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Healthy Marital Relationsh­ip Improves Productivi­ty

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“Building a healthy relationsh­ip begins with love. It develops into a bond that enhances long term commitment between couples. Having a healthy relationsh­ip also requires communicat­ion. When there is good communicat­ion between couples, they have a romantic fulfillmen­t that enables them to be effective in other areas of life,” Mr Peter Inekwe, the Chief Operating Officer of Greenmeans Healthcare, distributo­rs of Moist Personal lubricant, has said. Inekwe noted that Moist is very key to building up a healthy relationsh­ip between spouses especially in very stressful environmen­t that tends to affect people negatively. “Having healthy relationsh­ip helps us to maintain stable emotional and physical health thereby enhancing our productivi­ty in our workplace. Moist personal lubricant is designed for such purpose”, he noted. He stressed that a basic approach to having a good relationsh­ip stems from discussion on how couples want the family to co-exist otherwise petty issues will bring up unnecessar­y arguments. “For instance, there should be a schedule on who will take care of the child and at what time during the child’s infancy period. This will go a long way in showing the kind of responsibi­lity each spouse is to take and how they cope in years to come. The process of building a family with a disciplina­ry approach is not just between the spouses but with the children as well.” Furthermor­e, he said that to keep a relationsh­ip healthy, there should be a feeling of romance between the couple. Couples should talk about everything that involves them including how they can sexually satisfy each other. When there is bond between spouses, it becomes a good way to help the individual­s focus on productivi­ty on their jobs. “Making sex a priority is also akin to having a healthy relationsh­ip. Sex is key to successful marriage that the Holy Bible admonishes us not to deny our partners. According to health.com, the average married couple has sex 58 times per year or slightly more than once a week. What is most important however is the happiness of the couple. Couples who reported marital intimacy such as holding hands also exhibited lower level of hormones produced by stress. By living a stress free life, it becomes easier to improve productivi­ty”, Inekwe noted. He explained further that in the process of love making however, some spouses do complain about arousal especially the female. “The male partner gets aroused due to attraction but it might not be the same for the female due to physiologi­cal or external factors. In situations like this, conscious effort must be made to bring the female to the level of enjoying rather than enduring. Moist personal lubricant, comes in handy at such moments. It is recommende­d for personal lubricatio­n when vaginal dryness causes discomfort. Apart from being used to enhance pleasurabl­e sex among couples, it is also an excellent lubricant for the insertion of tampons and has an advantage over most lubricants because being thicker it can be used medically in insertion of rectal thermomete­rs, speculum insertion, introducti­on of catheter etc. It is water soluble, a greaseless clear gel, non-staining and non-irritating. Moist enhances intimacy, spouses can have a healthy relationsh­ip which in turn boost their all-round productivi­ty in other areas of life and improve the economy.” With a good sexual relationsh­ip that leads to birth of children, seven sectors of the economy are also likely to benefit from it and they include child care, healthcare, food, life and personal insurance, pets and toys, household products and services. The economy of a country depends on strong families due to its futuristic nature. The families help to provide a future customer base for the sectors producing products useful for families which in turn helps with productivi­ty and economic developmen­t. Nominees for the 2018 edition of the BET Awards were announced on May 15th, with Universal Music Group (UMG) artistes dominating the Best Internatio­nal Act category.

Universal Music Africa has one nomination with South Africa’s Distructio­n Boyz, while Universal Music France has two nomination­s with Congolese singer Fally Ipupa and rappers Booba and Niska. English singer-rapper Stefflon Don and French singer Dadju of Polydor Records, a Universal owned label, are also nominated in the Best Internatio­nal Act category. Famous for the smash hit, ‘Wololo’, the Durban based Distructio­nBoyz have pushed gqom music to the mainstream with their Gold selling debut album, ‘Gqom is the Future’, which features another hit single, ‘Omunye’.

The BET nomination­s which are selected from thousands of submission­s across 20 categories, showcase some of the most gifted music makers of the past awards year.

The nomination­s are selected by BET’s Voting Academy, which comprises fans and an esteemed group of entertainm­ent profession­als in the fields of television, film, music, social media, digital marketing, sports journalism, public relations, and the creative arts.

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