My husband and I were college sweethearts and had been together for 28 years when he suffered a cardiac arrest in 2003. He didn’t get enough oxygen to his brain and lapsed into a coma for 10 days. When he woke, he wasn’t the same person I had married. He had severe cognitive deficits; his… Continue reading How to Save Your Marriage After Becoming Your Husband’s Caregiver
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Go to Bed with Your Socks On: Unexpected Hacks to Spice Up Your Love Life
LEAVE YOUR SOCKS ON This is another one that has stirred some pretty passionate debate: is it a super nerdy turn-off or super practical turn-on? Well, a study by Danish researchers found that women were 30% more likely to orgasm with their socks on than with their socks off. It turns out warm toes signal… Continue reading Go to Bed with Your Socks On: Unexpected Hacks to Spice Up Your Love Life
Living with (and Loving) Senior Pets
I don’t feel good admitting this, but sometimes I’m impatient with my two old dogs, Basil and Rinaldo. Their gait is slow and uncertain. They need help getting in and out of the car. They have to go out more often to relieve themselves, and the really old one, Rinaldo, does not want to go… Continue reading Living with (and Loving) Senior Pets
Seven Steps to Making Love Last in Your Later Years
There are few things more heartwarming than seeing a sweet-looking couple in their 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond holding hands and laughing together in a park, on an airplane, or standing behind you in the checkout line. The stereotype of older couples is that they’re grumpy and always nagging and snapping at each other. So what’s that… Continue reading Seven Steps to Making Love Last in Your Later Years
Yes, You Can Learn to Love Exercising
The scientific evidence is indisputable. We all need to exercise if we want to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. So why don’t we? Studies show that somewhere between 28 percent and 50 percent of all Baby Boomers don’t exercise at all, despite mountains of data documenting why we should. That disconnect isn’t hard to… Continue reading Yes, You Can Learn to Love Exercising
Three Ways Parents Can Protect Their Child during a Divorce
It’s no secret that divorces can get downright contentious – often because the stakes are so high financially and emotionally. But those already high stakes are raised even more dramatically when children are involved, and one or both parents try to use them as pawns in their never-ending battle with each other. That is a… Continue reading Three Ways Parents Can Protect Their Child during a Divorce
Adopting A Shelter Dog? What You Need to Know
It’s easy for inexperienced dog owners to make mistakes with their new pooch that can become permanent. Here, from the pet experts at Ask.Vet, a site that you can use to chat directly with vets, is the best advice you can have for bringing home a dog from an animal shelter: 1. DO PUT YOURSELF… Continue reading Adopting A Shelter Dog? What You Need to Know
Unexpected Advice About Love & Sex
A study published by the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles has found that a shockingly high number of men and women experience some form of sexual difficulty. From performance anxiety to difficulty reaching climax to pain during sex, over one-third of the men and nearly half of the women surveyed said they suffer… Continue reading Unexpected Advice About Love & Sex
What Dogs Really Want from People
Praise or food? Lots of dogs just want praise, according to research publisven the choice, many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food, suggests a new study published in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The study is one of the first to combine brain-imaging data with behavioral experiments to explore canine reward… Continue reading What Dogs Really Want from People
Healing Relationships at The End of Life
Often, the end of a life leaves us filled with mixed emotions: sadness, yes, but also, deep regret about things that were never said and about thorny relationship rifts that remain forever unresolved. Bereavement care specialist Dr. Virginia A. Simpson, author of the memoir The Space Between: A Memoir Of Mother-Daughter Love At The End… Continue reading Healing Relationships at The End of Life
Feeling Romantic? Send An Email
If you want to show someone you’re romantically interested in them, send an email – and don’t leave a voicemail. The finding, by researchers from Indiana University, contradicts previous research that said a voicemail is a more intimate way to connect with someone. The study will be published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.… Continue reading Feeling Romantic? Send An Email
How to Heal a Broken Heart
The scars of a broken heart can leave us severely wounded. Who hasn’t experienced or witnessed this happen to a relative or close friend? But a recent study by the University of Arizona and Northwestern University shows there is an effective path to recovery. Researchers demonstrated that the trial group that spent time assessing their… Continue reading How to Heal a Broken Heart
A Matchmaker’s Seven Steps to Finding Love
Read any book on how to succeed in business or about the traits of highly effective people and it will quickly become clear that there are common habits/ behaviors required to succeed. What if we applied those same high standards to our personal life – dating in particular? Below, Dana Michel, founder and president of… Continue reading A Matchmaker’s Seven Steps to Finding Love
How to Live Your Life with Confidence
Fear, insecurity, self-doubt and the like can be the biggest obstacles many of us face. In order to overcome that negativity, many people turn to unhealthy behaviors, such as overeating or alcohol abuse. “Compulsive or addictive behavior may temporarily numb that negativity, but it won’t put you on a healthy and wholesome path,” says Darlene… Continue reading How to Live Your Life with Confidence
Ten Ways to Know If He’s Your Soul Mate
By Carmen Harra, PhD Throughout my career, I have seen everything from couples who married their childhood loves to people in their retirement years who still struggle with commitment issues. Most of us fall somewhere between these two extremes, meaning that we experience several relationships before finding the person we believe to be our perfect… Continue reading Ten Ways to Know If He’s Your Soul Mate
Finding Your Perfect Spring Match
the kinds of people they are attracting, or how of their own habits or ways of thinking led to unsuccessful relationships in the past. Here, Kailen Rosenberg, who has worked as a relationship expert with Oprah Winfrey and hosted an award winning series Lovetown, USA, offers six tips to help you have a romantic season… Continue reading Finding Your Perfect Spring Match
What’s Your Message?
March is Spiritual Awareness month, a time to gather the holiness within us and grow it. We are all connected by a common thread of spirit and humanity that runs through our souls. We each hold a piece of the big puzzle of life, and all of us are needed to complete the picture. God… Continue reading What’s Your Message?
When The Bank Account Is Full But The Soul Is Lacking
It’s second nature for many people to toil endlessly to achieve what the world at large considers a successful life.Yet success often is often fleeting and sometimes requires us to make decisions that aren’t in our best interests, says Frank P. Daversa, author of the book “Spirituality in the 21st Century.” “How many times has… Continue reading When The Bank Account Is Full But The Soul Is Lacking