Are you willing to be different than most. Great partners in relationships are willing. And they have a better life than most. They wake up and go to bed feeling better than the people who only make half hearted efforts towards the one they supposedly love. Mark Webb, Licensed Marriage Therapist returns with another excerpt from his bestselling book, How To Be A Great Partner.

Intimacy is very important to keep a relationship alive and so is passion. Never feel shy to experiment to make your relationship interesting. Love in itself is interesting and to experiment more on that adds excitement, vigor and vitality. So keep experimenting.

Marrying an older man is not a problem with many Russian women. The greater the difference in your age, the greater the difficulty will be in your marriage as a general rule.

Dating is not a matching game. You are not out there to find a suitable match for yourself. Are you? You are there to find someone you could spend quality time with and also have a few nice moments. Whether or not this encounter concretes into anything lasting is best left to the future.

Is your relationship healthy? Take a few minutes to read through this article and see how your relationship is doing.

Harry Stack Sullivan, in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry , argues that human beings have a biological drive to develop and establish interpersonal relationships. In Biological Basis for Human Social Behavior , R.A. Hind suggests that a person’s “attachment style”—the way in which they relate to other human beings and form relationships with them—is developed mostly during childhood. The attachment style tends to persist into adulthood but is not fixed and can be modified either positively or negatively as the result of further interactions.

Experience the thrill of dancing together and the closeness to each other. These are such moments in your life that you always enjoy and cherish. They relax you from the stress in your life and give you a chance to come to close to each other.

Words have the power to move the strongest of men in the world. Let the power of words strengthen your love life. Lovers often have taken the support of words to express their love. “It’s only words and word all I have to take your heart away”, the words from a famous song that have helped many lovers to express their love, proves the power of words.

Russians are very emotional in their private lives, contrasting with their stoic public face. A Russian woman is a very emotional creature, which is deceiving because they seem reserved at first.

Discover 3 huge barriers that inhibit couples recovering from infidelity to survive the extramarital affair and rebuild their marriage.

You need to love yourself first before you love somebody else. When you are on your own you are able to understand yourself better and your relationships with others. Therefore it is very important to spend time alone without your partner. When you are alone you become the individual you that your partner loved you for.

The situation requires acceptance and forgiveness. Can you accept and forgive without dwelling on the idea that it is truly none of your business whether the other person will mend the hole that is now part of your heart?

According to MSN Money (Sept. 2005), not counting Higher Education, which can mount to $150,000, and not counting private schools and hospital bills, a child costs $135K ($40K/year, income) ; $185K($40-70K/year income); and $270K (70K+/year, income). Children 15-17 years old are more expensive. Expensive? Mamma mia!

Reliability of our partner is a primary concern for all of us. It is not only in cheating in relationship but also in wider perspective. If you lose your job for a long time, will your partner stay with you or leave you? Can you rely on your partner? Quiz yourself.

Does distance really make the heart grow fonder? According to American relationship experts, it does. We find out whether this holds true for the young working couples here who are forced to stay apart...

Have you ever felt like spying on your spouse's computer? Spying on what your spouse does on their PC is not necessarily an indication of obsessive jealousy because there are occasions when it becomes impossible to ignore the signs that your spouse is up to no good on the computer

Jealousy is one of the most human of all emotions, and each one of us has experienced it at one time or the other. Jealousy towards your spouse/partner, jealousy towards a sibling, jealousy towards a co-worker, these are but a few examples of this human emotion.

Sometimes love is great! Sometimes love hurts. Experiencing love is a Universal need, so how do we heal and love again when our loved ones have hurt us?

Get familiar with the different paternity tests available and how to use them.

What is good-mate-itis? Good-mate-itis is a disease that we get when we are well- nurtured, well-supported, and very content within our relationships. We feel little or no challenge to make things better, and we feel it can’t get any worse. We begin to take each other for granted. We “know” our mate will always be there, so we fall into a deep sleep. We are on automatic. BEWARE! This is the time when love falls apart. It falls apart when we get good-mate-itis

The lack of patienceis the cause of so much unhappiness and grief in this world, when all it requires is a little time on our part.

You can get more love, romance, affection and attention by honestly treating your man as though you really do trust and respect him -- even if you're not quite there yet!

Not many of us think about prisons. Why is prison life a punishment? Because you can not move around and meet people. With friendship, we break the barrier that stops us sharing our life with others.

Have you ever felt lonely in your relationship? Read on to discover what to do when that lonely feeling hits.

If you plan a mutual travel or just want to send money to your fiancee, you face the problem: how to do it in the best way? There are 4 ways and it depends on the sum, purpose and regularity which way is the best. That’s the topic we are going to discuss today.