5 Reasons Why You Should Experiment With Sex Toys [EXPERT]

Sex toys aren't only for single folks anymore ...

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.

Why The First Year Of Marriage Can Be Rocky [EXPERT]

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.

Why The Sparks Can Fade In Relationships [EXPERT]

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.

Everything You Need To Know About Chemistry: Part III [EXPERT]

Can you trust your chemistry? Find out!

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?

Love and Marriage: Do They Really Go Together? [EXPERT]

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.

Kim Kardashian Deserves A Break [EXPERT]

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.

5 Strategies To Deal With Your Partner's Intimacy Fears [EXPERT]

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. Many people have developed defenses that make them intolerant of too much love, attention or affection.

What Women Wish They'd Known Before Marriage [EXPERT]

7 things women wish they knew before they said 'I Do!'

The New York Times reported that over half of the births to US women younger than 30 occurred outside of marriage in 2009. Most of the ongoing rise of births to unmarried women occurred to couples living together but unmarried. So why don't these young women want to get married? New York Times experts speculate on a number of economic reasons in a follow-up article in the Motherlode section. They reported that many young parents said “they would like to be married but not now and not to each other.”

Dating Resolutions: 7 Qualities Of An Ideal Partner [EXPERT]

Dr. Lisa Firestone discusses seven characteristics to look for in an ideal romantic relationship.

December 31 may be all about the New Year’s kiss, but by New Year’s Day, most people are thinking about what comes after the kiss. This can be a good metaphor for our dating habits in general. The person we look to for instant passion, an immediate spark or even a New Year’s kiss is not always the same person we would be happy sharing our lives with long-term.

7 Positions to Sleep in that Will Excite the Man of Your Dreams

Positions that are sure to have your man wanting nothing more than to be between the sheets with you

Body language reveals our true feelings, and your relationship partner has no trouble with picking up on this physical queue. But what does your body language say while you are sleep? Are there sleeping positions that will excite the man of your dreams? In sleep, we are our most honest, vulnerable selves and certain sleep positions can immediately evoke sensual thoughts and pleasures.

5 Things Married Women Miss

Even in wedded bliss, one woman confesses, the grass is always greener.

The honeymoon is over… and yes, sometimes the grass is greener. After the jump, what one wife believes she is missing out on now that she's married.