Let's Talk Intimacy (Page 2)

Amber Brooks

By: Amber Brooks

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Editor: Lillian Castro

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Ahh, intimacy. The very heartbeat of relationships. Below, we explore not only the meaning but also the significance of intimacy in relationships.

Our goal is to educate readers on how to maintain, deepen, and rebuild emotional and physical closeness throughout the lifecyle of their relationship. And that includes trust building, bonding, and vulnerability.

Intimacy isn’t one-dimensional, meaning it isn’t just about sex. Our expert articles explore the many facets of intimacy, giving readers the tools to water and grow every part at every stage of their romantic partnership.

These articles focus on how partners can promote rapport to create secure, enduring bonds. Our content offers practical guidance to help couples put what they learn about intimacy into action and understand its role in improving connection.

Find that romantic spark and never let it burn out with the help of our guides. Our experts also offer tips about intimacy in the digital world, including hot topics like sexting and AI companionship.

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What Our Experts Say:

31.
5 Lesbian Relationship Stereotypes (And the Truth Behind Them)

5 Lesbian Relationship Stereotypes

Pamela Gort

Pamela Gort

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Myths and stereotypes abound around every major group of people, including lesbian and queer women. Lesbian relationship stereotypes often come up in pop culture and mainstream media. There is always some truth to each one, but it’s not the whole truth.  For most people, a stereotype is not true and should be taken with a grain of salt. The most important thing to remember is we are all individuals with our...

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How to Write a Better Valentine’s Card – 5 Tips from a Professional Speech Writer

How to Write a Better Valentine’s Card

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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You think about the gift, you book the restaurant weeks in advance, but how much thought do you put into what you write in your Valentine’s Day card? Heidi Ellert-McDermott, founder of the bespoke speech writing service Speechy and author of “The Modern Couple’s Guide to Wedding Speeches” (released July 4th 2023), gave us her advice for writing words that pack a romantic punch.  Here’s how to avoid the usual...

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The Relationship Expert Helps Couples and Singles Build Trust & Intimacy

Couples Build Trust Thanks to The Relationship Expert

Sheena Holt

Sheena Holt

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The Short Version: Anyone looking to better their relationship needs to spend time working on themselves. Jaime Bronstein, also known as The Relationship Expert, is a relationship coach and therapist who encourages personal growth. She focuses on helping her clients bridge the gap between their emotional well-being and interpersonal well-being so they can have fulfilling relationships based on trust. It's hard to...

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The Couples Financial Coach Helps Partners Achieve Financial Intimacy

The Couples Financial Coach Promotes Financial Intimacy

Sheena Holt

Sheena Holt

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The Short Version: Finances are often a huge source of stress and tension for couples. It can be difficult for partners to communicate about money, especially when they have different financial personalities. Couples who want to improve their relationship with money can turn to The Couples Financial Coach for help. Adam Kol has dedicated his practice to helping couples achieve financial and personal success. When...

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Biird Introduces Namii™ — a Stimulating Product That Sends Waves of Feeling Through Women’s Bodies

Biird Introduces a Stimulating Product for Women

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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The Short Version: Biird is a company dedicated to helping people enjoy healthy and satisfying sex lives. The Netherlands-based team touts that it is female-led and pleasure-positive, and the company is making sex toys that change the game in the bedroom. Biird recently released the Namii™ clitoral stimulator to support women’s gratification in solo and coupled sexual acts. Namii™ has a unique design that focuses on...

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Study on Sexual Health: Sexperts Offer Tips For Finding Intimacy This Valentine’s Day

Sexpert Advice for Finding Intimacy

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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Sex is often romanticized in movies and TV shows as something that happens easily and instantly when two people are overcome with the same desire at the same time. The sweaty film clips conveniently skip over the awkward bits, the messy details, and the sometimes disappointing reality that couples can face when trying to recreate that movie magic in the privacy of their homes. Some couples may not even know where...

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How Do I Get My Lesbian Girlfriend to Be Sexually Attracted to Me Again?

How Do I Get My Girlfriend Attracted to Me Again?

