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A Smarter Way to Light Your Spouse’s Fire

Posted on February 1, 2011

Bring the spark back to your bedroom with sound advice from Michele Weiner Davis, author of The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple’s Guide.

9 Ways to Protect Your Kids From Negative Messages in the Media

Posted on January 27, 2011

Starting at a very young age, children are exposed to messages on TV, in the movies, and online that make smoking, alcohol, and drugs look attractive. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., shares the best way to combat the effects of harmful messages in the media on your children in How To Raise a Drug-Free Kid.

9 Happy-Couple Relationship Myths

Posted on January 25, 2011

Dr. Phil McGraw debunks popular myths about happy couples so they don’t chip away at your perfectly good relationship. From his bestselling book Love Smart: Find the One You Want — Fix the One You Got

3 Simple Ways to Prove Your Loyalty to a Man

Posted on January 13, 2011

Show your man you’re devoted, even if he’s not perfect, with these strategies from clinical psychologist George Weinberg’s dating guidebook Why Men Won’t Commit.

3 Necessities for a Thriving Relationship

Posted on January 11, 2011

The road trip of intimacy can be a lot easier if you bring along your road kit. In your relationship, the kit includes love, honesty, and inner growth. Dr. Craig Martin explains why intimacy is incomplete without all three in his book, Elemental Love Styles: Find Compatibility and Create a Lasting Relationship.

“Am I Fat?” and Other Questions Men Dread

Posted on January 6, 2011

How men can save themselves from giving the wrong answer to a woman’s question, from the hilarious battle-of-the-sexes book, Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid, by television writers (and life partners) Howard J. Morris and Jenny Lee.

The 6 Common Ways Women Misinterpret Men

Posted on December 30, 2010

Learn the “common thinking errors” women make and how to combat their negative impact on a relationship, as explained by respected psychologist Linda Papadopoulos in What Men Say, What Women Hear: Bridging the Communication Gap One Conversation at a Time.

The Best Way to Exchange Numbers When You Meet New People

Posted on December 21, 2010

When to offer your digits, and when to take his instead. From RM Johnson, bestselling novelist and author of the dating bible Why Men Fear Marriage: The Surprising Truth Behind Why So Many Men Can’t Commit

How to Get Children Talking at the Dinner Table

Posted on December 2, 2010

Questions you can ask young children, tweens, and teens to provoke more than one-word answers, from Joseph A. Califano, Jr., author of How To Raise a Drug-Free Kid

5 Steps to Answering the Question “Should We Get Married?”

Posted on November 9, 2010

Considering marriage but not sure it’s the right move? In her book, I Love You. Now What? Mabel Iam offers an exercise that will help you decide.

How to Get Through to Your Spouse

Posted on October 12, 2010

Convincing your spouse to change is much easier once you realize that you have to appeal to their way of thinking, not yours. From The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido by Michele Weiner Davis

10 Steps to a Better Love Life

Posted on August 3, 2010

Maximize your body’s biology and chemistry to strengthen your relationship. Learn how from Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., the authors of YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty.

The Three C’s of a Relationship

Posted on July 20, 2010

Three things to consider when you begin dating someone, from Become Your Own Matchmaker by Patti Stanger, star of The Millionaire Matchmaker