Romance Queen

One key part of ROMANCE is what motivates you to BE romantic. Google defines motivation as "the general desire or willingness of someone to do something." That being said, doing something for your special someone is not the only motivation to being romantic but the affection, admiration, love and desire to make them smile is what motivates you to WANT to do something romantic for your special someone. There are other reasons to that may motivate you to be romantic such as illness, burn out (your special someone is working too much), an argument or being in the dog house (as my father used to call it), simple interest in someone, and many more reasons. However, no matter what your MOTIVATION is, that motivation prompts you to do something for your special someone. Please note though that you do NOT want to only be romantic when your special someone is complaining that you aren't romantic or your special someone is mad at you or your special someone is about to boot y...

I hope that all of you are enjoying your holidays with your loved ones. The holidays can be such a romantic time for you and your special someone. Whether its your first holiday together or you have been spending the holidays together for years, this can be a great time to show your special someone a little bit of ROMANCE. For the holidays, take time for you and your special someone, just you and them. Show them how much you love, appreciate and cherish them on the holidays. The joy of Christmas usually involves gift giving so getting your special someone something for them and not for you, the kids and the house is something your special someone will truly appreciate. Maybe she has been admiring a beautiful necklace on a commercial or maybe she has been asking for a vacation for just the two of you. Whatever the gift, make sure it is about HER. Its not too late to shop for your special someone. I don't believe that Christmas is the only time for gift giving. Givin...

In our last post, we talked about Keys to ROMANCE. Our first Key to Romance was your Special Someone. What's important about this key is knowing who your special someone is and knowing exactly what makes your special someone happy! In order to be romantic, you have to know things about your special someone that will make them smile, have fun, and enjoy themselves. You also need to know things about them that won't ruin the romantic mood you are trying to accomplish. You have to know enough about your special someone to be creative enough to come up with ideas that make the moment all you wished for them and you.  Do you remember our Romantic Traits we discussed before? Well some of the traits listed were "simple," "sweet," and "meaningful." For our next Key to Romance we want to remember these three traits and add CREATIVE which leads us to our 2nd Key to Romance- The Romance Budget. Most of us are not millionaires. We can not pick up our da...

Over the weekend, I asked that those reading think of someone special in your life that deserves a little ROMANCE. I hope that you were able to choose in your heart (and mind) who that special someone is in your life. There are a few keys to being romantic that we need to consider before we can start being romantic with someone specifically. This discussion is also the beginning of our 101 Ways to be Romantic ideas by me!  In order to unlock romance, I want you to always consider the following five questions: Who do you want to be romantic with and how well do you know this special someone? What is your romantic budget? What is the motivation behind why why you want to be romantic? When is the right time to be romantic and do you take advantage of the opportunity to do so? How much do you care about the person you want to be romantic with? These questions do not have to be answered in any specific order, but if you can answer each one whole-heartedly and with passion...

Hello everyone, I want to wish you a great weekend filled with love. Over the weekend think about the  Romantic Traits and choose one that you feel is the easiest to master. Try something new this weekend to reflect the trait you chose. Share it with us here and on our FB page. Enjoy!

Do you remember the Wikipedia's definition of romance we discussed yesterday? It defined ROMANCE as the "expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person associated with LOVE." Love. For tonight's blog we are going to focus on what motivates romance- Love. One of my favorite Scriptures in the bible is 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. It describes love as patient, kind, bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things.  It concludes with "Love Never Fails." Then there is Colossians 3:14 that perfectly starts our conversation by declaring that "Love is a Perfect Bond of Union." LOVE is the motivation for romance and ROMANCE is the motivation for love. When you love someone you want to do things for them to show how much you care for them, how much you appreciate them, and how much you desire them to remain in your life. You want them to know how much you LOVE them through your ACT...

So what is ROMANCE? Its important for us to define it in order to do it. I'm sure if you do a Google search you will see many definitions. Some will define romance in a fairytale kind of way. Others will define it as something dry and unnecessary and others will define ROMANCE exactly how You feel it should be given credit to be. Some online definitions that I found that I personally agreed with are as follows: WikiHow defined being romantic as "unexpected and exciting ways to express your love for another person; Urbandictionary defined romance as " something simple and sweet that reminds your partner why they fell in love with you the first place" or might I add what attracted you to them in the first place; and Wikipedia said romance is the "expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person associated with love" or serious attraction or affection. Okay so lets make a list of key words that will create our li...

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I created this blog because for a while I thought romance was dead. I'm single and the last guy I dated that I could truly say was ROMANTIC was almost two years ago. He came to my door on the first date with flowers. He opened my door for me everywhere, held my hand, rubbed my feet, checked on me with sweet texts throughout the day and was a true gentleman at all times. He was ten years older than me and maybe that was the reason why he understood how important romance was. I have found that since I was in college I always liked older men at least ten years my senior and for the most part, they too, were romantic. However, at my age now I am tending to date my age or younger and the men are not as romantic. I've also talked to my girlfriends, single and in committed relationships and they also complain about the lack of romance in their relationships or that a romantic partner (some date women) is hard to find. They wish their lover/boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse did more romant...