When he returns from nine months in Europe, he unpacks two boxes from his luggage and sets them on the kitchen counter. I recognize them immediately. My emotions are a jumble. Pleasure. Sadness. Suddenly, I feel older. I admit I’d hoped he might do this. Sometimes, he’s thoughtful that way, or perhaps he knows me […]
Clash of the Titans? Experience Versus Memory
When memories taint otherwise good experiences.
Watching Debates, the Body Reveal, Rules of the Game
How body language reveals what words may not.
Calling All Pro Bono Personal Trainers and Bath Consultants, Or, “I Want My Legs Back”
A bubble bath for two? Why not?
Hungry For More Attention?
Getting more attention from your spouse. Maybe.
Bedroom Secrets
Surprising findings when it comes to sex and love?
Sexy, Weighty… Hazardous?
Loving yourself, whatever the weight. Is it possible or problematic? Weight, sex appeal, the obesity epidemic.
Recovering
Recovery. It’s a term we use when we set out to retrieve something gone missing, hoping to find it. It’s a term we employ following loss or illness, hoping to regain ourselves, battling back – or through – physical and emotional turmoil. We speak of recovery when talking about relationships – the process of […]
All Locked Up
Locking up love? Not so simple.
The Importance of Beginnings
What the beginning of a relationship says about how it will unfold.