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Intimacy: Enhance Your Relationship Intimacy!

Let’s say that you have been feeling a sense of subtle discontent occurring in your relationship?  If so, good for you for noticing!

Now, what are you going to do about it?

You could ignore it … and hope that it resolves itself.  Of course, few constructive solutions spring from a problem-situation that “resolves itself”!

You could think deeply about what has been going on recently.  You could then try to brainstorm how this sense of dis-ease and discontent relates to recent events.  You could try to think about the situation from your partner’s point of view … and see if you receive inspiration from this.

You could ask yourself if the discontent is springing from you.  If you discover that it is, you can then address the situation directly … and deal with these feelings constructively from within yourself.

If you are unaware of the discontent stemming from within you, you could talk with your partner about it.  When you address your partner, you do not have to KNOW the details about what is going on.  You can simply report your observations to your partner and see whether s/he has some information that could help.

So, you might say something like, “Sweetheart, I’ve been noticing a vague sense of discontent in our interactions.  It does not feel comfortable to me and it’s not a feeling that I’m used to having with you.  Have you felt it, too?  Do you have any idea where it’s coming from?”

Then, you and your partner can brainstorm about what is behind the feeling.  This brainstorming can be powerful in getting to the bottom of what has been happening.  You can, then, begin to outline a plan to get the feelings resolved and your relationship back “on track”!

 

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Sexuality: Relationship Sexuality — New Video!

Here is our newest video —
This video contains practical techniques intended to help you build additional intimacy and closeness into your relationship. Sexual interaction and intimacy occur between you and your partner all throughout the day. It’s not just something that happens in the bedroom, in bed at night. The ideas on this video are designed to give you “HINTS” to make your relationship more satisfying … ALL the time!

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Respect: A Top Aphrodisiac Is Found in Respect

Respecting your relationship partner and understanding his or her needs has been talked about by Heart-hands sexuality therapists for a long time.  Intimacy need not be centered on intercourse and ejaculation.

There are a variety ways to please your partner sexually — and some of the very best, most unique ways can be discovered through direct conversation with your partner.  To find out what your partner finds most pleasurable, ask him/her.  That’s right — just ask!

Without exception, the most meaningful intimate relationships begin with respect. Try it with your loving partner. Find out what a great turn-on respect can be!

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Valentine’s Day Romance: Romance to Intimacy!

Valentine’s Day is almost here!  What does that mean to you?

Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.  The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs, Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. It was deleted from the Roman calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI, but its religious observance is still permitted. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”).

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The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the  in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

Modern Valentine’s Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.  So, Valentine’s Day offers the PERFECT opportunity to express to a Loved One just how strongly you love him/her.

How might you do that?

Here are 14 creative ideas for you:  Valentine’s Day — Special Ideas of Love to let your Loved One know how deeply you care.

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Romantic Ideas for Valentine’s Day … or Romance for Any Day!

Just in time for Valentine’s Day —

I have been busy developing a Guidebook to Relationship Romance.  It is entitled, “Romantic Ideas to Enhance Your Relationship Intimacy, Part I”.

Have you been looking for a Valentine’s Day resource?  Do you desire practical, workable ideas to create a more-intimate, romantic relationship?  Then, this guidebook is for you!

As my gift to you — for a limited time, it is FREE!  To receive your copy of this Special Guidebook, “Romantic Ideas to Enhance Your Relationship Intimacy, Part I”, visit http://www.sexuality-coach.com/romanticideas.htm today!

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Sexuality: Sexuality Survey Findings

In a new study, lead researchers from Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion report intriguing new findings.  New data has been unveiled in what the researchers say is the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans’ sexual behavior since 1994’s “National Health and Social Life Survey”.  These findings come more than 60 years after the Kinsey report, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”.

Filling 130 pages of a special issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the study offers detailed findings on how often Americans have sex, with whom, and how they respond. In all, 5,865 people, ranging in age from 14 to 94, participated in the survey.  A number of researchers functioned as lead author for different facets of the survey.

The researchers said they were struck by the variety of ways in which the subjects engaged in sex — 41 different combinations of sexual acts were tallied.  These encompassed vaginal and anal intercourse, oral sex, and partnered masturbation.

Men are more likely to experience orgasm when vaginal intercourse is involved, while women are more likely to reach orgasm when they engage in variety of acts, including oral sex, said researcher Debra Herbenick, lead author of the section about women’s sex lives.

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Relationship: Get Your Relationship Back on Track!

*  Do you feel as though your relationship has been stagnating?

