It's refreshing to read an article on divorce that offers a raw glimpse of what a man or woman may be going through when the decision is made to call it quits.

With piercing honesty, Sandra Tsing Loh writes in The Atlantic about the dissolution of her marriage. She tells us what it's like when two people, who once stood beside each another eager to start the rest of their lives together, are left wondering, "Now what?" 

We highly suggest you carve out 20 minutes today to read this article in its entirety. Loh's complex sentiments poke through the … Read More

The wisdom rings true yet again. Before you go anywhere abroad, and after you thumb through the spectacular brochures detailing your romantic getaway, make sure to familiarize yourself with a few of the country's basic laws. Otherwise, you may be in for a lot more than you bargained, and not in the adventure category you were imagining.

Last year, a British couple was sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai for having intimate relations on the beach (not the romantic ending they were hoping for) and just this week another couple was shipped off to jail for committing adultery, … Read More

Children whose parents treat each other violently are more likely to have mental difficulties as adults finds a study from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France, reports Science Daily.

When researchers carried out in-person interviews with more than 3,000 adults they measured intimate partner violence, violence against children, lifetime suicide attempts and current level of depression.

Participants were also surveyed about any parental separation, divorce and death as well as alcoholism, financial stress and abuse they might have experienced during childhood.

After making adjustments for family and social stress factors, researchers found that adults who were exposed … Read More

Jon and Kate Gosselin are seeing a marriage counselor, says The National Enquirer, and we can't say we blame them. How the couple managed to raise 8 children together without regular respites on a therapist's couch is beyond us. And plus, there's all those swirling rumors about Jon cheating on Kate with a 23-year-old and Kate getting cozy with her personal bodyguard. Heck, they should be seeing 3 marriage counselors by now. Read: 3 Reasons To Seek Couples Therapy

The question as to whether or not TLC will foot the bill … Read More

Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.Advice on how to deal with being in an interracial relationship.  [Dear Sugar]Higher Ed Administration prefers porn to alcohol. [Asylum]

While it's not like the students will be seeing anything that isn't easily available in their dorm rooms, an explicit endorsement of porn by a university certainly is a bold move.

Conflicting realities from a couple in therapy. [First Wives World]

The problem is Sam and I are living two disparate realities. We experience the exact same moments, together, and have completely separate perceptions and understanding of what … Read More

Most women love to dance. It's kind of a biological imperative. We hear music and we start to move to it. In our dreams, the men in our lives are moving with us. Dinner and dancing is a kind of ultimate fantasy date, but too often we skip the second part.

Things have been looking up for boogie-enthusiasts these past few years thanks to the success of Dancing With The Stars. Seeing macho football players like Jason Taylor, Average Joes like Jerry Springer and billionaires like Mark Cuban adeptly moving around the floor can make men feel liberated to … Read More

Sex. And the absence of a healthy sex life can lead to its dissolve. Bettina Arndt, an Australian sex therapist of 35 years, noticed an ongoing trend. The married couples lining her waiting room were mainly complaining of the same marital gripe – the disappearance of sex. She then set about doing research to figure out what was happening, reports Jennie Curtin in the Brisbane Times.                      

The result: the book Sex Diaries, which comprises the candid sex-life diaries of 98 married couples, who chronicled daily activity with their spouses for up to a year.

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A crumbling marriage triggers signs of depression in both men and women. But it offers up a double whammy to women who, unlike men, may also experience high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar as a result of the marital strain, increasing their risk for heart disease find University of Utah researchers.

"We know from previous research that women are more sensitive and responsive to relationship problems than men," said lead author Nancy Henry, a doctoral student in psychology, in a press release. "The results of this study suggest those problems could harm their health." Henry presented the findings … Read More

Going to couples therapy wasn't something my boyfriend or I had to wrangle the other into. Our rough patch was more like a slick of black ice, and we were careening towards a precipitous ending. We had moved in together almost a year earlier, and couples therapy seemed easier than breaking up. It would at least buy us time to figure out how to split our belongings while I looked for my own place in New York City.

I went into counseling thinking Ryan had to change. If he didn't fix at least eight of the things that were … Read More

A concerned woman recently wrote to Nerve.com's Miss Information advice blogger wondering what to do with her Tantric sex-loving new boyfriend. It's not that she isn't into him or his sexual proclivity, it's that his methods of denying himself an orgasm were ruining her time in the sack, too.

The confused soul described the experience to Miss Information:

...he'll dump me on the couch during the intercourse, while he scrunches up on the floor in a weird fetal position. Not coming takes so much of his energy that he basically ignores me while we're having sex. I … Read More