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Who Says ‘I Love You’ First? Unexpected Findings
If you were asked whether you think men or women are the first to say, “ I love you” in romantic relationships, what would you say? Most people – both men and women – believe it is women. Such beliefs...
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Are You Invalidating Your Partner – Without Realizing It?
Probably the hardest things to change are the things we don’t realize we’re doing – like invalidating our partner. Thanks to a plethora of self-help books on relationships, most partners, whether...
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Renovate Your Relationship: Replace Unsafe Couple Dynamics
Regardless of how new or old your relationship, most couples can benefit from changing relationship dynamics that cause marital deterioration. In a recent study in The Journal of Family Psychology,...
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Re-Connect With an Ex? Crucial Considerations
Recycling is a good idea, except when it comes to relationships. Regardless of what people tell themselves about the time invested, the good times missed, the great sex, or the feeling that things will...
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Improve Your Marriage by Having an Affair…With Your Spouse
Do you have any idea how much work goes into an affair? When you take into account the effort, the planning, the stolen moments, the affection, the creative communications and the anticipation of...
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The Big Value of “Small Talk” in Our Emotional Lives
There is nothing small about “small talk.” Defined as polite conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters, especially used on social occasions, small talk has often been seen in a...
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Reducing Marital Stress Helps Children Return to School
When children head back to school this year, they should not be carrying emotional baggage from home. When we worry about how our children will handle school- what they will face and how they will...
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How Different Are the Private and Public Versions of Your Relationship?
Almost everyone has felt the shock of hearing that a couple that seemed “so great together” was breaking up. It can also be just as shocking to observe the public interaction of a couple only to...
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What Presidential Campaigns Can Teach You About Your Relationship
If you are human, in a relationship and living on this planet there will be decisions to make and problems to solve. They may be intrinsic to your circumstances, imposed upon you by outside factors, or...
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Why Do Married Women Have Affairs?
We have once again been faced with a high profile marriage scandal. This time the lovers included the CIA director, a married and much decorated military officer and his biographer, a married women,...
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Is There Privacy Or Secrecy In Your Relationship?
In a culture of cell phones, text messages, Facebook, tweets and instagrams, the definitions of privacy and secrecy are challenged and at times blurred. You read my emails? I can’t report every move I...
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An Asset to Couple Intimacy: The Capacity “To Be Alone”
While the definition of intimacy may vary depending on the relationship, it is generally felt to be the “ authentic” connection between two people. As such, the connection reflects a mutuality of...
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When Couples Stop Talking: Reasons and Remedies
Most couples know the positive sounds of silence–the mutual experience of sharing time and space together without needing words. Be it walking the dog together, cooking side by side or listening to...
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Sex, Statistics, Happiness and Your Marriage
Does sex influence your happiness? Do you consider sexual satisfaction in terms of sexual frequency? Would comparing your sexual frequency with others affect your happiness? An extensive study by Tim...
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Is Jealousy Threatening Your Relationship? Five Checkpoints
While most partners want someone to care if they run away with the neighbor, using jealousy to evoke a sign of love from a partner, or feeling jealous of your partner’s interest in something or someone...
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Raising Teens Without Ruining Your Marriage: Three Principles
Whereas most people are warned that the blessed event of a new baby may challenge the romance in their marriage – not enough warning is given to parents of teens. Lulled by the relative calm of the...
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“Hooking-Up”:Good Practice for a Bad Marriage
The media, social scientists and a majority of young people report that “ Hooking Up” has replaced traditional dating relationships on college campuses. What is “Hooking-Up”? Hooking up is defined as a...
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Enhance Intimacy: Lessons From Long Distance Relationships
They say that “ love knows no distance” and “ absence makes the heart grow fonder.” If you have ever been in a long-term relationship or you are one of the 14 million people (3.7 married) who define...
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An Unrecognized Reason That Married Men Have Affairs
Evolutionary theory, gender differences, stereotype, media myth and cultural expectations invite us to recognize that men have more sexual desire than women both in frequency and intensity, are wired...
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Survive the First Four Years of Marriage: Use Anger Management
We know that only half of all first marriages make it. What we often don’t recognize is that the first four years seem to be important ones in shaping, making or breaking a marital relationship....
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