National Humor Month: Laugh Your Relationship Healthy!
As we wind down April as National Humor Month, I want to remind you that by adding laughter into your relationship, you can definitely improve it. You absolutely can laugh your relationship healthy!
One of my recommendations to every couple I have worked with over the last twenty years is to HAVE FUN! I wrote about this “passion assignment” in an earlier blogpost that you are welcome to click on called High Energy Fun!
Basically, the couple that plays together, stays together! Laughter helps to keep the shared energy high in a couple, keeps the love alive and creates more opportunities for spontaneity. In addition, there are many medical benefits to deep belly laughs including: Read the rest
You probably won’t be surprised to learn that many of the couples I have worked with over the past twenty years have had sexual difficulties in their relationship. When doing sex therapy, one simple exercise I have the couple do on our first session is both diagnostic to me as well as healing for them. It’s called:
A recent survey of adulterers found that men preferred Toyotas and women preferred Hondas. As a couples counselor, I’m not quite sure how this data is relevant, yet it is a piece of some puzzle. Does it mean that having an affair isn’t a romantic, high class “affair” for most people? Does it mean that the more well-to-do simply don’t respond to surveys such as this one by the adulterer website, AshleyMadison.com? Over 3000 people DID respond though, which says something as well!
Perhaps cheating women prefer a man who is Read the rest
Recently I read that there was a “Divorce Expo” in New York. It was touted as a kind of “one stop shopping” for those seeking out divorce services (legal, psychological, matchmaking, anti-aging, health and beauty, finances). About 40 exhibitors displayed their wares for two days to a crowd that was about 70% female and 30% male). It was the brainchild of a mother/daughter duo, both divorced. Is this, sadly, a sign of the times?
Free enterprise is something I completely believe in and everyone is entitled to create income streams where there is a demand. Personally though, as a couples counselor for the last twenty years I have been doing my best to Read the rest
As the “Passion Doctor”, my work is to help couples have more romance, more passion, more sexuality and more intimacy in their live. And around the time of the new year, the question of relationship resolutions is an important one to reflect upon. I’ve reviewed my previous Passion 101 blog posts and I’ve compiled five relationship resolutions that will definitely benefit you, even if you practice only one of them.
And while I’m real not a huge believer in New Year’s resolutions, I do believe that setting an intention to improve your relationship is critical to having your partnership grow. Whether you set this intention now, when there is a general agreement in the world to do so on January 1 or do it another day (or EVERY day!), just do it!
1. Recommit to your relationship!
One of the biggest passion killers is taking your relationship for granted. Read the rest
As “The Passion Doctor”, I’m always on the lookout for ways to create more passion in your relationship. And around the Holidays, we often overindulge in food, which can leave us more like beached whales then sex machines.
So you’ll love this passion tip, especially between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Believe it or not, research from the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Center shows that the smell of pumpkin pie arouses men. In a study of 40 odors, the smell of pumpkin pie combined with lavender increased blood flow to the penis by an average of 40 percent.
Are More Dominant and Attractive Men Better In Bed?
This has been a fascinating question that has been open for debate for a long, long time. It’s probably only second to the “does size really matter” question. From a biological perspective, it certainly would seem that the more “dominant” males will be better breeding stock and so will be more desirable to females. On the other hand, our more “civilized” society would like us to believe that a more sensitive, caring man would make a better lover.
Well, wonder no longer, Penn State University completed a study of 110 heterosexual couples to find out the quality of female orgasm (a big factor in promoting conception) as a function of male dominance and attractiveness. And the results are in!
The male partners were rated according to Read the rest
81.7% Of Married Men Surveyed Are Frustrated, Dissatisfied And Want To Improve Their Sex Life
As the “Passion Doctor”, I’ve been writing the Passion 101 Blog for over three years to help committed couples in long-term relationships keep that spark of romance and passion alive. A big part of my work with couples is to reignite their relationship and I’ve created a number of teleseminars as well as my ebook, “101 Ways To Bring Back The Passion!” to achieve this.
I’ve recently become aware of a new home study course to support this goal and to help men to rekindle the romance and passion in their relationship. It’s called Revive Her Drive and it is completely in alignment with my beliefs and my work with couples.
One of the main reasons couples choose to work with me in counseling of telephone/Skype coaching is that they are having issues “in the bedroom.” Not enough sex and/or not the “right” kind of sex are big issues that I work with every week in my private couples counseling practice.
Part of my work is providing education about the Three Stages of Relationship and how to keep the passion going once a couple is out of the “honeymoon stage”. And part of this education is explaining that there are different kinds of sex and that each “kind” has a place in the relationship.
In no particular order, the seven kinds of sex are: Read the rest
I was a recent presenter for the “Summer of Love” series sponsored by my friends Nancy Burke Barr and Deb Stevens at Smart Biz Builders.
My topic was ROMANCE and in addition to giving you three tools to bump up the romance in your relationship, I also shared how to sustain your love affair with your BUSINESS!
This is the first time I’ve applied my ideas to business and marketing and I’m so pleased to be able to share the full recording with you below.
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