Tag: love life
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Travelling as a Relationship Test
Sooner or later while in the early stages of your relationship, you’re likely to want to go away somewhere, sharing time on a holiday break. There’s a lot to look forward to, a time full of excitement and romance. After all, it’s a great chance to step outside the normal day to day routines and…
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Are you still hung up on your ex?
They say that breaking up is the hardest thing to do – but for many of us it’s actually the bit that comes next that causes the most headaches. Moving on with your life should be a natural progression for anyone who has just come out of the other side of a relationship. The healthiest…
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Sustaining your sex life in your relationship
One of the greatest joys of a new relationship is the so-called ‘honeymoon’ period – that time when everything about your partnership is new and exciting. This is often the time when your sex life is at its most intense – that new relationship energy pushing you into each other’s arms and prompting you to…
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Can Two Alpha Personalities Get On?
We’ve written here before about how nice guys and gals typically come last when it comes to dating because of a lack of balance in power. If you don’t struggle to keep some measure of independence and equality, one of you essentially begins to run the relationship and makes all the decisions before getting bored…
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Are You Scared Of Intimacy?
If you believe everything you read about online dating, you might think that setting up your profile and diving into the pool was the easiest and most natural thing in the world. For many people this is pretty accurate – there’s an excitement and flow to getting closer to meeting people for the first time…
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Getting and Keeping Your Mojo
Have you ever noticed how things can pass you by for ages, and then suddenly a crop of coincidences will keep you hearing the same song, or seeing the same model of car or seeing the same time on the clock each day? In part it’s down to our ability to recognise patterns, and it’s…
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Getting the Balance in Relationships Right
By and large when we first meet someone, we’re pretty keen to be on the same page when it comes to issues of control and the balance of power within the relationship. Both people want to make a good impression, and so the decision making and compromises tend to switch back and forth between them.…
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Do Nice Guys and Girls Finish Last?
Our every instinct is to be as nice as possible in every way to our new partners when we start dating. We want them to think the best of us, so we always put them first and are prepared to drop everything at a moment’s notice to keep them happy. Surely, we think to ourselves,…
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7 Relationship Myths To Ignore
There’s a common misperception that there, somewhere, exists a rare beast known as the perfect relationship. This mythical relationship has no ups and downs, no sad times or happy times, just a never ending stream of steady being. It doesn’t exist, of course, because humans are not perfect, and so we all have to navigate…
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Communication for Couples
Perhaps one of the most clichéd pieces of advice we ever hear is that successful relationships rely on good communication. And yet how many times do we fall out or get into problems because we don’t do enough to promote positive communication? Positive communication means taking an active and continued role in making sure that…
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Realising What You Have To Offer
One of the downsides of coming out of a long term relationship can be the temptation to take the blame and be overly critical of yourself. It can be very easy to think that there’s something wrong with you or assume that the end of a relationship means that you are no good at them.…
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Do We Need Dating Schools?
There’s a new schools program in the United States that is trying to address the harm that can be caused by bad dating habits. Aimed at teenagers, the program encourages them to define their relationships with other people into categories such as “just texting”, “casually hooking up”, “friends with benefits” or “monogamous”. The program not…
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A Quick Chat About Sexual Health
We want everyone to have a great time, and one of the ways we want to encourage that is to ensure that everyone has the information they need to maintain their sexual health. A lot of people getting into the dating scene do worry about sexually transmitted infections – especially if they’ve been in a…
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Eight Tips For Improving Your Love Life
There’s no denying that we all think about sex and want more of it. It’s perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of. Sex feels good, increases our sense of self-worth and is good for our health. It boosts our immune systems and makes us happier. Years of surveys have showed us that while 83%…