Dr. Richard Nicastro's Articles in Relationships

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  • 5 Loving Actions that Will Keep Your Love Alive
    Today’s fast-paced lifestyles often don’t leave room for couples to nurture the intimacy that is crucial for healthy relationships. Learn how to incorporate simple, loving steps into your daily life that will protect your romantic union against the stresses that so often erode relationships.
  • A Lesson in Forgiveness: Why You Should Give Your Partner the Benefit of the Doubt
    Giving your partner the benefit of the doubt is a powerful (yet often overlooked) way to keep your relationship strong and vibrant. This article discusses appropriate instances when this attitude works, as well as times when it should be avoided.
  • A Simple Formula to Keep Love and intimacy Alive
    One of the most effective ways to keep love alive and deepen intimacy is to find ways to make your spouse or partner feel cared for and important. Couples often neglect this vital part of their relationship. This article describes simple ways to make appreciation a regular part of your marriage or relationship.
  • After Marriage: 4 surefire ways to kill the passion in your relationship
    Anyone in a long-term marriage or relationship understands the challenges of keeping romance and passion alive. However, you may hold certain beliefs that can actually drain the passion from your relationship. Discover some common harmful attitudes towards sex in committed relationships and revamp your thinking.
  • Are you affair-prone? 5 conditions that can lead to an affair
    There are certain conditions that can make you or your partner vulnerable to having an affair. This article examines five conditions that couples should be aware of in order to help their marriage or relationship remain immune to the dangers of an affair.
  • Are your friends hurting your relationship?
    Couples who lack support from others often feel isolated and less satisfied with their relationship. No matter how strong your marriage or relationship might seem, you and your partner can benefit from having a strong relationship-support network. Discover why you should start building a relationship-support system today.
  • Avoid these relationship traps and build a stronger relationship
    Many couples fail to give their marriage or relationship the attention it requires to remain healthy. Discover the common causes of relationship neglect and how to overcome this widespread relationship problem.
  • Build a Better Relationship: Use Your Emotions to Deepen Intimacy
    Emotions are an important part of every life and therefore an important part of every relationship. Learning to use your emotions as a tool to create a deeper connection with your partner can take your relationship to the next level.
  • Commitment: The essential ingredient in your relationship
    All couples (married and unmarried) face an enormous challenge: How to stay devoted to one another throughout the life of your relationship, even when early enthusiasm and euphoria naturally wane. Discover why commitment is essential to the health of your relationship.
  • Communication Clinic: 5 Ways to Get Your Husband to Listen
    Learning to effectively communicate with your spouse or partner is essential to a healthy relationship. Communication is the foundation to your marriage. Discover five simple communication methods that will increase the likelihood that your spouse will listen to your message.
  • Deep Connections, Vulnerable Selves: How vulnerability enhances intimacy
    Although emotional vulnerability (sharing your innermost dreams and fears with your partner) can be daunting, it is a necessary step in order to achieve the deepest possible intimate connection with your mate. This article discusses the importance of peeling back superficial layers to reveal your truest self in your relationship or marriage.
  • Discover What Your Marriage Is Missing: Your Relationship Check-up Is Long Overdue
    Couples and couples counselors have not adopted the philosophy of the regularly scheduled check-up for relationships. Most often, the approach is to wait for problems to arise and then to seek help. This article highlights the benefits of a preventive medicine approach to relationships. A relationship check-up can help you build a stronger marriage or relationship before significant problems arise.
  • Emotional Affair: Have You Entered a Danger Zone?
    An emotional affair often occurs long before a physical affair. Everyone is vulnerable to heading down the path of emotional infidelity and because of this, you need to be prepared. Discover the top warning signs so you can protect your marriage or relationship from the danger zones of an emotional affair.
  • Fear of Intimacy: Discover how a fear of intimacy affects your relationship
    A fear of intimacy is one of the largest hurdles couples face in creating a healthy relationship. However, this term is often misunderstood and does not help couples understand what lies behind these fears. This article describes how a fear of intimacy might be negatively impacting your marriage or relationship.
