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However, marriage and monogamy are not necessarily the same. Monogamy is being romantically and sexually involved with only one person at a time, whether or not you are married to him/ her. The officially married person has rights to sign an agreement on a life saving operation in a hospital, plus draw out the spouse’s money from a bank on his demise. Marriage is a social and legal institution where a couple pledges to live with each other till death us do part....

After our first fight, I made a list to remind myself why Robert is special: 4. He’s a great cook. (I’m not.) 3. I love his hands. I’ve loved them ever since he ran them over my naked back at our very first meeting. (This is not as risqué as it sounds. I was at Bodywork for the Weekday Half-Hour Special, which Blanca had bought me as a birthday gift....

How Do I Start Dating Again In My 40s And 50s? Before we let the cat out of the bag, let’s first discuss how to get you back into the game. Seeking an ideal partner in your 40s or 50s is common but dating for mature singles can be a challenge. Maybe you have been recently divorced, perhaps you lost the love of your life but are now ready to give love another try, or perhaps you just never found ‘the one’ for you....

The boredom of constant travelling that she has to undergo as a busy marketing professional coupled with the rigours of life in Mumbai has taken a toll on her as a person too. “All around me, women are having affairs. They are so bored with the static and stagnant nature of their marriages or the lack of an emotional and physical connection, post-kids,’ says Usha who bumped into a man five years her junior at an overseas marketing conference a year back....

Dr. Rima Mukherji MBBS, DPM, MRCPsych (London) , After gaining 7 years of experience in the UK, Dr. Mukherji set up the renowned Crystal Minds, a mental wellness centre (with a multidisciplinary team offering a wide range of psychiatric and psychological services for all age groups) in Kolkata. How to cope when your children leave home and you are left with an empty nest? Once the children grow up and move out of the home, parents have mixed feelings....

How Do I Stop Abusing My Wife? People have many marriage problems but I am unable to handle mine. I love my wife very much, but in the midst of an argument something triggers in me and I hit her. What your fights reveal about your relationship What my fights reveal about my relationship is I care for my wife and my family but when I become angry I become like a monster....

The story begins the same way, in most cases – two people come together in a relationship, and it’s all smooth sailing during the dating and courtship days. Your partner may display some signs of being a control freak now and again, but you dismiss the red flags and move on. As you embark on the journey of marriage, things begin to take a turn for the worse. The loving, affectionate partner you were in a relationship with is now replaced by a contentious woman you feel you don’t even know....

Yes, it is true and happens all too often. The rose and honey-tinted dreams often get a rude reality check when you start living with the man or woman you thought was going to be your everything. While splitting up with a husband/wife is far tougher than separating from a boyfriend/girlfriend, you do still need to give plenty of thought to how to break up with someone you live with....

It was a Sunday morning. Neither of us had to rush for work and we knew the kids would sleep in their room. Perfect time to get frisky! So we slid under the covers and got it on! At the heights of passion, I’m riding him and my three-year-old girl opens the door, rubbing her sleepy eyes. What’s worse, we were so engrossed that I didn’t even realize she was in the room until she said “Mumma” with her jaw wide open....

We have all heard that love gives meaning to life. But did you ever realise that love gives meaning to things? Material, physical, tangible things – quite the antithesis to something as ephemeral and ineffable as love. Yet all our lives, we collect and gift things for the emotional value they possess. Famed poet and activist Maya Angelou told us something about the power of human feeling – “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel....

Communication is essential for a healthy relationship. You should be able to talk to your partner without hesitation. It helps resolve issues and conflicts, and most importantly, understand and connect with your partner on a deep, emotional level. It brings you closer to your partner, strengthens your bond, and helps you grow as a couple. If you’re facing communication issues, allow us to help you. We spoke to dating coach Geetarsh Kaur, founder of The Skill School, which specializes in building stronger relationships, to understand how to fix lack of communication in a relationship....

High off of love, drunk from her hate. It’s like I’m huffing paint and I love her, the more I suffer I suffocate and right before I’m about to drown. She resuscitates me, she fucking hates me. And I love it.” Leaving a toxic relationship like this might seem like the wrong thing to do, even though deep inside, you know you should leave. Before you know it, you fall in love with the ‘love-hate’ or ‘pleasure-pain’ dynamic....

Love comes in many forms, shapes and sizes; love also comes in little jewellery boxes from Tiffany’s or a fresh cream pineapple cake from Flury’s. Whatever it is that spoils you for good and makes you feel all mushy inside, know that, being spoiled in love is one of the perks there is to be in love. Now, not everyone needs shiny trinkets. Maybe you are one of the subtle kinds whose idea of being spoiled in love is to have a home-cooked meal from your loved one or something to do with food – like breakfast in bed....

Dear Ma’am, I had a girlfriend 15 years ago. We both loved each other and we had a little physical relationship (like kissing, touching different parts of the body, etc). But things did not work out and we did not get married. We both married different people. Even after marriage, we used to meet for a year with the same level of physical touches. Then she felt guilty and categorically said she doesn’t want to continue....

It leaves you guilt-ridden, to the point where you have no choice left but to take your loved one to a day show in a theatre and make the best use of the darkness to hold hands and share a forbidden kiss. But what about those important conversations you want to have with your lover, lying with your head on his chest? A reply will echo in your mind: “Ye India hai meri jaan, yahan ye sab nahi kar sakte....

Is it okay to ask a girl about her past relationships? Now we can understand that curiosity gets the best of us, but you also know that too much curiosity can kill the cat. Curiosity is only good if it adds to your existing knowledge for something productive in the future. So unless you feel that your girl is traumatized by a past relationship that is hindering your current one, or her previous patterns are having an effect on your current one, there isn’t much to be gained by rehashing details of her past relationships, except for masochistic pain!...

Relationships are built around honest and open communication. By telling each other your wants and expectations, you let your partner know how to make and keep each other happy. When you take away communication from a relationship, you’re quite literally suffocating it. Even so, couples often spend a couple of days stonewalling each other after fights. How then, could stonewalling be emotional abuse? Why is it done? What are the signs and effects of stonewalling in a relationship?...

“Do you love me?” If your man can answer this without flinching, either he is a great liar or he is telling the truth. Wish all cases were that easy to crack, right? Sometimes, it’s not that easy to tell if a man is after you because his heart is gushing with love for you, or if he just wants to get into your pants. If you are not sure, look for these 10 signs on how to tell if a guy loves you or lusts you....

At 35, I would not use adjectives like painful, heartless and other fantastic descriptions to enunciate the feelings that one experiences being gay and bashed in the constructs of an Indian family. Related reading: A traditional South Indian engagement, a modern LGBT couple When I was in my early 20s, my sexual preference was outed on the front page of Sunday’s most loved Indian newspaper in South Africa, the ‘Sunday Times Extra....

Did she really have to spend so much time with her friends? The first time that I got a sneaking feeling that my wife was cheating on me, was when she began looking forward to me going to office after we got our new flat in Gurgaon. After our wedding, we had lived with my extended family in the house that I grew up in Nizamuddin, for about a year. I had assumed our arranged marriage and living in the joint family to be the reason why we were not really close, emotionally....