I’ve just celebrated my 19th anniversary recently. Let me share with you: 19 Secrets To My Successful Relationship
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@abymaelx In our Asian culture, we place a lot of respect to our teachers. They are like our parents in the classroom. We have teachers appreciation day. And we keep in touch with our teachers decades after we have left school.
Today someone new was sharing about her marriage. How it’s falling apart. Her religion and her belief system. It’s not something you hear often but she beliefs her soulmate should be a dog.
I told her I don’t judge anyone’s belief nor what’s been happening in their marriage and past.
What I want to see is successful relationships. Happiness deep inside them.
So long as their belief system doesn’t involve child rāpe, torture and human sacrifice, it’s not my place to opine.
I just want to see my fellow humans live a life full of love, peace and harmony with themselves and people and nature around them. The rest is just noise.
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My son just asked me “Mummy, is there anything that is universally loved?” Like everyone in the world?
I said most probably sunrise and/or sunsets. Well, I do anyway.
What do you think?
Cats? Dogs? Chocolate? Flowers? Music?
🌊 Grief is funny like that.
Two months ago we said goodbye to our beloved Lyra. Today I’m on holiday by the Atlantic, toes in the sand, listening to the gentle waves… when a simple like and comment on an old X post about putting her to sleep hit me like a wave. I started sobbing right here on the beach.
Grief doesn’t follow a schedule. It sneaks up in the quiet moments, triggered by the most innocent things. One minute you’re breathing, the next you’re remembering the way she’d lean into you.
I’m learning to let the tears come when they need to - even on holiday, even surrounded by beauty.
Healing isn’t linear, and that’s okay.
If you’re carrying grief too (pet, person, or any kind of loss), be gentle with yourself today.
Those sudden waves don’t mean you’re not healing - they just mean you have loved deeply and been deeply loved . ❤️
Sending softness to anyone who needs it right now.
#TheLoveArchitect #GriefJourney #PetLoss #HealingHeart
Just have to share this moment. My newly blossomed soon to be 16 year old autistic son is learning plumbing from his Biologist-Data Scientist dad who’s pretty DIY handy.
He says he’s keen to work offshore in some kind of tech role. He’s really good in Chemistry and Physics.
Dad is now talking to him about work possibilities in those fields: heating engineering, plumbing, pipings, etc.
My autistic brother is a specialist underwater electrical engineer and is inspiring him to explore more too.
Sunday is a day of love and learning. And we are packing to move so its a good learning time.
It was an indescribable feeling to be able to party with our adult daughter! She started going to @glastonbury with us as a 3 year old and until GCSE meant she wanted to stay home. Now she’s a 25 year old independent woman in STEM and we finally get to sing and dance with her again! 🥰
🎡❤️ Weekend memories from The Love Architect
We just got back from our yearly ‘pilgrimage’ to the @IsleOfWightFestival and it was pure magic again.
What started as a boys’ weekend tradition for my husband and our mutual best buddy has beautifully evolved into a massive family get-together. Last year we had 4 couples + bestie’s extended family (his sister, husband and their 2 daughters and their partner).
This year, two of us couples brought our adult children along. Camping together at Pink Moon, sharing meals and drinks, dancing, laughing, and talking deep into the night… watching the next generation make their own memories while we created new ones as a bigger tribe.
We had 3 days of costume themes. Saturday was IOW’s official Science Fiction/Space theme and our group mostly went with Star Wars. Friday was Sparkly/Sequins. Sunday was meant to be Goth and I was the only one following the memo (no thanks to extreme heat!) 🤭
No one was alone. We took care of each other. We supported one another. We entertained each other between performances and we sang to our hearts content till I lost my voice.
Next year’s tickets are secured and this time, one more of our adult daughter is joining us. And the other couples kid are joining too! I can’t wait for 2027.
There’s something so special about traditions that grow with you, from couple adventures to multi-generational joy. Grateful for these moments that stitch our family closer.
What’s a tradition in your life (big or small) that’s evolved beautifully over the years? Share below 👇 I love hearing these stories!
#TheLoveArchitect #IsleOfWightFestival #FamilyMemories #LoveTravelThursday #MakingMemories
Jo Frost speaks some truth there. I am a Gen X parent to 4 ND Gen Z kids and I parent them the way I was raised. To be independent, to have life skills. My philosophy is what kind of adult will I put out into this world? I think some parents make the mistake of wanting to save their children from mistakes or hardships that they end up doing the very thing that will make this happen in their kids future. We just need to strike a balance. Love is nurturing but also letting go.
☀️ Good morning, beautiful souls ❤️
Tuesday reset question from The Love Architect:
What’s one small thing you can do today to make your partner (or future partner) feel truly seen and appreciated?
