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Jewish Marriage advice

"Don't marry a beautiful person. They may leave you. Of course, an ugly person may leave you too, but who cares?"

Marriage is a three ring circus:

*Engagement ring
*Wedding ring
*Suffering

Married men live longer than single men.
But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Any married man should forget his mistakes...
No use in two people remembering the same thing.

Being happy doesn't mean that you are always up and bubbling over with enthusiasm every moment of every day. No; it simply means that your Happiness compass is working just fine and it will always help you find your way there, regardless of what happens in your life.

In our society there seems to be an implicit message that we should feel good at all times (and at all cost...) and furthermore, that we should somehow always strive to achieve that ideal. Holding that notion as dogma does much to usurp our eventual happiness.

When bad things happen, it is a normal reaction to be unhappy as a result. Melancholy should be embraced as the healer that it is. It should not be hurried, for it does its job in due time. As joyous as I am, I have had moments of extreme pain, when I just cried for days (the ending of my second marriage for example). I embraced my melancholy as the grieving necessary in order to get to the other side. Losing precious people from your life - that's another deep cause for pain. I still cry every Father's Day. It is not a good day for me on that celebrated occasion, for I still miss my father, and he's been gone for about a decade. Father's Day I cry, but the next day I feel like myself again.

Being happy is not about the facade, or the "Ra-Ra!!" Being happy means that you eventually adjust to whatever losses you incur throughout your life and you eventually reach your way back to finding joy in every day life. There is a miracle in living!

What are your thoughts on this?

Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Connection Join me on the Optimist Group!

The Art of Being Happy

The Art of Being Happy - Part II

The Art of Being Happy - Part III - Divine Guidance:

With rental rates at a minimum and the Sun shining in full force, why not spend this holiday in Myrtle Beach?

You can have an oceanfront condo for only $40 per night. With over 1,000 restaurants, countless nightclubs, theaters, golf and shopping opportunities, why go anywhere else?

Come spend your Winter Holidays in Myrtle Beach! To entice you even further, here are some pictures taken within the past few days. Enjoy!

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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but a man that can make you laugh everyday, ah, now THAT'S a real treat' Joanne Woodward - married to Paul Newman for over 40 years.

It recently dawned on me that I've always been attracted to men who could make me laugh. Several other women I know put that requirement high on the priority and desirability list, so I've done some Internet investigating and guess what? Laughter IS considered an APHRODISIAC.

"Everyone knows that a ‘good sense of humor' GSOH, is one of the most desirable attributes in a relationship, and that's why we include Laughter Yoga sessions on our Flirting Weekends", says Julie Whitehead, London Laughter Leader and Happiness Couch. Her popular workshops called "Flirting Weekends" are offered in London, as part of Laughter Leader Training.

Julie calls laughter the ‘social glue' - it binds people together and once you have shared a deep, belly laugh with someone, eyes meeting, tears streaming down your face, you have connected at a very deep level indeed! Laughter releases endorphins, the body's' feel good chemicals, giving us a natural high, and it also reduces the stress hormone cortisol. In addition the body's immune system is boosted by up to an amazing 40% after a good bout of laughter. The immune system helps to fight disease and keeps us fit and healthy.

Other health benefits are that the circulation and respiratory systems are stimulated, the abdominals get a really good work out, "a flush come to my face and my heart begins to beat" as Peter Sellers would say and we notice that little twinkle in the eye which is so attractive to the opposite sex.

More information on Julie's web page www.laughteryoga.co.uk or e mail londonlaughter@aol.com

On the other side of the Atlantic, more precisely in Aptos, CA, The Laughing Sex Institute has just released the most exhaustive study ever conducted to discover the hidden secrets of how lovers get laughing together in bed.

The results are conclusive. We love people we laugh with! It's called Belly Laugh Bonding. The Institute offers a course titled: "Comic Sutra Laughing and Loving". You can check out their website for that course and other educational opportunities at: LaughingSex.com.

Yakov Smirnoff, the comedian, is bringing his philosophy on life to campus in the form of a mini-course called "Living Happily Ever Laughter." Participants get an actual college credit and the class had to be expanded due to its popularity. The class will offer "several important points," Smirnoff said. "It teaches stages of relationships and establishes the importance of laughter and laughter as a communication skill. It will also establish and teach how to use laughter as an aphrodisiac, laughter as a barometer of your relationship."

In "Why Women Aren't Funny" Christopher Hitchens posits that men feel way more pressure to be funny then women.

"If you can stimulate her to laughter-I am talking about that real, out-loud, head-back, mouth-open-to-expose-the-full-horseshoe-of-lovely-teeth, involuntary, full, and deep-throated mirth; the kind that is accompanied by a shocked surprise and a slight (no, make that a loud) peal of delight-well, then, you have at least caused her to loosen up and to change her expression. I shall not elaborate further".

Is Laughter an Aphrodisiac? What's your take on the subject?

Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection Join The Optimist Group!

I have to admit it I was having fun!

We arrived in Myrtle Beach and really had no set plans. Well we saw that they had Nascar races (mini Nascar) and we just had to go.

We got tickets for the kids and mom and I watched them race around the track! It really looked like fun and my daughter (who is very sweet and generous) offered me her last ticket.

I said no, but she insisted that I try it and that I would have fun.

So I did and you you can tell by the photo "Dad was having fun!"

We are never to old to have fun, especially with our kids!

Enjoy!