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Valentine’s Day: Whether You Like It or Not, Have a Plan

You think Valentine’s Day is a commercial opportunity designed by vendors? Think again, if your spouse doesn’t agree. If you miss the world-is-observing-love-for-a-whole-day without marking the love in your relationship, regardless or your sentiments, you will be saying, “I don’t care enough about us to put in a modicum of effort for one measly date. [...]

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9 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Asking Her to Marry You

It’s time to get introspective! By taking the time to honestly assess your feelings and your motivations, you will be able to ascertain your degree of readiness for marriage. Ask yourself the following questions: 1.  What do I love about my partner? As a psychotherapist specializing in couples and marital therapy, one of the first [...]

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How Normal is Your Relationship?

Everyone wants to be in a romantic relationship, and everyone has an idea in their head of what the perfect relationship should be. However, most of the time, we end up in relationships that never resemble what we thought we would have, and we start to wonder whether or not this is okay. Usually, the [...]

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Breaking Up: Avoid These Seven Scenarios

Breaking up is hard to do, but it need not leave lifetime scars. Think about how your last relationship ended. Was it a mutual decision or did things end on bad terms? Do you know how to end a relationship in a way that will honor the love that you and your partner once felt [...]

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5 Quick Tips for Breaking Up a Good Relationship

Relationship Advice – We all want different things out of life and relationships and you may be one of those people who like to sabotage a good thing. So I made up a list that I know will work for anyone on a mission to break up a good relationship. It’s really simple; just five [...]

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7 Ways to Nurture Your Relationship

Once you’ve found “the one”, a lifetime of love hardly seems like long enough. And since dating royally blows, you’ll want to make your relationship last. But how? Is there a magic formula? In short, the answer is no, but psychology has some ideas. According to Psychology Today, love is one of the most widely [...]

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One Big Mistake Married Couples Make: They Stop Pursuing Each Other

By far, one of the easiest ways for couples to kill their marriage is when they stop pursuing one another. Your goal everyday should be to work just as hard to keep your spouse as you did to win him/her in the first place. Let me explain. Before marriage you put a LOT of effort into [...]

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Author of ‘Magnetic Partners’ Gives 5 Keys to Long-Lasting Relationships

I began to think more deeply about “the grass is always greener…” concept after watching Woody Allen’s terrific movie Midnight in Paris. Barring sex addicts and neurotic, never-happy people, I think it’s safe to say that the grass will always seem greener somewhere else if you’re with the wrong person. So, based on my experience—both [...]