healthy relationships

Making a Great First Impression

By the Mind Tools Content Team Source: https://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/FirstImpressions.htm Getting Off to a Good Start It takes just a quick glanc…

Turn Towards Instead of Away

Zach Brittle, LMHCApril 1, 2015 Source: https://www.gottman.com/blog/turn-toward-instead-of-away/ How do you turn towards instead of away? In order to…

120 Deep Conversation Topics & Questions

Susan Box Mann, April 10th, 2019 Source: https://icebreakerideas.com/deep-conversation-topics/ Sometimes our relationship with someone else needs a bo…

Do Opposites Attract or Similarities?

The Gottman Institute, April 19, 2021 Source: https://www.gottman.com/blog/do-opposites-attract-or-similarities/ Your partner doesn’t always have to t…

This Is Love

By Yasmin Mogahed Source: https://www.yasminmogahed.com/2012/01/03/this-is-love/ And so there are some who spend their whole lives seeking. Sometimes …

The Stigmatisation of Disabled Muslims

Disabled Muslim Matrimony19th March 2020 Source: https://themuslimvibe.com/muslim-lifestyle-matters/health/the-stigmatisation-of-disabled-muslims We m…

The Secret to Love is Just Kindness

Emily Esfahani Smith, June 12, 2014 Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ever-after/372573/ Science says lasting relatio…

8 Challenges Every Marriage Will Face

Source: https://www.susanme.com/8-challenges-every-marriage-will-face/ I have seen many newlyweds start their lives together under the blissful delusi…

How Marriage Changes Your Personality

By David Ludden Ph.D. Mar 15, 2018 |  Reviewed by Jessica Schrader https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201803/how-marr…

Understanding Must Precede Advice

Kyle Benson, May 24, 2017 Source: https://www.gottman.com/blog/understanding-must-precede-advice/ Learn how to use conflict as an opportunity to under…

Mindfulness Tips for Hard Conversations

Gillian Florence Sanger, October 27, 2020 Source: https://www.gottman.com/blog/mindfulness-tips-for-hard-conversations/ You can do more than “agree to…