Have The Relationship You Want

Hi – please ask away on this new post! Love, Rori

Okay – Valentine’s Day can thrill us or torture us.  We can pretend we don’t care, or we can go into a funk, or we can enjoy what we have if we’re in a relationship or have a good date, or we can make Valentine’s Day a day of love for US.

We can make it a spa day or a manicure day, or a lunch with ourselves day, or a lunch or movie with our girlfriend’s day, or a sit home with a book, or a sit in a park day…and the amazing thing is — it’s really not all that big a deal anymore.

The symbolism of the whole thing is about More…

My interviewee for this months Interview With Relationship Experts is actually 2 people – a couple – and my first time ever interviewing a couple.

Matthew and Orna Walters of CreatingLoveOnPurpose.com just got married last year, and their personal stories of being only in miserable relationships, one after the other, for all of their adult lives – and then finding each other and creating this amazing thing they have now will give you such a great feeling of hope – no matter where you’re at now.

Orna told me this full story once, and I was quite mesmerized. Now she’s written it down, and I wanted to share it with you (Orna called this “Matthew Broke My Heart” – but I wanted to make it more universal for us):

Matthew Broke My Heart…

Often times in relationship we have expectations. Sometimes we are not even aware of our expectations.

Last year for Valentine’s Day Matthew and I decided to lay low, spend the day together and keep things low-key. We didn’t go out of town, or spend a lot of money – with our wedding in October we were on a tighter budget. So after a day of bike riding and making our own pizza dough for Vegan Pizza More…