Category Archives: Relationships

Couples Therapy: What 5 Ingredients Create a Great Outcome?

Does your couples therapist provide these essentials? If not, what can you do about it?

Can Marriage Affect Your Heart Attack Risk?

Recent European studies have been clarifying the impacts, good and bad, of marriage on heart health.

Can Parental Alienation Occur Beyond Parents and Kids?

Does alienation exist only in post-divorce families? No. Look for population alienation as well as parental alienation. Both do massive harm.

Can Relationships Improve When Just One Partner Gets Help?

Marriage is a high-skills activity. Without the skills, people get hurt. But what if only one partner is willing to seek help?

Can You Say No To Requests?

People-pleasing has its up-sides. Generosity tends to uplift the giver as well as the receiver. Yet for the times when you really do not want to do something that someone has requested of you, here's a gracious way to say a clear no.

Are You Falling Out of Love? A Quiz on 10 Warning Signs

"Falling out of love" has become the most common cause of divorce, trumping even affairs and abuse. The good news is that it can be prevented.

Baby Come and Light My Fire…

Sexual enjoyment together helps to keep marital affection warmly loving. What mutual actions can couples take to ignite their sexual energies?

Becoming a Grandparent

First, folks who love children aim to be great parents. As seniors, they get the chance to aim also for being great grandparents. What's often their biggest challenge?

Between Parent and Child: An All-Time Parenting Best-Seller

Haim Ginott's parenting book revolutionized our ideas of how to talk with children.

Beware Of Mistaken Marriage Advice That “All Couples Fight”

Beware of marriage advice that suggests that all couples fight. They don't. Successful couples also don't sweep their differences under the rug. Here's an alternative.