Entries from The Flow - A Relationship Dialogue tagged with 'relationships'
What are Men Thinking…and What Women Want Us to Hear
It’s often projected in the media that for women to understand men is the key to finding and keeping a partner. Whether you are a man from Mars or women trying to think like a man, looking at the...
When To Give IT Up?: Sex in a New Relationship
Join The FLOW and FLOW panelists, Deborah Cofer author of If He's "Hooked on P_ _ _ _ " Buy him a cat...: The Spiritual Rules for Dating, Relating, and Mating! Robert Gardner, author of The Choices We Make on...
Preparing Our Girls for Healthy Relationships
Most parents have hopeful dreams of raising their children to be independent, healthy and successful adults. However, looking at the current relationship landscape with its pervasive emotional and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and male domination and control, begs the...
Get Into The FLOW - A Relationship Dialogue
Get Into The FLOW - A Relationship Dialogue Since 2005, The FLOW(For Love Of The World)has presented a unique dialogue with topics such as "Why Men Fear Love & Committment"; "Sex, Religion & Spirituality"; " Are You Ready For...
Relationship Sins by Robert T. Gardner
Robert T. Gardner Jr. is the author of The Choices We Make, a book about how our choices can foster or impede healthy loving. Robert has been a FLOW Harlem Book Fair panelist and a guest on Heart of the...
Men Sleeping with Men by Terrence Dean
Terrence Dean is an openly gay man and author of Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood. Terrance, along with Lisa Durden, producer of the documentary film Project Wow: A Look...
Sex, Religion & Spirituality:Reconciling Our Sexual & Spiritual Selves
Sex and its relationship to a meaningful spiritual life is a topic largely ignored, greatly disparaged by organized religion, and largely misrepresented in the media and society. Nonetheless, this disconnection is a burning issue that exists just below the surface...
What is the Downlow?
When we hear the term the Downlow it most likely conjures up an image of a black man loving heterosexually by day and lusting homosexually by night. But is it realistic to characterize this as an exclusively black phenomenon? What...
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Remembrance - by Myla - FLOW Poet in Residence
RemembranceSometimes I get that feeling That lump within my throat Your presence eludes… For a moment Your big black Vehicle comes riding Smoothly down the street A reminder of what is no longer There A song plays— your favorite?— chills...
What Is Love?
Love is not demanding, constraining, stiffling or conditional of who you are or want to be. Love should be uplifting and liberating. what many people call love, I believe, is possession. A relatingship, marriage or otherwise, does not conote ownership....
FLOW Panel Discussion at the 2009 Harlem Book Fair in Freeport, Long Island
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Do Our Definitions of Manhood Get In the Way?
Recently, Michael Baisden, a nationally syndicated radio personality, aired a show titled All About the Benjamins. The question asked during the show was how would a man feel if his significant other made more money than he did? Also asked...
Healthy Loving Fundamentals - 10 Commandments for Good Relationships
Relationships are unique experiences, no two relationships are the same, nor should they be. The histories, baggage, hopes, dreams and fears that two individuals bring not only influence their relationship dynamics but determine who they become in the process. Though...
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The Myth of Marriage
What are the ideals of marriage and how have they come to be so illusive, while the reality of disillusionment is so pervasive. There are few other institutions that can transform two individuals who have proclaimed eternal love and affection...
Commentary: March 21st Forum - The Myth of Marrige - by Katurah A. Bryant, LMFT
There was a beacon of light of enlightenment in Newark, New Jersey on March 21, 2009, as the men of the FLOW facilitated a lively discussion about Marriage: Myths and Reality of the Relationship. We were all reminded of...
Beacon House Relationship Forum: The Myth of Marriage - March 21th - 7:00 - 10:00 PM
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Friends of THE FLOW Commentary: Katurah A. Bryant, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
As a Friend of The FLOW, Ms. Katurah Bryant was invited to share her insight on relationships. Through her employ in the mental health field, she has assisted hundreds of men and women in arriving to a point of mindful...
Point of View - A Monthly Relationship Column on the Quaterly Black Review (QBR) website
NAVIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP LANDSCAPE! Check out The FLOW in Point of View. A monthly relationship column on the QBR website (WWW.QBR.COM), a new and timeless approach to looking at love and relationships. QBR is the creators and organizers of the...
The Dating Dance - How To Know Someone?
The dating dance should begin way before actual dating. There are questions to be asked before the plunge is undertaken. What are we really after in the dating process? The standard answers are love, companionship, regular sex, stability, marriage,...
Where Was Daddy? Documentary About How Fathers Impact Daughters Relationships
How much of a woman’s relationship choices are influenced by their fathers? How do father’s impact daughter’s definitions of womanhood, self esteem and intimacy. How many women are trying to make up for the neglect, absence, or abuse of their...
An Unpolished Soulmate
An author of the book The (BLACK) Barbershop Monologues, a FLOW panelists and co-moderator, creator of "Color Talk ", a communication tool for couples, and now a regular in The FLOW Experience, Terence has written a powerful, personal, and honest...
Love Addicted: A book of one woman's spiritual journey through emotional dependency
DEBORA M. RICKS is the author of Love Addicted: One Woman's Spiritual Journey Through Emotional Dependency, a candid, thought provoking account of how her compulsive search for love--driven by a hunger for a father's love and a deep fear...
Heart of the Matter - A FLOW Internet Radio Program
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Reconciling Our Sexual and Spiritual Selves
Sex and its relationship to a meaningful spiritual life is a topic largely ignored, greatly disparaged by organized religion, and largely misrepresented in the media and society. Nonetheless, this disconnection is a burning issue that exists just below the surface...
- Financial Intimacy - New FLOW Forum - January 24th - Newark, New Jersey -
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Sins of the Father: How Fathers Impact Daughters Relationships
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Respecting Our Journey's
The reality of life is change. Relationships as well as the individuals involved are constantly evolving. What we thought was so, at the outset, can seem not to be so, a day, a month or years later, even if...
The Intimate Enemies Within
How do we, as relationship partners, end up taking paths that seems to be so contrary to the desires of our hearts? Are we victims? Or are we willing participants in our outcomes, from beginning to end? In our...
For the Bitch Who Stole My Husband
This poem has been a long time comingYou see, like my healingPoetry is me feeling my feelingsNot suppressing because that leads to depressionAnd then my therapistWhy she might want more than a weekly sessionShe might even try to prescribe...
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Sexuality: Is It Who You Are or What You Do? - Panel Discussion at the 2008 Harlem Book Fair - July, 20th - Schomburg Library - Moderated by The FLOW
Does our sexuality define us, proscribe a frame of reference, a role, inform our character, or is it just part of the continuum of being human? Does religion, tradition, upbringing define our sexuality or does it just evolve? Can...
Sins of the Father:How Fathers Impact Daughters Relationships - Panel Discussion at the 2008 Harlem Book Fair - July, 19th - Countee Cullen Library - Moderated by The FLOW
How much of a woman's relationship choices are influenced by their fathers? How do father's impact daughter's definitions of womanhood, intimacy and self esteem. How many women are trying to make up for the absence, abuse or neglect of...
When To Give It Up: Sex in a New Relationship - March 16th Panel at Hueman Bookstore
Though a provocative title, the intent of this panel discussion held on last Sunday, at the Hueman Bookstore in Harlem, New York was to explore the meanings that we bring to sex, which it what gives sex its relevancy....
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