*  Are you dissatisfied with some aspect of your partnership intimacy?

*  Would you like to put some sizzle into your interaction with your partner?

If you are ready to stop struggling to maintain the status quo — ready to stop settling — this post is for YOU!  Perhaps you want to renew your relationship passion, but don’t know where to start … ?

If this describes you, TODAY is the day to sit down with your partner and ‘fess up!  Make time — today — to tell your partner your feelings.  Today is the time to talk with your partner about what each of you wants in your relationship.

Go ahead — make a list!

Writing down your relationship dreams and aspirations

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Intimacy Therapy: Get Your Nose into the Act!

Are you looking for a quick, simple way to spark up your Relationship Intimacy?  Look no further than your — and your partner’s — sense of smell!

Smells work on the limbic system to release neurotransmitters.  The limbic system of the brain not only controls drives of hunger, thirst and sex, but it also influences more subtle responses of emotion, memory, creativity and intuition.  Within the limbic system resides the regulatory mechanism of your highly sensitive inner life, the core of your being.

The olfactory nerves (nerves in the nose) are directly connected to your brain’s limbic system.  Hence, even subtle aromas cause immediate

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Sexuality: The Power of Fantasy to Increase Sexual Desire

ScienceDaily — Scientists of the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada have released a new study.  Researcher Juan Carlos Sierra Freire studied how some psychological variables such as
* positive attitude towards sexuality
* sexual fantasies
* anxiety
are related to sexual desire in human beings.

The Study

Using the Sexual Desire Inventory, 608 subjects aged 13 to 43 were studied.  Researchers found that 32% of inhibited sexual desire in men was associated with a negative attitude toward sexuality, as well as some sexual fantasies. Eighteen percent of such inhibited sexual desire in women was due to increased anxiety and decreased sexual fantasizing. According to researchers, these figures show that psychological factors, which have a role in sexual response, depend on gender.

The Power of Imagination

The results of this research reveal
an important relation between sexual desire and positive attitude toward sexuality in men. Men responded more positively towards sexual stimuli and thoughts, and they accepted them more easily. The male population has an attitude that, together with sexual fantasies, heightens sexual drive.

In turn, women also share the imagination at play. The more sexual fantasies they have, the more sexual desire they experience. However, “women normally present more anxiety disorders than men” regarding transitory emotional stages such as anxiety, because anxiety strongly affects women’s sexual function.

This study highlights the importance of sexual fantasies in sexuality. In fact, sexual fantasies are used in sex therapy to diminish levels of anxiety of execution or of sexual activity, provided that there are no organic anomalies (lack of hormones, endocrine disorders, etc.).

The Importance of Education

These Spanish researchers point out that education on sexual stimulation and response as well as healthy attitudes towards sexuality is extremely important. In this way, sexual intercourse is more pleasurable and there is less probability of having sexual dysfunctions.

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Relationship: Relationship Sexuality

Tips to Enhance Your Relationship Sexuality & Intimacy:
  1. Talk with one another about your relationship
  2. Talk with one another about your intimacy
  3. Talk with one another about your sexual relationship
  4. Give frequent hugs
  5. Touch whenever passing one another

For additional ideas for enhancing the sexuality in your relationship, visit http://thesexcoachdr.com/coach

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Sexuality: Relationship Sexuality

Tips to Enhance Your Relationship Sexuality & Intimacy:
Have you been feeling dissatisfied with your relationship?  Do you wish that you and your partner could go back to your “early days” … when you had just met and were dating?  Would you like to build the passion and intimacy with your partner once again?
Well, stop dreaming and BEGIN to add romance BACK INTO your interactions with your partner!  (Be sure to see our Romance Selections at the end of this post!)
Here are 5 Tips to Enhance Relationship Romance & Sexuality:
1.  TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HIM/HER:  What does s/he like?  What are the ways …
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Sexuality: The Importance of Sexuality

Sexuality is one of the most important areas of Relationship Power. The partners’ Sexual expression allows the Relationship to deepen.  Sexual interaction allows strong bonds to form between the participants.

As important as healthy Sexuality is to the success of a Relationship, it is — significantly enough — the area in many Relationships that is least talked about.  Many adults have difficulty discussing Sexual ideas — they stumble over communication of likes and dislikes, not to mention areas of possible Sexual dysfunction.

This difficulty in discussing Sexuality often stems from childhood-to-adolescent programming.  Many who have difficulty with Sex Talk were raised in a family where there was no talk about Sexual topics.  By default, this left the child-turned-adult with the belief that it was avoided in their family home specifically because it is NOT all right …

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