All relations days when you're ready to pucker up and kiss followed by days you'd rather smooch with a rat. As we're heading into 2013, we've chosen 13 issues that commonly affect most couples. Do you recognize any of these roadblocks holding back your togetherness?
Spending quality time as a couple, even making a baby together should be simple in such an ideal setting. Reality check! While holidays are about loved ones, somehow they don't leave much time for couples. The holidays tend to zap energy from almost every direction and can take a toll on your relationship with your partner.
Families aren't always sunshine and roses. Sometimes they resemble hurricanes and monsoons. It doesn't have to be that way. Siblings can be kind to each other. Your job, parents, is to teach them how.
You've probably played the "who does the most around here" game at some point in your relationship, even if you have a stellar track record. It's common for arguments to bubble up and focus on household chores and who does what. Is there really a "great divide" between men and women?
Friendship Day celebrates the importance of friends. Women need their female friends. It's essential to our health and happiness. Having a group of close friends helps you sleep better, improves your immune systems, staves off disease and results in a longer life.
What are your relationship secrets? From preconception pressures to new parent jitters, making and taking care of a baby brings challenges into each couple's life. See what our Pregnancy.org members revealed!
Best-selling romance author Jilly Cooper says sex is not as marketable a commodity in romance fiction as it once was. "The reason is very simple – women don't want to have sex any more," she claims at the Cartier Queen's Cup Final at Guards Polo Club.
The kids' toy cupboards and dresser drawers are already spilling over, but every week you're presented more huge bags of stuff from your friends and family. How do you end this madness without hurting their feelings?
Relationships take time, patience and two people willing to do their homework. Is there a recipe for nourishing relationships? Would this recipe work for you? Find out!
Breast surgery often requires some wardrobe alterations. A lot of women are not comfortable wearing the same things they once wore, including swimsuits.
On top of the rumpled sheet were two long white things, which I mistook for thermometers. She had been sick lately, and I figured she had been taking her temperature. Twice, for some reason. When I blinked, the thermometers turned into something more interesting: home pregnancy tests.
If the time is right a woman may conceive regardless of sexual position. If you want to optimize your odds consider taking these suggestions into consideration. All are speculative by scientific standards, but considered successful by parents worldwide -- not to mention they're fun!
I'm 18 and I just found out i was pregnant yesterday. I took two home pregnancy tests over my friends house and they both came back positive right away. My two best friends were with me and they were sooo very excited. I know that my boyfriend is the father. He'll be 22 in February and I will be 19 in January. I came home and told my family. EVERYONE knows now lol but it's okay because they are all being very very supportive. I have a job interview on Friday at a daycare. Ironically, I'll be working in the infant room. My boyfriend told his mom and she's pissed off.
Relationships take time, patience and two people willing to do their homework. Is there a recipe for nourishing relationships? Would this recipe work for you? Find out!
1.25 million babies (one third of all births) are born each year in the U.S. to unmarried parents. Many people just assume these babies are born to single teen moms, when in fact 41% of these births are to unmarried cohabiting couples.
Stay-at-home moms face lots of daily challenges. What happens when a good friend starts to take advantage of a mom who chooses to stay home? Find out what one mother's solution is.
On the premiere of "Kourtney & Kim Take New York" Sunday night, it was revealed that Kourtney co-sleeps with her toddler, Mason (who is just adorable), while her baby daddy sleeps in another room. This is not so unusual, nor, do we think, such a crazy thing.
What are your relationship secrets? From preconception pressures to new parent jitters, making and taking care of a baby brings challenges into each couple's life. See what our Pregnancy.org members revealed!