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The Most Common Stressors Hurting Modern Couples

Common stressors hurting modern couples

Hits : 288,698 Relationships have never been easy. Two people with diverse personalities, separate aspirations, and their own plans for the future have to do a lot of work to stay on the same page. Joint decision-making is one way that many couples aim to reduce strain on their relationship, but it doesn’t necessarily solve … Read more

Fix it . . . Or Forget It?

Hits : 288,361 When there has been a break in trust within a relationship, and you have been deceived or betrayed, there is usually a part of you that wonders if it makes sense to stay and work on your relationship or leave. We are so angry and in so much pain, it seems impossible … Read more

Living Inside Out

Hits : 288,354 Obliged to stay at home during this all-encompassing pandemic, most of find ourselves in solitude with lots of unusual time on our hands. Without our typical array of expectations, responsibilities and distractions, we are left with the endless flow of thoughts and emotions inside our head. Some of us dislike this up … Read more

The Yoga of Relationships

Hits : 288,329 Like yoga, our relationships require us to be intentional and to stretch beyond ourselves. Why would we ever venture outside the limits of our personal comfort zones unless love actually demanded this of us? In fact, the hidden gift in relationships is the emotional and spiritual growth they can offer us. For … Read more

Embracing Change: The Key to a Healthy Relationship

The Key to a Healthy Relationship

Hits : 288,544 One of the most common factors among long-lasting marriages is the recognition that there have actually been multiple marriages between the same two people. That is the premise of Ada Calhoun’s 2017 article for the New York Times. Calhoun, along with an innumerable list of fellow authors, argues that change is the … Read more

Are You Having Enough Sex?

Hits : 288,290 Please realize that if you and your partner are happy with your sex life, that is all that counts. Don’t worry about the national average of sexual frequency. Don’t feel repressed if you don’t have a trapeze hanging in your bedroom. Don’t feel inferior to your best friend who says she has … Read more

Letting Go of Perfectionism

Hits : 288,355 Being perfect may not be all it is cracked up to be.So many of us spend all of our time trying to live up to the standards that we set for ourselves.Often times, those standards are so high that it takes far too much time and energy to live up to them … Read more