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Talk Your Way Into Better Relationships
Does your child bolt when you walk into the room? What about your spouse, do they enjoy being around you? What if I were to tell you that you could improve your relationships by changing the way you talk to the people you love? Simply changing the way that you phrase a concern and your…
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Understanding and Managing Anger in Your Relationships
Imagine you’re on a football team, and someone else takes credit for the goal you scored. Or maybe a friend keeps canceling plans with you, a family member doesn’t listen to your advice, or your partner doesn’t understand your feelings. In each of these cases, you might feel anger. Anger is an emotion as familiar…
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Ten Ways to Revive the Connection With Your Partner
If you’ve been with the same person for a long time, it’s normal to feel like you’re drifting apart and feel less connected to them. People transition, embark on new careers, develop new interests, and face new challenges. The list goes on, without end. To cope with these changes, we often sacrifice something and it’s…
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Preparing for the Impact of Retirement On Your Relationship
Many couples look forward to retirement, believing it will result in more time for travel, hobbies, and family visits. While most retiring couples adjust to this new life stage relatively quickly, they may not always anticipate how retirement may change their relationship. Even couples with a happy marriage can experience bumps on the road to…
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Families and Shift Work
Family members who live with a shift worker have their own set of challenges and frustrations. Children might find it difficult to understand why Mom or Dad is at work when important school activities are scheduled, when their sports team is playing, or if extra help is needed with a tough homework assignment. Couples may…
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How Does a Meaningful Relationship Happen?
Each of us has our ideas of what a meaningful relationship is. Many of us expect the thrill, passion, and devotion of our early dating days to endure a lifetime. But in today’s busy and stressful world, romantic relationships can conflict with the realities of stressful jobs, money problems, kids, and housework. What social media…
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Ten Communication Tips to Have Better Arguments
If you find yourselves arguing the same issues repeatedly and not getting any closer to a solution, or small conflicts quickly escalate into heated shouting matches in which one or both of you “lose it”, these ten tips for better communication will help. 1. Pay attention to body language when you talk When you’re in…
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How To Set Goals For Your Relationship
For a successful relationship and for your love to flourish, you need to put in a lot of effort in how you care for each other, love each other, and communicate with each other. And you need to set goals together. By setting actionable goals for your relationship, you keep your relationship fresh and create…
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How To Plan The Perfect Date Night
So you want to plan the perfect date night? Great! But where do you begin? A well-planned date night can help renew and deepen your connection with your partner by helping you discover things about each other and tapp into new depths of intimacy. Though the classic ‘dinner and movie’ has become the staple date…