117 HEALTH & BEAUTY Ch-Ch-Changes Health & beauty advice from Rowena Kitchen
The road to true love is littered with those who could not maintain the pretence. Elizabeth1st
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the end her head ruled her heart and out they went. Her Dad had a dizzying parade of women passing
through the anterooms of his royal chambers all swearing undying love not realising the end result would be to actually die. They all tried to change and love their Monarch but he was fickle so off to the block they went. Fast forward to a more recent century
he temptation to change yourself to accommodate the new romance in your life is huge. You eat differently, act differently and pretend to be something you are clearly not!
tried hard to be subservient to men but in
someone to love her for who she was. All great love stories feature people trying to be someone else and in the end being their true selves becomes an overwhelming need. This is something that you may not pay attention to while in the throes of falling in love. If you hate opera and red wine say so straight away
So how
where we find that Marilyn Monroe must have called on all her acting skills to be two very different wives to two very different men. Ultimately she could not sustain either role, the devoted wife to Joe DiMaggio who wanted to control and change her to suit his needs or the deep thinking of Arthur Miller who wanted to improve her while she wanted his approval - both examples of people wanting to change one another leading to both marriages ending in divorce. Apart from anything else Marilyn wanted to belong and be loved but did not find
much should you change to
accommodate one another?
or a life time of trying to tune out Pavarotti and choking down Rioja will follow. If your idea of a good time is mucking about on the river while your partner is visiting galleries on city breaks there is a good chance the relationship is not going to be smooth sailing. They do say opposites attract and it is possible to have nothing in common and still get along if both parties are willing to compromise on occasion but compromising all the time would soon wear thin. So how much should you change to accommodate one another? By that I mean not just a new love but someone you work with, live with or employ, from
hairdresser to dentist to accountant. Honesty is the best policy. Decide how much you can take of the attitude of another person before committing yourself to a life sentence of keeping your lip buttoned tightly up. It is a fact that you will never like 100% of any person so it is about choosing which bits
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