Right Here with You What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.” Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different. It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book. In it, ...
Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist. At age 40, he was a mature ...
Lack of Safety Net for LGBT Couples Causes Stress The "straight safety net" involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged ...
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation Neuroscientist Simon LeVay made headlines with his pioneering work comparing the brain structures of gay and straight men. His 1991 article in Science led the way for numerous studies of sexual orientation as it relates ...
Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture I admit it: I was more than a little hesitant to dive into Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture, edited by Shannon T. Boodram. My fears of being overwhlemed or disturbed ...
When Your Son Thinks He Is Gay Jean and Bill sought a psychological consult regarding their youngest son, Lucas, a senior in high school. Bill described a text message ...
Man and Woman: An Inside Story It is perhaps the most basic divide among living things -- male/female, boy/girl, men/women. We often look at each other with puzzlement; remember Freud’s famous question, “What do women want?” (Never mind that he went ...
Symptoms of Hypersexual Disorder (Sex Addiction) In 2010, the American Psychiatric Association released draft, preliminary criteria that may define "sex addiction," which they are formally called Hypersexual Disorder. Hypersexual disorder can only be diagnosed in adults 18 years or older, according ...
Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad Bob Morris is lucky in love, a fact he doesn’t initially appreciate. Surrounded by people who care about him, Bob still feels lonely and adrift. He wishes he could find the right guy, the perfect ...
Saying No To Naked Women In the summer of 1974, Jack Derritt leaves the city and all of his material possessions behind and heads out to the Arkansas countryside, to live in a shack and take stock of his life. ...
Where Did the Love Go? Growing Up and Growing Apart When I first met Joel he was 15, embattled with his parents, failing in school, and deeply, desperately in love. Bright, sensitive, and troubled by what he saw as an older generation that simply didn’t ...
Talking To Your Teens about Acquaintance Rape “How could this happen?” The mother on the other end of the phone is distraught. “My son came home a wreck. He said his girlfriend wouldn’t quit coming on to him no matter what he ...
Teens and Internet Pornography What should parents do when they discover that their young teen or preteen has been looking at pornography sites online? And what does it mean?
Based on a survey of online victimization conducted by the ...
Friends with Benefits: Can Women Handle It? After the holidays, Valentine’s Day is next on the horizon. You’re single, lonely, sexually frustrated, and generally blue. The whole world seems to be celebrating love’s special day with chocolate and roses and you’re looking ...
FAQs for Partners of Sex Addicts So you think your significant other is a sex addict? This list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and their answers may help shed light on the topic for you.
What is sex addiction?
Sex addiction is an ...
Breaking Up? Blame the Chick Flicks! My 20-year-old daughter tells me she thinks the reason so many young relationships fail is because of the “chick flicks.” You know: Those movies where the focus is entirely on the heady romance between a ...
