Category Archives: Relationships

How Technological Distractions Destroy Connections

What is the role of smartphones and apps in blocking the development of relationship connections?

How the Brits and the EU Could Botch Their Divorce

With emotions running high, will anger, anxiety and depression cause all sides of this divorce to be losers?

How to Express Feelings… and How Not To

Effectively expressing feelings enables us to move on from troubling negative emotions. It also brings us closer to those with whom we share these feelings.

How to Get an Ex Back: 5 Essential Steps

After years of distancing and fighting, the couple has separated. Is there any way to save their love from splitting apart forever?

How Contempt Destroys Relationships

What is it about snide remarks and dismissive listening that make these habits so potently destructive?

How Do Sex and Power Abuses Lead to Terrorism and War?

What are the deeper motives underlying some jihadists' attraction to terrorism? It turns out that sex and power, used abusively, lie at the heart of Islamic terrorism.

How Do Your Relationships Flow?

Communication is the flow of information in relationships. Information flows between people just like water flows in nature's streams. Smooth laminar flow is good. Bumpy turbulence causes problems.

How Does Communication Flow in your Relationships?

Water, traffic and words all flow. When the flow is laminar, that is, smooth, the interactions feel cooperative. Blockage and turbulence in the flow of speech signal that cooperation has broken down, replaced by listening blockages and adversarilal stances.

How Gender Differences Make Decision-Making Difficult

Men rush for the finish line. Women explore, communicating about various underlying concerns. And therein lies the struggle. What can you do about it?

How Good Are You at the Art of Conversation? A Quiz

What makes a good conversationalist? These 10 key factors may surprise you.