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Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

How a Soft Start-Up Can Cool Down Your Heated Argument | Connect Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling

Caught up in conflict? Try a soft-start up. When you use a soft start-up, you and your partner can focus on the problem instead of who’s to blame.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

6 Resources to Help You Identify and Heal Anxious Attachment | Connect Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling

Explore strategies for identifying and healing anxious attachment with therapist-approved resources, including podcasts, books, and expert insights.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

Why I Sleep in a Separate Bed From My Husband

There’s an assumption that not sharing a bed is the death of a relationship but in many cases it can be the saviour.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Encouraging Your Partner To Change

If there's something you wish your partner would change, think carefully about why that change is important to you.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The adults celebrating child-free lives - BBC Worklife

From consciously child-free influencers, to online communities for people who’ve decided against having kids, the no-kids movement is booming – but so is the backlash.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’ | Dating | The Guardian

Gives you space, doesn’t use voicemail, is liked by dogs: our guide to the telltale signs that a relationship is the real deal

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The Lost History of No-Fault Divorces - JSTOR Daily

The regulation of divorce has changed a lot in the twentieth century. The National Association of Women Lawyers was instrumental in making that change happen.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

10 Meaningful Questions to Ask Others to Strengthen Your Relationships

When we take the time to ask creative and purposeful questions, we create long-lasting bonds that are both deep and fulfilling.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Emotional Fulfillment and Contact Key in Stable Romantic Partnerships

By Matthew Warren. Learning that others can meet our needs makes people realise ending relationship is a viable option.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Healthy Ways to Deal with Conflict in Relationships

Happily married couples who have been together for decades still argue every so often, but a new study finds that the topics married couples choose to argue about can make all the difference.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

5 Key Questions to Assess Your Confidence in Your Relationship

Believing your relationship is strong may be the key to achieving this positive outcome. New research on relationship confidence shows 5 ways to find whether yours will last.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Let Go: On-Again, Off-Again Relationships Harmful To Mental Health - Study Finds

Letting go is painful for many people when it comes to relationships, but a study suggests that it may be the safest option when it comes to protecting one's mental health.

Psychology | Relationships

When You Talk About Relationships, Do You Say 'I' or 'We'? Your Choice Is Revealing, Psychology Study Suggests

Researchers found that those who displayed what they called "anxious and avoidant" attachment styles used the pronoun "I" more often when talking about romantic experiences.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Sex Therapy for the 21st Century

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Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Marriage Grows Easier In Old Age; Couples Fight Less, Laugh More - Study Finds

Ever feel like your marriage is losing its luster and all the romance is being replaced with petty bickering? Don't worry, there's light -- and lightheartedness -- at the end of the tunnel.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Why ‘The One’ Is a New and Stressful Concept

Couples therapist Esther Perel outlines why the modern cultural idea of “a good marriage” is both new and unprecedented: rules have given way to choices, which comes with their own set of issues.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Why Mindset Is Critical in Successful Relationships

Whether you have a fixed or growth mindset affects the quality (and future) of your relationships. 

Psychology | Personality

What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

Do you want to be there for a loved one, but don't know how? Here are some techniques to help you 'hold space' for people in need.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Why People Cheat: Study Reveals 8 Common Factors Of Unfaithful Partners - Study Finds

It's a question most, if not all scorned spouses would love to know the answer to: "Why'd you cheat?" A recent study identified eight common motivators of people who are unfaithful to their romantic partners.

Psychology | Personality

Surprising Facts About Body Language and Your Emotions | Psychology Today

You are undoubtedly aware that your face communicates your emotional state, but new research shows the surprising ways that your entire body language contributes to the process.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The Surprising Keys to a Long-Lasting Relationship | Psychology Today

If you could read into the future of your relationship, what might you predict? New research shows the surprising role of conflict in predicting your relationship's longevity.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

How Can I Be Me While You’re Being You? | Psychology Today

Just about all lovers go through a stage of high emotional reactivity that threatens to destroy their relationship.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The Best Time to Get Help for Your Relationship | Psychology Today

Most couples wait too long to get help. Unnecessary suffering occurs in secrecy and isolation when you are too embarrassed to ask for assistance...

