While you can find insinuations and conversations about sex in countless adult TV shows, movies, and songs, how comfortable are you talking about sex with your partner? Even in long-term romantic relationships, partners report only knowing 62% of what their partners...
Intimacy
Overcoming Intimacy Issues: Strengthen Your Relationship with These Proven Strategies
Like many other facets of a long-term relationship or marriage, intimacy can ebb and flow. Truth be told, roughly 40% of married couples reported experiencing some type of sexual problem ("Marriage and Family Review," 2016). While intimacy issues understandably feel...
Build a Strong Marriage With These 2 Premarital Questionnaires
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! You and your fiance are undoubtedly experiencing an exciting time filled with anticipation and dreams for married life. You're not alone if your engagement includes wedding-related stress and distractions that hinder focused...
How to Solve Cycles of Sexual Disconnection
Does the subject of sex bring about tension, uncertainty, or arguments between you and your partner? Does your sex life feel stuck or disconnected? If so, you are not alone. Every couple faces disconnection with emotional and physical intimacy at some point in their...
6 Resources for Your Sex Life
Welcome to the second post in our series, Therapist Resource Roundup. Each quarter, we share a list of resources focused on a different theme our therapists often work through with clients. Every roundup will feature books, articles, videos, and podcasts that our...
Getting Married? Ask Your Fiancé These Questions
Are you recently engaged or planning on getting married? Or, is your relationship getting serious, and you're starting to talk about getting married? Before you and your partner begin planning the venue, the cake, and the ceremony, it's critical to spend some time...
4 Steps to Get Your Love Language Heard
Couples often enter the therapy room saying, "we just aren't speaking the same language!" Couples who say this phrase often feel their relationship needs are not being met. Or perhaps one doesn't don't feel cared for or understood by their partner. One common reason...
Want to Improve Your Sex Life? Practice Gratitude. (seriously!)
Gratitude has been trending across the globe lately, and for good reason. But the actual practice of gratitude is way more intentional than slapping #blessed on your social media post. Gratitude is a mindfulness technique that brings your awareness to the good things...