Experts have identified a whole new seven love languages. They contain the original five, but with more specificity, plus two new ones.
The happiest of relationships consist of two people who constantly ask themselves, “How can I make my partner feel loved today? How can I make my partner feel attractive today? How can I make my partner’s day easier?” That goes in both directions.
Every woman knows there are just those forms of touch that feel so nice—that activate all of those happy chemicals in our brains and make us feel so safe and loved. They can be better than sex! Men, here are non-sexual physical acts women wish you’d do more.
Men in relationships tend to learn the beauty of just staying in. While, when many of them were single, they were all on a text thread with their boys about where they were going out that night, committed men see how nice it is to be in a quiet place with people you love, rather than a loud one with tons of strangers. And they start applying that to their friendship hangouts, too.
You do still desperately want to tell everyone else in your life. So you call your mom to share the good news while your partner is in the shower and can’t hear you. Or you walk the dog, just so you can call your friends.
If you are going to a dinner party and you know there will be a guest that your partner does not like, you pull all sorts of tricks to manipulate the seating arrangement so your partner sits nowhere near the offensive person. In fact, you wind up sitting next to them and you don’t even like them. But you wanted to protect your partner.
It sounds a lot simpler than it really is.
Just in case you aren't sure, here are 15 tried and true signs.
“Why do I attract the crazy ones?!?” Ever heard a friend say that? Ever been the one saying that? If so, then you probably regularly have one or a few men texting you who you are delicately trying to give the hint to…go the hell away. Or you have embarrassing displays of gifts arriving at […]