Archive for the 'Conscious Relationships' Category

5 Cheap Dates

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

It’s no secret that times are tough. I just heard that we’re heading toward continued slow times, but no double dip recession. I’m not sure that’s all such reassuring news; I think the average person is still experiencing life as financially austere.

Friends With Benefits

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

I’ve been thinking about the phenomenon of “friends with benefits”.  Young adults are marrying later in life, which should be better for the divorce rate but may not be.  Men and women are shying away from serious emotional commitments, choosing instead to have casual sex with supposedly no strings attached.

Taking Back Sex

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Our culture has a complicated relationship with sex.  The story varies slightly depending on where you are in the country, but the basic idea is that it’s a little like watching a giant car crash:  you feel guilty watching, you know you’re not supposed to be entertained, but secretly you find it thrilling.  Even some [...]

6 Steps to Conscious Relationships

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Falling in love is dangerous.  Specifically, our illusions of falling in love are dangerous to the success of actual love relationships.  We tend to think of falling in love as something outside our control; it just happens.  While that used to be true and still happens today, I propose that we take a different tactic [...]

Don’t Assume Monogamy

Friday, October 14th, 2011

One of the most common reason marriages fail is because of sex.  Either one person has an affair, or they fall into a rut of little, zero or really boring sex and they finally can’t take it any longer.  Most of the time, it’s a matter of assumed monogamy.  This assumption of monogamy, it turns [...]