Tag: partner

Have you and your partner decided you’re ready to be parents—or have another baby?

According to Baby Center, 85 percent of couples who actively try to get pregnant will conceive within about one year, or 12 menstrual cycles. If they are not able to conceive after one year, it is recommended at that time that they may want to consult a fertility expert. (This time period is reduced to six months before seeing an expert if the woman is over 35 years old.)

Regardless of whether you’re in the early stages of trying to conceive or have been trying for a while, here are a few science-backed tips that may help get your body primed for fertility success.

When you are part of a couple, it is best to know that conflict is inevitable and baked into the cake of relationship. The issue is not whether you have conflict, but rather how you deal with it when it arises.

Let’s first review some unhealthy ways of fighting that lead to a further divide: physical explosions and/or physical contact during anger, shutting down, avoiding, criticizing, blaming, yelling, using abusive name-calling or words, using past experiences as evidence to make a point, referring to other people’s opinions to support your argument, public demonstrations of anger, being dismissive and belittling, starting your statements with "You always..." or "You never..."

When you've felt the raw power of sexual joy there is never any going back to "blah."

Sex is often a mixed-up dance between two people. But sex begins with yourself; and ultimately, your sexual joy begins with your own relationship to something inside you. Sex and sexual dysfunction is 90% in your head. So when sex is off, either between you and yourself, or you and others, there is some examination that might need to take place. (I'm not a doctor, and I have no understanding of erectile disfunction or other medically related sexual issues.) With that, I've compiled a researched and observational guide to help guide your sexual happiness.

Say it with me: Just as there’s no such thing as perfection, there is no perfect relationship. And whether you’ve been married for a long time or not, companionship is usually only as good as our own relationship with our number one: our very own self.

So if relationships aren’t supposed to make us whole, what are they for in the first place? This Valentine’s Day, consider the value of messiness in your relationships (romantic and otherwise). Messiness is what makes for more fun, deeper connection and intimacy, greater trust, expanded compassion, more room for acceptance and self-expression, and some of the best damn lessons you’ll ever learn. Here are my tips for how you can incorporate messiness into your own relationship—and learn to celebrate the imperfections.

Most of us hear this statement, "Be the partner you want your partner to be" and we laugh and say, "Of course! Dah!" But it often doesn’t work out that way. Instead, we are often in the habit of matching the experience we have of our partner’s behaviors and attitudes and we act to them the way they act to us.

How often do we feel stung by our partners and automatically we sting back? We get stuck in patterns of reaction and it becomes a vicious cycle that often seems too hard to break. When we get hurt, disappointed or mad, the egos first instinct is to find justification for how the other person is wrong and to be blamed for our bad feelings—and then to punish by either withholding love or pointing out our partner’s faults and issues are. Aren’t we all such experts on how our partners sabotage the relationship?

Many relationships can’t take flight until both parties have a candid discussion about money. More specifically, a conversation that prioritizes potentially troubling credit situations that can capsize a marriage. Here's what to know:

Why Talk About Money and Credit?

Yes, people can have bad credit for a variety of reasons, fair and unfair, but a romantic partner with strong credit health has a right to know if his or her significant other has credit problems. In fact, there’s a strong case that credit health should be a big factor in evaluating a romantic partner.

Let’s get cooking! We’ve pulled together a few recipes to help you explore the kitchen—and each other. All three aphrodisiac food recipes are chock full of organic, healthy ingredients and, as an added bonus, all three contain ingredients that are known aphrodisiacs!
Here are a three simple aphrodisiac food recipes to help get you in the mood and #makeitgood: