The first few years of becoming a parent can be the best years, but it can also be the most trying. This is the point where the strength of the relationship between the married couple will be tested. Becoming a parent is not easy, especially if a couple did not prepare for it. Others carefully plan for it and have little difficulty with starting a family. The first three years will be the most demanding of all the stages in many ways; however, some parents will always remember those years as the best years.

A beautiful Fall season is officially here: a perfect time to find balance in our lifestyle and our body after stressful summer routine as well as to celebrate harmony and harvesting.

1. Try to take care of different areas of your life.

Because we, ladies, are full of emotions stress is always in the air for us. So we have to think and maybe rethink/take care of our relationship issues, career choices, physical activities levels, spirituality.

The answer to the following questions will help you focus on what you need the most right now to eliminate some unnecessary stress:

Google the words "marriage and affair" and you get more than 17 million variations on how to heal. That's because "fidelity in marriage"—which only gets about 3½ million hits—is a hard thing to come by these days.

Big stereotype: women like to talk all the time, and men don't.

Hold on - is this really a stereotype? We think of stereotypes as distorted reality that have only thin shreds of truth. But we also know that stereotypes do indeed bear many truths.

When is it time to go to marriage counseling?

What is cheating?

Is it sex? Or sneaky, sexy emails to an old flame or co-worker? Paying for a lap dance at a strip club? Kissing? Omission of facts - like who was really at the bar when you had drinks with the girls or guys?

What constitutes cheating in a relationship, to you?

In the spirit of money being in the realm of "financial wellness", I am curious about how other families discuss this (sometimes) volatile subject with one another.

A great personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Opdyke, writes about "Love & Money", discussing his financial highs and lows, and the impact finances (and talking--or not--about them) have on a relationship.

His last column can be read here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12207529...

By:Dr. Sue Johnson/DivineCaroline

Sex often draws us into a relationship and then helps keep it alive. But what is “good” sex?

If you look at the images that bombard us every day from magazines and movies, good sex is instantaneous, totally mutual, cataclysmic, and is best at the very beginning of a relationship.

It doesn’t matter whether you are in a serious relationship, planning on getting married, or have been married for years, trust is one of the pillars of a healthy relationship. If trust does not exist between the two parties, there is very little chance the relationship will go very far. A relationship without trust can usually only mean one thing; separation. For anyone who believes that they might be in a relationship threatened by lack of trust, it is probably time to think about consulting a couple’s online therapist, or a couple’s online counselor.

Dr. Goldstein explains why sexual health is such a frustrating subject to discuss. Dr. Irwin Goldstein has authored more than 325 publications in the field of sexual dysfunction, with 20 consecutive years of funding by the National Institutes of Health in this area. He is Editor-in Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine.