Relationships & Love Articles

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• Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness
  The thesis of Dr. Marsha Lucas’s new book is simple: By changing your brain, you can change your relationship. In fact, the title says it all: Rewire Your Brain for Love. The basic idea at ...
• Sexuality and Marital Intimacy
  A good marriage is best friends with passion. Without the passion, you just have a friendship. For some, ...
• Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
  What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time?  The very premise of Two ...
• Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
  Now in its fifth edition since its original publication in 1975, Barry and Emily McCarthy’s Sexual Awareness is still the go-to book for couples who want to learn more about healthy sexuality. Each of the ...
• How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
  We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
• Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders
  Compassion for Annie: A Healthy Response to Mental Disorders is a user-friendly book aimed at individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) and those who love them. Dowell writes from the layperson’s perspective and covers ...
• What Death Can Teach Us about Life
  I attended a funeral the other week for the husband of one of my colleagues. He was a relatively ...
• How Can I Improve Intimacy in My Marriage?
  It has become too common a refrain: There isn't enough time. This is the excuse put forth ...
• Problems of Codependents
  Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
• Symptoms of Codependency
  The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
• Do You Love a Narcissist?
  It’s easy to fall in love with narcissists. Their charm, talent, success, beauty, and charisma cast a spell, ...
• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)
  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How ...
• 5 Relationship Myths
  Many of us have read the fairy tales and seen the movies. There’s the handsome prince who comes to save the day ...
• How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
  When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?  Don MacMannis, ...
• Relationship Tips for Those Rocky First Few Years of Marriage
  Many couples assume that if you live together, ...
• Being a Grownup When Your Kid Hates You
  This column tells a story based on a composite of real-life situations in therapy to represent both teen and ...
• 7 Reasons to Seek Marriage Counseling
  Marriage rates supposedly are on the decline. While it's an oft-repeated statistic that 50 percent of first marriages end in ...
• The Myth of the High Rate of Divorce
  A few years ago, my wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary. It is the second ...
• Improving the Odds for Successful Second Marriages
  Divorce rates have long been overstated, and that for more educated couples who are over 25 when they marry, ...
• Who Is a Sex Addict?
  Increasing numbers of men and women are seeking clinical treatment for sexual addiction. This is partly the result ...
• Hypersexuality: Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
  Sexual addiction or hypersexuality is defined as a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy, often in combination with the ...
• Young Families Face New Problems
  Ed and Carol were seeking help for a number of common complaints: poor communication, ...
• Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
  Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
• When Your Young Adult Son Wants to Sleep with His Girlfriend in Your House
  My wife and I talk to our son Scott about every ...
• What You Need to Consider Before Having Kids
  Having a baby is a big decision that requires couples to do some serious self-reflecting ...