“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need…” That Rolling Stones refrain is playing in my head repeatedly of late and it seems clear that this is as true a love song as I have ever known. Although I would never have thought it in my [...]
Waiting for the Spring by Wendy Strgar
May 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The goal of making a relationship sustainable should not just be to stay, but rather, to find and cultivate the places in the relationship that are worth staying for. Re-imagining your commitment into a healthy curiosity about the mystery of the other person and allowing for the ebb and flow of intimacy that is a [...]
A Conversation Without Words by Wendy Strgar
March 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I have many friends who not only rarely sleep with their husbands, they can’t even talk about it. I would go even further and suggest that most of their conversations probably move them further away from intimacy than towards it. Connecting with our verbal language has it’s limits- especially since men and women, don’t just [...]
Making Love Sustainable Part 7 by Wendy Strgar
February 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert Sometimes we give up one kind of balance for another. Our work lives take over our personal life, new families take over old exercise routines, and sometimes our love life can take over all of it. Losing our balance [...]
Making Love Sustainable Part 5 by Wendy Strgar
December 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo Serious scientific inquiry has proven this quote to be true. By all measures of health and well being, the single most significant predictor of life time happiness and longevity [...]
Making Love Sustainable through the Holidays by Wendy Strgar
December 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Instead of shopping or going to another party – make time for intimacy. Create a gentle and tender space where both partners can feel safe, loved and accepted for what they are able to bring to the partnership. This might be an evening of hot cocoa and an old movie. Maybe it is a walk [...]
Making Love Sustainable Part 4 by Wendy Strgar
November 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The fire has always been a strong metaphor for the depth, passion and intensity of physical intimacy. It is nature’s energetic equivalent to our sexuality. Fire is the energy of life, providing light, heat and the ability to transform the physical world. Fire in intimacy is the force of attraction that keeps relationships dynamic and [...]
Making Love Sustainable Part 3 by Wendy Strgar
October 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I am in the business of love. My business Good Clean Fun manufactures and sells all natural love products and during the course of marketing and selling our products, I have become an educator on our tag line of Making Love Sustainable. I have been called a loveologist by some of our customers. My story [...]
Planning Love Dates by Wendy Strgar
September 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Planning love dates can add excitement to the rest of the week. Looking forward to an intimate time which can but doesn’t have to include full on sex can be both relaxing and stimulating. Couples that are struggling to find physical connection may find it easier to agree to mutual massages than envisioning hours of [...]
