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Do You Have "Dance Chemistry" as a Couple?

How Salsa Dancing Can Help Your Love Life – or Hurt It!

Don’t wait for Valentine’s Day to learn if you have “dance chemistry” with your partner! Here’s how salsa dancing helps your love life – plus how it can can hurt your relationship. I’m writing an article on salsa dancing for a magazine, and was enchanted by one of my interviews with a salsa instructor. One [...]

When Was the Last Time You Went to an Art Gallery With Your Spouse?

5 Habits of a Healthy Marriage – From Whales to Treasure Hunts

Yes, hunting for treasure and saving dolphins are habits of a healthy marriage! Improving your marriage can be as simple as talking about your daily highs and lows, or as complicated as learning effective conflict resolution skills. These habits of healthy marriages are for newlyweds, mature married couple, and even couples who just started dating. [...]

Why Stay Married When You Live Like Roommates? Because…

Why Stay Married When You Live Like Roommates? Because…

Why stay married when you live like roommates, you ask? Because divorce sucks, I say! These tips are inspired by a reader who loves her husband, but they live separate lives. I like to think most couples would rather work on their marriages than file for divorce, but I’m unhappily aware of the divorce rates [...]

4 Tips for Couples With Wildly Different Personality Traits

4 Tips for Couples With Wildly Different Personality Traits

C’mon – you’d be bored if your partner had the same personality traits as you! These tips for couples with different personality types are inspired by a reader’s comment: “I knew I was introverted – I scored 27 out of 29 {on your test for introverted personality traits],” says L. on 30 Famous Introverts. “I [...]

5 Romantic, Creative Ways to Celebrate a Wedding Anniversary

5 Romantic, Creative Ways to Celebrate a Wedding Anniversary

Need romantic, fun ways to celebrate your wedding anniversary – whether it’s your first or fiftieth? These tips range from painting a “wall of love” to sending your spouse on a jaunt out of town. “The most important thing is to express love in your partner’s love language – not yours,” say marriage and family therapists [...]

Don’t Feel Close to Your Partner? 5 Ways to Bring the Love Back

Don’t Feel Close to Your Partner? 5 Ways to Bring the Love Back

You don’t feel close to your partner and you want to reconnect, but you don’t know how. Check out these five ways to bring the love back – you’ll be snuggling with your spouse sooner than you think! Before the tips, a quip: “Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she [...]

Valentine’s Day Getaway – 10 Tips for a Romantic Maui Vacation

Valentine’s Day Getaway – 10 Tips for a Romantic Maui Vacation

A Valentine’s Day getaway is a great way to say “I love you” on Valentine’s Day! Here are ten tips for a romantic Maui vacation – I wrote this when staying at the Aston Maui Kaanapali Villas on the Kaanapali stretch in Maui. Before the tips, a quip: “The most important things are the hardest [...]

Can’t Say I Love You? 80 Ways to Express Love

Can’t Say I Love You? 80 Ways to Express Love

If you can’t say “I love you” to the one you love, you need to learn ways to express love! Not saying “I love you” can cause problems in your love relationship…or even destroy it! These relationship tips will help you say “I love you” to your partner and improve your love life. Before the tips, a quip: [...]

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? Squirms, Screams, Squirts!

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? Squirms, Screams, Squirts!

These theories on why men fall asleep after sex include a few tips on squirms, screams, and squirts. Women aren’t sleepy after making love for different reasons. These love theories can increase sexual intimacy in new relationships and established marriages. After the big “O”, Nikki wants to talk, talk, talk about anniversaries, marriages, future plans, family dynamics, [...]

Successful Marriage Tips – 6 Easy Ways to Love Your Spouse

Successful Marriage Tips – 6 Easy Ways to Love Your Spouse

While collecting successful marriage tips for my next “Quips and Tips” book, I discovered these easy ways to love your spouse. These “tried and true” tips for keeping your marriage successful are from Suite101 writers – some have been married for decades, others are single. Some are parents, and others don’t have kids. A little bit [...]