Seventeen percent of people in America (men and women) are now meeting on the Internet. There are about 250,000 women seeking Western men for husbands at any one time.

Expressed as a two-way bridge between childhood and adulthood, magical thinking is a developmental stage during childhood that serves a very important function in the process of creativity and imagination. Like so many of our developmental constructs, when magical thinking is held onto and not revised in the light of reality it becomes maladaptive.

Abusive relationships can be referred to as interpersonal relationships characterized by the threat of physical or psychological abuse. This kind of relationship attains epidemic proportions and tends to worsen over time. It is a common fact that there is an imbalance of power in abusive relationships.

Is your spouse too controlling? Are you too passive? Or are the roles reversed? Control issues refer to who’s in control, who’s in charge, or who’s getting their way. Significant control issues are always harmful to a relationship. Here are ten reasons you need to be concerned if you have unresolved control problems in your marriage.

Much of the discord couples experience comes from fear of exposing their true feelings – their love, fears, doubts, insecurities – their true selves. So they hide their truth behind ego...

How are your bedroom relations? Are they all you'd hope and more? See how your lovelife can be improved with just a few simple changes to the layout of your bedroom...

Love, relationship and the laws of Nature. Why do they work? How do you apply them? How did they get discovered and why should we trust them. Melisa Wadsworth explores these questions and answers with Chris Walker.

Most couples just go from one day to the next and one year to the next without ever discovering the true meaning of what positive and nurturing relationships are really all about.

With the passage of time relationships can tend to fall into some negative and positive routines. Many of these contribute to the nurturing of the relationship while others can undermine its success. One of the things I have discovered over the years is that developing some rituals can ensure that the relationship stays on a positive track. Although no relationship is perfect (or ever will be) and experiences ups and downs these rituals can help keep the relationship focused on those attitudes, behaviors and feelings that you want to see continue.

There are hundreds of ladies from the former Soviet Union countries looking for foreign husband: how to differ who is serious and who is playing games?

There are often bumps in the road to marital bliss, even in the best relationships. Should you stay or should you go?

How do you know whether you have true intimacy with your partner? Let me first give you my definition of intimacy. Most people tend to connect intimacy only with sex.

Sex is just a physical and temporary expression of lust while lovemaking is an emotional and lasting expression of trust.

In this century when we all talk of exploring mars and reaching help to the deep corners of Africa, is it not only surprising and also shameful that some men batter their wives? Whatever we say, we cannot deny that women are getting battered. A syndrome has also been names after this - Battered Women syndrome.

My first-hand experience with long-distance, cross-continental, Internet love! (It ain't pretty, but I survived).

How can I say goodbye when I don’t want to? Can you please explain why some people keep returning to each other after repeated break-ups? How do I stop thinking about the past and hoping for the future? What do I do with all of the love I still feel for that person?

Gifts are an expression of our feelings. They are a token of appreciation and love towards others. And among the multitudes of gifts available, perhaps no gift can ever be as lovely and expressive as flowers. Flowers bring joy to all who behold them and add a splash of vibrancy to any occasion or event. They have and will always remain the most wonderful gifts on this earth.

Do you ever let the worry of disappointing others interfere with your decisions to do what you really want? Do you feel that this worry is preventing you from being fully honest with your partner? Is this eroding the level of intimacy that is so important in a successful relationship? Well this article is the place to begin to address this problem once and for all.

What happens in Eastern Europe stays in Eastern Europe. Or does it? One lucky stag spills the beans on his stag weekend in Tallinn, Estonia's thumping capital.

In Spain, it's common for a man to have his wedding date engraved on the outside of his wedding band so he can see the date when his palm is up. Hey guys, wanna know more...

When a husband and wife give gifts to one another in a spirit of friendship it creates between them feelings of comradery, affection and closeness. Cheerful giving attracts, and selfishness repels. When husband brings his wife a thoughtful birthday gift, it is the receiver that has to be happy about the gift, not the giver.

People often believe that they are withholding their truth to spare their partner pain, but their real intent is to protect themselves from the response they fear. Speaking your truth, however difficult, can open the door to renewed love.

Each of us has some typical images in mind: an ideal man, an ideal mother, miss Perfection and so on. It doesn’t mean we try to make our fellow mates fit all these criteria. But cliches can help us understand what we want.