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Understanding and Building a ‘Me’ Marriage
Do you really want a ‘Me’ Marriage? Your first inclination may be to say, “I don’t think so.” Intuitively this makes sense as most partners have been encouraged to focus on the “We” in their marriage....
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Is Your Pet The Emotional “Third” in Your Relationship?
Katie and Rob, a couple in a second marriage for both, never planned to have a pet. They cautiously agreed to take Penny, a little terrier, when a relative became sick. Of course, they fell in love...
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Mental Health Day: Suicide Protection Across Generations
Suicide ranks as the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States. We have lost loved ones across the generations. Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide. Although they...
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Marriage and Midlife Crisis: Challenges and Transitions
Given that there are now 81 million baby boomers in this country ranging from ages 46 to 66, there are many people navigating the transitions of midlife. When you add to that the fact that 80% of the...
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Do You Thank Your Partner? Recognizing Resistance-Understanding Benefits
“ Why Can’ t You Just Say, Thanks?” If this sounds familiar it is because most of us have said it or heard it. Most people want to feel appreciated, particularly by the person closest to them but too...
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Should I End My Relationship? Important Considerations
The question of whether to end a relationship, be it a 20 year marriage or a 5 year commitment, is a painful and complicated one. It is a question that often implies loss, fear of judgment, sense of...
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Enhancing Your Sexuality: Six Important Strategies
Anna Freud invited us to consider that “Sex is something you do, sexuality is something you are.” Building on this, we can define sexuality as the way we experience and express ourselves as sexual...
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Re-Connect With an Ex? Crucial Considerations
Recycling is a good idea, except when it comes to relationships. Regardless of what people tell themselves about the time invested, the good times missed, the great sex, or the feeling that things will...
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What Presidential Campaigns Can Teach You About Your Relationship
If you are human, in a relationship and living on this planet there will be decisions to make and problems to solve. They may be intrinsic to your circumstances, imposed upon you by outside factors, or...
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Finding The Way Home From War: A Promise and a Process
The war in Iraq has officially ended and the president promises to bring the troops home from Afghanistan by the end of next year. For all of our military and all of their families, finding the way...
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Is There Privacy Or Secrecy In Your Relationship?
In a culture of cell phones, text messages, Facebook, tweets and instagrams, the definitions of privacy and secrecy are challenged and at times blurred. You read my emails? I can’t report every move I...
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Is Jealousy Threatening Your Relationship? Five Checkpoints
While most partners want someone to care if they run away with the neighbor, using jealousy to evoke a sign of love from a partner, or feeling jealous of your partner’s interest in something or someone...
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Overreacting in Your Relationship: Reasons and Remedies
Anyone is a relationship knows that partners have the uncanny ability to bring out the best and worst in each other. Accordingly, whether newly married or celebrating many years together, partners can...
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Love Means–Wanting To Know Your Partner More
One of the most recognized signs of relationship potential is someone’s interest in knowing us. They want to know about our past, our present, and our dreams for the future. They want our opinion of...
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How To Improve Relationship Closeness–”Stop Talking”
While almost everyone working with couples and every self-help book underscores communication as central to any good relationship, there are times when the last thing that brings a couple together is “...
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Re-set Your Relationship with Positivity: Science and Strategies
One of the biggest traps for couples is the belief that they have to deal with what is wrong with their relationship before they reset what is right! When a couple’s relationship has been sapped of...
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What Are The Three Top Relationship Killers? Expert Opinions
What do you think are the three top relationship killers? About a month ago a relationship site contacted me and asked me that question. The Coordinator of the site said that they were gathering the...
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Re-Connect With an Ex? Crucial Considerations
Recycling is a good idea, except when it comes to relationships. Regardless of what people tell themselves about the time invested, the good times missed, the great sex, or the feeling that things will...
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What Presidential Campaigns Can Teach You About Your Relationship
If you are human, in a relationship and living on this planet there will be decisions to make and problems to solve. They may be intrinsic to your circumstances, imposed upon you by outside factors, or...
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Finding The Way Home From War: A Promise and a Process
The war in Iraq has officially ended and the president promises to bring the troops home from Afghanistan by the end of next year. For all of our military and all of their families, finding the way...
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