Love & Marriage

• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy - AAMFT offers a guide to finding and choosing marriage and family therapists.
  
• Life Transitions - AARP Webplace - Facing major life changes may be a little easier with this advice from the American Association of Retired Persons.
  
• divorcesource.com - Contains alimony, child custody and child-support information. Consult the state-by-state breakdown of resources, or get advice in the forums.
  
• Sexuality.org - Society for Human Sexuality provides an extensive collection of educational materials. Includes interviews, how-tos and reviews.
  
• WedServ - Download free software to help with all of the arrangements, and set up a free homepage that friends and family can visit.
  
• Online Guide For Effective Living - Learn how to heal hurt, end conflict and restore love in difficult relationships. By Bill Ferguson, as featured on Oprah.
  
• What Men Want - Companion site to the book entitled "What Men Want" provides chatrooms, discussion groups, a survey and book reviews.
  
• Counseling
• Marriage Builders - Couple Counseling - Rebuild a marriage and deal with unresolved conflicts. Peruse the marriage counselor's advice column.
  
• Worldwide Marriage Encounter - Couple Counseling - Weekend seminars are aimed at giving couples communications skills to enrich their marriages. Program has a spiritual focus.
  
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy - AAMFT offers a guide to finding and choosing marriage and family therapists.
  
• Characteristics of Codependency - Couple Counseling - Lists 21 characteristics for recognizing those who have low self-esteem, and whose lives and values are dependent on others.
  
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America - National resource for PPFA, a pro-choice family planning organization covering sexual and reproductive health.
  
• Teen Help - Contains support and a hotline for families with teen challenges, such as truancy, drug and alcohol use, suicide, runaways and pregnancy.
  
• MFT Info Link - Couple Counseling - Directory of marriage and family therapy resources includes a consumer's guide for those considering therapy.
  
• DivorceCare - Support network has help resources, a bookstore and an index of support groups.
  
• Psych Web - Index of Web resources that deal with coping with bereavement, suicide, and emotional trauma.
  
• Divorce Support Page, The - Provides legal advice and information regarding support groups, child custody, books and religion.
  
• After the Affair - Couple Counseling - Find information to help in the aftermath of an affair. With a link to a discussion group.
  
• Bright Ideas for Better Living - Couple Counseling - Provides relationship-growth, life-planning, and fulfillment advice. Information is available in a book or a video.
  
• So Dai Ho Psychotherapy - Focuses on the integration of Taoism and psychotherapy. Find out about on-site and online assessment and counseling services.
  
• Marriage Survival Guide - Couple Counseling - From affairs to in-laws, find tips and advice for keeping a marriage healthy and happy.
  
• IAMFC - Couple Counseling - Meeting place for members of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, and those with an interest.
  
• Online Guide for Effective Living - Learn how to heal hurt, end conflict and restore love in difficult relationships. By Bill Ferguson, as featured on Oprah.
  
• Melissa's Therapy FAQ - Find out the why, where and how of going to a therapist. Includes links and a bio of the author.
  
• PENN Council for Relationships - Couple Counseling - Pennsylvania-based clinical, training and research center specializes in therapy treatment for couples, relationships, families and sex.
  
• Taller Women and Shorter Men - Couple Counseling - Designed for couples in which the man is shorter than the woman. With personals, a message board and photos.
  
• Pacific Skills Training Co. - Couple Counseling - Conducts relationship, anger and conflict workshops. Includes a couples seminar for stopping marital arguments, fights and destructive anger.
  
• Therapy, Counseling, Psychotherapy - Couple Counseling - Read the newsletter, check out a FAQ, and contact the therapist by email for marriage and relationship counseling and related concerns.
  
• Relationship Survival Guide - Couple Counseling - Collection of brief articles put together by a couple wanting to share what they've learned in surviving a tumultuous relationship.
  
• PsychNet-UK - Designed for mental-health professionals and consumers. Find clinical psychology resources.
  
• Center for Growth and Relationships, A - Carol Anderson, an advanced clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy, describes how she helps people examine phobias, relationships and traumas.
  
• Marriage Counseling - Dr. Martin helps couples improve communications and look for "win-win" solutions.
  
• Royal Path of Life, The - Courtship and Marriage - Read courtship advice from an 1800s book of virtues. With newspaper stories and quotes by educators, clergy, rabbis, priests and politicians.
  
• Life Partners - Couple Counseling - Enhance romantic relationships through reeducation via the Relationship Fitness Kit. Also, find articles and intimacy-product information.
  
• Anger Management - Couple Counseling - Defuse anger that sabotages relationships by attending seminars put on by Lorel Lindstom and Shari Kirkland. With facts about anger and couples.
  
• Relate Centre - Couple Counseling - Read about the 112 Relate Centres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that help couples through their relationship problems.
  
• On-Line Interactive Counseling - Therapist offers online counseling. Learn about the question-and-answer service, and browse links and self-help manuals.
  
• Baptist Marriage Encounter - Couple Counseling - Spend a weekend in Canada to learn to communicate and share in new ways with one another.
  
• Marriage and Family Health Center - Couple Counseling - Learn how to rekindle a marriage, keep the spark alive, or know when it has gone out.
  
• Marriage Encounter - Couple Counseling - Read about how to enroll, what the programs is, where the encounters are held, and how they can help a marriage.
  
• Pairs International - Couple Counseling - Check out the exercises and articles focusing on cooperation and partnership.
  
• Fighting for Your Marriage - Couple Counseling - Follow this course to a happier marriage. Explore couples workshops, or take a relationship quiz.
  
• Taking a Break - Couple Counseling - Article tells the story of a couple taking a four-day break from one another. Author shares some of the insights he gained on their relationship.
  
