twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

  • Gay or Straight Marriage: Love is Love
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Gay or Straight Marriage: Love is Love

    The subject of gay marriage has been a hot topic ever since California first permitted gay and lesbian couples to have the same right to marriage as heterosexual ones. Everyone has an opinion on the subject from “to each his/her own” to total outrage at the mere mention of homosexual unions.

  • Republican Relationship: God, Guns and Gays?
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Republican Relationship: God, Guns and Gays?

    Are we to believe that the majority of the people in this country are more concerned with whether or not everyone believes in God than in the deplorable state of our union? Do people really believe that allowing two Gay people to marry is putting our country at risk, and if so, what risk?

  • Re-Entering the Dating Game
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Re-Entering the Dating Game

    Now is a good time to think about what you want out of a new relationship. Be completely honest about this. Decide what you want a new person to bring to the relationship table and what you are willing to bring.

  • Why He Won’t Commit to a Serious Relationship
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Why He Won’t Commit to a Serious Relationship

    He absolutely will not commit to a serious relationship no matter how much you desire it. Any conversation about it is closed before it is begun. He’s what is called a “commitment-phobe”.

  • Try an Interdependent Relationship in 2012
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Try an Interdependent Relationship in 2012

    This type of relationship is a dynamic combination of being mutually and physically responsible to each another. It differs distinctly from "dependence" in that an interdependent relationship implies both participants are equal partners.

  • Marrying Your Best Friend’s Ex
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Marrying Your Best Friend’s Ex

    While your “man” marrying a stranger is hard enough to swallow, marrying a woman you know pretty well is impossible to digest! You begin thinking about whether your husband and your friend had been carrying on behind your back during your marriage...

  • What He’s Really Thinking When He Sees You Nude
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    What He’s Really Thinking When He Sees You Nude

    The question of what a man is thinking when he sees his woman nude in front of him is something just about all women have asked ourselves at one time or another.

  • Best “Romantic” Hallowe’en Movies for Couples
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Best “Romantic” Hallowe’en Movies for Couples

    Romantic horror movie? Seriously? Oh yes, indeed. I'm not talking about the sugar and syrup pre-pubescent vampire love stories that have been made. I’m talking classic, psychologically frightening, horror movies with a twisted theme of “beast loves beauty.”

  • Women Who Curse and the Men Who Love Them
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Women Who Curse and the Men Who Love Them

    Some men have a hard time hearing women curse. They don't mind choice words being used during foreplay and sex but they don't appreciate those same words being said in public.

  • The Delicate Art of Sleeping Together (Literally)
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    The Delicate Art of Sleeping Together (Literally)

    Sleep scientists recommend "spooning": the sleeping position where people sleep nested together like spoons. This is great "after the loving" and most especially at the beginning of a relationship, but after awhile many people simply want their own undisturbed sleep area.