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This is Why Mothers Have So Much Emotional Labor

By Colleen Temple — 2018

It’s called emotional labor. And mothers have a lot of it.

Read on www.mother.ly

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How Not to Hate Your Husband After You Have Kids

Author Jancee Dunn couldn’t believe how furious she would get at her husband after they had a baby. Here are her tips for working through it.

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Sex with the Kids Around: What Are the Rules?

As much as you would like to keep your parenting life and sex life as far apart as possible, there will be times when they sometimes awkwardly cross paths. We talked to the experts to get the rules on what's appropriate and what's not.

Francesca Di Meglio

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How Parenthood Will Change Your Sex Life, According to a Neuroscientist

As a sex therapist and neuroscientist, I’m often called upon to help clients cope with the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of rebooting their sex lives after parenthood. The truth: Finding your way back to satisfying sex can be a big challenge.

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How to Reconnect with Your Partner After Having Kids

Don’t wait for the most convenient time to rebuild intimacy. You’ll be waiting a long time.

Christina Caron

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Have Children? Here’s How Kids Ruin Your Romantic Relationship

For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along.

Matthew D. Johnson

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Postpartum Sex: Why You Don’t Want It—and Why That’s OK

A baby changes everything—including, oftentimes, your interest in sex. Still, the goal isn’t to get the “old you” back. It’s to figure out who you are now.

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Motherhood and Sexuality by Bette Gordon & Catherine Texier

Perhaps it is time to open the door on the secret, sexual lives of mothers, even if it is hard for children—and we, as readers, have all been children—to contemplate this taboo: our own mother’s sexuality.

Bette Gordon, Catherine Texier

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Why Do Women Still Get Judged so Harshly for Having Casual Sex?

In a new study, we found that women—but not men—continue to be perceived negatively for having casual sex.

Jaimie Arona Krems and Michael Varnum

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Famed Author Gary Chapman Talks Love, Marriage, Sex

Relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude: "How can I help you?" "How can I enrich your life?" "How can I be a better husband to you," if it's a marriage. "How can I be a better wife to you?" And what we want to do is to enhance each other's lives.

Luiza Oleszczuk

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The Real Problem with Sexual Withholding in a Marriage

The problem with sexual withholding in a marriage has far less to do with actually having or not having sex and much more to do with misunderstanding.

Suzanne Phillips

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Emotional Labor