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No ‘room’ for love

Love and relationships
Aaradhya*, a 30-year-old Delhi professor, reminisces about how she had to lie to her parents to spend some ‘exclusive’ time with her partner. However it wasn’t a choice she made willingly.

So what’s your cheat limit?

Love and relationships
There is no ‘definition’ of cheating. You can consider it a scale, with people believing some things are more damaging than others. Is it a physical act like lovemaking or more of an emotional loss of faith? Everyone has their lakshmanrekha. We ask people what’s theirs!

Your partner checks someone out: what it really means!

Love and relationships
Do you think your partner’s checking out that guy or girl? Instead, you could be the one with the wandering eye, according to recent research.

The five kinds of unrequited love

Relationship problems
Why do we pine for people who don’t love us back? Science reveals the five types of unrequited love, and how they compare to the real deal.

My husband is a sex addict. Help!

Love and relationships
My husband is a sex addict and asks me to do acts that also hurt me physically. I am unable to talk to anyone about this. What should I do? ABC from XYZ.

Do Indian men not understand consent?

Love and relationships
People have different explanations for the word consent and it is often brought up, and rightly so, in talks about abuse, sexual harassment and rape. Consent is not restrictive of gender roles. But, men often get the rap for not clearly understanding what can be termed as consensual and what cannot. We asked a few men for their thoughts on the definition of the word and how it relates to their lives. Here’s what they say.

How one night with another man brought me close to my love

Love and relationships
Harsha spent a night with Karan and it brought her closer to Udit. Read on to find out how a night of simple pleasures helped Harsha strengthen a faltering long-distance relationship.

Circumcision: the hidden sex problems

Relationship problems
“Sex is a thing of the past,” a Love Matters reader commented. He blames his sex problems on circumcision. Circumcised men and their partners have more orgasm trouble. It’s a hidden complication for cut men, says Dutch expert Gert van Dijk.