting of the message” and you have no idea how many people have read it or care.  This article looks at some of the other choices to socially network with friends and new people.  It might surprise readers to learn that communication is really a two way activity. http://dotellthegame.com/blog/singles-relationships/hello-social-networks-is-anyone-really-out-there-is-anyone-listening/

Better family communication with grandparents

The time worn expression printed on every family game is “Fun for the Whole Family”.  Well, I don’t think so!  Fun means that you are actually having fun playing with the kids and the parents.  A new game released on Amazon.com features the unique ability to asks both “Doing” and “Telling” questions that challenge all ages with fun real life affirming chances to share their life’s history and beliefs with others.

http://dotellthegame.com/blog/family-relationships/making-family-visits-to-grandparents-fun-for-all-how-to-connect-across-generations/

Improve college students social networking

College students are busy enough doing their studies and still finding time to FaceBook, Twitter and text each other with the smallest of things.  Parents have always been concerned with the new fangled methods of communicating with each other.  But now, possibly the technical aspects of the new tools is actually reducing the communication between those young adults.  Here’s a look at a new communication tool that students can play in the dorm with their roommates and with new friends.  Interesting new game is a winner for college students.  http://dotellthegame.com/blog/games-for-students/a-fun-way-for-college-students-to-connect-and-network/

Family Therapist talks new tools increase communication

Here’s a family therapist’s look at some new tools used to increase communication among couples and family members.  Read on for the details and experiences. http://dotellthegame.com/blog/tools-for-therapists/a-licensed-marriage-and-family-therapist-talks-about-do-tell-teaches-communication/