  • How to Deepen Intimacy through the Power of Empathic Listening
    A frequent complaint of the couples I work with is that one or both partners feel the other is no longer really listening. Learn about the different levels of listening that occur in relationships and discover the listening skills you and your partner will need to deepen intimacy and create a stronger union.
  • Intimacy 101: Is this Intimacy or Dependency?
    Intimacy (the emotional, physical and spiritual connection you and your partner create together) is the greatest gift and the biggest challenge of committed relationships. When you remain too separate from your partner, intimacy suffers, yet the danger also exists that you will lose yourself in intimacy's embrace. Learn the different between intimacy and unhealthy dependency, so that you can experience the joys of an intimate relationship.
  • Love, Laughter and Marriage: Why Laughter is Vital to a Healthy Relationship
    Couples who enjoy successful relationships incorporate laughter and playfulness into their everyday lives. Learn why laughter is so important to you and your relationship, and get some practical suggestions for incorporating more playfulness into you marriage or relationship.
  • Marriage advice: 5 reasons marriages end in divorce
    In order to have a successful and fulfilling marriage or relationship, couples need to be aware of why relationships fail. Discover five reasons marriages fail and how to prevent your marriage from becoming a statistic.
  • Marriage Advice: Want to build a stronger marriage? Watch your mouth!
    A healthy marriage relies upon healthy communication. The words you choose each and every day have a profound impact on your spouse/partner and can either strengthen or weaken your marriage. Discover which words to use and which to stay away from if you want a stronger relationship.
  • Marriage advice: Why love is not enough--does your partner still like you?
    When relationships are new, couples act in ways that nurture feelings of mutual like. As marriages and relationships mature, couples forget how important liking one another is to the overall health of their relationship. Discover how to bring like back into your relationship.
  • Marriage Alert! Can Your Relationship Survive The Financial Crisis?
    There is a hidden casualty of this financial mess that doesn't seem to be getting any press: Marriages and relationships are more vulnerable than every during these uncertain, stressful economic times. Learn how to protect your most valued asset: Your relationship.
  • Marriage help: Are your arguments helping or hurting your marriage?
    Marital conflict is a natural part of any long-term relationship. Conflict can be healthy and strengthen your relationship or it can be unhealthy and weaken it. Discover if you and your partner argue in healthy or unhealthy ways.
  • Marriage Help: Coping with a Spouse's Illness
    The impact of a significant illness can have a dramatic and unexpected impact on your marriage or relationship. What was once familiar and comforting can give way to a frightening and erratic reality. This article describes five ways a serious illness can impact your marriage or relationship.
  • Marriage Help: How to Prevent a Marriage Crisis
    All relationships have to potential to enter into a debilitating crisis. Protect your marriage/relationship by discovering the common causes of a marriage/relationship crisis.
  • Marriage Help: One Question Couples Should Avoid
    Questions have the power to positively influence people but questions also have the power to shut people down emotionally and halt communication. Discover one common question couples should avoid and what should be asked instead that will enhance communication.
  • Marriage problems: Are power struggles destroying your relationship?
    Couples often get into power struggles because they fail to properly consult with each other when faced with important decisions. The need to feel in control often creates major hurdles for intimacy and can prevent you from building a harmonious relationship. This article describes ways to help you and your partner begin working as a team and overcome power struggles.
  • Marriage slumps, relationship ruts and other painful realities about love
    Many couples have unrealistic expectations about love and romance—and life doesn't necessarily prepare couples for the challenges inherent to long-term relationships. You will discover twelve truths about love that will better prepare you for the realities of what's ahead.
  • Men and Intimacy: 5 Myths about men, love and intimacy
    This article explores the common myths about men and intimacy—in particular, the belief that men do not value emotional connection. Learn about the hurdles that make emotional expression challenging for so many men and discover the central way in which men connect with their partners.
  • Relationship Advice for Men: How to be Open to Intimacy
    Couples counselors are well aware of the struggles men have with emotional intimacy. Discover why so many men struggle with intimacy and what is needed to open yourself up to the gifts of intimacy.
