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Ask anyone who is in a long term relationship, whether married or not, and they will tell you that these intense relationships can be hard to manage! They tell us that “it’s hard work” to keep a marriage going well and that it’s also about “give and take” and ... Views: 2333
It is important to learn how to respect your partner’s different emotional needs. Learning this skill during the process of Relationship Advice or Marriage Counseling can help your relationship with your partner grow stronger. More theoretical background on these processes are outlined in online ... Views: 2331
When your spouse looks to you as if he or she is part of the furniture, you know it’s time to take action. Boredom in a marriage is not a problem to be taken lightly. If left unaddressed, it can certainly lead to a very unhappy marriage. I strongly believe that it is more a problem of not ... Views: 2330
The secret of a great foreplay is to keep the foreplay highly exciting and full of sensational touch. There are a number of ways to keep the foreplay exciting. Use the tongue and mouth to assist in the foreplay....
Foreplay while dressed-
To increase excitement gradually, start the ... Views: 2320
An Issues Clearing Model for Better Communication
“You don’t understand me!” a wife screams at her husband. “How can I possibly understand you?” shouts the husband. “You’re not making any sense!!”
A mother bemoans to her teenage daughter, “We never spend any time together. You’re ... Views: 2319
Dating a love rat by Rosemary Price psychic. In my decades of working as an agony aunt most of my clients have been women who have been upset because of the broken promises of a man. Very often it has seemed to them that their whole World has come to an end because they trusted him so much and ... Views: 2318
How To Stop Yourself From Ejaculating Too Quick: How To Stop Yourself From Coming Quickly
From a recent poll, we discovered that 80% of women asked, who admitted to being unfaithful to their husbands or boyfriends, said they betrayed their male partners because of their inability to satisfy ... Views: 2316
What I Ache For
I wrote this powerful prayer many, many years ago when I felt trapped in a life that was not my own. Today, I am happy to say, just about all of this prayer has come true, and I am blessed with my authentic, beautiful life! Be careful what you ache for...
I ache to be ... Views: 2315
My husband and I had only been married for two years before I had knee surgery that set off a barrage of problems for me. During the surgery they found arthritis under the knee cap but decided not to remove it because they felt it would interfere with my recovery from the knee surgery. After ... Views: 2314
Good communication is the foundation of every great relationship. Listening and being listened to are signs of care and respect for your partner. When you feel cared for, you have more energy flowing through you, and sex is better.
Real, powerful Intimacy comes from such caring and respect ... Views: 2313
Physical intimacy is an important component in marriage and long-term relationships. The reasons why a passionate marriage might dwindle into a sexless marriage vary widely. The first step in keeping passion alive over the long haul is to understand the roadblocks to emotional and physical ... Views: 2313
While there can be general meanings to words, there can also be personal meanings to words and intimacy is no different in this respect. Intimacy is generally described as what occurs when one person is close to another. And although one can be close to friend's, family or colleagues for ... Views: 2308
Based on Wikipedia, Marriage is a social establishment in which interpersonal relationships, financial and personal obligations as well as intimate and sexual relationships are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture. If we look into history of creation a ... Views: 2305
A solution to loneliness
at least, an energetic solution
A Healing Toolbox article, Best practices in energy healing, 'with God as your Partner'
I was feeling lonely yesterday. I had just completed all the heavy lifting on a big project, shooting and editing, a series of 15 videos, it had ... Views: 2295
Emotional safety is something couples typically don't think about until something happens to threaten this safety. Emotional safety (knowing that you can trust your spouse/partner, that s/he has your best interest in mind and will try to be responsive to your emotional needs) creates a ... Views: 2295
Why is sex like learning to ride a bicycle? Well, do you know how to ride a bicycle? Not the four-wheeled type. The two-wheel ones (one front, one back) upon which the rider needs to be balanced.
