Love and Marriage

Breast Self Exam

Healthy Changes Through Life: Doing a monthly breast self exam is the best way to stay familiar with the cyclical changes in your breasts. You will get to know the territory better than your health care team, and will spot changes easily. Having an annual clinical exam helps document your breast health, so keep a regular appointment set up for that! Between puberty and menopause, your breasts will go through many changes, which are affected by hormones, diet, and exercise. Most of these changes are natural and healthy!

Breast Implant Dangers

3% suffer leakage within three years causing a deflated implant

Occasionally, breast implants may break or leak. The saline fill is salt water and will be absorbed by the body without ill effects. Older implants with silicone gel can leak also

Breast Enlargement Surgery

For years, women have suffered the agony of small, underdeveloped, or sagging bosom. For many women, the answer has been the very costly and dangerous cosmetic surgery instead of natural ways.

But the cost and risks make this an undesirable

Recipe for Finding Love Again

We know how you feel! Starting over is really difficult when it comes to love and marriage. Getting a divorce, breaking up, or losing the one you love due to their death can be overwhelmingly painful.
The simple truth is this – you entered into your loving relationship with another person expecting it to last forever. But all acts of love are, we are afraid to say, not everlasting.
As the old song goes, “Breaking up is hard to do” – whether that breakup is due to death or falling out of love – the pain is still not minimized. It is hard to start over. It is downright challenging to find true love again.
For nearly three decades, we have studied successful love and relationships. We know what makes love and relationships work. But the truth is, sometimes

We all, as individuals, have a great deal of stress in our daily lives. One of the hardest things about marriage is that both of you have your own stresses, and then you the stress you face as a couple. This relentless stress can destroy your marriage if it goes unchecked. The editors at HuffingtonPost.com recently compiled their best reader advice on all kinds of stress in marriage and while all of them are good, some of them are real gems. Here, we share what we think are three really important points for helping to get stress out of your marriage:

The phrase “love is all you need” sounds good in a song, but it doesn’t necessarily hold true for for marriage in the real world. Yes, you do need love, but according to experts, love alone is not enough unless it also has four specific elements.
In an article this week in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, marriage columnist James Sheridan shares some very interesting facts from author Mark Gungor on the four elements of love that can make it “all you need.” According to Gungor, if your love has these four elements, it’ll be enough to sustain a happy marriage.