Mature guys who have ever had friend with benefits...?

He's been my best guy friend for about 2 years and we really care a lot about each other. We first hooked up in September and have continued to hook up occasionally (about 3-4 times/month on average) since then. We didn't have sex until end of December and that was his choice, his reasoning when i finally brought it up was that he thinks sex is kind of a big deal, especially between such good friends, and that he really cares about me but just doesn't want to be in a serious relationship. He knows I've started to like him enough to want to be his girlfriend but that, at least for now, i'm cool with the status quo if he doesnt want that. So on Valentines day he gave me 3 roses he had picked himself at the flower shop. 2 red roses and 1 white rose. Being a female, I know that different colors of roses have different meanings. Do you think he knew what a red and white rose signify? If so, what do you think he meant to say with this gift? We're both in our mid-20s by the way

Mature guys who have ever had friend with benefits...?
He probably doesn't know what they mean and just picked them cause they look pretty or where "valentines colors".


I wouldnt read to far into it.
Reply:Some people can pull it off, but eventually one of the people will develop feelings that are very serious.





I gave three roses to a girl once, I told her that there was one for me, one for her, and then one for us.





I don't know what the white signifies - it could mean he is only part way serious about the relationship. Eventually you're going to want a serious man... let him know that.
Reply:ooo
Reply:they're just flowers don't think too much into it
Reply:oh
Reply:awww you guys are cute. try and put some boundaries up so you don't get hurt. He is being sweet to you cos he cares. On the other hand he has told you straight up he doesn't want a serious relationship. So you need to remember that and protect yourself.
Reply:2 red roses show that he really cares for you, but the red rose shows that he is unsure of where to go from here.

Cute baby names?

I have decided when it comes time for me to have a child or (children) I would like to honor my 2 heritages. They are native american and italian. 1st names to be italian and middle to be n. american. Please make your fav combos or list your fav names. i have added the meanings.








Boys First names-italian


Antonio- (called anthony)-priceless


Adrian- from Adria (a city in italy)


Leo- as bold as a lion


Draco- dragon


Gianni- gods gracious gift





Boys middle names- N. american


Chayton- falcon


Dakotah- friends


Dyami- eagle


Kohana- swift


Leyti- shaped like an abalone shell


Makya- eagle hunter


Shilah- brother





Girls first names- italian


Mia- mine


Cara- dear


Daniele- god is my judge





Girls- middle names- n. american


Catori- spirit


Kai- willow tree


Kanti- sings


Sikya- small canyon


Dyani- deer


Lomasi- pretty flower

Cute baby names?
I love the name Chayton! Is it okay if I make some combos from these names?





Girls :


Cara Dyani (yeah,maybe that's pretty mean,dear deer,but if you don't know the meaning,it's cute)


Mia Catori


Cara Kai


Daniele Lomasi


Mia Kanti


Daniele Sikya





Boys :


Antonio Dyami


Adrian Kohana


Leo Dakotah


Draco Makya


Gianni Chayton


Leo Leyti


Draco Shilah





Hope that helps! Good luck!
Reply:What beautiful names!





I like these combos:


Boy- Gianni Shilah, Adrian Dakotah, and Antonio Kohana


Girl- Mia Catori, Cara Kanti, Daniele Kai or Daniele Lomasi





I love the meanings.
Reply:My favs:


Boy


Gianni Makyah (nicknames-you might not like the idea but they WILL happen) "G" or Jon





Girl


Danielle Kai
Reply:Antonio Chayton sounds lovely for a boy





Daniele Kai is beautiful for a girl
Reply:Antonio Shilah


and


Daniele Catori





I even like the meanings!
Reply:Boys First names-italian





Antonio- (called anthony)-priceless—I like it. You could call him Antonio or Anthony. They're both hot :)





Adrian- from Adria (a city in italy)—Beautiful...I'd go for this!





Leo- as bold as a lion—I like this too...simple but pretty.





Draco- dragon—No. Too much teasing with the Malfoy issue, especially if he by chance ends up blonde...





