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Losing an erection during sex can bring up anxiety, frustration, and questions about your health or relationship. Drawing on her experience in sex therapy, Connie Salinas explains the physical and emotional factors that can affect erections, how performance pressure develops, and what may help you regain confidence.

Thinking about ending a relationship does not always mean you want to leave. Ana Laura Gracida explores how to distinguish a difficult period from deeper incompatibility, offering ten reflective questions to help you understand what you want and whether you feel free to choose.

Not wanting sex doesn't automatically mean something is wrong. Sex therapist Maru Reynaga explores how sexual desire can be shaped by personal experiences, cultural expectations, health, and relationship dynamics. Sometimes the question isn't how to want more sex, but whether that desire is something you want for yourself.

Pain during sex is not something you have to endure. Drawing on her clinical experience, sex therapist Connie Salinas explains why sex can hurt, when to seek professional care, and how to explore intimacy in ways that feel safer, more comfortable, and free from pressure.

Taking a break during a heated argument can protect your relationship, but only if you know how to come back. Drawing on my clinical experience, I explore the mistakes couples often make when using timeouts, why emotional withdrawal can become a problem, and how to reconnect after conflict.

Sometimes you still share a home, a bed, and a daily routine, yet somehow feel far apart. Emotional connection can fade quietly. Rebuilding it begins with understanding what connection means to each of you now.

Finding an LGBTQ+ affirming therapist should not require you to defend or explain who you are. Learn what affirming care looks like, which red flags to notice, and how therapy can support identity exploration or coming out at your own pace.

Relationship problems are part of every relationship. What matters is how couples talk about conflict, make space for connection, navigate intimacy, and know when to pause so they can come back to the conversation with more care.

Criticism often carries an emotion or unmet need that has not found a clearer way to be expressed. Learn how to distinguish criticism from a complaint, understand what may be underneath it, and interrupt the criticism-defensiveness cycle.

Mental load is more than doing chores. It is the invisible work of noticing, planning, remembering, and following through. When one partner carries most of it, resentment, exhaustion, disconnection, and changes in sexual desire can follow.

You do not have to wait until your relationship is close to breaking apart to ask for help. Repeated conflict, emotional distance, communication struggles, or changes in intimacy may be signs that it is time to look more closely at what is happening between you.

Can you really heal after a breakup? Learn how to cope with grief, rebuild your identity, work through guilt, reconnect with yourself, and know when it may be time to seek professional support.

What does an open relationship really mean, and how does it work? Learn about boundaries, jealousy, consent, polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, and the conversations couples should have before opening their relationship.

Learn how couples can recover from criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling through emotional regulation, responsibility, and genuine repair.

Learn how moving beyond penetration-centered sex can reduce performance pressure, expand pleasure, improve sexual communication, and strengthen emotional and erotic intimacy in your relationship.

Learn how porn use can affect sexual desire, arousal, masturbation, intimacy, and relationships, which signs may point to a problem, and when sex therapy may help.

What happens when you want more sex, sex toys, a sex club, or an open relationship and your partner does not? Learn how to distinguish negotiable desires, firm boundaries, and true sexual incompatibility without pressure or self-betrayal.

Sexual performance anxiety can affect desire, arousal, erection, lubrication, orgasm, and connection. Learn why it happens and how couples can respond with care.

Wondering why you ejaculate too quickly? Learn the most common emotional and psychological causes of premature ejaculation and what actually helps from a certified sex therapist.

Do men have more sexual desire than women? Learn how libido, spontaneous desire, and responsive desire work in couples, with less shame and pressure around sex.