10 Ways To Create A Strong, Intimate Relationship

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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen Before I married my wonderful husband, I dated a lot of men. For most of my 20s (and even my early 30s) I had a perfect fairy-ideal of what romantic love was, probably because [...]

Being With Love

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I just finished reading an email from one of my first yoga teachers, Camille, that she sent out about the impending death of her 11 year old Chocolate Lab. As I read this letter I had tears streaming down my face. She shared so eloquently her love of this animal that has been in her [...]

Reinventing Intimacy

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Is it possible to have great sex at midlife and beyond? Absolutely. But it’s not necessary to have the unbridled drive or wildness of your younger years to experience sexual fulfillment at this stage of life. It’s the “being with” more so than “doing to” that sustains us over time, the way we connect in [...]

The Affairs of Women

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For as long as humans have had marriage and partnership, infidelity has existed as the dark sibling. Throughout time, women and men have risked everything, even torture or death (particularly for women) if their tryst was discovered; all this in order to pursue the overwhelming passion they felt for someone who was not their mate. [...]

Resurrecting Your Romance

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Around the world people ask what is love? Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is one of the most basic human emotional needs. From early infancy, children learn that when they cry and are held or hungry and are fed, they develop the sense that he or she belongs and is wanted. [...]

Love Your Workout Together

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Whenever my husband agrees to go for a walk with me, which always includes our dogs, Adam and Louie, I respond with the kind of excitement you might see when someone strikes it rich from a scratch off lottery game ticket. If you’ve ever won 5 or 10 dollars from a gas station game ticket [...]