Gianni- gods gracious gift—This is pretty.





Boys middle names- N. american





Chayton- falcon—very pretty...I used to know someone with that name :)





Dakotah- friends—I hate this name but I don't know why.





Dyami- eagle—cool, but sounds feminine, which I don't think is bad.





Kohana- swift—Another feminine one.





Leyti- shaped like an abalone shell—FEMININE! What is it with you native Americans?





Makya- eagle hunter—Pretty for a girl...I don't like it for a boy.





Shilah- brother—Very pretty for a girl.





Girls first names- italian





Mia- mine—Pretty :)


Cara- dear—Sounds hot :)


Daniele- god is my judge—How will you pronounce that? and I don't like what it means :P





Girls- middle names- n. american





Catori- spirit—Pretty...I can see her hair flying in the wind :D





Kai- willow tree—like the font? neat...





Kanti- sings—niiiiiiice...





Sikya- small canyon—it's sick sounding %26gt;:P





Dyani- deer—nein, nein, nein...





Lomasi- pretty flower—Maybe...
Reply:Boy:


Angelo Dakotah





Girl:


Mia Dyani
Reply:Draco Chayton


Mia Catori
Reply:Boy Adrian Makya





Girl Mia Dyani
Reply:I really like


Adrien Dakota and Dranco Chayton





and





Cara Dyani, Mia Kai, and Mia Kanti.
Reply:i like


Antonio Dakotah --- priceless friends


Leo Shilah





Cara Catori


Danielle Catori

What should I paint to symbolize the birth of my daughter?

I tried posting this yesterday, but got no responses. I figured I'd give it another go. I personally think symbology is really interesting; I just want some feedback.








When my son was born, I painted birth announcements bearing the symbol of Kokopelli, a symbol of fertility, birth and lightheartedness. I'm going to give birth to a baby girl in April and would like to paint birth announcements again. I'm having trouble with what symbol I'd like to be the focal point. I've been thinking a flower of some sort, to be more feminine. I've looked online for ideas, but haven't come up with much. I've thought of a lotus, but I'm getting mixed messages about the meanings for the different colors. I don't know that any of them will translate very well to "birth". I'm open to any suggestions, even nontradional ones. Thank you!

What should I paint to symbolize the birth of my daughter?
How about a painting of one of the goddesses of fertility?





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_g...





I also really like the lotus idea.
Reply:How about a calla lily?
Reply:I know that the totem animal for birth is a hippopotamus. Coincidentally, you could go with more pretty comical hippos like from the Fantasia movie, or realistic ones, or even have a custom tribal hippo head done or something like that). The totem link is here:


http://www.crystal-cure.com/protection-h...





Perhaps you could do a tree of life with a butterfly on/near it for your daughter (a butterfly is a well-known symbol of birth and change). The butterfly could be in different colors (color meanings can be found by doing a simple google or yahoo search). The actual tree could be your own birth tree (try http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/8021/... to find out your birth tree).





A more traditional birth symbol (according to Sheila Kitzinger) which has been used in different cultures around the world for centuries in art and textiles etc can be found at: http://www.everyday-miracles.com/logo.ht... . It's quite beautiful, maybe you could have the butterfly concept somehow incorporated into it.





A cherry blossom sounds good too. I am getting one tattooed to symbolize my pregnancy and birth of my son.

Japanese speakers needed!?

Hello. I've written a Japanese poem for that special Japanese girl, but I want to make sure that it is right. I've written it using Hiragana and Kanji, but I have to type it in Romaji, sorry. I'll type it in Romaji and translate it (due to multiple meanings of Kanji).





Please correct me where I'm wrong (grammatically, etc.) for I feel I've made a lot of mistakes since I'm a beginner in Japanese. Thank you VERY much!





----


POEM:





Anata wa watashi no ki no san desu.


Anata ga watashi no ai no ka desu.


Watashi no san, watashi no ka,


Keiko (name) ga, watashi no urushii no hana,


ai no watashi no ate,


kietsu no watashi.


Keiko (name) ga, watashi no tenshi





Translation





You are my my river of vitality.


