Category Archives: Communication

How a Simple Children’s Game Explains Relationships

What can a children's game teach us about sustaining positive relationships and being a winner in life?

From Thin-Skin to Win-Win: How Couples Counseling Helps

Are you and your loved one living the opposite of happily ever after? If your partnership is yielding fear, resentment or anger, maybe it's time to reverse the trend.

Hanger: When Hunger Breeds Anger

Preventive action can address low blood sugar from creating irritability.

Happy Marriage, Happy Life

What level of achievement do you aim for in your marriage? Are you satisfied with a good enough relationship or do you aim to become a dream-team?

Four Characteristics of Effective Conversations

What patterns characterize productive and satisfying conversations?

Four Ways to Assure You Won’t Get What You Want

Here's four ways that are likey to create bad feelings with work colleagues. They can also help you lose your job, end your love relationships, and wreck your holidays.

Fighting About Money? Beware!

When couples fight about money, they are moving forward on a high risk road. Danger ahead.

For an Instant Relationship Upgrade, Stop Using This Phrase

Babies have needs. Are you a baby? If not, better find alternative words to "need" for expressing preferences.

Forgiveness? “I Forgive You” Makes Me Cringe

A former Miss America was molested for 15 years, from age 3 until she was 18, by her father. Does she forgive him? Should she? What is the nature of forgiveness?

Dial Down the Drama with Your Teenager

What you do and don't do determines whether you will enjoy or battle your teen.