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How to Speak Your Partner’s Love Language to Have Better Sex
Deciphering and understanding your partner’s likes, dislikes, and interests in the bedroom can often feel like you’re both speaking a foreign language to each other. For example, you might prefer to cuddle before and after sex to show how much you care while your partner might prefer positive (and even dirty) communication as a form…
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Why You Should ‘Pre-Cry’ Before Your Next Emotional Event
The holidays (and the Omicron variant) are upon us and you know what that means: There’s never been a better time to cry it out. While the month of December — and all its attendant festivities — is a joyous time for many, it can also be a time of stress, overwhelm, loneliness, and grief.
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How Movies Can Keep Your Dog From Panicking About Fireworks
Every significant holiday, as fireworks explode throughout the nighttime sky, millions of dog runs for cover, or bark and howl in confusion at the noises assaulting their sensitive canine ears. Fireworks are scary and disorienting for dogs, who don’t know that the cacophony outside is celebrating “freedom” and not threatening their hearth and home.
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Cry This Often, According to Science
Crying is often regarded as a sign of weakness, and even something to be ashamed of. But let’s continue to normalize crying, not only because those arguments are bullshit, but because science agrees that crying is important, actually. It releases toxins like stress hormones from our bodies, it triggers the production of the good brain…