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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.
How Does Your Child Sleep?
Having difficulty getting your child to bed down in the evenings? Check out this new book for frazzled families.
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.
Healthy Relationships Breathe In and Out Like An Accordion
What are the risks and potential solutions to nourishing both time together and time apart? Here's seven guidelines to think about.