How to Refresh Your Long-Term Relationship
Long-term relationships are a beautiful accomplishment, full of memories of joy, love, and passion that shouldn’t be easily tossed away. Unfortunately, some of the passionate elements of your relationship may have fizzled throughout time. Perhaps you haven’t enjoyed sexual relations with your partner since the days of cassette tapes and waterbeds? Well, you’re not alone in your relationship struggles, seeing as the current divorce rate of first marriages in the United States ranges from 35-50%. Romantic relationships are a complicated matter that require hard work and communication, but it’s nothing that can’t be done!
Since we here at the TENGA STORE USA consider ourselves to be in the business of improving passionate sensations, informing our readers on how to refresh your long-term relationship is a matter we’re interested in. Let's take a look at how to refresh your long-term relationship and bring back that spark you had, and that you have been longing for.
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Where is the Love?
“Long-term” is a term that’s definition varies depending on the individual, based on their perspective and experiences. For basic reference, we can define a long-term relationship as one that has lasted past the “honeymoon period,” which ranges anywhere between 18 months to three years.
Once this “honeymoon period” is over, the hormones that make you feel good around your new partner, oxytocin, are unfortunately not at as heightened a level as they were at the beginning of your relationship.
While you may try to convince yourself that something about you or your partner’s behavior has changed, it might just be your brain chemistry! Remember that the buzzing feeling you get from being around someone new can only last so long, and it's up to you and your partner to put in the work to make new, fresh sensations.
Refresh Your Relationship
“Communication is key” is a well-known idea, however communication on its own won’t do the trick. Make sure the communication between you and your partner is impactful, meaningful communication.
Expressing where your mental state is in a relationship can bring about open communication that can achieve many of the goals that you want to reach in your relationship. Open communication involves honesty and appropriate reciprocity. Be honest with your partner, but be sure to listen as much as you speak, and find common goals.
Hurdles that come about in a long-term relationship often include intimate issues such as sex and masturbation. As we’ve discussed in our TENGA blog, “Sex in Long Term Relationships,” being more open and honest about sex can lead to more orgasms, positive feelings about sex, and greater relationship satisfaction. Being open about what your sexual likes and dislikes are, and sharing what sort of new things you might want to try with your partner, are key to reigniting the passion in a long-term relationship.
TENGA and Long-term Relationships
Since you might have already read our TENGA blog on “How to Use TENGA with Your Partner,” you could already be familiar with the information that sexual satisfaction increases in the first year of a relationship, but is followed by a steady decrease in the following years.
What is commonly referred to as “spicing things up in the bedroom” is an optimal way of reviving the sexual satisfaction you may have lost in your relationship. Luckily for you, here at the TENGA STORE USA you can find all sorts of toys and technology that will bring some added excitement to your relationship.
The TENGA SVR and SVR+ are TENGA’s premiere cock ring series, complete with body safe silicone, 5 vibration strengths and 2-3 rhythm modes.
The SVR can be stretched around one’s fingers as well, creating a perfect item for foreplay or during sex. Not to mention it's waterproof!
For those looking for something lower priced and easier to attach/remove in the moment, the SVR one is a simple, ON/OFF controlled ring.
The TENGA EGG Series are also perfect for couples’ play, thanks to their unique designs and flexibility, allowing for you and your partner to choose how you want to play. If you’re hoping for a romantic twist to your sex toy, find it in the TENGA EGG Lovers, or buy a whole 6-pack of TENGA EGGs to start experimenting away!
Another disposable item option for couples is the TENGA UNI, our premiere unisex item that functions in two different ways creating a gender-free pleasure experience for all to enjoy!
Although these are popular TENGA items for couples, feel free to try using anything from the TENGA STORE USA with or on your partner, as it’ll certainly bring something new to your sex life.
Conclusion
Long-term relationships become complicated as communication and passion start to wane due to couples getting comfortable in a tired old routine.
For those feeling less than fresh in their relationship, we suggest opening up the conversation to full honesty, and finding new sexual sparks that are yet to be uncovered.
If you need assistance in lighting these sparks, we suggest trying products from TENGA and iroha. A great place to start would be the TENGA SVR Series, available on the TENGA STORE USA.