Pamela Gort

Pamela Gort

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Relationships can get off track for lots of reasons, but it doesn’t mean the relationship is destined to end. Lack of communication and stress are the top relationship sex disruptors. Sex is the one thing that separates us from just being wonderful friends. We all want our partner to feel like a best friend: supportive, caring, and has our back, among other characteristics. We also need to have their front, too!...

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How Do I Get My Gay Boyfriend to Be Sexually Attracted to Me Again?

How Do I Get My Gay Boyfriend to Be Sexually Attracted to Me Again?

Mason Glenn

Mason Glenn

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Most people in relationships will go through sexual attraction ebbs and flows. As a matchmaking professional, I’ve noticed how one person in a partnership will often be drawn more intensely to the other party. As time progresses, the balance of attraction will switch. One of my close friends recently said it best, “It’s good to have your boyfriend miss you.” He probably said this as he felt he was doing more of...

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6 Relationship Tips After Having a Baby

6 Relationship Tips After Having a Baby

Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

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Having a baby inevitably changes your relationship with your partner. Becoming a parent is a massive identity shift that affects where your attention, time, energy, and resources go. The changes you may experience in your relationship or marriage are expected and natural results of expanding your family and transitioning into parenthood. In fact, research suggests that the majority of parents feel a decrease in...

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How to Keep a Senior Man Interested (10 Expert Tips)

How to Keep a Senior Man Interested

April Braswell

April Braswell

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Whether your senior relationship started a few months ago or many years ago, it's natural to wonder how to keep your man interested in the present and in the future. You've come to the right place! Read on and we’ll explore several ways to keep the sizzle in your senior love affair. 1. Maintain an Active Sex Life Yes, really, numero uno is sex. His sexual performance may have changed and evolved over time,...

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How to Be a Good Girlfriend to Your Senior Boyfriend

How to Be a Good Girlfriend to Your Senior Boyfriend

April Braswell

April Braswell

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Whether you call him your boyfriend, significant other, partner, or mate, it’s time to update your dating rule book as a senior woman if you want to know how to be a good girlfriend. Those old guidelines most people followed when you were younger don’t apply now. No matter what your situation (i.e. divorced or your loved one passed away), here are a few tips to help you make the most of your girlfriend...

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The Coral App Destigmatizes Sex and Intimacy by Encouraging Sharing and Suggesting Activities for Users to Try

The Coral App Destigmatizes Sex and Intimacy

Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

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The Short Version: Through her own experiences and research, Isharna Walsh realized that many people weren’t satisfied in their sex lives, but because of the stigma surrounding sexuality, they often didn’t know how to improve them. That’s why she created Coral, an app that helps users explore their sexuality and improve their intimacy. Coral allows users to talk about their experiences and offers information from...

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How to Save My Marriage (9 Senior Dating Tips)

How to Save My Senior Marriage

April Braswell

April Braswell

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Many longtime couples have read about the high incidences of silver divorces, and if you’re worrying if your marriage is vulnerable, too, you’re not alone. Perhaps your marriage bed fizzled after 60. Or maybe you’ve both entered retirement, and that has changed the dynamics of your marriage as well. Whatever the case may be, if you’re looking for some guidance in protecting yourselves from senior divorce, you’re...

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How to Be a Good Girlfriend to Your Lesbian Girlfriend

How to Be a Good Girlfriend to Your Lesbian Girlfriend

Dr. Frankie Bashan

Dr. Frankie Bashan

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You finally found her: your perfect lesbian girlfriend. She is easy to be around, fun, attractive, and really into you, too. You sometimes catch yourself lost in thought, reliving moments between the two of you. You love feeling the jolts of happiness when reality hits you that she’s really in your life. After a while, though, there may come a time where you start to freak yourself out. You may worry this...

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Why Won’t My Girlfriend Have Sex With Me?

Why Won't My Girlfriend Have Sex With Me?

Dr. Frankie Bashan

Dr. Frankie Bashan

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My guess is that, if you're reading this article, then you're probably not getting much love and affection from your girlfriend these days. Long gone are the days when you could barely keep your hands off each other. You know... those times when going to bed meant way more than just getting a good night of sleep. Are you sitting there wondering what happened to the hot and steamy nights you two used to have? Are...

