Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
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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- Written by: Harry Reis and Gurit Birnbaum
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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- Written by: Montel Williams and Jeffrey Gardere, Ph.D.
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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- Written by: Valerie Brooks
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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- Written by: Susie & Otto Collins
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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- Written by: Mirtha Vega
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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- Written by: Judy Illes and Farhad R. Udwadia
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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- Written by: Alex Shashkevich
More heterosexual couples today meet online, research finds. In fact, matchmaking is now the primary job of online algorithms.
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- Written by: Treena Orchard
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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- Written by: Barry Vissell
As 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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- Written by: Ivy Brashear
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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- Written by: Melissa Kang
Is it normal for girls to masturbate and are there any health consequences?
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- Written by: Bert Gambini
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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- Written by: Joann Davis
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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- Written by: Mollie Rappe
Teenagers have an overly simplistic understanding of consent that often ignores relevant non-verbal cues, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Marni Feuerman
The 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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- Written by: Alan Cohen
Beyond 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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- Written by: Andrea Waling
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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- Written by: James Creighton
Couples fight. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes these fights provide comic relief. At other times they threaten the very survival of the relationship.
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- Written by: Joseph Paul
Couples are getting the message that there’s a certain point at which they should start having sex again after having a baby, interviews show.
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel
Sex helps initiate romantic relationships between potential partners, a new study finds.
