How to Know if Your Mate is Toxic

How to Know if Your Mate is Toxic

Love / Love Tips

It’s obvious to outsiders when a relationship is simply unhealthy for all those involved. Witnessing friends or family members who are involved with toxic partners is tough to see – a strong woman who now walks on eggshells, feels terrible about herself…the list goes on. But when your own mate…

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Are Your Girlfriends Ruining Your Love Life?

Are Your Girlfriends Ruining Your Love Life?

Love / Love Tips

You can always expect commentary from the peanut gallery when you embark on a new relationship. But did you know that the peanut gallery – aka your friends – could have a negative effect on you and your beau? After all, your friends have been around a lot longer than…

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Can Separation Save Your Marriage?

Can Separation Save Your Marriage?

Love / Love Tips

Usually, when a couple decides to separate, it’s a precursor to an inevitable divorce. But therapists and the couples they counsel are finding that sometimes, separation is the first step to reconciliation. Instead of separating ultimately to divorce later, many couples are treating separation as a “time-out” of sorts. And…

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How to Get Him into Therapy

How to Get Him into Therapy

Love / Love Tips

When you feel like your relationship is on the rocks, the last thing you want to do is create tension about going to couples’ therapy with your partner. So if you believe that talking to a professional may be in your relationship’s best interest, then there are some ways to…

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Collaborate for a Great Divorce

Collaborate for a Great Divorce

Love / Love Tips

It’s rare to see couples who are divorcing in the same room, getting along and compromising. Usually, splitting spouses approach one another in the stereotypical acrimonious fashion and duke it out in court. But for those who are committed to a civil – and more private — divorce, there’s another…

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Amicable Exes: Should You Stay Friends?

Amicable Exes: Should You Stay Friends?

Love / Love Tips

“Let’s just be friends.” It’s the mantra said by couples who split up all the time, but does anyone really mean it? It depends. Consider the tone of the breakup. If things got really ugly at the end – perhaps one partner cheated on the other, or there was a…

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Age Differences: Do They Matter?

Age Differences: Do They Matter?

Love / Love Tips

In a relationship, there are many things that attract you to your mate. For example, a sense of humor ranks high on people’s list of must-haves for a potential mate. Compatibility is determined by multiple factors, one of which is your age difference. Is it important to consider the impact…

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5 Best Places to Have Intercourse

5 Best Places to Have Intercourse

Love / Intimacy

Let’s face it: having sex under the sheets, with the lights turned off, in your bedroom every night is totally boring. You’ve done it a million times. (Well maybe not a million exactly…) Sure some of those times were pretty amazing, but it’s really just not an exciting environment anymore….

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Role Playing: Best-Dressed Ideas

Role Playing: Best-Dressed Ideas

Love / Intimacy

Role playing can turn a drab, ordinary sex life into a passionate, exciting one in just one night. It’s amazing what dressing up and acting like someone else can do to you — mentally and sexually. When you role play, you remove yourself from reality. You and your partner get…

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