The life cycle of a relationship is different for everyone, but most of us can relate to the feeling that a relationship has stalled.
Whether it's due to deeply cut emotional wounds or simply the feeling that you're growing apart, it's helpful to have a roadmap for how to break up in a way that is compassionate and clear to the other person.
If you're considering a breakup, these are the five major steps that you are likely to encounter as you move through the process.
Whether you’re with a potential one-night stand or a person you’ve been dating for a while, initiating sex can still be tricky. Even when you feel that the moves you’re putting on someone will be well-received, it’s sometimes unclear how to actually make the first move without sounding awkward, pressuring someone, or risking rejection. (A word to the wise, though: Rejection isn’t the end of the world!)
At its best, shunga celebrates the pleasures of lovemaking, in beautiful pictures that present mutual attraction and sexual desire as natural and unaffected.