Is Your Partner Too Sensitive?

Is your partner too sensitive?  Or perhaps you are actually too snarky?  How do you know which it is?  Unfortunately, both may be true.  Often, after having chosen a snarky mate, a person will become more sensitive or will choose to become snarky themselves.
Of course, even the best relationships harbor the occasional misspoken tease or [...]

Isolation and Cancer: Supplement chemo with family game night

Just like a fairy tale, an important life lesson has been delivered to us from the unlikeliest of sources – a bunch of mice.  According to recent news, scientists have determined that social isolation makes cancer worse.  Scientists at University of Chicago have shown that in a study of mice that were genetically predisposed to [...]

What NOT to do in bed: Advice from a man, for men with a man

Okay, I confess I am not a man, nor am I an expert on what men do with men in bed. However, I am resourceful and in the interest of being thorough I’ve enlisted the help of a friend to lend some insight into this topic.
Don’t be self conscious. Be confident with what you’re [...]

What NOT To Do In Bed: Guidelines for Men

Obviously, this list could go on forever.  Perhaps it will, in future posts.  But for now I’m just going to stick to the advanced basics – that is, these tips are for guys who are past the novelty of having sex in the first place and are now focusing on making sure that the sex [...]

How to Have a Nice Vacation With Someone Who Isn’t

Of course, there are lots of ways to share a vacation with another person and many of those ways are fun.  But let’s face it, some of them are not.  Some people have a hard time vacationing or traveling for whatever reason and if you are or are traveling with one of those people this [...]

3 Major Things NOT to do in Bed: Guidelines for Women

Everybody wants to be good in bed.  There are a few outliers who just aren’t interested in sex, but for the most part people want to be able to be confident that their bedmate (couchmate, kitchen-countermate, whatever) will be back for more.  While women are unquestionably more complicated in the satisfaction department, contrary to popular [...]

How to Argue (and still sleep together tonight)

I know, it’s hard being right all the time.  Really.  Why is that?  It’s because no one cares whether you’re right, people only care about whether or not you’re a jerk.  If you spend all of your time alone that distinction may not matter to you, but if you are sharing your life with someone [...]