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15 Best Love Messages for Seniors (Classic, Cute, Romantic & Holy)

15 Best Love Messages for Seniors

April Braswell

April Braswell

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Finding love after 50 can make you feel like a teenager again. You often feel giddy, invigorated, alive, happy, infatuated, and passionate. Still, being in a senior relationship doesn’t mean you're in each other’s company all day long, even if you're both retired. Most men and women over 50 are still very busy. So, what's a fun way to express your romantic thoughts when you’re apart? Send a love message!...

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Sexuality Educator Dawn Serra Coaches Singles & Couples to Embrace Who They Are & What Gives Them Pleasure

Dawn Serra Coaches Singles & Couples to Embrace Sexuality

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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The Short Version: Dawn Serra is a sex-positive, body-positive, LGBTQ-friendly dating and relationship coach with nothing but love for her clients. She supports singles and couples on the journey toward sexual fulfillment and relationship bliss. Her insights can give them the courage and clarity they need to move forward in their lives. Dawn works with clients one on one, and she also offers online classes, podcasts,...

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How to Fix a Broken Relationship for Seniors

How to Fix a Broken Relationship for Seniors

April Braswell

April Braswell

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Just because you’re a senior couple doesn’t mean your relationship is immune to some of the same problems your younger counterparts experience. Senior couples can deal with those same problems as well as problems related to aging. If you feel like the passion has fizzled, suspect your partner is cheating, or you both argue a lot, don’t give up on your relationship just yet. There’s hope for you two, and here’s...

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8 Ways to Fix a Sexless Relationship

8 Ways to Fix a Sexless Relationship

Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

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Experts cite varying definitions of "sexless relationship," including having minimal sexual contact and avoiding sex within the relationship. Minimal sex is defined as having sex less than once a month or 10 times annually. While there's no prescribed perfect frequency of sex in a relationship, having a healthy sex life is important and contributes to feeling happy in a relationship. A 2015 Pew survey found that 61%...

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13 Best Love Messages for Her (Sweet, Deep & Hot)

13 Best Love Messages for Her

Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

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Being in a relationship is awesome. You get to listen, talk, laugh, tease, cuddle, and touch. However, you’re probably not always around your significant other as much as you'd like to be, so it’s nice to remind her how you feel about her. Flowers are great, and they signify that you were thinking of her and wanted to get something unexpected to show her how much she means to you. However, what I really like are...

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Why Won’t My Boyfriend Have Sex With Me?

Why Won't My Boyfriend Have Sex With Me?

Brian Rzepczynski

Brian Rzepczynski

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Sex can obviously be a very important part of a relationship as it enhances the quality of life and reinforces bonding with your partner. Sex can help buffer the stresses of daily living and contribute to the reinforcement of emotional intimacy and connection in a relationship. Sex has also been proven to possess important health benefits. Not to mention, sexual pleasure is an inalienable human right, and it just...

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Dr. Doug Weiss Started the Heart to Heart Counseling Center to Bring Healing to Couples Facing Sex Addiction, Infidelity & “Intimacy Anorexia”

Dr. Doug Weiss Heals Couples Facing Sex Addiction

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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The Short Version: Dr. Doug Weiss, of Heart to Heart Counseling Center, has made it his life's mission to heal broken hearts and reinforce relationships. He runs intensive counseling sessions in Colorado Springs to address sexual addiction, intimacy anorexia, infidelity, and other personal issues. Throughout the last 30 years, Doug and his team of trained psychologists have motivated and educated people on the path...

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The Kindu App Encourages Couples to Build Intimacy Through Sexy Questions & Provocative Activities

Kindu™ Helps Couples Build Intimacy Through Questions

Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

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The Short Version: The Kindu app is designed to help couples reinvigorate their romance and get to know more about each other. The platform offers thousands of sexy and intimacy-building prompts that couples can follow to explore their relationships. The prompts are sorted into larger groupings of similar types of experiences and sent to each partner every day. Kindu’s mission is to improve communication while...

