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To answer these questions and more, I talked to Aditi Ghatole, a queer affirmative mental health counselor who specializes in LGBTQ and closeted counseling as well as counseling regarding separation and divorce, extramarital affairs, breakups, abusive relationships, compatibility issues, and financial conflicts. Why Do Married Men Have Mistresses? Like the study mentioned above found, men are more prone to straying in a relationship. So understanding why they cheat is important to understand this concern further....

When you first uncover it, forgiveness is probably the last thing on your mind. But if you’ve managed to weather the storm and get past the feelings of denial you may have found yourself stuck in, just the fact that you find yourself reading this article is a promising sign. Turning this promising sign into your journey toward figuring out how to forgive emotional cheating is where we come in....

Being the only male child of his extended family, his family members were always looking forward to him getting married. After much resistance, he relented. Ten years later, he confessed to his wife that he was gay. It’s 20 years since their marriage took place and they are actually one of the happiest couples around. I was taken aback – how could this happen? Talking to Aidan, I understood how love and commitment can help people surmount the most difficult of circumstances....

Or you feel unloved because he never appreciates your work but when you talk to him you find out that he thinks the morning cuddle said it all! Communication is missing in relationships lately I know we all can give dozens of big and small examples where we feel something’s amiss in our relationship. Most of the time it all boils down to one simple word – Communication. Sounds familiar?...

What if we say, take a minute to think whether it’s worth giving one more chance and work towards making it a better relationship? We promise, we are not keen on giving you false hopes and make your suffering even worse. Let’s admit, every relationship needs work, a bit of give and take, be it on an emotional level, or sacrificing for one another; you emerge as a winner when things fall into place....

No cameras please Everything was fine till I decided to get a photograph clicked with my husband, a typical couple pose with hands around each other waist’s or shoulder, for Facebook of course, and my husband, a self-proclaimed enemy of social networks, ruined it by turning it into a playful shot in which he was trying to cap the lens. As a cyber expert, he is dead against my obsession with photo uploads on social networking sites....

Emergency pills come to your rescue at a time like that. But know that you should not be washing them down after each sexual encounter. While the 72-hour pill is a great option to avert an unplanned pregnancy, it must be reiterated that it needs to be used sparingly and not as a replacement for your regular contraceptive. Emergency Contraceptive Pills – Uses Whether it is a case of a one-night stand, forced or unwanted sex, rape, or failure of regular contraceptive methods, these incidents can result in an unwanted pregnancy....

It won’t be a stretch to say that the conflicting emotions you may experience when standing at the cusp of this very difficult step can give wedding jitters and cold feet a run for their money. Even though it may seem like a doomsday scenario when you’re in the thick of it, calling off an engagement is a wiser decision than getting married for the wrong reasons. At the same time, it is imperative to be sure that you’re calling off your engagement for the right reasons – after all, you don’t want to end up in the ‘broke off my engagement and regret it’ headspace later; it ain’t pretty – and not stomping all over your fiance’s heart in the process....

Perhaps it’s the new HR guy whose desk is right next to yours or an old boss that you’ve had the hots for, for a while now. Having eye candy at the office is great, but the challenge is how to make an impression without making it too obvious. 10 Ways To Flirt With A Guy At Work There is no dearth of office romances in the dating landscape. So if you are indeed attracted to someone at work, don’t consider it odd or silly....

A study in 2020 showed that 20% of married men, and 10% of married women, admitted to cheating on their spouses. The numbers suggest that there may be many more who wouldn’t admit it, simply because confessing to adultery comes with enormous baggage – stigma, pain, anger and the possibility of a broken marriage. And holding it all in can leave you riddled with guilt and consumed with thoughts like “I will never forgive myself for cheating”....

Having said that, there are ways to salvage the situation from spiraling out of control. If you want to make your marriage work, you will have to figure out ways to make your husband realize that you deserve respect in the relationship. To help you understand the signs of a disrespectful husband and find ways to deal with him, we spoke to counseling psychologist Nishmin Marshall, former director at SAATH: Suicide Prevention Centre, and a consultant at BM Institute of Mental Health....

Can You Say No To Sex In A Marriage? Irrespective of your relationship status, you can say NO and your spouse must learn to appreciate your right to do so. However, the issues of intimacy are often fragile and must be handled with delicacy. The story of this married couple who grew distant because of lack of sexual compatibility tells us exactly why: Sam and Percy (names changed) dated for a few months before getting married but were not sexually intimate during this time....

Being in love with someone else while being married definitely fits the bill. And what if your feelings for another man do not trigger any regret or guilt? Can it put your marriage in jeopardy even if your transgression doesn’t come to light? Or can it infuse fresh excitement into a marriage settled in the rhythm of routine? Read this woman’s story to find out: Married But In Love With Someone Else I was too busy with work....

This is a reason I am still very close to my family. Since my younger brother got married before me, my mother, who lives in India, was a bit concerned about getting me settled too. She insisted I settle down. I had no clue there could be so many problems in an arranged marriage. I realized that soon. (As told to Saumya Tewari) Arranged Marriage Through Online Matrimony Sites My mother relied on online matrimony sites to find me a wife....

Are You Emotionally Blackmailed With These Words To Get Married? If you are nearing 25 and still haven’t thought of marriage then get ready to hear these words when you are awake, when you are asleep, when you are eating or when you are going to work…These are words that would manipulate you, heckle you, psychologically blackmail you to get married. 1. Think about younger siblings This is classic pressure that is put on any girl above the age of 25 who is not engaged or married and has a younger sibling....

Being in love is often seen as the first stage of love, where you’re infatuated, bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked at all times and ready to do anything in the world for your lover. The fire’s burning hot and high and you can’t bear to be apart. On the other hand, loving someone or having love for someone is usually a slower simmer, but stronger and more durable. Here is where you really get to know one another, battle ups and downs in your relationship and create a bond that can weather the storms of real life....

Before we go on to question whether this is true, let’s look at the data. Research has shown that on average, man tends to initiate sex twice as many times as women do in a relationship. We all might have heard the jokes and blanket statements about how ‘that’s all that the guys want!’ or ‘men can’t get their mind off sex’, and yet research tells us that men and women tend to like sex equally....

These questions may have crossed your mind at some point if you’re sexually active and involved with a man. As much as they’re demonized, fantasies can be great for your sex life. After all, they give you a break from the mundane day-to-day life and push you to explore your kinky side, beyond the usual sexual boundaries. So, if you’re looking for ways to spice up your sex life, an insight into what men fantasize about can be a good starting point to explore kinky things to try in the bedroom....

A breakdown in the mother-son relationship happens when: Mother’s interfere constantly. They want to be the decision-makers for their sons. They cannot accept another woman in their son’s life. They suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. They are unable to let go of the umbilical cord. When a mother can’t let go of her son Years ago, I asked my landlady, a pleasant and charming 34-year-old woman. She was very confident that her two boys would not dream of finding their own wives....

I feel so lonely sometimes that I want to die, but I also love him a lot and I know he also loves me, but why he behaves like this I can’t understand. Please help me and advise me what I should do. Related reading: A symphony in love A: It sounds like you are trapped in an abusive relationship. Your boyfriend seems to be using a technique called ‘gaslighting’, where the abuser uses a method of obliquely making it appear as if everything that goes wrong is always your fault and that there is something wrong with YOU....