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The Burden of The Perfect Partner: A Closer Look
If you are looking for the perfect partner or trying to be one – think twice. Perfection is painfully unrealistic for individuals and emotionally costly for couples. While there is no doubt that...
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Are You Invalidating Your Partner – Without Realizing It?
Probably the hardest things to change are the things we don’t realize we’re doing – like invalidating our partner. Thanks to a plethora of self-help books on relationships, most partners, whether...
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‘Friends With Benefits’ or Friends With Complications?
According to the urban dictionary, ‘friends with benefits’ are defined as “Two friends who have a sexual relationship without being emotionally involved.” Wait a minute… didn’t someone say that once...
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How Different Are the Private and Public Versions of Your Relationship?
Almost everyone has felt the shock of hearing that a couple that seemed “so great together” was breaking up. It can also be just as shocking to observe the public interaction of a couple only to...
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Why Do Married Women Have Affairs?
We have once again been faced with a high profile marriage scandal. This time the lovers included the CIA director, a married and much decorated military officer and his biographer, a married women,...
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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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Positive Support in a Successful Marriage:New Findings
Recently the American Psychological Association reported the latest findings on what makes love last in a marriage. The results of one series of studies by Shelley Gable and colleagues were...
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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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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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In a Relationship-Love Means Being Able to Say “NO”
Can you say NO to your partner? Can you tolerate hearing NO? In a relationship, the freedom to say NO may be one of the most important dynamics your share. If there is no space for NO, there really is...
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