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Shaking Off the Complacency of a Fixed Mindset for a Better Relationship with Your Partner
A fixed mindset is the belief that brains are 'hard-wired' and incapable of dramatic change. Individuals with a fixed mindset give up easily, ignore constructive feedback and feel threatened by the success of others.
How to Have a Healthy Long-Distance Relationship
What’s the secret of these couples who manage to have healthy long-distance relationships. The short answer — willingness to go the extra mile to keep the relationship alive.
How to be Sexually Candid
Be honest. Do you know how to talk about sex with your partner? If yes, how much do you talk about it? Our society does little to nothing to encourage sexual candor, even between long-term partners. Our society does not encourage it. However, talking about sex really does help you have better sex and a better relationship. It's a vital part of gaining sexual confidence.
Three Lessons I learned from the Poly Community
How could you love more than one person? How could you feel special if your partner loved someone else? Through her and her relationships, I learned many lessons that I could apply to my own monogamous relationships to make them healthier and myself happier.
How to Write a Love Letter
A love letter can be so powerful: there is something special about a letter’s physicality that stands out and helps your voice be heard; they make the recipient pause and leave the world of notifications behind as they focus on your meaningful handwritten note.
How to Manage Conflict
A healthy and happy relationship does not mean 24/7 smiles, cuddles, and sex. Inevitably, an argument or disagreement will arise. I'm sorry to say this, but if there are none, but you might be dating a golden retriever. Maintaining a happy and healthy relationship means knowing how to navigate and engage in conflicts in a compassionate and balanced way.
How to get out of Sex Slumps
Have you gone from active lovers to a sexless couple? It's frustrating, challenging, and disheartening when your desire for sex seems to disappear. Don’t worry this is normal! Pay attention to yourselves and each other, and continue to speak openly about your desires, feelings, and libido.
How to Plan a Quality Date
Just because you're in a relationship, it doesn't mean you stop dating. A date does more than just keep your relationship interesting—it helps to nourish the romance in your relationship.
How to Write a Love Poem
There is something particularly daunting about writing a love poem. But it doesn’t have to be complicated or even rhyme! It just must be sincere.
Make Relationships Better
Stop comparing your relationships to other couple’s highlight reels. You have the freedom to define your relationship. You have the power to establish your standards and values. That being said, relationship standards have changed drastically over time.
Are You Securely Attached to Your Partner?
When it comes to developing meaningful romantic relationships, our early attachments can predict behavior, whether healthy or maladaptive. Learn what your attachment style is.
Couple Goals—Your Guide to What They Are, and Why You Need Them!
Couple goals aren’t just practical. They are a loving space of communication from which we can grow closer with our partners. By spending valuable time sharing our ambitions and future plans, we can then set up a strong framework from which to navigate the relationship as a whole.
Struggling to Connect? Here’s Why Creating Couple Goals Could Help
Disconnection does not need to lead to separation. This is where couple goals come in! Sitting down with your spouse to discuss your future goals as a couple is vital to any healthy, happy and ultimately long-lasting relationship.
7 Inspiring Reasons Why Couples With Shared Goals Go The Distance
Discover the power of setting shared couple goals to strengthen your relationship and achieve your dreams together. Amidst the sea of relationship advice, learn how aligning your aspirations fosters trust and unity, empowering you to navigate life's journey as a cohesive team. Explore the benefits of collaborative goal-setting and nurture a lasting bond built on mutual support and shared accomplishments.
6 Ways to Communicate Without Conflict
When it comes to addressing new ideas or concepts for the future, it can be challenging to ensure both you and your partner feel seen and personally validated. Couples must work steadily through each idea shared without stepping on any toes or triggering any sense of reactivity.
How To Create Couple Goals In Your Relationship This Year
Couple goals are more than a hashtag on Instagram that makes us feel like we're not where we're supposed to be. The true couple goals meaning doesn't come in one-size. They vary from couple to couple. Think relationship goals but for people in two-person relationships.
7 Ways To Keep Your Sex Life Alive During The Holidays
The holidays are super stressful. The only way to get through them is to find some peace of mind somewhere in the middle of all that chaos. And one of the ways to do that is to, you know, have sex. Many people don't realize how powerful sex can be. We want you to know that having sex during the holidays isn’t as inconvenient as it’s made out to be.
How To Spend The Holidays With In-Laws (Or Together) For The First Time EVER
Surviving your first holiday together as a couple, in-laws or no in-laws, is a skill. It's a delicate balance between communication and stress-relief.
2020 Holiday Gift Guide For Couples Who Care
The key is gifting for the person, not for you. We can get lost in the craze of the holidays with flash sales and Black Friday deals screaming through our screens at us. But some gifts aren’t the right gifts, no matter how mind-blowing the sale is. The best way to keep yourself from buying a gift you like but they don't is to think about love languages.
How To Budget This Holiday Season as a Couple
Deciding how much, on whom, and what to spend money on is always confusing during the holidays. Avoid debt like the plague and set a budget that keeps you sane this holiday season. Creating a holiday budget is like creating a regular couple budget. Budget before the holiday panic sets in.