If yes, how long did it take you to learn to ride one? While you were learning how to ride the ... Views: 2292
Women enjoy a variety of qualities from many different men in their lives. We can still enjoy and honor a monogamous relationship; however one man is sometimes not enough to fulfill a woman’s many needs. We are extremely social creatures and experience unique connections with most everyone we ... Views: 2289
Eroticism… mmmmmm… the word itself brings up images, fantasies, feelings. What is eroticism? Where does it show up in our lives? What is ‘erotic’ for each of us?
David M. Schnarch, PhD in his landmark work "The Making of the Sexual Crucible" defines eroticism as ... Views: 2289
What’s the secret to ongoing intimacy, in and OUT of the bedroom?
Most couples agree that they feel more emotionally, mentally, and physically connected with each other, after a good romp in the sack.
But generally that yummy feeling of mutual connection begins to wane over time, ... Views: 2284
I'm not a psychologist.
I'm not a sexual therapist.
I'm also not claiming to be a horribly unattractive guy that has The Magic Formula for seducing women within 15 seconds.
I'm actually a Signal Processing Electrical Engineer with a passion for Persuasion Psychology (from a motivational ... Views: 2271
Many of us have hard times keeping relations. Here are a couple of tips on how to keep your woman happy. These steps are fairly basic, all you need, is to follow these simple steps and you are off to building robust relationships.
1- You want to begin with making sure you're emotionally ... Views: 2268
As if you ever needed an excuse to have more sex, there are some health benefits to getting between the sheets that might really surprise you. Check out this list of five of the top five benefits that you could see by regularly jumping into bed with your partner.
Work Off the Pounds
We all ... Views: 2265
"Love is the most powerful force in the universe." Most of us actually believe that, if love is strong enough, it will create a healthy relationship in addition to changing the course of rivers and moving mountains. Forgive my indulgence in cynicism but the parallel is appropriate. For some ... Views: 2264
Nobody Else Is willing to Impart to You When you received the Birds and the Bees conversation from Mom and Dad, it most likely centered on two objectives: how you can get around unintentionally creating a child and the way to steer clear of becoming infected with a disease that has no ... Views: 2260
Exercise for premature ejaculation comes in various forms including pelvic muscle exercise, breathing exercise and masturbation exercise. While all these exercises work equally well to prevent premature ejaculation, masturbation exercise is the exercise which allows you to enhance your ... Views: 2258
Giving Voice to The Inner Parts
Emotionally, we are made up of many different feelings, patterns and habits, which can be looked at as separate aspects of our personality. They can be called sub-personalities or personas, or just patterns. Each of these inner voices has an important message ... Views: 2258
"Successful Relationship" from the book Pillars of Awesome Relationships
"It’s Not Fair!" How to kill a successful relationship.
Pillars of Awesome Relationship - Successful Relationshipwww.pillarsofawesomerelationhsips.com We are spiritual beings having a human experience and so often, ... Views: 2256
Now, as you are most likely aware, a marriage is a coming together of two equal partners, both have an equal say in what happens in the marriage, and both have an equal responsibility to make the marriage work. A marriage is a partnership where you have to leave behind you those heady days when ... Views: 2256
My approach to working with couples has always started with the following:
Two people coming into a relationship with
their own set of issues. They act out on these
issues within the relationship.
In order to deal with the issues that may be having a negative effect on the ... Views: 2256
For all type of business it is necessary to arrange their data in to respective order in any format. Disordered data can decrease efficiency and speed of work and that surely effect progress of the whole organization. In the globalize world, to get maximum gain in business all organizations need ... Views: 2254
Many people do not understand what Co dependency is, and many professionals struggle to describe it so that it is well understood. It is an insidious disease that underpins all addictions. It is born out of abuse or neglect in childhood. The net result is a person who suffers from self- hatred, ... Views: 2239
In the past you were single…
…and you could make decisions without having to check in with anyone.
Your favorite color was red and you liked small, fast cars (as in Cherry Red Sports Car, beloved even though you wrenched your back getting in and out);
The one bedroom apartment ... Views: 2235
"I hate having to compete with the TV or computer for my husband's attention. He used to be such a wonderful listener. I feel like I'm not important enough to him anymore." ~Jennifer
"It's really frustrating. I'll tell my girlfriend something and by the next day, she's forgotten what I said. ... Views: 2231
Jeanette really wants to have a “normal” sex life with her husband Carl. The problem is her memories of being sexually abused as a child by a neighbor.
