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Healing Hearts: Navigating the Road to Recovery After Infidelity

Long Distance, Now What?

Going long distance can be one of the most dreaded relationship challenges. Growing up, I was often told, “Long distance never works” and “you should just break up because they’ll cheat on you anyways.” Terrifying! These messages kept me from entering relationships that might involve long distances. However, I’m here to tell you that not […]

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How to Build Intimacy with Yourself

What is self intimacy?  The word intimacy often conjures up thoughts of romantic or sexual partners, but intimacy is important to all types of relationships. While it absolutely does exist within healthy, supportive romantic relationships, intimacy is intentional emotional closeness between two people. We usually associate it with couples because sex, kissing, and cuddling are

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Questions to Ask Your Partner for Better Sex

If you’re looking to have better sex with your partner, have you considered the answer may just be talking about it?  Enjoyable sex is where imagination, playfulness, and open communication meet.  Beyond the basic necessity of communication in sex for things like consent and assessing everyone’s comfort level, openly communicating more in bed can make

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5 Ways to Feel More Comfortable Talking About Sex

Do you feel comfortable talking about sex? Being a sexual person in the United States can be a rollercoaster. On the one hand, we have magazines like Cosmo and Men’s Health with headlines about sex at the end of every grocery store aisle (raise your hand if you learned a lot of interesting terminology at

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How To Start Practicing Complete Self-Love

How To Start Practicing Complete Self-Love By VANESA AKBARPOUR With Valentine’s Day closely approaching, the theme of love is in the air and although it’s generally romantic love we associate with this time, self-love has gained increasing attention as our collective awareness of psychology and self-care has grown. We commonly hear people laud the benefits

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