The Rebound Relationship: Good or Bad?
Mr. Right Now is never going to replace Mr. Perfect… Rebound relationships are common and always will be so long as love exists, which is forever. Casual hookups happen all the time in the gay community. When we’re going through a breakup, our smart phones are waiting for us to…
12 Powerful Habits of Happy Gay Couples
Habits can have a powerful impact in your relationship. The definition of a habit is: “a consistent and regular pattern of behavior”. You can either create positive habits or negative habits, and once you start practicing them, they will eventually become an act that is unconscious. When it comes to…
Selfish Lovers and Unsatisfied Partners
You love your boyfriend more than anything and can’t imagine life without him. Things are generally good between you…except when it comes to sex. You hate to admit it, but it’s just not satisfying to you. He’s a bit selfish in bed, wanting you to do all of the work to…
Don’t Be The Crazy Ex: 8 Things to Avoid Doing After a Break Up
Regardless of the circumstances, breaking up with your boyfriend is NEVER fun. Dealing with the emotions is hard enough, but the last thing you want are people talking about how you’re obsessed with your ex and how sad it is. It’s easy to fall into that role of the crazy…
Starting Over: Falling In Love Again
It’s hard to accept when a relationship has ended, and it’s even harder to let someone go. In the fall of 2014, I had broken up with my boyfriend of seven years, and after months of solitude and grief, I was convinced that I was incapable of falling in love…
Catching a Cheating Boyfriend
Recently, I met this guy through a dating app (my first mistake), who seemed to be this incredible guy. Down to earth, good sense of humor, and not to mention he was extremely gorgeous. Our first encounter together involved him visiting my work, California Pizza Kitchen, with one of his…
5 Tips to End a Relationship with Grace
You’ve come to the end of the road. You’ve dated, muttered sweet nothings into each other’s ears and sketched out the possibilities for a future together. Now your vision for the future does not include him anymore — you see a future with someone else. You feel bad about it, but the…
10 Proven Ways to Please Your Man in Bed Tonight
Love and sex is what most of us strive to have in life, but when you’re in a long-term relationship it has the potential of becoming business instead of pleasure. If you’re not careful, sex can turn into a job. To please your man you need to keep him engaged…
6 Relationship Stages Every Gay Couple Goes Through
Life is all about development, evolution and progression, and as we go through this maturation process, there are often typical stages we experience as we continue to grow. For example, you will likely recall you went through certain stages and phases of identity development as you came out to yourself as…
Gay Relationships: Handling Partner Emergencies
Sometimes events overtake us. Whether it is an out-of-the-blue surprise like the exposing of an affair or the accumulated discontent that comes from neglecting the health of a relationship, we are suddenly facing a confrontation. Something has changed so much that one partner or the other is no longer certain…
Top vs Bottom: How Important Is Your Sex Role?
In my years of dating, I’ve managed to come across countless of gay men who wear their sex position on display. Dating is hard enough, but for LGBT men it can get a bit more complicated when the entire focus is on sex. Top, bottom, versatile becomes need-to-know information in…
Running Your Own Relationship Pow-Wow
Let’s face it–life can be pretty darn hectic sometimes! Juggling all those commitments and trying to balance the roles and responsibilities you have can be quite challenging, and the one area of your life that can take the biggest hit is your relationship. It can be so easy to take…