You are the fire of my love.


My river, my fire,


Keiko, my beautiful flower,


The aims of my love,


My joy,


Keiko, my angel.





Once again, thank you!

Japanese speakers needed!?
You are my my river of vitality.


=kimi wa watashi no afurederu seimeiryoku





You are the fire of my love.


=kimi wa watashi no ai no honoo





My river, my fire,


=watashi no chikara no shouchou, watashi no honoo





Keiko, my beautiful flower,


=keiko, watashi no utsukushii hana





The aims of my love,


=watashi no ai no muku saki





My joy,


=watashi no yorokobi





Keiko, my angel.


=keiko, watashi no tenshi





*'desu' is definitely not for poem


kimi and watashi are ok


good luck :)
Reply:Anata, watashi, desu, etc. don't make it very poetic, just kind of formal. Love confessions aren't meant to be formal. Also, Japanese don't use pronouns as often as in English.





Kimi wa ki no kawa


Kimi wa ai no hi


Boku no kawa, utsukushii hana


Keiko ga utsukushii hana


Ai no ate


Boku no shiawase


Keiko wa boku no tenshi
Reply:It is very difficult to translate poem spontaneously.


This is my free translation.





*You are my my river of vitality.


Anata wa watashi no inochi no kawa.


or


Anata wa watashi no inochi no minamoto.





*You are the fire of my love.


Anata wa watashi no ai no honou.





*My river, my fire,


Watashi no kawa yo, Watashi no honou yo.





*Keiko, my beautiful flower,


Keiko, watashi no hana yo,





*The aims of my love,


Watashi no ai no mokuhyou,


or


Watashi no ai no mokuteki,





*My joy


Watashino yorokobi





*Keiko, my angel.


Keiko, watashi no tenshi.








Good luck!!

Perfect semi formal makeup

Can someone summarize this science article for me?

Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.


For the first time -- and in unambiguous findings -- researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa show both that areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks, and that boys and girls rely on different parts of the brain when performing these tasks.





"Our findings -- which suggest that language processing is more sensory in boys and more abstract in girls -- could have major implications for teaching children and even provide support for advocates of single sex classrooms," said Douglas D. Burman, research associate in Northwestern's Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.


Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers measured brain activity in 31 boys and in 31 girls aged 9 to 15 as they performed spelling and writing language tasks.


The tasks were delivered in two sensory modalities -- visual and auditory. When visually presented, the children read certain words without hearing them. Presented in an auditory mode, they heard words aloud but did not see them.


Using a complex statistical model, the researchers accounted for differences associated with age, gender, type of linguistic judgment, performance accuracy and the method -- written or spoken -- in which words were presented.





The researchers found that girls still showed significantly greater activation in language areas of the brain than boys. The information in the tasks got through to girls' language areas of the brain -- areas associated with abstract thinking through language. And their performance accuracy correlated with the degree of activation in some of these language areas.


To their astonishment, however, this was not at all the case for boys. In boys, accurate performance depended -- when reading words -- on how hard visual areas of the brain worked. In hearing words, boys' performance depended on how hard auditory areas of the brain worked.


If that pattern extends to language processing that occurs in the classroom, it could inform teaching and testing methods. Given boys' sensory approach, boys might be more effectively evaluated on knowledge gained from lectures via oral tests and on knowledge gained by reading via written tests. For girls, whose language processing appears more abstract in approach, these different testing methods would appear unnecessary.


"One possibility is that boys have some kind of bottleneck in their sensory processes that can hold up visual or auditory information and keep it from being fed into the language areas of the brain," Burman said. This could result simply from girls developing faster than boys, in which case the differences between the sexes might disappear by adulthood.


Or, an alternative explanation is that boys create visual and auditory associations such that meanings associated with a word are brought to mind simply from seeing or hearing the word.


While the second explanation puts males at a disadvantage in more abstract language function, those kinds of sensory associations may have provided an evolutionary advantage for primitive men whose survival required them to quickly recognize danger-associated sights and sounds.


