Sheryl Paul

International counselor for anxiety; Bestselling author, 'The Conscious Bride'

What if someone could tell you exactly what your relationship needs in order to thrive? With water, nourishment, and light, a healthy relationship can turn into an exquisite garden, but how much? When? How? Most people are thrown to the wind when it comes to relationships.

Bridal Guide

You want to be with the love of your life forever, and he with you, so always make your marriage a top priority (as in every day!). Here are some easy...

Linda Bloom LCSW and Charlie Bloom MSW

Bestselling Authors and Relationship Experts

Taking our attention off of our partner will enable us to embody a higher level of vulnerability and encourage them to them to feel less defensive and consequently more inclined to listen to our concerns and needs with a more conciliatory attitude.

Gil Robertson

Best-selling author, journalist and producer.

It's simple: people work better together than alone. To believe that you can stand alone and navigate the world by yourself might be a liberating experience, but at the end of the day it usually adds up to a poor day at the races.

Lisa Longo

Political activist and writer

Any contract that has at its essence an invalid clause is in and of itself invalid. So to me, every marriage is invalid as long as two adults are barred from marriage. It is an immoral clause, and a moral cause.

Vicki Larson

Journalist, mother, thinker

Along with the rise of marriage counseling in the 1950s, and a deep-seated fear of divorce, came the idea that marriage is work -- and that it's mostly the wife's job to do it -- and a slew of relationship "experts" and a multimillion-dollar self-help industry to help us with that.

Nancy Colier

Psychotherapist, interfaith minister, writer and public speaker

We can ask for, participate in and commit to getting the full and direct experience that is love. After all, to love someone truly is to be interested and willing to create the experience that is love for them, and thus to become truly bilingual in the language of the heart.

Pam Didner

I feel that my husband is like the air to me. Without the air, I'd suffocate. So do I love air? I suppose I do. I suppose I do.

Maria Burnham

Writer and hairstylist; author, 'Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too'

Today I had the privilege to chat with singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman about life, love, heartache, and what it feels like to be a woman in her early 30's.

Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards

Presbyterian minister

If community is like a beautiful quilt that binds all of us together, then marriage is one very important set of stitches that connect the fabric of humanity.

Emma Johnson

WealthySingleMommy.com

At the same time I heard a voice -- clear as day -- ring out in my mind. It said, "He will not be the last man you love."

SidneyAnne Stone

Freelance Writer, Breast Cancer Survivor and Activist

Barring a few outlying scenarios, there does not seem to be much need for alimony or palimony these days other than to be punitive.

Laura Doyle

Best-selling Author, Radio Host, Relationship Expert

Here are the three most common, unhelpful pieces of relationship advice along with what I now know are more productive alternatives.

Sheila Blanchette

Author, The Reverse Commute

Although we are not retiring, I now understand what women mean when they say, "I can't get used to him being home all day."

Andy Thayer

Anti-war activist and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network in Chicago

I gagged as I read Yasmin Nair's account of activist Angela Davis's recent speech insulting LGBTs who desire the right to marry. Davis says these LGBTs are motivated by a desire for "bourgeois respectability."

Amanda Chatel

Freelance Writer

It's about a man, whom I knew as a boy, coming out on top despite the narrow minds of our small town that tried to maim him.