“When a relationship matures, sex matures. You now have the advantage of knowing each other well. Fear of rejection is replaced with trust and security. This allows you to move into a stage of experimentation and mutual growth. You can take the time to fine-tune your skills as a lover.”— HealthyPlace Staff, healthyplace.com
“When you feel comfortable enough to ask a partner to grab some tampons for you while making a grocery run, you're likely capable of letting them know it makes you see major orgasm-sparkles when they do that thing, right there. In the same vein, they should indulge in the same kind of honesty. And gu…”— Beca Grimm, bustle.com
“As distinct from mere sex, love-making dissolves the chasm between ‘you’ and ‘me.’ The resolution, however, is not ‘us’ because ‘we’ can still be divided. Instead, in love-making there is the mutual consciousness of unbounded unity without partition...In making love, your loins are mine, and mine yo…”— Elliot D. Cohen Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“An emotional connection sparks more fire. Making love trumps fucking every time because of how emotionally charged it is. Being able to stare deeply into his eyes while he enters you connects you in a way that’s inexplicable and unlike anything else.”— Angelica Bottaro, thebolde.com
“He knows the one thing he can whisper in your ear that is basically all the foreplay you need. I call this compliment foreplay™, and it is guaranteed to get you wet. (Although I guess you don't need help with that since you're a puddle.) (Is this article just tips for sexy puddles now?) (Where am I?…”— Emma Barker, cosmopolitan.com
“He knows exactly what you like because he's made the effort to learn your body. He has a very particular set of skills, and he will look for your clitoris, he will find your clitoris, and he will make your clitoris orgasm.”— Emma Barker, cosmopolitan.com
“Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“I would also like to tell the world that animals love. There's not an animal on this planet that will copulate with anything that comes along. Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. Unless you're stuck in a laboratory cage -- and you know, if you spend your entire life in…”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“It has all of the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person. And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction: tolerance, you need to see them more,…”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've…”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“Around the world, people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They tell myths and legends about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love.”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.”— José N. Harris, amazon.com
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com