Tag Archives: passive aggressive

Teach Your Brain to Accept Healthy Love

September 9, 2011 – 10:19 am

Why are we attracted to other people? It’s a question for the ages, isn’t it? Usually, at the heart of the matter, we feel that our attraction to others is just something we can’t explain and can’t control. But something we’ve been talking about here should ring a bell with you now: what if your [...]

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Feeling Another Person’s Feelings Is The Magic Glue for Love

August 9, 2011 – 3:10 pm

We’ve all heard those old sayings, “Actions speak louder than words” and “Reading someone else’s body language.” But what do they really mean? How can we see those ideas as real satisfaction indicators within relationships?
All humans are social creatures at their core – even if those hermit-like people among us don’t realize it. As social [...]

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Relationships, Commitment and Distance in Love

August 2, 2011 – 3:08 pm

Is it possible to test how committed you are in a relationship? New studies are suggesting it is, but we’re not talking about couple’s “Survivor” or anything extreme like that. Instead, there’s new evidence that tells us how people learn to love and stay in love, how commitment depends on  mutual feelings, and why some [...]

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10 Rules for Friendly Fighting for Couples (Guest Post)

April 12, 2011 – 9:54 am

By MARIE HARTWELL-WALKER, ED.D.
For some people, this is a truly radical idea: There is no need to fight with your partner. Ever. Accusations, recriminations, character assassination, threats, name-calling, and cursing, whether delivered at top volume or with a quiet sarcastic sneer, damage a relationship, often irrevocably. Nobody needs to be a monster or to be treated monstrously. Nobody [...]

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Destroying love, one bit at the time

April 5, 2011 – 9:38 am

There is a slow way of killing the reciprocal love we all begin our married life with….composed of small, daily disappointments that will end up destroying reciprocal respect.
What are they? Here is the list of all communication activities that enforce the idea that one spouse is better than the other:

interruption of spouse’s explanation or story;
correcting [...]

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