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BLISS Seminars Create Winning Relationships!

When you first met your spouse, you were head-over-heels in love, your stomach was full of butterflies; you couldn't eat or sleep.

Then something changed.

Who knew it wouldn’t last? Get the feeling back – NOW. At a BLISS seminar!

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Marriage Matters: Marriage, the magic wonder drug

What if there were a magic wonder drug that could confer all of the following benefits:

Increase life expectancy
Lower a cancer patient's risk of dying from the disease
Lower a surgical patient's risk of dying in the hospital
Strengthen the immune system
Decrease rates of schizophrenia, alcoholism and suicide

Conversations with the Rabbi

Teenagers killed off the dinosaurs....

Let me tell you the problem I have with evolution.

First, I don't have a problem with frogs coming from fish, and I don’t have a problem with birds evolving from lizards.

I don’t even have a problem with dogs evolving from scummy divorce lawyers (my latest pet peeve).

My problem with evolution is this: How can anyone think teenagers evolved from anything?

The whole concept of evolution is that the previous species is inferior to later ones. That would mean, the previous incarnation of teenagers was worse than the ones we have now.

I just find that hard to believe.

Anyone who has experienced these precious moments of teen-parent angst knows what I mean:

• The Look, as in, “I can’t believe you and I are related.” Where do they learn that? It must be in the DNA. How can teenagers all over the world spontaneously know what look to do? Do they go to school for that? What-ever!

• The ever-amusing “I hate you, and can you drop me off at the mall with your credit card” combo. Funny how they fail to see the irony in that.

• The classic line, “You are the reason I need therapy!”

All of this makes it hard for me to conceive of a human-like species worse than a teenager.

So, I submit that teenagers must have killed off the dinosaurs. Life in Jurassic Park got too comfortable, the kids grew up, the livin’ was easy, and the world entered the Teenagic Period.

A new generation of dinosaurs evolved, the Teenagosaurus. This genus was so self-absorbed and impervious to reason, that the dinosaurs couldn’t survive it. The only way for life to go on was to evolve, because the only thing worse than a teenager, is a teenager with big teeth.

The question now is, are we going to survive?

For “Surviving The Teenage Years,” click on the artistsre-enactment: "End of the species." In this tragic father-sondinosaur scene you see father dinosaur trying in vain to explain to his“evolved” teenage son that if we are to survive as a species, you can'tsleep till 2 p.m. The son doesn't listen, of course, perhaps becauseMr. Dinosaur is unable to wave his useless little arms in protest. So, in the end, they became extinct.

Seminars & Events

About BLISS Seminars

BLISS uses a powerful, modern, multi-media presentation to demonstrate how key skills can be used to sustain healthy, respectful, loving relationships.

BLISS doesn't require people to learn anything new, rather, we show couples how to use the tools they already know to improve communication and produce a more successful, satisfying, nurturing marriage or relationship.

The BLISS program is comprised of eight sessions, including this sample:

In our Marriage and Parenting session couples are presented with an introduction to expectations which demonstrates how to get beyond the “happily-ever-after” fantasies and build on skills they already have to become better partners and parents and create blissful realities.
The “What If I Married the Wrong Person?” session allows couples to delve more deeply into expectations and dispel the myth that there is something intrinsically wrong with their choice of partner. Couples also explore ways to better understand their role as a spouse and parent.
BLISS’ Enjoying Your Role session provides an opportunity for couples to fine-tune techniques for listening, talking and examining issues differently, in order to get past those issues and find the bliss in their relationship.
Finally, in the Sex and Intimacy session couples learn how to value their partners’ needs in ways that promote deeper intimacy and healthy love-making.

Check out the next available session, clck here.