When should you compromise and when do you stand your ground? Well, there’s no real science to it, but many couples figure this out eventually from trial and error.

Trying to compromise all the time and keeping the peace often times means that your opinions aren’t heard or that you may start to resent the person because you’re not getting what you really want.

However, standing your ground and defending your position can mean constant fighting and bickering. What to do?

There are times when you need to decide which course of action is better for both yourself and your relationship. Here are some good examples of when to compromise:

Keeping the spark alive in a relationship is hard; being together all the time causes that level of mystery, that certain something that used to be there in the beginning of the relationship, to give way for comfort and stability.

But how many people would love to have that spark back? That feeling of butterflies, the same emotions that made your heart beat palpably, your palms sweat and gave you the shivers?

Good friends are there for everything in your life. They drive you to be better, make sure you don’t make a fool of yourself, have fun, and most importantly, look out for you.

That’s why, when they don’t like your boyfriend or girlfriend, it can raise a lot of problems. Animosity between your partner and your group of friends or a friend can become heated and often puts you in the uncomfortable position of being stuck in the middle.

New York, New York: what to say about the city that hasn’t been said before? The city itself is a teeming, living and breathing being that encompasses nearly every culture, religion, ethnicity and philosophy in the world.

The city at the heart of the state is broken up into it’s own enclaves, from upscale Manhattan, gritty Bronx, the slowly gentrifying Brooklyn, to the many other places within the city that comprise of millions of bodies, New York attitude, good pizza, and a whole lot of yellow taxi cabs.

No person is alike—we all like and dislike different things. Some people love hummus, some hate it, some love soccer, some can’t keep their eyes open longer than 10 minutes.

However, there are a few traits that most singles are looking for in a potential partner. There are just some things that nearly everybody wants and desires. Once you know what they want and how to portray this, then you will be one step ahead of the pack:

Being engaged is at once exciting, wonderful and completely frightening. Oftentimes, there’s this part of yourself that wants to just get the wedding over with and just start your life with this person, but there’s this other part…that, well wants to hang onto the life you’ve known and built.

It’s a stressful time and one of the most important transition periods in your life, if not THE most important. Before jumping into a marriage though, there are some topics that should be discussed. It’s much better to find out what assumptions your partner or you may have now, rather than later. Here are some good questions to ask yourselves:

A Russian-born German man was sentenced to life in prison last week for fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a courtroom last July.

The sentencing has been long-awaited since Alexander Wiens fatally stabbed the woman, who was a pharmacist, in the very same German courtroom where he was sentenced. Marwa al-Sherbini was described by family and friends as an upstanding citizen, and human rights activists and the Arab population worldwide decried the brutal murder of both her and her unborn child.

The Arabic short story first appeared in the late 19th century in daily newspapers and weekly magazines. Some argue this is because the Arabic short story was short enough to be published and could be read quickly and easily.

By the end of the 19th century, Egyptian, Lebanese and Syrian publications increased the number of Arabic short stories: these were called Riwaya , Qissah, or Hikayah.  The Arabic short story can be classified in different periods.  Read more>>