Relationships

  • Reclaim Your Love Life
    In Love

    Reclaim Your Love Life

    So much over-analyzation, so much stress, so much panic...isn’t dating supposed to be fun? Well, it can be, but only if you are willing to take control of the dating process, yourself, and reclaim your love life for your very own.

  • Finding Sexual Fulfillment in Your Marriage (With Someone Else)
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Finding Sexual Fulfillment in Your Marriage (With Someone Else)

    While I don't advocate having an affair while you are in a committed relationship, the pain and sadness that many people suffer in marriages that lack a healthy sex life is all too real.

  • An Unexpected Love Story
    In Love

    An Unexpected Love Story

    "Just go out with my nephew and have a drink.  He's divorced, too. Just go out. Go do something," Joe's uncle said. Shirley was sick of dating.  Sick of jerks.  Fed up with the expectations put on women when a man bought her dinner. "I have dated every asshole on earth," she said.  "I can buy my own dinner."

  • Growing Apart
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Growing Apart

    Your partner, on the other hand, has remained pretty much as they were when you first met. He or she is contented with the status quo. Adverse to trying new things, they have no new ambitions or goals, and feels that there’s something wrong with you because you have changed. Your future as a couple is in serious danger.

  • The Long and Winding Road of Wedding Planning
    In Love

    The Long and Winding Road of Wedding Planning

    We decided we didn't want or need a particularly long engagement.  We wanted a fall wedding and decided on October 2011 as our wedding date. According to research, the average length of a wedding engagement is fifteen months. Ours would be a mere ten months.

  • 5 Ways Being Appreciative Enhances Your Relationship
    Happiness Expert: Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, Ph. D.

    5 Ways Being Appreciative Enhances Your Relationship

    In a relationship, this is often what your partner should do or should have done or should not do or should not have done.  It leaves you feeling disappointed and your partner feeling worthless. There are so many reasons why being grateful can help your relationship.

  • 5 Reasons Relationships Fizzle
    In Love

    5 Reasons Relationships Fizzle

    There are many reasons as to why relationships can start to fizzle, but try to keep in mind that relationships ebb and flow and you can make positive changes to bring the sizzle back into your love life.

  • The Top 3 Tips for a Happy Relationship
    Happiness Expert: Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, Ph. D.

    The Top 3 Tips for a Happy Relationship

    She immediately starting pouring out her heart about the hardships she was experiencing in her marriage.  At almost the point of tears, she asked me, “How can I make this marriage better?”

  • Single and Satisfied
    Bobby's World

    Single and Satisfied

    Media, family tradition and comfort expect us to believe that marriage and children are part of life’s path. But, not everybody is meant to take the same path. I’m single and happy.

  • Cheating? Not in Your Relationship!
    LGBTQ

    Cheating? Not in Your Relationship!

    Is there anything you can do to “cheat-proof” your relationship? Of course there is! There are plenty of ways to strengthen and enhance your own loving relationship so that you and your partner feel fulfilled and contented with one another.