Sex, Dating and Singles
by Chrissie Manby I was really looking forward to getting this book-the premise is...
According to a recent study, the happiest and longest marriages are made when three...
I sometimes forget that this website started from my book Eighty Eight Dates. It...
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My brother got me onto Ecostore products years ago, and they’ve been a regular...
I have hair that is temperamental and tricky. I measure my good hair days as opposed...
RIGHT Last year we planned a regular road test giveway and it failed miserably. Seems...
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Couples, Families and Relationships
Are you bending over backwards to help others solve their problems?One of the most common questions I get asked is how to somehow control the reaction of another person so that they don’t over react, do anything stupid, or act in anyway that is embarrassing. My very simple answer is to stop worrying about it because they are not your problem.... [Read more of this review]
What’s keeping you awake at night? At the moment for me it’s the fact just as I’m starting to sleep a mosquito starts to buzz near my ear. But at other times it’s been financial worries, relationship issues and of course as a mother- my kids. David Bogan has written a great book on the stresses that can stop you from sleeping... [Read more of this review]
Before we go much further I need to make a confession. This blog is called how to buy your wife a sex toy but actually it’s MORE about how to NOT buy your wife a sex toy. I’m currently giving away a vibrator to someone who is prepared to comment on how they found it, in association with D.vice . In my post I think I make it reasonably clear... [Read more of this review]
So it’s Valentine’s Day next week and all over Ponsonby—and maybe a couple of other parts of New Zealand, even—Kiwi men will be googling bargain bouquets of roses, best Champagne buys and last-minute motel rooms. Yes, competition is hotting up and it’s time to face up to a sad commercial truth: our long-established, strong-silent-type routine... [Read more of this review]
One of the things men don’t get about Valentines is that women do like something to happen on it if you’re in a relationship with them. They might say they don’t. But what they are REALLY saying is “Make it heart felt, and fitting to me and something that fits us.” It’s one of those “How well do you actually... [Read more of this review]
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