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Who is having risky sex?
October 18, 2014 Comments Off on Who is having risky sex?

Women’s Health

It turns out that having higher levels of long-term self-regulation – that’s basically the ability to plan for the future, prioritize, and generally monitor yourself and your actions as they relate to your long-term goals – was associated with waiting longer to have sex, having fewer lifetime sexual partners, using condoms, and having low levels of sexual risk. Meanwhile, those who scored higher on short-term self-regulation – i.e.,
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How a fancy wedding may buy you a divorce.
October 13, 2014 Comments Off on How a fancy wedding may buy you a divorce.

Randal Olson

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How to really stop abortion.
October 5, 2014 Comments Off on How to really stop abortion.

Slate

So the debate boils down to this: Which approach can overcome the weakness of human nature? Can the abstinence crowd find a way to keep people chaste? Can the contraception crowd find a way to make people stick to their birth control? Can either side deliver the bottom line: fewer abortions?

A study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine (and outlined in Slate by Darshak Sanghavi and Amanda Marcotte) strikes a major blow for the contraception camp.
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Think you know bro culture? Think again…
September 23, 2014 3 Comments on Think you know bro culture? Think again…

Dr. Nerd Love

Let’s be honest: dating can be scary. You’re deliberately making yourself vulnerable to another person. When you get rejected, it can feel as though you are being judged on your entire existence. Many men, especially those who are socially inexperienced or just plain awkward, see each rejection as unfair or unnecessarily cruel; they believe that they should be given a chance to prove their desirability. Others feel that the universe has stacked the deck against them; only certain men are able to get women and this is inherently not fair.
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Abstinence after marriage?
August 27, 2014 Comments Off on Abstinence after marriage?

Esquire

After a few years, the researcher checked back to find fourteen of the men had since gotten married. She discovered that their lifetimes of fighting sexual desire conditioned them to regard sex as taboo even after the knot had been tied, causing poor communication in the bedroom.

“After marriage, the church culture assumes that couples become each other’s support, regardless of the issue at hand,” Diefendorf said.
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Do you know what a healthy relationship looks like?
July 30, 2014 Comments Off on Do you know what a healthy relationship looks like?

Psychology Today

Human beings crave intimacy, need to love and be loved and function best when they are. Yet people have much trouble maintaining relationships.
It’s clear from the many letters I get to my advice column that lots of folks, men and women, have no idea what a healthy relationship even looks like. Because I write about these things and care about the environments children grow in, I feel obligated to say something.
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How to make a man love you.
July 27, 2014 Comments Off on How to make a man love you.

PsyPost

Men who interacted with a responsive female individual perceived her as more feminine and as more sexually attractive than did men in the unresponsive condition. Women are more cautious than men when interpreting a stranger’s expressions of responsiveness, and their perceptions of the stranger, which were seemingly unaffected by perceived responsiveness, may reflect conflicting trends among different women.
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Wondering why the divorce rate is so high?
June 21, 2014 Comments Off on Wondering why the divorce rate is so high?

Thought Catalog

12 Things You Must Say Goodbye To After You Get Married

1. Getting blackout drunk.

No one thinks a blackout drunk married woman is worth their trouble. No one. Not even their husbands.

2. Sleepovers.

Unless you’ve told your husband in advance, a spontaneous sleepover is out of the question.

3. Texting people of the opposite sex.
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Desperately avoiding the friend-zone?
April 29, 2014 Comments Off on Desperately avoiding the friend-zone?

Psych Central

There Are 3 Stages in Romantic Relationships

Dating

Relating

Mating

Most couples get the order wrong. Lots of couples just dive headlong into relating-working out their issues and differences.
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Are you showing you love him/her?
March 16, 2014 Comments Off on Are you showing you love him/her?

Psychology Today
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Most theories of relationships focus on the ways that intimate partners feel about each other, but according to John Gottman’s behavioural approach, it’s the outward signs you need to focus on to test the health of yours. This approach follows from the assumption that observable actions provide, in many cases, harder evidence about what’s going on inside a person than the inferences we make from what he or she says.
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