Tools & Resources

• How Parents Can Find Couple Time
• Is Your Relationship Codependent?
• Infidelity Quiz: Who Cheats?
• Advice for the Suddenly Single
• Sticky Sex Situations
• Secrets of Great Kissers

News and FeaturesRelated to Health & Sex

91. 6 Truths About Marriage No One Ever Tells You
    
    By the time you decide to get hitched, you may think you know your partner well. After all, you’re best friends who’ve agreed to spend the rest of your lives together. But married life often turns out to be full of unexpected disappointments and joys. "People are surprised that, even in this most in
    Read Full Article
92. 4 Things You Didn't Know About Oral Sex
    
    People who came of age before the Clinton years can remember when oral sex still seemed edgy, even taboo. Now, we're as likely to hear about oral sex on the evening news as on late-night TV. National statistics show that most Americans have some experience with oral sex, beginning in the early teen
    Read Full Article
93. Marriage and Divorce Trigger Weight Gain
    
    Aug. 22, 2011 -- Marriage and divorce may trigger weight gain in men and women for very different reasons. A new study shows marriage often prompts weight gain in women, while divorce is often the time when men pile on the pounds. This weight gain is not as frequent in younger people, but researcher
    Read Full Article
94. Marital Satisfaction Plays Role in Heart Bypass Survival
    
    Aug. 22, 2011 -- People who are married and who undergo heart bypass surgery are more than twice as likely as their unmarried counterparts to be alive after 15 years, a new study indicates. University of Rochester researchers tracked 225 people who had undergone bypass surgery between 1987 and 1990,
    Read Full Article
95. Marital Conflict May Not Ease Over Time
    
    Aug. 18, 2011 -- If you argue a lot now with your spouse, chances are you'll still be arguing the same amount next year, and the next, and the next, new research shows. While common sense might suggest that people work out their differences over time, and that marital conflict declines, the new stud
    Read Full Article
96. Size Counts When It Comes to Sex
    
    July 7, 2011 -- Being very thin or fat appears to increase the odds that a man will experience some kind of sexual difficulty, but the same may not be true for women, a new study shows. The study, a survey of more than 5,500 adults in Denmark, finds some surprising and complicated associations betwe
    Read Full Article
97. What Do Men Want? Turns Out It's Cuddling
    
    July 7, 2011 -- Who says real men don't like to cuddle? In a study that refutes gender stereotypes, researchers looking at couples in long-term relationships have found that men value cuddling and caressing as important for their relationship happiness more than women do. For women, sexual functioni
    Read Full Article
98. When Wives Don't Sleep, Marriage Suffers
    
    June 13, 2011 (Minneapolis) -- When couples fight, sleep often suffers. Now a new study shows that the reverse may also be true. Not sleeping well, it seems, can make for a rockier relationship. The study, which was presented at the SLEEP 2011 conference in Minneapolis, found that wives who have tro
    Read Full Article
99. Gossip May Have a Protective Role
    
    May 19, 2011 -- Gossip can be juicy, delicious, mean, entertaining, destructive -- or all of the above. However it's described, gossip does have a purpose, according to new research. ''We think it is a protective-type role," says researcher Eliza Bliss-Moreau, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in psychiatry
    Read Full Article
100. Show Your Mother (and Mother-in-Law) Some Love
     
     By Gretchen Rubin You choose the person whom you marry, but you don't choose your in-laws, and I was extremely lucky to end up with mine. We all get along very well, which is fortunate, because I live right around the corner from my husband's parents, and I mean right around the corner. You don't ev
     Read Full Article