Tell me how you were loved, and I’ll tell you how you make love.
PART TWO
Tell me how you were loved, and I’ll tell you how you make love.
Our emotional history shapes our erotic blueprint and is expressed in the physicality of sex. Accordingly, there is a strong connection between our attachment map (defined as our expectations, conflicts, hopes and disillusionment with intimate connections) and our sexual feelings and behaviors: Tell me how you were loved, and I’ll tell you how you make love.
How we understand fantasy.
Many people approach the inner workings of their erotic mind with great trepidation, believing that the content of their fantasy life is inappropriate in the context of a loving relationship. Our cultural taboos about erotic fantasy are so strong that the very idea of discussing sexual fantasy leads some of us to anxiety and shame. Fantasy, however, can be an ingenious way for the creative mind to overcome relational and intrapsychic conflicts around desire and intimacy. Fantasy can be a tool to heal.
Kay (Meryl Streep) was ready to change her marriage. Are you ready to change yours?
Are you brave enough to join the marriage revolution?
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to catch the newly-released movie Hope Springs, written by Vanessa Taylor, producer and scriptwriter of the television series Game of Thrones. Coming out of the movie, I tried to sort out the many messages and lessons that sprung forth (pun intended).
Avoid marital distress by learning to recognize these warning signs!
What if you could identify the biggest indicators of a troubled marriage before it was too late? What if you had the chance to turn it all around? Would you seize the moment, even if it meant taking an unpleasant look at the reality of your relationship and digging in to repair the damage?
Video Series/blog about solving modern marriage problems with help from history's great love stories
We're a couple. We've been married for a long time at this point. And at a certain point, we started to ask ourselves why our marriage didn't feel like the epic love story we thought it was going to be.
So we started to look at some real life epic love stories. We started a blog for them at www.patmary.com, and we started to try to take their lessons and apply them to real life.
Are you wondering if there is a place for sex toys in a healthy, monogamous relationship? Here are the top five ways sex toys can enhance your sex life.
Everyone thinks of the first year of marriage as the "honeymoon" period, but newlyweds can often be dismayed to find that the first year can be rockier than they expected. So don't be surprised if your marriage is a little volatile during the first year.
What prompts the shift from helpless love to deep disinterest?
Countless couples complain of losing the “spark” in their relationship. Some chalk it up to evolved differences, a slow growing apart, or sheer familiarity. The wave of “deadness” that can submerge a relationship after the first thrilling months or years have caused many couples to lose hope, and even look elsewhere for the excitement of newfound intimacy.
Hopefully from reading Part II of this series, you're ready to shed any guilt, resentment, blame or shame about spending time with anyone. The goal of this series is to bring you a whole lot closer to true love by teaching you how to love yourself first. Now, it's time to tango! Can you trust your chemistry? Is your "picker" broken?
Has the love that was once there gone out of your marriage? Discover why!
Do love and marriage really go together like a horse and carriage? For some they do but for many they don't.
Why not? Why does love seem to die away in so many marriages?
At the beginning of most relationships that eventually lead to marriage, the couple falls in love and believes that this love will last forever.
Acting from fantasy or responding to intensity is exciting, but not the same as romance or love!
The split between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries has been scrutinized to death and it’s always Kim who is heavily, and unfairly criticized. The break-up happened because Kim came to her senses and realized Humphries wasn’t the catch she thought he was.
Clearly, she wasn’t tricked into marriage, but she was ignoring, excusing, and reasoning away things that should have sent her packing soon after they met. Even though many saw disaster written all over Kris, Kim didn’t even suspect it, partly, perhaps, because she wanted that wedding.
!['Hope Springs': A Revolutionary Film About Marriage [EXPERT]](http://images.tangomag.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-full/image_blog/hope_springs_ssssss.jpg "'Hope Springs': A Revolutionary Film About Marriage [EXPERT]")
![10 Signs Your Marriage Is In Trouble [EXPERT]](http://images.tangomag.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-full/image_blog/couple_6.jpg "10 Signs Your Marriage Is In Trouble [EXPERT]")
![5 Reasons Why You Should Experiment With Sex Toys [EXPERT]](http://images.tangomag.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-full/image_blog/handcuffs_3.jpg "5 Reasons Why You Should Experiment With Sex Toys [EXPERT]")