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Therapist Dr. Marty Klein Debunks Sexual Misconceptions and Helps Clients Overcome Difficulties

Dr. Marty Klein Helps Clients Overcome Sexual Difficulties

Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

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The Short Version: In the 1970s, a series of serendipitous events led Dr. Marty Klein into a career as a sex therapist. Since then, Dr. Klein has spent more than 40,000 hours counseling clients, and has written many books and articles that provide solutions for common sexual difficulties. He said many people have picked up misinformation as children or young adults and can benefit from a different way of thinking...

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Therapist Cyndi Darnell Helps Couples Find More Pleasure in Sex and Relationships

Cyndi Darnell Helps Couples Find Pleasure in Sex

Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

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The Short Version: Sex and Relationship Therapist Cyndi Darnell has clients around the world, and she’s seen nearly every issue related to intimacy. However, her clients share one common thread: Most of them aren't quite sure how to derive maximum pleasure from sex. Cyndi teaches her clients about those subjects in person as well as through online courses, workshops, and a soon-to-be-released book. With more than 20...

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“My Relationship is Boring” — 12 Ways to Fix It

How to Fix a Boring Relationship

Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

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If you think you're in a boring relationship, there’s no need to sound the alarm. Brief periods of boredom are common in pretty much all relationships. It's just the natural ebbs and flow of life. Some couples begin to feel bored once the excitement of a new connection wears off and they settle into a routine. Some couples become less focused on each other and begin leading separate lives because of career demands,...

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Sex Therapist Dr. Stephen Snyder Teaches Couples How to Have Great Sex in a Committed Relationship

Therapist Dr. Stephen Snyder Teaches Couples How to Have Great Sex

Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

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The Short Version: For more than 30 years, sex therapist Dr. Stephen Snyder has worked to find better ways to help people get more satisfaction in bed. Now, he’s written a book, "Love Worth Making," that ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton said “does for sex therapy what Hamilton did for the Broadway musical.” In addition, women’s health guru Christiane Northrup calls "Love Worth Making" “hands down,...

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Dr. Sue Johnson Uses Emotionally Focused Therapy to Teach Couples How to Have Great Relationships

Dr. Sue Johnson Uses EFT to Teach Couples How to Have Great Relationships

Charlotte Edwards

Charlotte Edwards

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The Short Version: Throughout her career, Dr. Sue Johnson has worked on developing Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT) techniques to add to her field and use in her practice. She has written books, including "Hold Me Tight" and shared many YouTube videos based on her studies. She and her colleagues also modify the EFT methods for diverse cultures around the world. To extend her reach to even more...

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Dr. Stephanie Buehler Works With Individuals and Couples to Bring Joy Back Into Their Sex Lives

Dr. Stephanie Buehler Helps Bring Joy Back Into Your Sex Life

Suzanne Wentley

Suzanne Wentley

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The Short Version: Even in today's modern society, issues regarding sex are often cloaked in shame, making it difficult for people to seek professional help to address their problems. Dr. Stephanie Buehler specializes in treating common sexual problems that are often left unchecked, such as a low sex drive, fear of intimacy, or the need to rediscover sexuality after cancer. Dr. Buehler’s practice is based in Orange...

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25 “I Love You” Quotes For Him

25 "I Love You" Quotes For Him

Mike Goldstein

Mike Goldstein

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Whether you're in a new relationship or you've been with someone for years, it can be difficult to put into words exactly how you feel about your partner. Sending a sweet and romantic quote is a great way to show that you care. The quotes in this article can help you express your love, bringing you closer together as a couple. Let's start with the best I love you quotes to send to him, and then don't forget to...

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Amber Brooks

By: Amber Brooks

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Amber Brooks is the Editor-in-Chief at DatingAdvice.com. When she was growing up, her family teased her for being "boy crazy," but she preferred to think of herself as a budding dating and relationship expert. As an English major at the University of Florida, Amber honed her communication skills to write clearly, knowledgeably, and passionately about a variety of subjects. Now with over 1,800 lifestyle articles to her name, Amber brings her tireless wit and relatable experiences to DatingAdvice.com. She has been quoted by the Washington Times, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post, and AskMen, among others.

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