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

How to Have a Better Relationship - Well Guides

Good relationships don’t happen overnight. They take commitment, compromise, forgiveness and most of all — effort. Here we offer the latest in relationship science, expert advice, fun quizzes and helpful tips to help you build a stronger bond with you

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Marriage advice from experts who are married

We asked four couples in which both partners are relationship experts to share marriage advice based on what has worked best for them.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The One Daily Talk That Will Benefit Your Marriage

Changing your approach to an end-of-the-day talk can ensure to help both you and your partner unwind.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Have an Emotionally Wealthy Marriage

Plus, five science-based ways to create a wealth of love and passion in your relationship.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

If you don't sleep in the same bed as your partner, you're not alone

​One in four British couples are regularly sleeping in separate beds due to stress, new research has revealed. Bedroom furniture retailers Bensons for Beds examined the sleeping habits of 2,000 UK couples and found that long work days and children were

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Four Rules for a Great Sex Talk with your Partner

How many times have you thought if you could just communicate about sex, it would get better, but instead talking seems to make it worse?

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Why Meaning May Be The Key To Making It In Marriage

Northwestern close relationships psychologist Eli Finkel on why meaning makes love last.

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Long-Distance Relationships – Real Life Things You Should Know Before Getting Started

Here's what you should know (advice, TIPs and problems) to make long-distance relationships work (last and keep) from real people before getting started.

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

How to Build a Healthy Relationship Between a Man and a Woman with Science

You may know what a healthy romantic relationship looks like, but do you know how to get one? Find out what stages you must go through before true love.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

The Secret Reason That Sex Is So Good for Your Relationship

It’s almost a given that couples with good relationships are more likely to enjoy sex with each other. New research shows why sex has such a positive impact.

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

8 Reasons Why Happy Couples Rarely Share Their Relationship Statuses On Social Media

Northwestern University found that those who posted more frequently on social media about their partner actually feel insecure in their relationship

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Don’t Hate Your Husband: Advice for New Mothers

The first years of parenthood are tough on couples. A few survival tips.

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

Want a Better Marriage?...Add Some Emotional Intelligence | The Huffington Post

Would you like your marriage to be significantly more rewarding? If you answer yes, I am not going to recommend you and your partner visit a marriage co...

News | News Items

"Origin of Love" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

6 Essential Traits of Healthy Intimate Relationships

Healthy relationships require effort -- and that's a large part of what makes them so rewarding.

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Is Your Relationship Codependent? What Exactly Does That Mean?

Like “self love” or “inner child,” the term “codependent” smacks of pop psychology psychobabble. To make matters worse, it’s become shorthand for a whole host of unhealthy behaviors. Bu

Advice & Self-Help | Couples and Relationship Support

Your choice of a life partner is no accident

Study uses DNA to discern people’s preferences in mates, and suggests how such choices shape our genomes

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

7 Things Happy Couples Do Differently

There’s no exact formula for a great relationship. In fact, all relationships are made of two people from different backgrounds and experiences, who are doing their best to make it work.

Psychology | Relationships

What Keeps Couples Happy Long Term

A large, new study on sexual satisfaction finds happy long-term couples share certain habits.

Psychology | Relationships

Who Can Really Make Us Happy?

Scientists submit the old saying, "a happy wife, a happy life" to empirical scrutiny.

Architecture & Interior Design | Decorating & Interior Design

22 Creative Workspace Ideas for Couples | Brit + Co

With a little planning and a bit of compromise, you can pull off an enviable home office for two.

Advice & Self-Help | Relationships

9 Love Actually Couples That Don’t Get Enough Love, Actually

Forget the couples everyone talks about, these are the pairings that really matter.

Politics | From CNN

Man gives woman with ex-girlfriend's name a world trip - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Jordan Axani planned to travel around the world with his girlfriend Elizabeth Gallagher, until they broke up. Now, he'll embark on Sunday on the circumnavigation with Elizabeth Gallagher.