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9 Mexican Love Songs For Cinco De Mayo

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with these top 9 Mexican love songs.

So this Cinco de Mayo, drop the Mexican Hat Dance in lieu of these sultry Mexican tunes. Your partner (and your dignity) will thank you for it. Here are some of YourTango's recommendations:

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3 Ways To Spend Thanksgiving For Two

Staying home this Thanksgiving? How to do a holiday just the two of you.

But what if, by some wayward circumstance, you and your significant other find yourselves just a lonely duo this holiday season? Here are three simple and fun ways to still partake in thespirit of Turkey Day.

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4 'Girly' Trends Men Should Embrace

These habits don't deduct manly points in our eyes, we promise.

To ease the minds and prides of males everywhere, here are four trends and habits that may look effeminate at face value, but really do no damage to you in the eyes of the fairer sex.

5 Road Rules That Apply To Love

5 Road Rules That Apply To Love

Love lessons that are learned on the road—quite literally. Tips for being a good driver and lover.

A relationship, much like rush-hour traffic on the interstate on a Friday evening, requires no small amounts of patience, determination and smart maneuvering. Some of us were born good drivers, others manage by the skin of our bumpers. For those of us in need of a defensive driving course or two, here are five pieces of advice for the road that work just as well as on the rollercoaster of love:

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How Loud Is Your Lovemaking?

Neighbors complain of losing sleep "virtually every night," causing a British woman to be silenced.

Getting vocal during sex isn't a crime—unless you live in England and the noises you make are so loud and disturbing, it "constitutes [as] a statutory nuisance." One woman is now banned from noisy sex throughout all of the United Kingdom.

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Feeling Ugly Hurts More Than Just Self-Esteem

Low body image is linked to riskier teen sex.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that a woman's body image is linked to her sexual habits. But a new study done at the University of Pittsburgh among teenage girls offers some eye-opening figures as to how the woman in the mirror affects your sex life.

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Men Don't Hit Their Wives By Accident—They Plan It

Domestic abuse doesn't happen "by accident." A new study shows it's often premeditated.

A recent Israeli study concluded that domestic violence between couples typically occurs as a calculated decision from the inflicting partner. The aggressor typically knows what sort of consequences he or she will face and weighs it before acting out. "Someone who uses verbal violence might well move on over time to threatening physical attack, and from there it is only downhill towards acting on the threat," one of the researchers says. In other frank words, get out of the cycle now!

5 Tips For Eco-Friendly Sex

5 Tips For Eco-Friendly Sex

Saving the planet, one sexy romp at a time. Tips for eco-friendly sex.

Not that we're complaining—being fellow Earthlings and all—but it seems that just about everything and its cheap knock-off is "going green" these days. But no green lifestyle is complete without some eco-friendly habits in the bedroom. With these four environmentally friendly sex tips and products at your disposal, it sure brings a new meaning to being sustainable in bed, eh?

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4 Ideas For Finding Couple Friends

How to find that perfect set of couple friends for you and your main squeeze.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a happy couple must be in want of another happy couple to be BFFs with for life. Fred and Wilma had their Barney and Betty; Lucy and Ricky had their Ethel and Fred. It seems that for every dynamic couple, there exists an assumed want for a complementary pair of friends, who are also a couple, to bond mutually with.

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Love Lessons From The White House

The Obama marriage operates on four healthy relationship policies.

The Obama marriage operates on four healthy relationship policies that we all can learn from.