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Self Improvement & Mental Health

Charlie Sheen: Why are we so fascinated?

Charlie Sheen is like an impending train wreck – we know it’s going to have a gruesome ending but we can’t help but watch it. Why...

Kid-friendly

4 Tech gadgets your kids will love

Kids are becoming more and more integrated with tech every year -- so much so that gadgets that were marketed toward adults a mere 5...

Marriage

Small gestures that can improve your marriage

It’s easy to forget about little niceties when you’re stressed out and overwhelmed with everyday life. But if you forget about the...

Wedding Etiquette

10 Rules for bridezillas

This may come as news to you, but your wedding day is not the one day of your life where you're allowed to become a screaming,...

Marriage

How to communicate better with your partner

Communicating with your spouse isn’t always easy; things get lost in translation or fights break out. Here, Sharon Rivkin, MA, MFT...

Dating

How to resolve your next argument

Fights are a fact of relationship life. The hard part, of course, is resolving them quickly and in a way that doesn’t leave one...

Marriage

How to deal with marriage humps

Remember your wedding day? That beautiful, blissful day when you wished you could just freeze time and live in the fantasy forever?...

Dating

How to get what you want

Relationships are all about compromise, but sometimes you just want to convince your guy to give in and acquiesce to your demands....

Marriage

Avoid man-hating with the girls

We can pretty much bet that when we get together with our girlfriends after work or on the weekends the subject is (shocker!): MEN.

Marriage

Secrets for maintaining a successful marriage

Marriage is a wonderful thing, but it also takes hard work if you want it to succeed. For that reason, we turned Tina B. Tessina,...

Dating

4 Ways to test your relationship

If you really want to know if you and your honey have what it takes to make it for the long haul, try these four activities, all...

Couple Time & Romance

5 Ways to re-fall in love

Remember when the very sight of your guy made you weak in the knees? The days when you completed each other's sentences and sealed...

Marriage & Relationships

7 Smart reasons to break up

We all know the major reasons to breakup with someone: infidelity, no common goals, abuse, loss of interest. But do you really have...

Breakups

How to really get over your ex

Don't let a breakup devastate your life. Follow these tips to move forward and really get over your ex-husband or ex-boyfriend.

Parenting Advice & Columns

Dueling hormones: When puberty and menopause collide

Now, more than ever, so many households are experiencing puberty and perimenopause and menopause (I call it PM&M for short) at the...

Exercise & Fitness

10 Tips for getting your couch potato guy off the couch

If your man prefers the couch and potato chips to breaking a sweat and improving his health, you’ll need to be cunning in motivating...

Couple Time & Romance

Sex talk: How to get exactly what you want from your partner

Whether your sex life is really good or a little bit lacking, it can always be better. If you aren't getting exactly what you want...

Gadgets, Electronics & Automotive

CES: 8 high-tech innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual conference featuring all things tech-related. This month, Las Vegas swarmed with...

School Age Kids

Instilling an appropriate sense of humor in your kids

What can pass for a sense of humor lately -- snark and sarcasm -- often isn’t so funny. It’s typically sassy, disrespectful,...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Dealing with your kids’ snark

Just about every mom has had to deal with it at some point -- or will. You child speaks to you with a huge helping of snark. Whether...

Monday Mom Challenge

Monday Mom challenge: Stop the snark

Snark and sarcasm, it seems, have become a way of life. Too much a way of life, really. You may call it humor -- and it is in some...