In our 26+ year marriage, it’s rarely the big gestures that keep the love strong - it’s the daily micro-moments. A genuine “how was your day?”, a surprise note, or really listening without jumping to fix things.
My husband and I still make time for a warm good morning hug with real eye contact before the day rushes in - it sets such a good tone. 5 seconds hug is all the body needs to get chemicals in balance.
Drop your idea below 👇 Let’s fill this feed with simple, doable love today!
#TheLoveArchitect #LongTermLove #MarriageAdvice #RelationshipGoals
❤️ Proud mum moment from The Love Architect
Today my second daughter finished her Pure Maths A-level paper. Tomorrow is her final Physics one - and then she’s done with formal schooling, two years behind her peers after everything we’ve been through.
Multiple international moves, Covid, puberty, and being neurodivergent hit her mental health hard… but she kept going. 1/5
❤️ A Feel-Good Love Story from the StoryCorps Archive.
Danny, a clerk at an Off-Track Betting office in Brooklyn, proposed to Annie- a nurse - on their very first date. She said yes!
For nearly 30 years, their love was full of laughter, ordinary joys, and deep devotion. When Danny was diagnosed with terminal cancer, they sat down for one last StoryCorps interview.
His words about Annie still melt hearts: he described their life together with such poetry and gratitude.
Even in his final days, their bond was a beautiful reminder that real love is about showing up fully - through the everyday and the hardest moments. ❤️
Stories like Danny & Annie’s make you believe in the power of choosing each other again and again.
What’s a love story (from your life, family, or something you’ve heard) that always gives you that warm “aww” feeling? Share below — I’d love to read them! 👇
#TheLoveArchitect #LongTermLove #LoveStories #StoryCorps
😂 The odds of landing in a fight with a kangaroo right after parachuting to the ground are pretty low…
But if you're in Australia, apparently they're never zero.
Please do not forget that every human needs a physical connection. Online and social media can never replace real physical connection. In lieu of touch, kind loving words sometimes can heal a broken heart.
I have a friend who’s just been told her breast cancer has now spread all over and doesn’t have much time left. She is a mother to a special needs child with complex need.
She called me crying and saying sorry to burden me with her tears. I told her there is nothing in this world that can stop me from answering a much needed call from one mother to another. No matter how busy or difficult my life is at that time.
She is not afraid to die she said, as a Muslim she is prepared. But what broke my heart is she not prepared to leave her mentally young SN child. Especially as her marriage was rocked by infidelity at the start of her cancer diagnosis.
There are no words I can give that can soothe her at this point in time. Only my love, companionship over the phone (we live in different countries) and empathy.
If you know someone who’s facing any difficulties in life, do make an effort to reach out to them even if it’s for a chat. You don’t know how much that simple call can mean to them.
#TheLoveArchitect #Friendship #Love #LoveThroughHardships
Save this! What drug does your mind and body needs? A handy guide.
Chemicals your body already produces so remember it’s within reach.
#TheLoveArchitect#Happy#chemicals
Dr. Muhammad Mashali, lovingly known across Egypt as “The Doctor of the Poor,” never owned a car or a cellphone. He lived without luxury, but spent over 50 years quietly healing thousands of lives.
Every day, he walked the streets of Tanta in Egypt’s Nile Delta to his modest clinic, where patients, rich or poor, were always welcome. Many paid nothing. Some days he treated 40 to 50 people, often covering the cost of their medicine himself.
After graduating with honors in 1967, he made a solemn vow: he would never turn away anyone who couldn’t afford treatment, a promise inspired by watching his father sacrifice everything for his education.
“My reward is not money,” he once said, “it’s the smile of someone whose suffering has ended.”
When a wealthy businessman once gifted him $20,000, a car, and an apartment, Dr. Mashali sold it all and used every penny to buy medical equipment for his patients.
He treated everyone with equal dignity, regardless of religion, status, or background. For more than ten hours a day, he offered not just medicine, but compassion and hope.
Dr. Muhammad Mashali passed away in 2020 at the age of 76, leaving behind no wealth, no grand possessions, only a profound legacy of kindness.
@DemetriusDtroit@upholdreality Nobody outside the US thinks that brother! Thats a lie the cult called America tells their badly funded school children until recently. More and more Americans are waking up.
Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."
40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.
"The superiority of socialism is clear."
It’s eve of my birthday and guess what?
I have nothing planned for tomorrow except to cook a Mexican feast for my family. I’m busy planning and thinking of @IsleOfWightFest that’s happening in 2 weeks!
Malaga to London to meet our daughter who will join us for the first time!
The 5 key brain chemicals that build lasting love ❤️
Most people think love is just “feelings. Science has shown it’s a powerful cocktail your brain produces and you can intentionally boost it.
As The Love Architect with 26+ years of marriage, here’s what actually keeps love alive:
🧵 1/6
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