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Our greatest joys and greatest sorrows often arrive in the context of our...
Our greatest joys and greatest sorrows often arrive in the context of our close relationships. When we look back over our lives, we remember the people we loved and our intimate times with them, as well as the losses, the conflicts, and those who drifted away.
In my book The Power of Women, I show you how women can harness their tremendous mental and interpersonal strengths to fortify their relationships and enrich their lives. Let me illustrate how one woman, Kirsten, overcame a threat to her marriage and her quality of life.
Like many couples nowadays, Kirsten and Greg found themselves … Read More
Prevent your career from weathering your relationship with these four tips.
Making your mark in the business world requires for plenty of sacrifices, but one thing that should never be sacrificed is the goal of maintaining a healthy, loving relationship. The constant support of a devoted partner can spell the difference between calmly weathering the never-relenting storms of the workplace and washing up on shore like a sickly sea creature. As you methodically build your kingdom, keep the four next tips in mind, for they will help ensure that you'll have a contented lover sitting happily beside your throne. 7 Ways To Stay Happy (All Year Long)
1. Get them … Read More
When he says, "I had a bad day," do you say, "Mine was worse"?
When your spouse comes home from work and tells you his boss yelled at him in front of three colleagues, do you one-up him with a story of the client who reamed you out in a meeting—and later spilled his coffee on your shirt? When you tell your date you need to check out early tonight because you have a 6am conference call tomorrow, does he tell you that he's getting up at 5am to go to the gym? If this sounds familiar, you may be getting sucked into "misery poker."
In a new relationship-focused Wall Street Journal column called Read More
Married couples are forced to move back home.
The dinner table is getting crowded again. Empty nesters who waved goodbye to their grown-up children are welcoming them back home again, this time with a spouse in tow.
Known as "boomerang children," the percentage of adults who move back in with their parents after living on their own is on the rise. In many cases, the circumstances revolve around a recent job loss, a sudden foreclosure or a financial crisis. For Rosecrans Baldwin and his wife, moving in with her parents was a quick solution to what they thought was only a temporary problem, otherwise known as … Read More
Heart disease, frown lines and obesity in women can be symptoms of a stressful marriage.
Hang up the phone.
Leave the house. Put down the donut. Separate yourself. New news out of the UK shows that having a stressful marriage can increase a woman's risk of heart disease. So if your marriage is giving you more misery than pleasure, according to this study, it's best to break it off before your health takes a downward spiral.
Turns out, being in a stressful, strained relationship not only increases blood pressure, it also increases the wives' cholesterol and obesity rates.
But don't think only the women suffer from these bad relationships. Their male counterparts, otherwise know … Read More
Admitting to faking the big O, 70 years of sex advice and stress vs. romance.
Love Bytes: three must-click love, sex and relationship links.
How to tell your man you've been faking your orgasms. [Lemondrop]
The best and worst sex advice from the last 70 years. [Glamour]
Is stress draining you of romance? [DivineCaroline]
Locking lips is much more chemically complicated than we once thought.
Sure, we've always gotten a tingly, head rush when we kiss someone we're attracted to, but we never knew that swapping spit caused such a complicated hormonal rickashay.
During a recent study at Lafayette College, researchers studied the cortisol and oxytocin levels in 15 heterosexual, kissing couples. Cortisol, known as the stress hormone, is released to help the body get back to normal after a rush of agonizing events. Oxytocin, on the other hand, is the hormone to blame for all those girly, gooey feelings of closeness after sex.
It's often been said that women release oxytocin after … Read More
The economy may be affecting your marriage, Oprah's foreplay chart, and a new aphrodisiac.
The morning quickie: the perfect way to start your day. Read on for three interesting love and sex tidbits.
The economy is putting strain on marriage. You may not realize it's happening to you:
Many couples seeking counseling don't initially associate their problems with the economy, says Chris Tuell, a licensed professional clinical counselor in Cincinnati.Rather, couples complain about anxiety, depression and increased anger, "then you look at some of the stresses," Tuell says, "and one of the first ones they mention is the economic issue." Detroit Free Press
Check out Oprah's sex chart—you and your partner label your preferred foreplay … Read More
