Help! The Intimacy is Gone

Reader Too Much of a Good Thing writes: I'm 24 years old and in a 2 year relationship with my girlfriend who is 36. In the last year we have had sex only once, but neither of us enjoyed it.  Before meeting my girlfriend, I had never been into a relationship and I was addicted to porn.  Therefore it takes me an hour or longer to orgasm during sex. In the beginning this was fun because we had a lot of time to experiment etc.,  but after a while it changed. I still wanted to have sex on a weekly basis, but my girlfriend kept refusing because it took so long and I had to work so hard to orgasm. And then the times we had sex, she was so tense that it hurt her.  So now, she automatically links sex with pain and me working my butt off to orgasm. Read more

The Fear of Being Forgotten

When did Los Angeles make me so crazy? I always pride myself on being the rational one. After all, there’s a reason that I’m the single friend always giving relationship advice. But when the tables are turned and I find myself in the midst of yet another potential lover, my brain goes on overload and I quickly enter the land of "Let’s Overanalyze Everything to the Point of No Return." Read more

How to deal when your ex’s wedding pictures hit Facebook

  I don’t know about you all, but I was absolutely dying to see Lauren Conrad’s wedding pictures. She has so much style. I just knew her special day was going to be an amazing spectacle and so inspiring. And she didn’t disappoint at all. What I loved the most about the pictures I saw was that she looked like herself. So many brides spend their wedding day dolled up in an uncomfortable dress and makeup that’s so different from what they normally wear that they’re just not themselves at their weddings. Not Lauren Conrad! She rocked her signature beachy waves and winged liner. She simply amped up her normal look with some glitz and glam, instead of totally departing from her daily style. Loved every single thing about it. Read more

The #1 Reason You Don’t Connect With Men

Sometimes I look at the emails I receive and think, “Is this serious? Is this person joking? There’s no way anyone could be writing this to me seriously!” I had an email like that today. I want to share it with you today. It says… Read more

It’s Never A Cute Look To Lose Yourself In A Relationship

It can be easier than you think to lose yourself in a relationship. Extremely intoxicating relationships can be negative at times as they can somewhat hypnotize you to a point where you find yourself spending all your time with that person and not even realizing. If you’re always with your significant other then you are choosing to give all your time to one other person, not your friends, family or most importantly, yourself. You need to make sure to nurture all relationships in your life and give them equal attention as they each serve a different purpose in your life. Read more

How to Fall Out of Love

A common problem presented to me is, “Anita, I love my partner, but I’m just not in love with them anymore.” Usually my clients don’t realize that they were active participants in falling out of love by the choices they made over the course of their relationship. Frequent pitfalls they seem to experience include: Read more