Why do men and women have affairs?
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Why do men and women have affairs?

It turns out that 4 in 10 marriages are challenged by affairs; and it also turns out that more than half of American marriages survive the affair.

Dr Shirley Glass interviewed thousands of people at airports and other places and found that good people in good marriages are having affairs. In her book “Not Just Friends”, she states that the workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for “friendships” that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs.

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What if our sexual desire is not compatible?

So many couples struggle with this issue. It makes each partner feel misunderstood, lonely sad or angry.

Couples often expect that the love that got them together will carry them through their relationship without disappointments, rejections and hurt feelings.

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Telling Kids About Affairs
Edna Avraham Edna Avraham

Telling Kids About Affairs

Five questions to ask yourself before you decide whether to tell your kids about your spouse’s affair

Handling the crisis of a spouse’s affair and the resulting divorce can be overwhelming. During this crisis, your actions can greatly affect you, your children and the family. One of the most difficult areas to navigate is what to tell the children when they ask why you are divorcing. I suggest you consider the following questions:

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What Happens After Marriage
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What Happens After Marriage

Many couples are married, but not all married couples feel like a couple. What makes the difference?

In his new film 112 Weddings, Doug Block goes back in time to meet some of the 112 couples whose big days he’s filmed. For many, there’s been happiness; for others divorce, illness and mental health problems. The film weaves clips from each couple’s wedding day with an interview five to nineteen years after that day. Doug focuses on two main questions: What did you expect your marriage to be? And, what did happen?

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How to make our sexual connection more fulfilling?
Edna Avraham Edna Avraham

How to make our sexual connection more fulfilling?

We are surrounded by various myths and fantasies about how fantastic sexual experiences either happen on their own or not. Given that sex is a natural phenomenon, why is it not seamless and free? For many couples it is one of the most challenging parts of their relationship.

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5 Steps to Rebuild Trust with Your Partner

Trust is such an important part of a relationship that once it has been broken, you can hardly rebuild it by just saying “sorry”. Rebuilding trust takes a lot of time and effort as well as making changes that enable forgiveness. You can’t easily restore a person’s trust especially if you two are in a intimate relationship. If you are aggrieved partner, you will always doubt and be afraid that something could happen again without your knowledge. You may also question everything about your relationship. Once trust has been crushed completely, it shakes the foundation of your relationship.

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