SEX!…passion and intimacy focus of seminar
Janelle Wadman
Issue date: 11/1/06 Section: Features
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But what exactly do those words mean, and how should a person go about applying them to their life?
That, along with other related issues, is what Ellen Gootblat recently explained to a roomful of captivated DBCC students towards the end of September at a seminar sponsored by Student Activities.
Titled "Sex, Passion and Intimacy," Gootblat drew from her ample life experience and years spent as a motivational speaker and hit radio talk show host for WABC. It's no wonder that she really knows her stuff when it comes to relationship matters, such as meeting, dating, relating and mating.
This is evident through her Ten Commandments of Dating, which is a valuable road map through the twisting and turning avenues of love, helpful to even the most seasoned lover.
"It was a good seminar. It helped shed light on some otherwise confusing issues in relationships," said Appollo Benitez, a DBCC major in computer graphics.
Among other things, she stressed the importance of trust, saying that without trust there is no way the relationship can work. She even breached the topic of abuse, saying that relationships which are "inherently bad" should be discontinued immediately.
But with all these serious topics to learn about, this seminar was definitely not boring. With a contagiously fiery attitude and the air of a stand-up comedian, Gootblat fed the audience a valuable education with a heaping spoonful of laughter to help the medicine go down.
10 Commandments of Dating
…for a successful relationship
1. Make yourself fabulous before reaching out to someone else.
2. Once you've made yourself fabulous, reach for excellence.
3. Relationships are meant to be easy, not to tear your guts out.
4. If your relationship is inherently good, stick with it - if it's rotten to the core, run for the hills.
5. You and your partner must have similar lifetime goals, ethics, and morals.
6. You should be enhanced by a relationship, not diminished by it.
7. You should not find yourself having to explain and defend yourself to your partner too often.
8. Ask yourself, "Does my partner see me for exactly what I am - or does he/she want to mold me into what they would like me to be?"
9. You are good enough - if you don't think you are good enough for yourself, change! But never change for another person.
10. Ask yourself, "Am I happy because I deserve to be?"
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