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An Asset to Couple Intimacy: The Capacity “To Be Alone”
While the definition of intimacy may vary depending on the relationship, it is generally felt to be the “ authentic” connection between two people. As such, the connection reflects a mutuality of...
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When Couples Stop Talking: Reasons and Remedies
Most couples know the positive sounds of silence–the mutual experience of sharing time and space together without needing words. Be it walking the dog together, cooking side by side or listening to...
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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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An Unrecognized Reason That Married Men Have Affairs
Evolutionary theory, gender differences, stereotype, media myth and cultural expectations invite us to recognize that men have more sexual desire than women both in frequency and intensity, are wired...
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Forgiving Can Protect Your Health:Evidenced-Based Strategies
There are lots of reasons that we forgive. To err is human; to forgive, divine. (Alexander Pope) An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. (Kahil Gibran) While many reasons are ingrained...
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Why We Justify Regrettable Actions: A Psychological Perspective
In the light of the debated disclosure of the CIA interrogations, the racial tension ignited by the Ferguson shooting case of Michael Brown, the NFL’s handling of Domestic Violence and the continued...
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Will You Be Making Up or Breaking Up After Valentine’s Day?
It goes without saying that opportunities to celebrate the people we love are good things. In some ways Valentine’s Day is one of those opportunities. At the same time Valentine’s Day might also be...
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Trying to Change Your Partner? Pitfalls and Possibilities
If you ask people what they think would improve their relationship, their immediate answer is often a clear formulation of what changes their partner could or should make. Most people really don’t want...
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What Makes an Apology Effective in Healing?
The context of apologies are relationships, be they between friends, lovers, families or nations. The goal of an apology is reconciliation and restoration of bonds of love, trust, respect and humanity....
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Clashing With Your Partner? Try Anger Management for Couples
If you are human and you are in a relationship it is inevitable that at times you will be angry with your partner. I often suggest to couples that if you never hear the neighbors fighting, it probably...
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