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When Children Get Caught in Divorce - About Parental Alienation
Parental alienation happens when one parent manipulates, consciously or not, the child(ren) to reject the other parent, despite there being no reason to. Parental alienation is child abuse!
Oberdan Marianetti
Oct 23, 20254 min read


Understanding Yourself is a Key to Lasting Relationships But How Much Self-Work is Enough Before Entering a Relationship?
What is the key to lasting relationships?
Understanding our triggers, emotional baggage, preferences, family conditioning, and inner narratives is crucial for a healthy connection.
The more we understand and manage ourselves, the more likely we are to build stronger, more fulfilling relationships. But here’s the nuance I would like to bring into the conversation: when are we ever truly “ready”?
Oberdan Marianetti
May 5, 20253 min read


Evolving Intimacy: The Key to Your Relationship
What if the key to reigniting your relationship isn't trying to recreate the past, but learning how to evolve your intimacy with time?
Oberdan Marianetti
Apr 16, 20253 min read


Intimacy Levels at Different Relationship Stages
Healthy relationships are born when two healthy, balanced adults come together.
Oberdan Marianetti
Apr 8, 20252 min read


Do Men and Women Experience Intimacy Differently?
While men and women may express their needs differently on the surface, both engage in sex to fulfil emotional and physical needs.
Oberdan Marianetti
Mar 24, 20252 min read


Overcoming The Biggest Challenges Couples Face
One the biggest challenges I see couples face is the misunderstanding and differing expectations around what it means to be in a healthy rel
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 25, 20252 min read


Understanding the Fear of Intimacy
Being intimate involves opening up and sharing parts of ourselves that are delicate, fragile, and would cause great pain.
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 18, 20252 min read


Understanding Intimacy (I)
People often associate intimacy with physical closeness, but it is much more than that.
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 11, 20252 min read


A Little Boy and a Little Girl - Relationships Stories
So much fear! So much shame!! So much pain!!! “Life is so simple A little boy, a little girl Laughing and loving Tryin' to figure out...
Oberdan Marianetti
Aug 8, 20244 min read


The Changing Face of Love
What has been around since time immemorial and yet continues to be analysed, scrutinised, and debated? The article "The Changing Face of...
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 14, 20241 min read


Relationships Series - Your Relationship Palace
Intimate, adult relationships are built one day at the time, one tiny gesture at the time. Yes, the big gifts, gestures and experiences add value too, but nothing reaches deep, as deep as daily gestures of love, compassion, empathy and consideration do.
Oberdan Marianetti
Aug 17, 20232 min read


Relationships Series - Your Best Adversary
The common view is that a good relationship is a harmonious one. On balance, yes, we do want an intimate relationship to overall be one of harmony, growth, collaboration, companionship, intimacy, support and love. However, we all enter relationships with baggage.
Oberdan Marianetti
May 30, 20232 min read


Relationships Series - Conflict
Contrary to popular belief, healthy relationships require conflict.
Sadly, the word ‘conflict’ comes laden with negative connotations.
It is important, however, that we expand our understanding of this concept and include within it the idea that conflict is also natural, ‘being in opposition’ or ‘coming into disagreement’ about the natural differences we encounter in everyday life.
Oberdan Marianetti
Apr 18, 20234 min read


Focus on your relationship, and rediscover amazing physical intimacy
When the relationship is "broken" sex suffers
Oberdan Marianetti
Jun 10, 20185 min read


How To Choose A Vibrator
Download the high-res infographic on how to choose a vibrator.
Oberdan Marianetti
Mar 20, 20181 min read


Some Suggestions for Tiger Parents
This article will address a typically Asian phenomenon, 'tiger parenting', however, it is my experience that people from the West are...
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 27, 20187 min read


Older People Want and Enjoy It Too
The two articles published by the BBC this week (see below) are a good reminder of yet another dialogue we are not having: sex in the latter years of life.
Let's remember that we have the potential to be sexual until the end of our days. Needs change with age and we can do more to educate people to healthily enjoy their partnerships and sexual activities, no matter the age.
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 15, 20181 min read


Choose Your Life Purpose From Within You
It takes courage to sit still for a moment and look within... really look within.
Only few are willing to take a moment of pause and look at that part of us that we know is there, is suffering, is calling for attention, but that it is too painful to intentionally look at.
And yet, it is from those moments, and by looking in the abyss, that we often emerge renewed...
Oberdan Marianetti
Feb 14, 20173 min read


Reignite Your Passion (Ask Me Anything Series)
Readers asked, “We are married for a long time and have no more passion. How can we reignite our passion?”
Oberdan Marianetti
Dec 21, 20164 min read


How to be even better in bed
Men and women alike often lack the information that is sufficient to build healthy, reasonable expectations about sex and end up stressed and dissatisfied with their sex lives.
Oberdan Marianetti
Jul 19, 20163 min read
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