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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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