Date night, something we cover again and again at this site, gets the Dr. Ruth Westheimer treatment in this excellent video clip. Say what you will about the mismatching cute grandma persona and the usual sexual frankness, this particular piece has her offering practical tips on keeping a relationship vital while raising kids. She addresses the reality of how hard it is to stay in touch with your partner through every stage of parenting a child and warns that if you don’t schedule regular time away from the kids, it could do serious harm to your bond.

Romi Lassally, Editor in Chief of the Truu Confessions sites (including True Mom Confessions), is distributing a weekly rundown of highlights from her sites. The concept is for people to unload their thoughts about what really matters in life in an anonymous way to form communities of people supporting each other to make it through all the nuttiness we experience. One example: Not So Quiet Time -
“If I thought I could actually do it comfortably, I would go to the bathroom and try and take a nap while sitting on the toilet.” Check out this week’s list.

Intimacy after childbirth and beyond is the topic on the new podcast of Tracey Serebin’s Family Matters. Get the dad perspective from me and the mom view from Tracey on this frank, sometimes funny, and frequently helpful segment. Tracey’s interview with me on her Internet radio program runs 30 minutes, following her talk with Wendy Jaffe, who covers the topic from the angle of a divorce attorney, who contributed an instructive piece to this site. Log on to the new installment and click “Listen Now” or “Podcast.” It’s about sex, so you gotta have opinions/stories to share via the comments option.

If you’ve read this month’s column (http://www.familymanonline.com/columns.php?id=52), you know how much my middle kid reveled in handing out Valentine’s to his kindergarten friends. My eldest (age 9) rolled his eyes about the whole thing. And my little one just loved the heart-shaped pizza my wife brought home and the red oranges I threw into a salad for dinner. As my wife and I sit here while I type, we’re pretty much too tired to make much more out of the “day that Hallmark built.” Yet I did manage to ask her what her favorite romantic song is, other than Nat King Cole’s “When I Fall in Love” (our wedding song from 14 years ago this upcoming Tuesday). Her pick is “Endless Love,” by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross. Mine is “What You Won’t Do For Love,” by Bobby Caldwell. When that record came out in 1978, they released a limited edition red heart-shaped ‘45′ single. which I’m still kicking myself for not buying. Anybody out there want to call out their fave romantic song?