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"  Have you ever chosen an online chat with another mom over an offline cuddle with your hubby? While Web communities can be lifesavers for new moms, providing much-needed support and advice, a study in the Journal of Advanced Nursing found that dads may often feel left out. &amp;quot;Paying more attention to your online friends than to your man can strain your marriage,&amp;quot; says therapist Michele Weiner-Davis, author of The Sex Starved Marriage. How to keep your online and offline relationships in harmony:  Try to keep family time Internet-free. If you&amp;#039;re typing away about breast pumps on your laptop while he&amp;#039;s over at his computer checking baseball scores, you two might as well be on different planets. Instead, limit your surfing to when you&amp;#039;re home alone; spend your time together bonding with each other and the baby.  Include him in offline activities. If you plan weekend or evening get-togethers with your online pals, invite the dads along. That will help him feel like he&amp;#039;s a part of your community rather than competing with it \u2014 and he&amp;#039;ll make some new friends too. Let him know he&amp;#039;s valued. When you&amp;#039;re trying to wean the baby or potty-train your 2-year-old, take your husband&amp;#039;s suggestions seriously, even if you ultimately decide not to follow them. &amp;quot;Let him know his participation is valuable,&amp;quot; Weiner-Davis says. &amp;quot;If you compliment him for the way he bathed the baby, he won&amp;#039;t mind as much when you solicit advice from other moms.&amp;quot; Cuddle up.  Nothing can reinforce the connection between new parents like a good old make-out session, says Weiner-Davis. &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re physically affectionate, you reassure him \u2014 and he reassures you \u2014 how important you are to each other.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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