  • Relationship Advice for Women: Build a Feelings-Friendly Relationship for Your Man
    It is well known that men and women differ on how they communicate emotions. Learn how to build a feelings-friendly marriage/relationship to help your man become more emotionally expressive.
  • Relationship Advice: Stop the Negativity and Build a Better Relationship
    Couples are often blindsided by the negative feelings that are part of every relationship. These feelings can act like a negativity magnet that seeks similar energy. Find out how to use positive feelings to overcome these negative patterns.
  • Relationship Advice: What Is Needed For Deeper Emotional Intimacy
    Emotional intimacy and connection must be worked at in order to create and maintain a fulfilling relationship. Learn the conditions needed for a deep emotional connection with your spouse/partner.
  • Relationship Basics: Have your forgotten the fundamentals of a great relationship?
    There are many reasons why relationships lose their footing, but often couples who end up in trouble lose sight of certain relationship basics. And once those basics are forgotten, a formerly-solid relationship is at risk for spiraling out of control. Discover seven relationship basics that should never be forgotten.
  • Relationship Help: 3 steps to becoming a better listener
    Couples often complain that their marriage problems or relationship troubles result from a breakdown in communication. This article highlights three steps you can take to become a more reliable and effective listener—a fundamental skill needed for intimacy and a successful relationship.
  • Relationship help: 5 essentials to keep your relationship fresh
    Many relationship problems and marital issues can be avoided. Five essential, easy-to-implement relationship skills that can strengthen your relationship are highlighted.
  • Relationship Help: 5 Tips to Survive And Thrive This Holiday Season
    While the holidays are supposed to be a time of celebration, many couples experience significant marital/relationship stress this time of year. Learn five tips to protect your relationship this holiday season.
  • Relationship Help: Growing Your Relationship Throughout the New Year
    Couples often set goals for their marriage/relationship during the New Year but fail to keep their motivation going throughout the entire year. Learn practical tips on how to keep your relationship goals alive all year long.
  • Relationship Help: How Your Expectations Shape Your Relationship
    Your relationship expectations have a dramatic impact on your behavior and marriage/relationship. Discover the profound ways your expectations shape your experiences, your partner and your relationship.
  • Relationship Help: Transform Your Marriage With a Question
    Therapists use questions to help clients develop insights and change unwanted behaviors. Learn how to use the power of questioning to build a stronger marriage/relationship.
  • Relationship Help: Why Do I Get So Upset with My Partner?
    At times our spouse/partner brings out the best in us and, at times, the worst. Discover why you respond so intensely with your spouse/partner and learn how to gain greater control over your emotional reactions.
  • Relationship Needs: Are Your Needs Hurting Your Relationship?
    Getting your relationship needs met is central to feeling fulfilled in your marriage/relationship. Problems arise when couples confuse the idea that their needs should be taken seriously with the belief that they are entitled to have each need met without compromise. Discover what's needed for a mature and healthy union.
  • The Dance of Intimacy: 5 Key Steps for a Closer Relationship
    All marriages and relationships involve cycles of closeness and distance, intimacy and loneliness. This article examines five important ingredients that you can bring to your relationship to help create a more fulfilling connection with your spouse or partner.
  • The Key Ingredient for Deep Emotional Intimacy
    Feeling emotionally safe with your partner is an essential ingredient to deeper, more fulfilling intimacy. Discover the golden rule of how to create emotional safety and deeper intimacy in your marriage/relationship.
  • The truth about relationship advice and why you should be skeptical
    There are many marriage and relationship advice services and products online that make dramatic claims about what they can do for your relationship. This article explores the downside to over-hyped sales pitches and the importance of maintaining a level of healthy skepticism.
  • The Ultimate Holiday Gift: Nurture your marriage this holiday season
    Whether you're feeling totally overwhelmed or slightly frustrated by the frenetic pace of the holiday season, it's easy to lose perspective about what's most important and valuable to you during this holiday season--your relationships. This article offers a straightforward tip to avoid this common holiday pitfall.

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