Setting boundaries early in your relationships sets the stage for a partner that knows how to be successful for you. No one knows what you want or need unless you say it.
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If you imagine your relationship as a house then trust and commitment are the walls keeping everyone warm inside and holding up the roof. Without them a relationship will not make it because it will not have a home.
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Conflict is bound to happen in your relationships - if it doesn’t then you’re a unicorn and I’d love to hear from you. The way that you “kiss and makeup” afterwards determines whether the conflict deepens your connection and intimacy or creates resentment and unhealed wounds.
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“Small things often” is the mantra that happy and healthy couples abide by. They realize that it isn’t the big vacation, the big ring, or the surprise party that maintains a happy and healthy relationship.
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In studying relationships and the science of happiness, one of the quickest, easiest ways I’ve found to infuse a partnership with joy is encouraging the practice of gratitude.
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My business is called the Art of Dating because relationship success is a combination of art and science. The science is the research backed elements driving relationship success.
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Terms like "meditation", "breathing", somatic experiencing", these may sound like individual work.
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“There are two types of intimate partner violence: characterological and situational,” Earnshaw explains. “When a therapist finds that characterological violence has been present, then therapy is not indicated.
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“Every human encounter is a cross-cultural encounter.” That phrase, said by my graduate school professor, struck with me until this day. There is so much power to it.
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To have a healthy relationship you have to understand how your childhood is still living within you and being worked out in your adulthood. Being mindful of your patterns and wounds will help you to be more successful in navigating the challenges of life together.
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I think, quite possibly, Beyoncé wrote “Crazy in Love” to express the state of limerance. Ever heard of it?
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Part 2 of the previous post. Let’s talk about overcoming the fighting pitfalls below...
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My colleague, Ariel Stern, shared this with me awhile ago: Some fights help couples grow and some fights cause irrevocable damage. It’s not the fight that is the problem, it’s how the fight happens.
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You might physically be around each other more frequently after the arrival of your little one, but finding ways to connect can be challenging. You’re keeping a little human alive and staying in tune with their needs might take up all your bandwidth.
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Why does a baby change your sex life? The causes of this are varied:
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During their research, John and Julie Gottman found that 1/3 of couples report marital satisfaction following the birth of their child. These couples do certain things to maintain positive feelings towards each other.
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Are marriages ruined by having children? Different studies by husband and wife teams, The Cowan’s and The Gottmans, show decreases in marital satisfaction after the birth of a child for about 2/3 of couples.
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In Dr. Helen Fisher’s research on broken hearts, she found that once a partner recognizes that they are “never, ever getting back together” they might enter the “abandonment rage stage”.
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