As teens, your relationships come from your family, friends, casual acquaintances from school and romantic interests. It’s important to develop healthy relationships with everyone you interact with on a day to day basis. Healthy relationships, not just the romantic ones, include these core values: Communication: Talking openly with one another, without aggression or hostility Respect: …
It is not uncommon for domestic violence survivors to feel hesitant, skeptical or cautious about establishing new intimate relationships. This is perfectly normal since you carry with you the knowledge and ...
Your sister/best friend/coworker/neighbor discloses to you that he or she is having “relationship difficulties.” With a bit more digging, you come to learn these difficulties are actually domestic abuse&mda...
Dan Sullivan shares simple habits he’s practiced for 40 years to always have credibility with his most important relationships.
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You often hear of domestic violence as it occurs in a heterosexual relationship, but statistics show that abuse occurs in the same frequency and severity among the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu...
These rules were inspired by Darwin's guidance to living a richer life.
Crowdsourced relationship advice from over 1,500 people who have been living "happily ever after." Learn how they make it work.
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by progressive damage to nerve cells and their connections. The result is devastating and includes memory loss, impaired thinking, difficulties with verbal communication, and even personality changes. A person wit...
Both husbands and wives can benefit from this simple technique.
Each week, clients come into my therapy office with problems with sexual connection. Most of these people are eager to get quick tips on things that can do to sexually reconnect. I get it. There’s a lot of frustration. There is sometimes even fear that this sense of sexual disconnection will only get worse. By …
The idea might seem a bit absurd—someone can actually be in an abusive relationship and not even recognize it? Unfortunately, it happens more often than you think. It’s easy to spot an abusive relatio...
New research shows how couples can learn to better read each other.
“We bicker all the time, she’s so critical of me and I don’t feel like I am doing anything right....
Take a minute to think about the last fight you had with someone. It could have been your friend, your spouse or a family member. Got it
What was it that got you so mad? Believe it or not, what really got under your skin may not have been the obvious—like the fact your husband still hasn’t completed that one chore or that your mom still tries to control you. What really bugs you about those things, is a certain message you receive…
By Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW
In his book The Intentional Family, Bill Dougherty discusses “rituals of connection” as an important tool for successf...
... and why your unconscious already knows if you'll make it.