It seems like whenever Carl touches her or talks to her in a sexually suggestive way, she freezes up. This has been a struggle for the two ... Views: 2226
For most men, their earliest sexual experiences are with masturbation done secretly and quickly, for fear of being found out. Hence it is often believed that such early experience actually condition some men’s sexual response to a pattern of rapid ejaculation. In reality, masturbation is one of ... Views: 2226
Are You Heart Smart?
How to Enhance Your Emotional Quotient
By Michelle L. Casto
You don’t have to be Albert Einsten to be smart, although having a high IQ has been associated with being intelligent. Having a high IQ means that you are “head smart.” If you have a high IQ, you are good ... Views: 2225
Although one may want to commit to a relationship, it doesn’t mean that they feel comfortable doing so. On one side they may have to have the need to be with someone and at the same time, it could be something they fear.
And while this could be something that only has an impact on their ... Views: 2223
What motivates someone to listen to another person? Understanding this question will help you work toward more effective listening in your own marriage or relationship.
1. Clear message, favorable outcome
Clearly communicating your needs is the foundation of effective communication and a ... Views: 2222
Have you ever had a man tell you he likes you, enjoys dating you, but isn’t ready for a relationship right now? I get letters from women all the time who are upset when the man they’re dating delivers this message. Usually, the woman paints him as a villain, when he’s actually just being ... Views: 2222
How often do you want to make love with your partner? How often does your partner want to make love? Many times the answers to both questions are not in sync. The best answer for your relationship, however, may be found somewhere in between.
When most relationships first begin there is high ... Views: 2217
As human beings, one of our primary needs is to cultivate healthy self-love. But at the same time, we have a strong drive to connect with others. Relating and loving are innate.
The more people we have who love us, the more secure we feel, and the sweeter our lives are. The pleasures we ... Views: 2192
We all long for a peaceful life. We search for peace through the mediums that our culture sells: through spending, watching television, searching the Internet, finding the “perfect” partner, having a baby, and a variety of other misguided methods. We even meditate, practice yoga, and attend ... Views: 2191
Women in film have come a long way. There was a certain way that women were depicted in film that painted them as demure and always a second fiddle to a male character. Even distinct female characters in films still relied on a man to either save the day or protect them from either an emotional ... Views: 2190
INTRODUCTION
When you are “there” 100% for your partner – are you there because this is “who you really are”, or this is a mask you hope will get you love, appreciation and attention? Knowing the difference between the two is important for your relationship.
DO YOU WEAR A MASK - NOT ONLY ... Views: 2184
I have always enjoyed therapy with couples. It is stimulating, interactive work and can create dramatic change quickly. By strengthening a couples' communication pattern, you not only help them to improve their relationship, but help them to learn more about themselves and what drives their ... Views: 2183
Latest breakthrough for vegetable nutrition healthier sex by eating more green leafy vegetables taking vitamin B supplements enhances the libido and overall health.
According to Dr. Daniel Amen in his book "Change Your Brain Change Your Body" eating more green vegetables and taking vitamin B ... Views: 2181
The definitive DSM-IV-TR, which is the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association, does not recognize sexual addiction as a diagnosis. Conventional wisdom among therapists has long been that there is no such thing ... Views: 2180
Has seduction become a lost art? In a society of strong women with powerful careers and tight schedules it may have lost it's place of importance. Being aggressive is not necessarily considered sexy by the man on the other end of the couch. Alluring him with hints of desire can whet his ... Views: 2179
Have you had good enough love in your life? So much depends upon your earliest years be4efore your conscious memory has developed. What you experienced way back when can determine how you give and receive love - for the rest of your life - unless you make a concerted conscious effort to study ... Views: 2177
Dear Dr. Romance:
I wanted to get someone else's take on what is going on in my marriage right now. My problem is that right now my wife and I do not have sex all that often, we average about once every month and half to two months. I have tried talking to my wife about this subject before ... Views: 2174