Instead of taking for granted those with whom you are most familiar, pay them the most attention. You need to cherish and nurture them and think about them as much if not more than you think of yourself.
During stressful times in a relationship, the natural inclination is to vent emotions destructively .
Give your partner and your relationship the benefit of the doubt.
Allow a little more time before you react. You lose nothing by being quiet and allowing the madness around you to go its own way....
Loving Love! Is there any one thing more examined in the human psyche than the emotion of love? Some people are lucky in love: They find the perfect fit in a partner and tend the garden of romance for decades .
When a relationship is not going well it’s easy to forget why we ever joined forces in the first place.
We feel sorry for ourselves, complain about our partner, and catalogue our disappointments. We become immersed in negativity to convince ourselves that our situation is hopeless, that we should...
Always making love as a night cap just before bedtime is a common practice but not an especially sexy one because the expectation is that you will fall asleep afterward .
And what often happens is that at bedtime both of you are too tired to get involved in serious lovemaking or the man may not be...
Planning Spontaneity may sound like a contradiction in terms, but planning is the essence of a happy romantic relationship. Consider how much of the time the outside world intrudes on your intimate life, how often concern over bills or children, career or the house manage to get in the way of your...
Love exercise 1. Charting the map of love.
Make a list of every part of your body where you like to be touched. For each indicate :
Where you want to be touched!?
When: before making love, during, after?
How: lightly, firmly, playfully slapped?
With what: hands, lips, tongue?
Taking the space you need to consider what you really want for yourself can be the beginning of the end or a new start together.
It is hard to make the right decision for yourself when you have a frightened partner continually dogging your footsteps, asking for reassurance that he or she is still...
Forgiving is telling the person who injured you that you no longer hurt. Perhaps the greatest pain in a relationship is caused by cheating, but even smaller injuries can be a threat unless they are forgiven.