One of the top three issues that impact every relationship includes how we value and manage our financial resources over time. This link takes you to Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. This is a valuable tool to learn about the meaning you apply to money.
The 5 Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman are focused on understanding your own needs for connection as well as the needs of your mate to feel connected. I ask most of my client couples to take the 5 Love Language quiz to determine their own language and that of their mate, which is available on this site.
Amy Lang's online resource called Birds & Bees & Kids provides a collection of parent/kid resources focused on healthy sexuality teaching. Parents can guide their children with sex positive, clinically sound, and age-appropriate information.
The American Sexual Health Association website has a multitude of sexual health resources and information that is applicable to everyone at every age.
Check out the Gottman Institute for well researched, evidence-based information specific to couples, and parents. They offer a blog and newsletter that you can sign up to receive routinely. Routine reminders help keep us focused on serving our most important relationships!
Oncolink has various connections for couples facing cancer together on how a diagnosis and treatment could impact the sexual body and fertility, as well as information to share safe sexual connections.
Couples who keep the spark alive in long term relationships are couples who have invested in each other frequently and intentionally.
Better Health While Aging posted a great article by Leslie Kernisan, MD called "How Sex Changes With Aging" which comes as a highly recommended read from Intimate Pathways!
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage.
In Better Sex through Mindfulness, acclaimed psychologist and sex researcher Lori A. Brotto offers a revolutionary approach to improving desire, arousal, and satisfaction inside―and outside of―the bedroom.
Historically, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.
ED is often a complex condition affected by physical, psychological, and relationship issues—and it’s a problem shared by both a man and his partner. This book is the first ever to address this common problem using a comprehensive biological, psychological, and social approach.
How can you keep sexual desire alive over the long term? More and more people are finding it difficult to maintain a relationship that is both emotionally and sexually gratifying. In a book that will challenge and forever change how you think about love and sex, clinical psychologist and sex therapist Stella Resnick, PhD, draws on the latest scientific research to explore the love-lust dilemma.
Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality. In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straight-talking exploration of senior sexuality -- the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the delights of love and passion.