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    Experience Bliss In Your Relationships
    Experience Bliss In Your Relationships
    Experience Bliss In Your Relationships
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    Experience Bliss In Your Relationships

    By Anitra Durand Allen

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    With over a decade of marriage under her belt, Anitra Durand Allen has learned a few things about how to maintain happiness in her relationship. In life and love, discovering the person with whom you can “be yourself” without fear of judgment may seem unachievable. But why is that? Why can’t you be truly loved for who you are, as you are, in a secure, loving relationship? You can! And that's exactly what Anitra wants to show you.

    "Experience B.L.I.S.S. in Your Relationships" is a "how-to" guide to finding and keeping complete happiness in your relationship. Through personal stories from Anitra's own life this book supplies easy to apply methods, supported by faith-based principals, to not only help you find bliss in your life and love, but to help you keep it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 28, 2014
    ISBN9781304981950
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      Experience Bliss In Your Relationships - Anitra Durand Allen

      Experience Bliss In Your Relationships

      Experience B.L.I.S.S.™ in Your Relationships

      Experience B.L.I.S.S.™ in Your Relationships

      First Edition

      Edited by Wayne Purdin

      ISBN #: 978-1-304-98195-0

      Copyright © 2014 Anitra Durand Allen / Anitra Durand Allen, LLC

      All rights reserved.

      Acknowledgements

      To my God, my Savior, the lover of my soul – thank you for endowing me with the gift of wisdom. I will endeavor to use it to the best of my ability as I strive to complete my assignment.

      To my husband, my partner, my ROTY turned All-Star, Harold – Thank you for loving me, supporting me, encouraging me and chastising me. I pray that for all the late nights, early mornings, heart to hearts and near breakdowns, the completion of this project makes it all worth it.

      To my children, my encouragers, my balancers, my motivation for living out my purpose in life – Thank you for loving me unconditionally, for not making me feel bad about my mistakes, and for being exactly who you are all the time. You are my biggest challenges and my greatest joys.

      To my coaching clients – thank you for your trust in me. And thank you for allowing me to use your story to help others.

      This book is dedicated to every person to whom I have ever given relationship advice. Thank you for your trust in me, and for helping me to recognize the God given purpose within me to help others.

      "Total happiness in your relationship is not as much about

      who you love, as it is about how you love."

      Anitra Durand Allen

      Introduction: What is Bliss?

      bliss

      noun \ˈblis\: complete happiness

      The Merriam Webster Free Dictionary defines bliss as complete happiness.[1] A closer look at the definition reveals that bliss is a noun—a person, place or thing. So, unless your name is Bliss or you are taking a trip to a city in Idaho, we’ll just consider bliss to be a thing. It’s actually a state of being or a frame of mind.

      Ignorance Is Bliss is a popular phrase describing a state of euphoria one may find in not being aware of or able to predict situations that may arise to claim one’s happiness. This phrase comes from a poem by Thomas Grey, in which he wrote,

      Yet ah! Why should they know their fate?

      Since sorrow never comes too late,

      And happiness too swiftly flies.

      Thought would destroy their paradise.

      No more; where ignorance is bliss,

      'Tis folly to be wise

      Excerpt from Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

      by Thomas Gray.[2]

      But how can that be? If bliss is a state of mind that is equal to complete happiness, how can it also be ignorance of those things that can snatch that happiness away? In my opinion, it can’t. Bliss is a state of being that can only be achieved once you know and understand what complete happiness means.

      Bliss is different for everyone. My idea of complete happiness may not align with yours. Bliss is also conditional—eating all the rich milk chocolate I desire and losing ten pounds in the process may be bliss for me. I may also find bliss in finally fitting into

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