We spend the whole year waiting for the holidays, but when they finally arrive they can bring their own brand of stress.

According to MindBodyGreen, Facebook has noted a disproportionate amount of relationship status changes around the end of the year, and Match.com says 76% of their singles indicate their relationship dissolved before, during, or after the holiday season.

Why? Because between travel planning, family commitments and gift shopping, stress has a habit of creeping into our personal lives, leaving us tense, exhausted and let’s get real, orgasm-less.

But there are things you can do to maintain and even improve your relationship.

Here are four stress-busting sex positions paired with four seductive sex toys and games to gift yourself and your partner, keeping the intimacy alive and the orgasms coming.

(Wo)Man’s Best Friend

How to do it: Get on all fours. He kneels behind her and enters her from behind.

Why it helps: Sometimes the best way to destress is to relinquish control. The male partner takes control in this situation, leaving the woman to relax and enjoy the ride.

Sex Toy Pairing: The Fifty Shades Darker Wild Couples Set

Take relinquishing control to a whole new level with this light bondage kit. For the more adventurous couple wanting to explore their wilder side, this set makes a perfect gift, or pack it in for a special weekend away.

Available on Désir Online

The Classic Spoon

How to do it: Both of you lie on your sides, facing the same direction. She lifts her knees slightly while he slides up behind the pelvis, entering from behind.

Why it helps: Physical touch releases endorphins, calming your nerves and relieving stress. This position involves a lot of physical contact taking the strain off both partners.

Sex Toy Pairing: Strip or Tease Adult Boardgame

Strip or Tease is an adult board game encouraging intimacy and slow, sensual, seduction while teaching you how to undress with finesse.

Build intimacy and get in the mood with extended foreplay enhanced by the promise of things to come.

Available at: Désir Online

Stand and Deliver

How to do it: With both of you standing, she bends over at the waist and he enters from behind.

Why it helps: It’s a position that’s easy to do, requires minimal effort, but with the erotic benefit of moving things out of the bedroom.

Sex Toy Pairing: Kama Sutra Poker Game – Tease & Please

You don’t need to be an experienced poker player to enjoy the building of erotic tension as the game slowly raises the stakes with stripping, teasing and caressing your fellow player until you reach the ecstasy round.

Bluff your way, change your bet or fold to change the outcomes in this game of high stakes sexual tension.

Available at: Désir Online

Cowboy

How to do it: She lies on her back while he straddles her. He then inserts his penis through the tight opening created by her semi-closed legs.

Why it helps: Coital alignment technique enhances clitoral stimulation. Extra attention means a bigger orgasm for her, plus skin on skin contact gets those stress-releasing endorphins going.

Sex Toy Pairing: Anniversary Collection Featuring Sync & Tango Vibrators with Storage Case

The We-Vibe sits snugly inside her vagina thanks to the adjustable arms, while the external arm rests comfortably on her clitoris. The internal arm sits comfortably on the g-spot, leaving enough room for him to penetrate her at the same time as the device is being worn. Both partners are able to enjoy the stimulation and pleasure created by the intense vibrations of this dual motored couples vibrator.

This anniversary collection gift-set is the ultimate set for couples play. Use it together, separately or even remotely (it can be controlled using an app).

Available at: Désir Online

So, who’s ready to spice things up? If you want to dabble with the best in the business, Désir Online is an adult store led by an incredible team of progressive entrepreneurs who, in 2012, recognised the need to provide customers access to the most luxurious and sophisticated adult toys from all over the globe.

Headquartered in Bakoven, Cape Town, you can also browse their selection while enjoying a complimentary glass of champagne if you visit their showroom, which is open from 9AM to 5PM Mondays to Fridays, and from 10AM to 1PM on Saturdays.

13 Totnes Avenue, Bakoven – contact them on  0860 994 160 to consult with one of their Client Concierge consultants.

Don’t let the season stress you out. Keep the love alive.

[source:mindbodygreen]