Over dinner recently, a close friend told me she was second-guessing her three-year relationship. While she and her boyfriend were very committed to each other, they had been living in different countries for the last ...

Here's a trick to try out on your next date: During dinner, start playing with something on your side of the table like the salt shaker or the candle. After a little while, gently push ...

Cindy and Peter met in January and they hit it off instantly. They were both into mystery novels and had long dinners debating politics. They started seeing each other twice or three times a week, ...

Last summer, my boyfriend broke up with me. It was one of those almost-perfect relationships where you are well matched in everything, but there's just no spark. Immediately I ...

There are more than 4,000 dating and relationship self-help books in print. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has sold 30 million copies worldwide. And last month, relationship guru Dr. Phil McGraw hosted ...

Emily is a tall 29-year-old blonde with great fashion sense who knows the bouncers at New York's hippest clubs. She graduated from an Ivy-League university with high honors in ...

Teaching morality to sixteen-year-old girls requires a lot of patience, particularly when it comes to issues that revolve around the bedroom. After all, when you are sixteen you have ...

What's the formula for good sex? TV shows offer one recipe. Take an attractive man or woman, add a nice restaurant dinner, stir in a few drinks and follow the trail of chemistry where it leads, ...

Looking forward to a summer wedding, 28 year-old Ashley Dumas carried her wedding dress out of the closet and hung it on the door for all to see. ...

"Can you come and see me?" said his ex-girlfriend over the phone months after they went through a bitter and hurtful breakup. "And why would I want to do that?" ...

Editor's note: Monday, August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. With this in mind we offer this ...

"I can definitely see you as a priest," my friend told me."Thanks," I said. This was a helpful insight, since I'd like to be a priest. "But the thing ...

Sex sells. Or so they say. But I think "they" are wrong. I think what they mean is that partly naked people, a hint of genitalia, and the bright (though often ...

Many people have a hard time with winter. Up North where I come from the days are short and gloomy. The cold is bitter and winter is long. The holidays, cloaked in joy and celebration ...

After a long weekend of bars, booze, and boys, I make it a point to attend Sunday night Mass. As I repent for any sins I may have committed in ...

Lynn Cassella's profound experience as a child of divorce shines through in this small and practical guide for all those whose lives have been touched by divorce. Divorce journeyCassella speaks of her own journey as a ...

A few months back, I had a disturbing conversation with my mother. It went something like this: Mom: You mean to tell me you're going to marry someone you haven't had sex with? Me: Yes. ...

I. Java Goddess and Garage Man Renée: With our house-hunting completed, I can now list yet another way in which Jim and I are different. Those comments ...

When my wife and I had been married two years, people would ask me, "How long have you been married?" I'd hold up a pair of fingers and reply, "Two," take a slight pause, and ...

In an article I read from The Washington Monthly (reprinted in the recent Utne Reader on "Erotic Intelligence" ...