What Does Having Sex Mean to You?
Sex means different things to different people, and what it means to you might be having a big effect on your relationship.
Sex means different things to different people, and what it means to you might be having a big effect on your relationship.
Noah Kass | Posted 05.14.2012
To be an essential member of a personally fulfilling group can be very empowering. However, it can also keep you stuck. In order to experience real growth, we need to challenge the sometimes staid comfort of staying put.
Daniel Scott | Posted 05.07.2012
A standard is a level of quality, something that is accepted as a norm, and generally used as a basis for judgment. An expectation is a strong belief that something is going to happen in the future, or a feeling that someone or something is going to achieve something.
Sophie Keller | Posted 04.19.2012
Ask anyone you know who is in a great relationship and they will tell you that they have at least one role model relationship that they can emulate.
Alvin Lopez-Woods | Posted 04.09.2012
People fail to realize that marriage is hard work and ultimately don't know how to stay connected to their significant other. Now that same-sex couples across the nation see legal marriage as an attainable goal, it is time for us to demonstrate ways to create ideal marriages or relationships.
Lisa Firestone | Posted 04.04.2012
Reigniting our relationships can be as simple as carrying out those small, caring acts that make our partners feel acknowledged and loved for who they are. Taking steps each day to counter these habitual patterns leads us down a path that is much more fulfilling, much braver, and much more real.
Isha Judd | Posted 05.23.2012
Often we take for granted the time we spend with our families, our partners, our friends. Lost in the monotony of routine, we miss out on opportunities to love, to share, to celebrate life together.
Loren Ridinger | Posted 05.14.2012
Growing your business and personal life together is a challenge that will forever require attention and work, but will also deliver rewarding feelings and memories, while undoubtedly filling your heart with love.
Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 05.13.2012
The abundance of choice in our society -- and the advertising and media culture that (quite effectively) makes us feel that we won't be complete until we acquire that next great thing -- is taking its toll on our relationships.
Sophie Keller | Posted 05.09.2012
If you ever talk over each other, if your discussions have a tendency to turn into arguments or if you feel you are not being heard, then the talking stick is an excellent way to communicate and can save enormous amounts of time, energy and heartache within your relationship.
Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 05.02.2012
A common problem that married couples encounter is what I call the "blame game." By the blame game, I am referring to fights in which each spouse insists on being right and that the other is wrong.
Allan Lokos | Posted 04.15.2012
Life is amazing, mysterious, miraculous and extraordinarily complex. Joining two lives together can enhance the joys and multiply the complexities. Being part of a meaningful relationship is an ongoing, and at times, challenging adventure.
Tamar Chansky | Posted 04.15.2012
Valentine's Day is all about roses, chocolates and thou, and that's all good, but this year do something different for your spouse. Cut worry out of your relationship -- that unmistakable yet invisible interloper that trespasses on the sacred space you call home. Let's see how.
Dr. Terri Kennedy | Posted 04.14.2012
As they say, "To love is to live." Give love freely, willingly and without expectation, and your life will be full of joy -- and love will find you.
Gary Zukav | Posted 04.11.2012
Is a spiritual partnership the same as a marriage? It could be, but usually it is not.
David Wygant | Posted 04.09.2012
So many of us stay in relationships when we're not happy. We want to leave, but we don't think we deserve to be happy deep down. We don't feel like there's anybody better for us, so we settle for somebody that is so wrong for us in so many different ways.
Lisa Firestone | Posted 04.07.2012
As a therapist, I often hear couples complain that whenever one partner tries to get close, the other pulls away. It's a painful reality that love isn't always as easy to give and receive as we'd like to think.
Robert Levithan | Posted 04.18.2012
Reinventing a future after widowhood, illness, forced retirement or divorce is both challenging and potentially invigorating. It helps to have techniques and principles to guide.
Sarah Henson | Posted 03.25.2012
For all of us still showing up to marriage class (some of us more prepared than others) taking tests, failing quizzes, learning new things or bored with the same old material, remember that as sure as the sun will set on this day, life is guaranteed to change.
Laurie Puhn | Posted 03.24.2012
Rather than continuing to allow dumb arguments about unimportant things to stress us out and poke holes in our relationship, we can become "conflict-wise" by learning to recognize and sidestep them.
Linda Lipshutz, MS, ACSW | Posted 03.19.2012
Finding the "voice" to speak calmly and clearly to another person at difficult times is a challenge that does not come easily for most people.
Logan Lynn | Posted 03.18.2012
I reached out to some famous friends to see what their thoughts were on love, family, and relationships. Matt Alber, Bruce LaBruce, Daniela Sea, Danny Roberts, Jackie Beat, Holcombe Waller, and Matthew Zink all weighed in on the same five questions.
Wendy Strgar | Posted 01.09.2012
Recognizing that our relationships are our most gentle teachers in life is a great way to approach the work involved in staying with them.
Lisa Firestone | Posted 02.29.2012
The reasons we fall in love may be a mystery, but the reasons we stay in love are far less elusive. That is why this New Year's, I propose making a few resolutions about what we look for in a romantic relationship.
Laurie Puhn | Posted 02.20.2012
As a lawyer and couples mediator I have observed the same dumb arguments ruining relationships during the holidays, and year round. Here are the top five arguments that emerge around the holidays, and the smart responses you can use to reject conflict.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 05.22.2012