Simple yet heartfelt words that will make your partner’s day. — Healthy communication is one of the biggest obstacles couples face when it comes to building a happy and healthy relationship. But healthy communication isn’t just about speaking up when you feel something’s amiss, it also means speaking up to let your partner know when or what they’re doing well. The…

Simple yet timeless love lessons from my grandparents’ 60 years of marriage. — It always makes me smile when I see an older couple walking hand in hand, still in love after so many years together. “That’s so sweet,” I usually whisper to myself while also wondering about their story. How did their relationship begin? What has their love sustained? What were they…

A guide for cultivating emotional security. — Building healthy relationships take a lot of work. All of them, for example, require traits like trust, respect, empathy, and teamwork — things that are difficult yet not impossible to come by. But at the root of all those things is something much more important. For any healthy relationship to…

It’s time to stop and give back to the most important person in your life — you. — Some people are natural givers. Givers are the kind of people you want in your life. They’re very dependable and reliable. But do you ever stop to think about what those favors and sacrifices have cost them? If you’re a giver, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You love…

You can’t just avoid them forever. — We all have our own idea of what love is, but let’s face it, it’s never really as simple as we made it out to be. Certainly, it’s far from the Hallmark romance movies they play during Christmas. Nope — for the rest of us, it’s more complicated than that. …

These might help to explain why you’re still single. — Every person has fallen in love with the wrong person at least once in their lives, and honestly, that’s okay. Falling in love with the wrong person might hurt you, but it also helps you to be wiser and smarter, and most importantly, it helps you to understand what you…

It’s time we put these common misconceptions to bed. — The female orgasm is often shrouded in mystery so it’s no surprise that there are so many misconceptions about how to get one and how often you’re supposed to have one. (Hint: Don’t go by what you see in the movies.) There’s a lot of bad information spinning around out…

From a real-life couple who has traveled the world during the pandemic. — Four months after my boyfriend and I officially started dating, deep in the throes of the honeymoon stage, we found ourselves contemplating something possibly romantic or possibly unhinged — depending on who you asked. He was doing some work in Japan and planned on taking three weeks off to travel…

Spoiler alert: They’re not having sex all the time. — Out of the blue, my best friend Anna gave me a call. “I have something to tell you,” she said in a breathless, excited tone. “I’m polyamorous.” Now, before that confession, she had always been in long-term monogamous relationships. I remember jokingly telling her that she was “addicted to love,”…