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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?
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.
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: How and Why It Works So Well
Get research-proven behavioral couples therapy and learn how to create the kind of relationship that supports recovery instead of enabling abuse.
Starting a Relationship in Recovery: Tips and Cautions
New relationships can be stressful and place a burden on recovery. This article includes tips for reducing the stress of new relationships.
Pets Can Support Recovery - Are You Ready for Some Puppy Love?
Pets offer an anchor of unconditional love and helpful routine, but they're also a big responsibility. Would a dog or other pet help you stay clean and sober?
Four Ways to Be More Assertive in Your Relationship
Resentment grows when you always give-in. Save your relationship by taking care of yourself while staying considerate to your partner's needs. Here are 4 ways to get started.
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.
How to Handle a College Roommate Who Abuses Drugs or Alcohol
Your drug and alcohol using roommate disrupts your studies. What should you do? Here are 3 ways to handle this situation.
A How-to Guide to Finding Love Later in Life
High school and college provide instant social populations and ample dating opportunities most of the time. But what about after college? If a college graduate has only his new job, while his peer group has also moved on, where does he look for friendship, for dating and romance?
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.
How to Help a Teen Friend When She is Hurting Herself
Imagine you promised to keep a teen friend's secret about cutting or or another form of self harm...should you really stay quiet? No, you shouldn't. Here's what you need to do and why.
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.
Loving a Recovering Addict/Alcoholic. Tips for Navigating Your Newly Sober Relationship
As difficult as it is to love someone in the spiral of addiction, adjusting to life with a person in recovery is no small task either. Many of us found we lost ourselves while loving an addict/alcoholic. Now we start our own journey - one in which we focus on self.
Building an Intercultural Relationship - Overcoming Differences
All couples have differences. When the partners come from different cultures the differences are more pronounced. Learn about the 4 styles of intercultural relationships and about how to cope with (and celebrate!) differences.
Dealing With Passive Aggressive Behavior
Passive aggressive behavior is increasingly common in the mainstream and allows folks to be hurtful while also avoiding direct conflict. Holding others accountable for what they say and do allows us to reduce misunderstandings and attain more effective communication and relations.
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.
The CUDSAIR Method – A Framework to Defuse Anger and Resolve Relationship Disputes
If anger and fighting taints an important relationship are you willing to try something new that might help to reduce the tension and arguing? If you are, consider the CUDSAIR method. It’s a structured system for conflict resolution that minimizes personal attacks as it keeps the focus on finding a solution that’s acceptable to everyone.
After Infidelity – Can Marriage Counseling Help?
Although infidelity can end a marriage, it doesn’t have to. Read what the experts recommend you do after learning of an affair and, if you decide to reconcile, learn what steps you can take to rebuild your marriage after such a betrayal of trust.
Couples Counseling
Although most people only consider getting marriage or couples counseling in the face of very difficult relationship problems (which is a good time to consider couples counseling!) couples counselors can also help people even in satisfying relationships get more enjoyment out of their union.
12 Ways to Keep Your Family Healthy while Living with an Alcoholic or Drug Addicted Person
Addiction is a chronic disease with periods of active use and remission; and it’s also a personal disease which has whole family repercussions. If a person you love struggles with addiction, it is likely that you will experience periods in life during which your loved one struggles with alcohol or drug use. Here are 12 tips for keeping your family life as healthy and happy as possible during these times of use.
Make Up for the Past: 7 Ways to Strengthen a Romantic Relationship in Early Recovery
A relationship strengthening worksheet: once in recovery you can improve intimacy and relationship satisfaction and you can do it from day 1, and since a sober intimate partner can provide such great recovery support, making things right at home is one of the best things you can do for everyone involved.
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.