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Roses. Chocolates. Champagne. A candle lit dinner. These are the go-to hackneyed purchases that have been suggested year after year as material cures for relationship woes. Red roses have been a universal symbol of love since at least the 1800′s. Shakespeare had a fondness for roses, which he displayed in Romeo and Juliet, so it’s [...]

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Courtesy: dexknows.com You may live with your significant other, but how much do you actually speak to them face-to-face? A recent study by esure home insurance found that one in ten Brits spend more time talking to their partner by phone or email than they do in person. When I first heard those statistics I [...]

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Courtesy: glamour.com I love to cook, and my strong desire to try new recipes combined with the fact I work from home, has made me the primary preparer of food in our house. But this doesn’t mean my significant other shies away from the stove. In fact, given the chance, he loves to roll up [...]

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Courtesy: intimacyforcouples.com Living with someone you love doesn’t mean you need to see them every waking minute. Sometimes you just need your own space, which is what recently fed my desire for an office. Sure, prior to making space for one, my only options were computing from the couch, or while crammed into a corner [...]

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Courtesy: scform.com What have you done for your relationship lately? This is a question that those of us at Tokii have been asking ourselves a lot lately, since Tokii is all about helping you do more for your relationship. We posed the question to our team, and now we’re asking you. We want to know [...]

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Is there a subject you and your partner tend to pass on? Maybe talking about where to spend the holidays always creates tension so it’s avoided until the last possible moment. And then it’s not pretty. It could be there’s a change you want to make, but you’re stuck on how to bring up the [...]

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Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D., a retired environmental physicist, lives in southern New York State with his beloved wife, Ting Su Cooper, a former editor at the Encyclopedia Britannica and mother of two. Ting is the central figure in Dr. Cooper’s book, Ting and I: A Memoir of Love, Courage, and Devotion, available from Amazon. Barnes [...]

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Join us for Tokii Tales, stories of love, partnership, happy endings and sad endings. Please send me your stories. We may be able to use them, we’ll seek out experts to share their feedback with you and the rest of the Tokii community, so together we all learn and grow. If you have something to [...]

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When it comes to romantic gifts and holidays like Valentine’s Day, I tend to shy away from the traditional stuff like chocolates, flowers, or plush toys. These things simply don’t do much to make me feel like my relationship is on solid ground. But it seems during that time stores are overflowing with pink and [...]

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Vacationing together – unless you’re somewhere with multiple swim-up bars and fruity cocktails featuring miniature umbrellas – isn’t all romantic walks on the beach. My boyfriend, Mike and I love to travel. We started going on extended vacations a few years ago (4-6 weeks away) and in a lot of ways it’s great, but travelling [...]

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