{"id":72322,"date":"2017-03-28T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/the-surprising-sign-youre-in-a-happy-relationship\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:26:24","slug":"the-surprising-sign-youre-in-a-happy-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/the-surprising-sign-youre-in-a-happy-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Sign You\u2019re In A Happy Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the study, researchers asked people in long-term, mostly heterosexual relationships, lasting an average of 2.5 years, to answer questions online. The Qs explored the participants\u2019 relationship stability, how well they communicated with their partners, how sexually satisfied they were, what sexual information they shared, and if they were willing to talk about things that their partners might find offensive.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what scientists found: People who reported being sexually satisfied were more likely to say they had good communication in their relationship, were super satisfied with their relationship, and felt their bond was stable. They were also more likely to open up to their partners about their fantasies than people who felt less comfortable in their relationships. So, basically, talking about your fantasies is correlated with all of the things that make for a happy relationship (i.e. feeling good about your bond and being open).<\/p>\n

The researchers wrote that their study emphasizes the importance of understanding why some people are more open to talking about their sexual desires versus others and how that can impact their sexual satisfaction.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that people were most nervous about bringing up their past sexual experiences, anal sex, and porn. However, people didn\u2019t feel as weird about discussing what they like about sex, their individual preferences, and practicing safe sex\u2014which are all good things to be open about.<\/p>\n

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The connection between being open about your fantasies and having a happy relationship makes sense on some level: If you don\u2019t feel super secure in your relationship, you\u2019re probably not going to open up to your S.O. about your fantasy of getting banged by your local grocery store checkout guy.<\/p>\n

But if you feel like you\u2019re in a secure relationship and you\u2019re still not comfy sharing your fantasies, just know that it will probably go over way better than you think\u2014and could bring you closer (in bed and out). Here\u2019s a little inspo on how to be more open about your sexual interests.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the study, researchers asked people in long-term, mostly heterosexual relationships, lasting an average of 2.5 years, to answer questions online. The Qs explored the participants\u2019 relationship stability, how well they communicated with their partners, how sexually satisfied they were, what sexual information they shared, and if they were willing to talk about things that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}