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How to Pick a Fight

How to Pick a Fight

Three tips for starting an argument that won’t damage your relationship.

Conflict is part of life. And that means it’s part of our relationships, even with those we love most. I just don’t think there’s any way around this. Could the Dalai Lama avoid fighting with his spouse—not to mention his ex-spouse—while trying to raise children? I’d like to think so, but then again, perhaps there’s a reason that His Holiness isn’t married.

Are You a High Maintenance Woman?

Are You a High Maintenance Woman?

Men are ever-watchful to avoid getting involved with high maintenance women.

Men are ever-watchful to avoid getting involved with high maintenance women. Men are ever-watchful to avoid getting involved with high maintenance women. You’ve heard of High Maintenance women but do you know what that means? Hopefully, after I explain this sad malady, you’ll cleanse any HM behavior you might have going. First, a high maintenance woman needs things to be just right. She extremely particular what restaurant, or type of restaurant, she needs to be taken to. She’s extremely particular what table she needs to sit at. She’s extremely particular how she needs her food to be prepared.

4 Ways to Know It's Safe to Trust Again After the Affair

4 Ways to Know It's Safe to Trust Again After the Affair

Infidelity can wreck relationship trust. Find out the signs that it's safe to trust again.

We'll be honest here... There is no 100% guarantee that your partner will not cheat again. There is no 100% guarantee that you two will stay together. At the same time, there is no guarantee that your partner WILL cheat again (or at all). There is no guarantee that you two will break up either. That's the thing about life and relationships. They can be nearly impossible to predict.

This Can Ruin Sex

This Can Ruin Sex

There’s nothing that compares to great sex.

There’s nothing that compares to great sex. There’s nothing that compares to great sex. It comes with confidence, comfort with our partner and a willingness to be both vulnerable and spontaneous. But if you think sex should be a certain way, it’s very difficult to have great sex. An idea that will definitely keep you from having enjoyable sex is thinking you aren’t experienced enough. Experience is a good thing, but not essential to enjoying being sexual with someone.

4 Ways to Turn Your Ho-Hum Relationship into Phenomenal

4 Ways to Turn Your Ho-Hum Relationship into Phenomenal

Relationship advice to bring more passion & spark to your love relationship or marriage.

By Susie and Otto Collins Julia is bored. She's worked at the same job for 10 years now. She's lived in the same town for almost her entire life. She's dated the same guy for 5 years. Sure, she loves her boyfriend, Dave, and she doesn't want to break up with him. But, she misses those early days of their relationship when everything was a fabulous and delightful surprise. Dave used to show up at her office and “kidnap” her for an extended lunch break that often included heavy make-out sessions in his car.

How you feel about losing your virginity depends… are you a guy o

How you feel about losing your virginity depends… are you a guy o

Do teens feel better after they have sex? It depends, are you asking boys or girls? Surprise results

Do teens feel better after they have sex? It depends, are you asking boys or girls? Surprise results How you feel about losing your virginity depends… are you a guy or girl? The morning after can be difficult no matter if you are a guy or a girl, but it seems to be more difficult for girls than guys. A study from researchers at Pennsylvania State University reports male university students' body images improved after having sexual intercourse for the first time, while the opposite pattern was found with females.

Three Ways To Bring Back the “In Love Sparkles”

Three Ways To Bring Back the “In Love Sparkles”

If you’ve been together for a while, those “in love sparkles” can disappear. Sometimes they just ebb

If you’ve been together for a while, those “in love sparkles” can disappear. Sometimes they just ebb and flow, coming and going mysteriously. When they’re gone, things just don’t feel as good as they used to. Often, we’re not very aware of why things don’t feel quite right, you wonder if your relationship is over, and hope that somehow, the love will return. We don’t know why it went away and we don’t know why it comes back.

A Mother's Day Gift

A Mother's Day Gift

3 Ways My Marriage Relationship Is Just Like My Relationship with My Family

I’m a personal development teacher and one of the things I teach about is relationships. I’m about to celebrate my 25th anniversary. I have four adult children, two daughters-in-law and a very close step-daughter. So being a teacher, having my 25th anniversary in a few days and planning to see my family for Mother’s Day this Sunday got me thinking. “I know what ingredients have worked to make my 3rd marriage so very special. And I teach those.

How To Win Back Your Ex Boyfriend

How To Win Back Your Ex Boyfriend

If your relationship has broken down and you are not ready to start dating again, what do you do?

This landed in my inbox the other day: "My ex and I had been going out for a year and a half. He had expressed so many times how much he cared about me and all that jazz. About two months ago he was talking with his parents (he is 18 and still lives with them) and they convinced him that I was not right for him because of my religion. He left and we played the text messaging game backwards and forwards. He came back after I mentioned I was simply going to hang out with this guy he used to be jealous of.