If the pattern of females relying on an abstract language network and of males relying on sensory areas of the brain extends into adulthood -- a still unresolved question -- it could explain why women often provide more context and abstract representation than men.Ask a woman for directions and you may hear something like: "Turn left on Main Street, go one block past the drug store, and then turn right, where there's a flower shop on one corner and a cafe across the street.


"Such information-laden directions may be helpful for women because all information is relevant to the abstract concept of where to turn; however, men may require only one cue and be distracted by additional information.

Can someone summarize this science article for me?
LovelyLa,


The paper suggest, you ought to be able to best summarize the paper yourself. Good luck.
Reply:basically it says that girls and boys use different ways of learning to maximize their intake of knowledge. i think its bs, but whatever

Which name do you like more for a girl?

Leilani (means heavenly flower)-love this name, but do you think it will still sound as nice when she's an adult? I was thinking it should go with a strong name like


Leilani Gabriella (God is my might)


Leilani Victoria


Leilani Arielle (lioness of God)








Amaya (means night rain)





Lyla/Lilah (not sure which spelling)





Taliah (means dew from heaven)








*open for suggestions I like names that are not too common and have nice meanings :-) thanks

Which name do you like more for a girl?
I would go with Leilani Victoria -- that way if she wants to be something that needs a more serious-sounding name she can choose her middle name. Like Sen. Leilani Smith vs. Senator Victoria Smith. All of the name you have chosen are beautiful.
Reply:uuum are you greek?
Reply:You seem to like L-names that are soft with open vowel endings. I know meanings are nice now, but I wouldn't worry too much about them -- moreso if you like the name. Try a name on for a day, have people call you that name, check in a place with that name, hear it out loud. That helps to put it to life and see if you like it in the works.





Leilani can be pretty, but I think it'd be slurred into Luh-LAHN-ee. Then I'm not so happy with it.


Amaya is kind of a more common name.


Lilah is nice.


Taliah I don't prefer.





How about Lily, Liliana, Lyric** (I think that's super cool, unique and pretty!),


Kyrie (musical -- neighbor's baby girl, so pretty and different), Kira, Kadence (Cadence - musical, can be Cady), Shiloh, Saoirse (Searsha/Saersha - Gaelic for Freedom), Soleil (So-lay - French for sun), Starla, Stella, Sophia, Oksana, Zara (friend's baby girl, pronounced Zar-ah (as in Car) - so pretty and exotic!).
Reply:I Like:


Leilani Gabriella


Leilani Victoria


Lyla/Lilah
Reply:Leilani Arielle is cute...what about Leilani Ariella?
Reply:they are all beautiful names.
Reply:I love Leilani. I don't personally see it as a name that's only good for kids, but if she doesn't like it later in life, she could go by Lani.





It's hard to say which middle name would go best, considering we don't know what the last name will be.





You might consider a more "traditional" middle name, such as Belle or Bella, which both mean beautiful. Then her name would mean beautiful heavenly flower. Or Aimee, which means beloved.
Reply:I really like the name Gabriella. And Victoria is pretty too. I've heard Taliah somewhere and thought it was really pretty.





Some that I can suggest:


Magali


Dieudonne (it means sent from God...I think)


Carina


Camillia
Reply:Leilani Victoria
Reply:Leilani is very pretty, and I like Victoria as the middle name.


Of the others you've suggested I think I like Lilah best though Taliah (Joy would make a pretty middle name) is great too.
Reply:I like Taliah but its your Baby
Reply:Leilani is good for any age. I like Leilani Arielle.
Reply:Of those names my fave is Lilah.
Reply:leilani is very nice for all ages, leilani arielle is my favourite of your variation. i also like Lyla.





Some suggestions are





Naoise (pronounced Nee-sha)


Samhraidh (Irish Gaelic for Summer, pronounced sow-rah)


Tallie


Lailing (lie-ling, Chinese I think)


Esme
Reply:i like lilah, its adorable.
Reply:leilani arielle is beautiful
Reply:I perfer Taliah over them all


Id go Taliah Gabrielle or Arielle
Reply:I like Leilani Victoria because you have a less common name with a lovely exotic sounding first name.


