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Facing a Big Decision Like About a Job or a Relationship?

Decision-making is especially challenging when the stakes are high. Here's a 3-step pathway to guide you along your way.

Feeling Good? What Makes Good Feelings Flow?

How much good feeling have you been experiencing? Would you like more? Check out these 5 factors.

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?

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.

Freud Had It Right About Leaders

Freud's brilliant insight, "Groups take on the personality of the leader," is worth taking to heart. Policy matters, but so does personality. What Presidential personality traits do Americans seek in these treacherous economic times?

From Cute Little Girl to Borderline Personality

Do people with borderline personality patterns fear abandonment because they know that they can be difficult to live with? And if so, why do they often act so unpleasantly?

Dial Down the Drama with Your Teenager

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