What can I do to get my ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend back?


Editorial comment: Here’s an article that gives several tips on relationships, specifically boyfriend-girlfriend-fiancee relationships. What’s said even applies to cases where a marriage has ended, with some serious thoughts about how to rekindle that relationship for those who desire it. I highly recommend a source dealing specifically with preserving and even rekindling love relationships/marriages/etc., called “The Magic of Making Up.” If this article makes sense to you. be sure and check out that resource.

Are you asking “What can I do to get my ex boyfriend back” at every turn? Here are some tips that will greatly improve your chances of getting back together with your ex boyfriend (or girlfriend).

Obviously right now you are serious about saving or rekindling your relationship, which is what led you to this article in the first place. But if you are feeling overly anxious to get your ex back, you may be behaving in the wrong way, causing your ex to pull away naturally. It is human nature in general to resist this kind of pressure. Struggling against human nature is completely pointless, and it will only make matters worse.

Are you calling your ex too much, constantly writing him e-mails or text messaging him? Are you trying to make him feel sorry for you? If you are doing these things, stop! If you are asking yourself “What can I do to get my ex boyfriend back,” then you need to stop doing these things right now.

So what can I do to get my ex boyfriend back? Follow this strategy instead:

You are going to need to take a completely fresh approach. Begin by breaking contact off for a while, doing your own thing. During this time where there is no communication between you and your ex boyfriend, you can focus on ways that you can improve your own personal life, rather than focusing on the relationship issues at hand. This is going to be a challenging time, and it is going to require discipline to prevent you from returning to your old ways.

During this time, your ex is going to experience a shift in how he feels about you, since you will no longer be pursuing him. You may become mysterious to him in some ways, because he is not sure what you are doing or feeling. This is actually something that can work in your favor. Now your ex is in a position to actually miss you, which is not possible when you are smothering him.

You must remember that the key to this strategy and repairing a break up is to work with human nature rather than attempting to work against it. If you are wondering “What can I do to get my ex boyfriend back,” now you should have a fairly basic understanding on how common mistakes can be avoided. Once you implement this basic strategy you can restore a balance and allow your ex to remember why he loved you in the first place.

Just keep yourself grounded and avoid smothering him. Make yourself appear mysterious and he will be reminded why he loved you in the first place. Play hard to get (don’t over do it) and let him make the first move, and you will come out on top. And then you will stop asking “What can I do to get my ex boyfriend back?”

Make sense? Then I urge you to check out this excellent, detailed resource: “The Magic of Making Up.” (Great tips also for saving and reviving a marriage!)

Tobacco bill nears approval in Senate; puzzling opposition


I read in our local newspaper this morning that important legislation to control tobacco products is just about to pass the Senate, after an alternate plan by tobacco state senators was defeated.

The main element in the legislation is to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory powers over tobacco products, i.e., primarily FDA control over cigarette contents. The two senators (what a surprise — both were from North Carolina) who offered alternative legislation said, according to the article I read in this morning’s paper, were concerned that FDA regulation would “hamper the development of safer tobacco products.”

Uh, what?

Let me get this straight — their reasoning (?) says the agency in charge of regulating and approving everything from an over-the-counter fat loss pill to the prescription medication my wife takes to lower her cholesterol levels will somehow make it HARDER to develop “safer” tobacco products??

Really, folks, let’s tell it like it is: The two senators from North Carolina are from the leading tobacco producing state in the nation. They may legitimately be concerned about job losses and business losses in their state. They may also be concerned about lobbying and campaign donations from big tobacco interests. But FDA hindrance of safer tobacco products is very likely not on their list of real concerns.

That’s my sermonette for today, I guess. Hope you’re having a great day and a great week.

Supplements or prescription drugs? Which to try when?


Let me preface my comments with this “disclaimer”: I am not a doctor, a pharmacist, nurse, or any sort of health care professional, so my comments here are strictly my opinions or understandings. You should NEVER quit taking or modify the way you are taking a prescription drug without consulting a doctor or other health care professional.

Don’t you hate going to a blog, whether you’re looking for the best diet pill you can find or information about some disease — only to find that the blog is simply hashed together material that’s half truth, half fiction, with no way to be sure about the difference? Well, that disclaimer above is so you’ll know exactly what you’re getting here — my opinions and what I’ve read/heard, but not “gospel truth” about anything medical. So don’t forget that!

To my question in the title — do you use supplements and/or prescription drugs for anything? Have you tried both or either for an ongoing health issue you may be facing, and if so, how has that done for you?

I bring all this up because my health exam last week (see the previous post here) showed that I have what’s called BPH — an enlarged prostate gland. The doctor has prescribed a very expensive prescription drug to treat the symptoms of it, even though he knows I have no health insurance to cover the cost.

But what puzzled me was this: In the course of the exam, he told me BPH can be treated with an over-the-counter supplement called “saw palmetto.” Yet when he mailed me the results of the blood tests which confirmed the BPH condition we had spoken about, he made no mention of saw palmetto, merely including the written prescription for the expensive drug.

Calling his office and speaking with his nurse has, so far, brought no callback from the doctor with any clarification.

For now, I’m going with the saw palmetto and foregoing the expensive prescription. Hopefully, I’ll get the confusion cleared up soon. Meanwhile, to echo that old television cliche: “Kids, under no circumstances try this at home.” Or something like that.