• Lost and Found - Couple Counseling - Article aims to help couples rediscover why they got married in the first place.
  
• Impasse - Couple Counseling - Read this article aimed at helping couples work through differences.
  
• Imago Institute for Relationship Therapy - Visit the Institute and learn about the theories and practices of Imago therapy. Focuses on intentional dialog, and healing wounds.
• Activities to Strengthen a Marriage - Couple Counseling - Try these exercises as a couple and re-remember how to communicate and show love to one another.
  
• Lost and Found - Couple Counseling - Article aims to help couples rediscover why they got married in the first place.
  
• Impasse - Couple Counseling - Read this article aimed at helping couples work through differences.
  
• Activities to Strengthen a Marriage - Couple Counseling - Try these exercises as a couple and re-remember how to communicate and show love to one another.
  
• Taking a Break - Couple Counseling - Article tells the story of a couple taking a four-day break from one another. Author shares some of the insights he gained on their relationship.
  
• Conflict Management - Couple Counseling - Read this article about dealing with small conflicts before they become big rifts between couples.
  
• Making Your Marriage Work - Couple Counseling - Find ways to be the best partner possible. Article suggests being supportive, optimistic, complimentary, and developing sexual skills.
  
• Getting Along - Couple Counseling - Dispenses advice for laying arguments to rest and getting along with a spouse.
  
• Jewish Marriage Encounter - Couple Counseling - Strengthen a marriage and reestablish love for one another by spending a weekend isolated, learning how to enjoy one another.
  
• Competent Couples - Couple Counseling - Offers sessions and group classes focused on marriage counseling, therapy, communication, relationship skills, intimacy and psychotherapy.
  
• Arguing is not Always Bad - Couple Counseling - Find out how conflict can strengthen a marriage, and learn to turn disagreements into devotion.
  
• Changes In Your Life
• How Baby Changes Your Relationship - Leaflet on how becoming a parent affects you individually and as a couple. Follow links to father-related sites.
  
• After the Affair - Information to help in the aftermath of an affair. With a link to discussion group.
  
• Menopause: Another Change in Life - Information and advice from Planned Parenthood for what could be one of the most rewarding and enriching times of your life.
  
• Life Transitions - AARP Webplace - Facing major life changes may be a little easier with this advice from the American Association of Retired Persons.
  
• Relationship Survival Guide - Collection of brief articles put together by a couple wanting to share what they've learned in surviving a tumultuous relationship.
  
• Flying Solo - Resources for anyone isolated, especially after having been divorced or separated. Includes legal and financial advice.
  
• LifeMatters Magazine - Magazine style health advice from a group of marriage, health and child counselors, which focuses on the link between health and the emotions.
  
• Transitions Outreach, Inc. - A non profit corporation dedicated to helping individuals who are learning to live with a loss in their lives.
  
• Anthony Robbins Personal Power II Cassettes - Motivational expert Anthony Robbins offers a personal growth program designed to help reach goals, boost confidence and build wealth.
  
• Wedding
• Alternative Lifestyle Ceremonies - Marriages, commitments, renewal of vows and holy unions. Las Vegas weddings for gay and lesbian couples, with honeymoon packages available.
  
• Ultimate Internet Wedding Guide - Find the necessary resources to plan a wedding, including travel arrangements, disc jockeys and a store that sells related products.
  
• Bridal Show Online - National wedding directory offers links to vendors, gift registries and advice boards.
  
• Day To Remember, A - Utilize the bridal consultant or honeymoons section to get ideas for a wedding. Includes a business directory and a bridal show listing.
  
• AllWedding.com - Section for couples offers a list of services and tips as well as a registration tool. Business professionals can register their businesses.
  
• Weddings Online - Locate wedding services and vendors by going through the categorized listings with links all over the US.
  
• Wedding World - Comprehensive resource offers directories by state, a gift registry, wedding articles and coupons.
  
• Bride and Groom Magazine - Wedding magazine concentrates on advertising and business opportunities for various wedding service providers.
  
• LookSmart Weddings Center - Find help planning a wedding with this guide to bridal services. Connect to a budget planner, honeymoon travel advice and gift registries.
  
• Sex & Intemacy
• safersex.org - Learn about what is safer and what's riskier sex, and find out how to talk to a partner about safer sex.
  
• For Men Only - Includes sexual-health information and extracts from the book "Sex: A Man's Guide," from Men's Health Books. With ordering details.
  
• Sexscape.Org - Sexual-health educator offers arousal, aging, orgasm and other sexual health topics. Send questions for consideration.
  
• Sexual Health InfoCenter - Find comprehensive sexual-health and sexuality advice. Includes lovemaking, a safer-sex guide and an overview of sexuality and aging.
  
• Sexuality.org - Society for Human Sexuality provides an extensive collection of educational materials. Includes interviews, how-tos and reviews.
  
• Ask NOAH About: Sexuality - New York Online Access to Health's sex-education resource includes advice for teens, and coverage of condoms, contraception and sexual identity.
  
• ThirdAge - Sex - Learn tips and tricks for keeping sexual fires burning bright throughout life's later years. Topics include Tantric sex and marriage vitality.
  
• Anal Pleasure and Health - A Guide for Men and Women - Spotlights this guide by Jack Morin, Ph.D. Access bookstore and publisher information as well as book prices and related links.
  
• Society for Human Sexuality - Ten Rules of Anal Sex - Author of Anal Sex and Health offers this list with information regarding anal intercourse. Read Jack Morin's views on anal sex, diet and orgasm.
  
• Anal Intercourse - Offers a tutorial on how to safely and comfortably have anal sex as well as information on rimming, positions, postillioning and anal eroticism.
  

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Last Update: May 17, 2001