According to recent research, regular sex can make you look and feel healthier. How so you ask? Well, when you’re getting it on with your guy or girl, your body releases a chemical the brain that helps to reduce stress and anxiety. As well, it also produces chemicals that create stronger feelings of affection between couples, burns off more than 100 calories per hour, and stimulates growth hormones that reduce fatty issue and increases lean muscle. How’s that for a good excuse to have sex?

When it comes time that you need to get you girlfriend or wife a gift for her birthday, anniversary, holiday, or any random occasion, don’t wait until the last minute and get her any old thing just to have something to give her. I know I speak for a lot of women when I say that it is not the gift necessarily that matters, but rather, the thought behind it.

I’ve gotten all kinds of gifts from boyfriends over the years, and my most favorite gifts haven’t necessarily been the most expensive ones. The ones that I treasured the most, the ones that made me go “awww..”, were the ones that were clearly given with my personality, tastes, etc. in mind, and weren’t thrown together at the last minute.

Amongst the lamest gifts that you can give your significant other is a wad of cash or your credit card. Hello, she can go out any day she wants and buy herself whatever it is that she wants. Giving her cash is like saying “I don’t know what the heck to get you, and I’m not going to waste my time trying to figure it out.” If you’re going to give cash, you might as well not give anything at all.
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The question of whether office romances are harmless or harmful is a tricky one to answer. My answer would be that it really depends on the individual circumstances. It’s a very common occurance for co-workers to start dating, with a recent study by the Society for Human Resource Management finding that nearly 40% of workers had had an office romance.

I guess I would fall into the 40% category, having worked at the same place of employment as my current boyfriend, although I knew him before I started working there. We always kept things strictly professional and friendly at work, and never crossed the line with risky behavior on the job. The institution was large enough that we didn’t really work in the same building either. But we also never denied the fact that we were dating. While I was employed there, I also knew of a number of other office romances going on. It seemed that some people were able to remain professional, while others just could not help themselves and ventured into some dangerous grounds.

The formation of inter-office romances is inevitable as men and women continue to spend long periods of time together. It’s only natural that different kinds of relationships will be formed, such as friendships, romantic relationships, and so on. The workplace is a great place for men and women to meet other people who share similar goals and interests, however, office romances can sometimes spell disaster for the company.

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No, I don’t mean settled as in you’ve settled down, calmed, made babies and so on. The kind of settling that I am talking about is the kind where you have settled on being with someone who is less that what you really want. There are basically two kinds of dating people. There are those that are content while single and look at a relationship as a nice bonus, and then there are those that are not happy being single and long to be in a relationship, any relationship.

Settling is a mistake. If you are so sick of the dating game and finding “Mr. Right” or “Mrs. Right”, that you give up and stick with someone who is less than what you really want, you’re doing yourself a real disservice. If you tell yourself something long enough, you might start to believe it. But if the relationship or person you’ve settled on isn’t giving you the satisfaction that you need, you’ll only end up hurting yourself, and eventually the other person. Giving up on finding the person that you’ll truly love and be passionate about closes off the opportunity of you finding that truly special someone, and may instead leave you with a lifetime of heartache.