Navigating A Paradoxical Relationship

Navigating A Paradoxical Relationship

Relationships between men and women, women and women, men and men, other defined genders and other defined genders – and sometimes men and their laptops – are often places of paradoxical conflicts and miscommunication. No other event in our lives highlights the difference between what […]

The X-Facts: Foreplay and Faking It

The X-Facts: Foreplay and Faking It

It starts in our heads; the biggest sex organ, our brain, messing with our minds again. When you think of a sexy thought and whisper it in your partner’s ear, you can easily find yourself in the middle of foreplay. Foreplay, says Dr. Gilda Carle, […]

4 Pretty Obvious Dating Red Flags

4 Pretty Obvious Dating Red Flags

It’s hard to see the red flags in a relationship when you first start dating someone. You’re so enamored by the future mother-of-your-children that there is nothing that she can do wrong. In fact when you do start noticing that everything isn’t peachy keen anymore, […]

5 Ways to Handle Your Divorce

5 Ways to Handle Your Divorce

Regardless of how much you might have ‘worked’ on your marriage, it can still end – and not all of us normal humans can consciously uncouple like Gwyneth Paltrow. Though she might not have communicated it in a relatable way, Ms. Paltrow does have a […]

A Few Crazy Relationship Ideas

A Few Crazy Relationship Ideas

Recently, I read yet another piece on the Internet about the fluctuating world of relationships. People can’t seem to make sense of the conundrum surrounding coupling, tripling, and other combinations of men and women. And they probably never will. Over the past few relationships (or […]

Bouncing Back After A Break Up

Bouncing Back After A Break Up

I don’t want to be the kind of person who trivializes an issue like breaking up – trust me, I’ve been through some pretty bad ones myself – but sometimes the best way to bounce back after a breakup is also the simplest. Yes, I’m […]

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Monogamy, Polyamory, and You!

By themselves, people are weird, but by the old gods are they ever weirder when they are plunged into a relationship situation. Suddenly, you are under the surveillance and scrutiny of another person (or set of persons), and that makes you continuously evaluate yourself. Relationships […]

Sex in the Marital Bedroom

Sex in the Marital Bedroom

For years, Julie Brinton’s days have been three young children through dinner time, bath time, and bedtime. What do you think she wants by the time she crawls into bed each night?  She has one thing on her mind only: TV. But some nights, her […]

ending relationships

7 Signs That Say End the Relationship

Sometimes when we’re too close to the issue, it’s hard to tell what’s right or wrong or even, especially if you’re very invested, when to leave a relationship. The end of a relationship doesn’t means that it was a failure. Sometimes you have to step […]

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5 Tips from Relationship Experts

“Men will never ask for it,” Gonsiewski says, but regular doses of praise are important. “They need to hear that their women are proud of them.” Scott Haltzman, MD, author of The Secrets of Happily Married Women, notes that men tend to be more action-oriented […]