Love Sex & Life

We can all agree that the holiday spirit plus romance can be a blast- nothing short of a surreal experience that captures the essence of receiving and giving out love to our partners. One thing’s sure: couples are up for planning dates to treat themselves to a wonderful time in each other’s company. 

To that end, here are some ideas to make your holiday date nights a memorable experience:

After months and hours of wedding planning, emotional outbursts, and sleepless nights, your big day is finally done and dusted.  However, there are still a few post-wedding things that you need to sort out before settling into the married life. To ensure you are ready to start this journey, here are a few things you should do right after you get married

As couples in love, you may already share the same values. But if you intend to spend the rest of your lives together, you must have some values to ensure a happy and healthy married life.
In this article, we'll explore the qualities couples should inculcate as values.

Money

Money, while often ignored, can easily be a maker and breaker of relationships. If you intend to have a blissful marriage, you must discuss budgeting and savings. Ensure to agree on money ethics and percentages that should be removed for bills and miscellaneous.

Couples are often receptive to ideas that could help them get closer, especially after the euphoria of the wedding ceremony has passed. Now, the effort to maintain that initial attachment and affection will have to double, even triple. 

Scrapbooking provides one of such avenues for newly married couples (and even longstanding couples) to get closer through shared activity, which fosters a bond between people who spend a lot of time together. 

One of the most important things to know when you have a significant other (with whom you most likely see a future) is that communication is important but quite hard to implement. It is always advisable for you both as a couple to practice this seminal angle of your relationship, if only to serve as a litmus test for your compatibility. 

For married couples, having a regular sex life can be affected by many things. If you notice that your sexual activity is not as fun or as active, here's what you should do:

Take It Out Of The Bedroom

If you find your sexual routine boring, try other sexual positions outside of the bedroom. Who says it's only the bedroom that's great for sexual healing?

Many prefer to sit on their couch with a bowl of chips and enjoy a lazy day rather than going on dates because they are afraid their date could go wrong. Take a deep breath; it is not as difficult as you make it to be. Here are 7 ways to avoid all the toe-curling awkwardness;

Books are a great way to amass knowledge and arrive at a higher altitude of understanding than where you may be now. If we read to know more in almost all areas of our life, do we consider marriage to be such a piece of cake that we can afford to wing it every step of the way? 

Reading appropriate books to gain knowledge of the marital journey is not corny and doesn’t mock the compendium of knowledge you have or think you have. Sometimes, unlearning is just as important as learning. 

In this episode, we interview Tunde who's drunken encounter brought him a happily ever after in Funmi.

How Did You Meet Funmi?

“We were sort of friends for a while. I used to buy groceries at her mum's shop and we eventually started dating. She actually did like me a lot and tried to make it obvious. But I pretended. I wasn't up for relationships and so I just ignored all of her green lights.”

While a long-distance marriage may not be the ideal for a lot of couples, a few are open to the idea. It takes two strong people to hold together a long-distance marriage.

Long-distance is much easier to deal with during the dating phase than in marriage as there are higher commitment and more boundaries in the latter. Here are certain things to expect in a long-distance marriage.