Amaya is nice too. Not keen on the others.


I think Leilani will stand the test of time too.
Reply:Honestly no to be rude mean or anything of that sort I don't like Leilani just doesn't sound right to me...But thats your baby if you like the name go for it!!!

I absolutely love this name!?

*NY-EE-MAH*


but the problem is I don't know how I want to spell it. I'm set on this name and NO others, but middle name suggestions would be appreciated. The name means tranquil, graceful, or contendedness{different meanings in different languages} so it would be nice to have middle name suggestions that mean flower, princess, girl, or beauty. So far I've seen the following spellings:





Naima


Nyima


Naimah


Nyimah


Nyiemah


Nyiema


Niema


Naeemah


Naeema


Naema


Naemah


Niemah


Nyeema


Nyeemah





PLEASE GIVE ME ANYMORE SPELLINGS YOU KNOW OF, HEARD OF, OR CAN THINK OF,,,BUT I'M LEANING TOWARDS...





*~*NAIMA*~*





:)

I absolutely love this name!?
That's a very pretty name. I like it spelled Nyeema.





Flower names:


Lilly


Rose


Jasmin


Flora


Poppy


Zara





Princess names:


Amira


Kala


Sadie


Sally


Sarah


Sarina





Beautiful names:


Layla


Lilah


Venus


Belina


Belle


Calista (Greek- The most beautiful)


Calla


Callie


Tegan








Out of those I like


Nyeema Rose


Nyeema Venus


Nyeema Belle





Good luck and congrats!





Vote on my list: http://www.babynames.com/namelist/958322...
Reply:nieema
Reply:I like this one the best: Naimah





but, if you want people to pronounce her name right the first time so that she doesn't have to correct people all of the time one of these might be best: Nyima, Nyimah, Nyeema, Nyeemah
Reply:Nyeema is a nice name and if you spell it this way it leaves less chance for someone (like teachers) to mispronounce. Its a beautiful name. Its Persian?
Reply:I think Naima is the best way to spell it. It's a beautiful name and I wouldn't choose another spelling.
Reply:I think you pretty much have it all. My fav spelling is Naeemah though. I dont think you should give her a middle name...some names are too distinct and too 'powerful' to be watered down. All the best hun!
Reply:Did you know that the real way it's spelling Na'ima yes with the apostrophe in the middle. And it's the feminine form of the Arabic name of Na'im and it is Arabic. it means "Happiness, comfort" I would go with


Naima though no apostrophe. and for a middle name there is Sariah (sah RYE ah) it's a form of Sarah but it mean princess in Hebrew.
Reply:I would spell Ny-ee-mah as Niema or Nyima





Naima would make me pronounce it Nay-ma or Nay-eem-ah (I quite like that pronounciation).





Middle names...


meaning princess:


Niema Amira


Niema Sarah


Niema Suri


Niema Soraya





meaning flower:


Niema Ayanna


Niema Blossom


Niema Fleur


Niema Hana


Niema Kalei


Niema Yasmin





meaning beauty:


Niema Adara


Niema Ingrid


Niema Laila





meaning beautiful:


Niema Astrid


Niema Belle


Niema Claribel


Niema Rosabel





meaning girl:


Niema Cailin


Niema Nina


Niema Talitha





Some of these are cute and some not so much. Just remember to look them up and find out their pronounciation because some are not phonetically spelled. Good luck, Niema is a nice name, I wouldn't use it but it's nice.
Reply:Niyima too...


But also think about what your baby's nickname would be and what her friends would call her and how it looks on paper, and how it could be mispronounced.
Reply:I like Naima best. It is the only spelling I have seen of the name and I think it makes the most sense phonetcially.
Reply:kneeamya
Reply:Naima would be confused and pronounced name-uh.





Nyeema would probably be the best spelling since it will be pronounced the way you want it to be.
Reply:the next America's Next Top Model to be eh?
Reply:i think you've got tham all covered! it's a good name.