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Guidelines for Ending an Addiction-Destroyed Relationship
What do you do when the person you love gets consumed by a disease (addiction) that's beyond your control? How do we know when it's time to leave and how do you manage to adjust to life without your actively addicted partner?
Job Loss and Marriage - 8 Tips for Coping with Unemployment Stress
With the ongoing financial crisis and loss of jobs and unemployment benefits, a marriage can be stressed to the breaking point. Here are 8 marriage-protecting tips to help you cope - and thrive - through hard financial times.
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Couples
Experience and research identify seven factors that keep a relationship going. Cultivate these habits and stay with your partner forever.
Don't Let Grudges and Past Anger Poison Your Relationship - Learn How to Let Go
Pent up anger and long held grudges can kill a relationship. Learn why we keep that anger and how to change for the better.
Coping with Chronic Ailments as a Couple
Even the most "solid" couple can struggle when one partner, or both, contract any type of chronic ailment. Some might think that it is "not cancer" or "not life-threatening" and should therefore be "easy" to deal with.... but any time there is a change in the functioning of people in a relationship, that relationship faces stress.
Good Listener? Test Yourself, and Learn How to Improve!
Want a quick and easy way to improve your relationship? Try listening instead of talking for a change!!! To start with take this quick self test to assess your listening skills and areas of weakness, and then learn 14 simple listening skills to start using right away.
Rebuilding a Relationship after Your Partner Gets Clean and Sober
Your partner's in recovery... now what? Tips on rebuilding a relationship while making your own needs a priority: building trust - one day at a time, setting measurable goals to work toward, taking care of yourself... rather than your partner.
Do You Need Couples Counseling? Ask Yourself 12 Questions and Find Out
Sure, things aren’t great… but are they bad enough to warrant couples counseling? Probably better to err on the side of caution, but if you’re really not sure, take this quick and easy self test designed to diagnose a relationship in distress.
When to Seek Couples Counseling - 5 Signs to Watch For
When might a couple benefit from couples counseling? Anytime! But if that's too vague, here are some indicators that a couple might use to gauge their potential need for couples counseling.
When to Seek Couples Counseling - 5 Signs to Watch For
When might a couple benefit from couples counseling? Anytime! But if that's too vague, here are some indicators that a couple might use to gauge their potential need for couples counseling.
Is Solo Couples Counseling Effective?
Is it worth the time and effort to go see a counselor for relationship issues - even without the other part of the relationship in attendance? Learn what you can do when your relationship is in trouble.
Couples Counseling – Dealing with Differing Intimacy Needs
What do we do when our needs for intimacy are different? One person needs more cuddling. The other wants more sex. One person wants more talking time. The other wants more kisses.
"My husband is an alcoholic... please, what can I do?"
Being trapped is most often a state of mind. Are you looking for answers that you know deep down don’t exist? The simple truth is hard to hear.
Anger in Relationships - Try a 7 Minute Writing Exercise That Reduces Escalating Fighting
In a stormy relationship? Do meaningless disagreements tend to grow into angry fights? If so, you’re dealing with something called escalating negative affect reciprocity… and it’s a relationship killer. Luckily, there’s a cure - read on to learn about a 7 minute writing exercise that will help you to see things from your partner’s perspective and which is clinically proven to increase relationship satisfaction.