Cohabiting versus marriage, are you too career focused to have a relationship, sex talk...
So one of my best friends has been very happy cohabiting with their partner for the last 18 years - neither them care about the marriage thing. But actually marriage give some stability and statistics show cohabiting couples break up at more than twice the rate as married couples.
In today's Express newspaper I've written about marriage and why I think it's a good idea - can't argue against the research that repeatedly shows married couples have stronger relationship. And you can't argue with the Office for National Statistics that backs this up - they're not just a survey they have proper statistics on our lifestyles.
Before you get your knickers in a twist of course there are many cohabiting couples that have fantastic relationships but they are the exception and across nations around the world some form of marriage has been seen as important.
In today's Mail newspaper I've commented on some research about women and careers - and those women who are so career focused they “forget” about finding love - most often they regret this but sometimes they don't in their career fulfills them.
I've got a fun quiz [but with a point] that's gone live on iVillage UK about your sexual communication - is your sex talk up to scratch? Do you get what you want with your partner? Do they get what they want?
TODAY’S TIP: Take the fear out of discussing sex by always starting with a positive about what you two share. This softens any "suggestions" [not criticisms!] you might have to make things better in the bedroom.
If you're going to have a sex life might as well have a satisfying one!
E-mail me at my homepage with your dilemma as it's Thursday and I'll be answering one of the later on. Just click on the goldstar.
Get charitable today and buy yourself some *Hope* for the Alzheimers Society if your neighborhood store is stalking their little boxes. It's a lovely idea that I heard on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
Take care, Pamx