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Words that can make or break your marriage
Which words do you use in communicating with your spouse that make the discussion worse, and which words cause you both to calm down? Researchers have the answers. Some words increase your stress...
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Looking for happiness in all the wrong places
What are you looking for in your life and marriage to make you happy? Researchers have done a lot of work analyzing particular kinds of goals and whether they led people to happiness. They found that...
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How to trade loneliness for connectedness, and how did we get here?
We’ve passed the Stone Age, the Space Age, and the Digital Age. We’ve entered a post-social age our ancestors would have believed impossible. We’ve entered the Age of Loneliness. This is the age in...
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Is Marital Harmony Possible with High-Achieving Spouse?
A new book called “The Love Fight” tackles the unique challenges of high-achieving individuals who are often married to relationship-oriented “connectors”. This Achiever/Connector marriage is at high...
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What’s your great love story?
The holiday that celebrates love is just around the corner, and I know it stresses many of you out. Instead of stress, I hope it’s a time to remind you and your partner how lucky you are to have found...
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Two common patterns that can lead to divorce
According to the Gottman Institute, two common patterns often reveal when a couple is likely to end up in an early divorce or late divorce. Couples who don’t make it more than a few years after their...
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Feel like your marriage needs a big change?
One prominent family law firm reports the third Monday of January is the busiest day for divorce lawyers. However, they say that many couples see a lawyer in hopes of trying to salvage the...
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Are you guilty of these common spouse complaints?
The three most frequent marriage complaints from husbands who are in marriage counseling, according to several surveyed psychotherapists include: My wife expects me to be a mind reader. Late night...
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Longest study of human development shows what men need to live happy lives
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life … Harvard has the answers, at least for men. Harvard University conducted the longest-running longitudinal study of human development, beginning in...
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Spouses need to feel their partner “gets” them
When having a fight, couples who can still see where their partner is coming from bounce back better after the fight, and view the fight as a “healthy one.” Bottom line: we need to feel that our...
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