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How Do You Know If You’re Ready For Marriage?
A Gottman-trained therapist offers thirteen reflective questions on vision, friendship and conflict to help you judge whether you are ready to marry.
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Three Pieces Of Marriage Advice You Should Actually Listen To
Inside most of us is the yearning desire to find that one person with whom we can spend the rest of our…
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How To Show Your Partner They’re Loved, Based On Their Love Language
Using Gary Chapman's five love languages, this piece suggests simple ways to show care in the form your spouse most readily recognises.
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I may be standing on top of a mountain in New Zealand, 7,000 miles away from my husband, but I don’t think…
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Relationships are hard. They take a lot of dedication, focus, and work. Finding the right person to settle down with can often…
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Tinder Users Have Lower Self-Esteem: Study
Put yourself on Tinder, and you might end up with a date—or a crippling case of negative thoughts about yourself.
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Gratitude and the Nurturing of Relationships
Two psychologists explain how noticing and thanking each other for everyday kindness keeps a relationship healthy and guards against slow resentment.
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In November this year my wife Jessie and I will celebrate five years of marriage.
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The Four Horsemen: The Antidotes
The Gottman Institute pairs each of four destructive conflict habits with a practical antidote that couples can use in the middle of…
from The Gottman Institute2 min read
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As a psychiatrist my job is to read people, not just what they say, but who they are. Interpreting verbal and nonverbal…
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This Is The Truth About Fear
Fear is something we learn to live with; whether it is fear of a conversation, fear of a choice, fear of hurt,…
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