Relationships & Sexual Health

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Identify the Four Horsemen in your conflict discussions, eliminate them and replace them with healthy, productive communication patterns.

Dr. Zhana Vrangalova joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dating. What's the best way to deal with rejection? How can you know if you...

I consciously knew it worked.

This ritual can improve your sex life, whether you're kinky or not.

It’s not always possible to know the signs that a relationship may become problematic. These five research-based clues can help you avoid difficulties down the road.

In this podcast, I'm reflecting on eight different types of love-bombing you may notice in the early stages of your relationship with a covert narcissist. Lo...

A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that having a sense of power in a relationship promotes sexual

It took me years to understand why I kept choosing men who disappeared.

Love can make even the strongest, most self-aware person do quiet, almost invisible things that slowly chip away at their sense of self. Not because they’re weak. Not because they’re naïve. But because love, in its purest form, awakens our longing to belong — and sometimes, that longing gets twisted into self-abandonment.

On this week's episode of Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: They met dancing, and it was love at first sight. But only after they began dating did th...

The Bad Marriage Advice Series: “Never Go To Bed Angry”

The Love‑Wellness Connection: How Your Physical Health Influences the Intimacy in Your Relationship

The bird theory test that couples are taking and sharing on social media has a solid basis in relationship theory. Find out whether it can actually work.

That’s the thing about dating now.

Conscientiousness is constantly touted as a virtue, so what’s life like for people with the opposite trait – disinhibition?

Leanne Yau is a British award-winning content creator, certified sex and relationships educator, writer, and trainee sex therapist whose work is all about non-monogamy and sex positivity. She draws from her lived experiences as a polyamorous, bisexual, neurodivergent, and Asian agender femme who has been openly non-monogamous since 2016 to bring her audience educational and entertaining multimedia content about creating healthy and sustainable non-monogamous relationships. She also writes ‘A Polyamorous Perspective’, a polyamory advice column at Gay Times. Leanne was named in ‘15 LGBTQ+ Educators Who Took Instagram Infotainment To The Next Level’ (Buzzfeed, 2021), '10 Polyamory Experts to Follow on TikTok' (Cosmopolitan, 2022), and ‘60 Top Influencers Who Are Actually Worth the Follow’ (Men’s Health, 2023). She holds a Special Recognition and Appreciation Award (The Panel ENM, 2021), and was nominated for Sex and Relationships Creator of the Year (BCreator, 2024).

Here's how to spot it.

Dr. Lindsay Gibson joins the podcast to share her groundbreaking work on emotional maturity. Dr. Gibson and I explore how growing up with emotionally immatur...

Attachment theory is centered on the emotional bonds between people and suggests that our earliest attachments can leave a lasting mark on our lives.

A new study of indigenous men in Papua, Indonesia, found that exposure to topless women during youth did not reduce sexual interest in female breasts—suggesting male attraction to breasts may stem from evolved biology rather than cultural taboos.

Welcome to Action Canada’s Sexual Health Hub. The Hub is here to give you reliable, sex-positive, inclusive, pro-choice information about sexual health to support you in making informed decisions about your sexual health and help you to get the best care for you. You can install the Your Sexual Health app and have this information available offline on your device.

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What Is Codependency? - A wealth of info on Codependency Symptoms and Recovery provided by Darlene Lancer, author of Codependency for Dummies

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