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How Effective Is Your Marriage Therapy?
If you and your spouse have had some tough times and turned for help to a couples counselor, how can you assess if the therapy is genuinely helping? Many folks in couples counseling are uncertain as to what to use as a measuring stick. Whether the therapist is "a nice person" is not sufficient. Try this quiz instead.
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.
How Happy Is Your Marriage? Or Is That a Wrong Question?
Have you ever wondered how your relationship or intimate partnership would score on a quiz rating marriage happiness? Beware! Some quizzes can hurt you instead of helping.
How Contempt Destroys Relationships
What is it about snide remarks and dismissive listening that make these habits so potently destructive?
How Do I Stop Being a Narcissist?
As one narcissistic fellow said, "I feel like I'm a knight on a giant white steed while others are just tiny beings below my feet... Still, if I knew better, I'd do better."
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.
Healing from a Toxic Relationship
Poetry can prove surprisingly beneficial for healing from a toxic relationship. The images in these poems can help guide the way through the five challenging steps of recovery.