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The Basis For Your Personal Happiness: Owning Your Relationship

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Written by: by Kelly E. Johnson, M.D.

The Basis For Your Personal Happiness: Owning Your Relationship
I have asked people to list all of their important possessions, from top to bottom, and they all invariably come up with similar lists. Houses, cars, furniture, stocks... and other material goods usually rank highly. Then I tell them that they have overlooked the number one valuable commodity in their life...

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More Romantic Partners Means More Support, Say Polyamorous Couples

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Written by: Elizabeth Darling, et al

More Romantic Partners Means More Support, Say Polyamorous Couples
Polyamory is the act of engaging in multiple consensual, potentially long-term, romantic or sexual relationships at the same time.

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Is Your Lover Insecure? A Simple Question Could Transform Your Romantic Relationship

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Written by: Joanne Wood and Kassandra Cortes

Is Your Lover Insecure? A Simple Question Could Transform Your Romantic Relationship
Loving an insecure person can be frustrating. You always feel like you have to offer praise or reassurance.

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Where Has The Spark Gone? The Real Reason For Strained Sexual Relationships

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Written by: Barry Vissell

Where Has The Spark Gone? The Real Reason For Strained Sexual Relationships
Over the last four decades, Joyce and I have counseled many couples who are suffering with their sexual relationship. Most of these couples also feel disconnected from each other. They think they can improve their overall relationship by improving their sexual relationship. This is usually a mistake.

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Why Having Sex On The Mind Makes People Lie

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Written by: Harry Reis and Gurit Birnbaum

Why Having Sex On The Mind Makes People Lie
With sex on their minds, people are more likely to change their attitudes and engage in deceptive self-presentation, research on sexual priming finds.

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How Do You Talk To Your Kids About Divorce?

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Written by: Montel Williams and Jeffrey Gardere, Ph.D.

How Do You Talk To Your Kids About Divorce?
Here's a stunner: 64 percent of all marriages that began in 1990 ended in divorce by the turn of the millennium.  70 percent of those failed marriages produced at least one child. Roughly half of all children born in this country over the past 15 years have ended up being children of divorce.

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Experiencing Tantra: Spiritual Oneness Is Always Accompanied By Deep Love

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Written by: Valerie Brooks

Experiencing Tantra: Spiritual Oneness Is Always Accompanied By Deep Love
Tantra is well regarded within the yoga tradition as the fastest path to enlightenment. Eastern legend holds that an average human soul takes 100,000 lifetimes to achieve enlightenment, but that with tantra, any person truly committed to this path can gain enlightenment in as little as one lifetime. I soon discovered why this is true.

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Being Vulnerable in Relationship

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Written by: Susie & Otto Collins

Allowing Yourself to Be Vulnerable in Relationship
The paradox of vulnerability in relationships, the path to connection, is to allow yourself to be both strong and vulnerable at the same time. When you do, it allows your partner to get to see the real you with your defenses down. This means no hiding. Not from yourself, not from your partner and best of all no hiding from the truth.

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Thoughts On Creating Loving Relationships In These Changing Times

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Written by: Mirtha Vega

Thoughts On Creating Loving Relationships
In today's changing times, we are looking for a better way to be ourselves, not someone we were raised to be. In this time of intense self-discovery, all others serve as our mirrors.

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Sex Robots Increase The Potential For Gender-Based Violence

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Written by: Judy Illes and Farhad R. Udwadia

Sex Robots Increase The Potential For Gender-Based Violence
Sex robots made headlines after American comedian Whitney Cummings brought out her very own lookalike robot for her Netflix special called Can I Touch It? RealBotix

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39% Of Straight Couples Now Meet Online

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Written by: Alex Shashkevich

39% Of Straight Couples Now Meet Online

More heterosexual couples today meet online, research finds. In fact, matchmaking is now the primary job of online algorithms.

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Love, Lust And Digital Dating: Men On The Bumble Dating App Aren't Ready For The Queen Bee

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Written by: Treena Orchard

Love, Lust And Digital Dating: Men On The Bumble Dating App Aren't Ready For The Queen Bee
When love, lust and all things in between come calling, dating apps appear to be the only way to meet new people and experience romance in 2019.

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Saints and Soulmates: Francis and Clare of Assisi

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Written by: Barry Vissell

Saints and Soulmates: Francis and Clare of AssisiAs we write in The Shared Heart, "The real soulmate is a state of consciousness, not a person." That being said, there can also be an outer soulmate, or life partner, an ancient connection with another soul where the primary purpose is serving together, blessing the earth together, more than simply loving one another.

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Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

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Written by: Ivy Brashear

Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

There have been times in Hannah Adams’ life when she’d been confused about her body and birth control. Sex education in middle and high school in mountainous eastern Kentucky was severely lacking, she says.

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Is It Normal For Girls To Masturbate?

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Written by: Melissa Kang

Is It Normal For Girls To Masturbate?

Is it normal for girls to masturbate and are there any health consequences?

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Marijuana Increases Odds Of Couples Feeling Intimate

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Written by: Bert Gambini

Marijuana Increases Odds Of Couples Feeling Intimate

For couples who frequently use the drug, episodes of marijuana use increase the likelihood couples will experience “intimacy events,” according to new research.

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What I Love Most About You...

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Written by: Joann Davis

What I Love Most About You... How often do you tell the special people in your life exactly what it is that you love most about them? How often do you identify what's good about your spouse, lover, children, sisters, brothers, dad, mother, uncles, aunts, friends, and colleagues -- and actually put it into words so there can be no doubt?

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How Teens May Be Missing The Nuances Of Consent

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Written by: Mollie Rappe

How Teens May Be Missing The Nuances Of Consent

Teenagers have an overly simplistic understanding of consent that often ignores relevant non-verbal cues, a new study suggests.

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Empathy and Attunement in Healthy and Successful Relationships

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Written by: Marni Feuerman

Empathy and Attunement in Healthy and Successful RelationshipsThe development of trust in a relationship is highly depen­dent upon two core concepts: empathy and attunement. Attunement is about being deeply aware of yourself and others. It is also about being receptive to information you get from others.

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Leave Your Cover Behind and Live Your Truth

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Leave Your Cover Behind and Live Your TruthBeyond all of the material gifts we share, the greatest gift we can offer each other is the truth of who we really are. While true love invites us to come out and stand naked in the sun, fearful "love" asks us to hide who we are for the sake of holding on to a person or relationship. When you think about it, how valuable can a relationship be if you have to live in the dark to keep it?

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Why Our Relationship With Dick Pics Is Complicated

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Written by: Andrea Waling

Why Our Relationship With Dick Pics Is Complicated
Why do men send dick pics? Some research and popular commentary suggests it is for reasons of narcissism and over-confidence. Some men no doubt send them in the hopes of receiving a nude photo in kind, or because they genuinely believe that’s what women desire.

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