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Heavy Lifting vs. Lack of Affection: Breaking the Loop

07.12.2024 10

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Tired of Feeling Like Roomates? Here's How to Reconnect

5 steps for getting the spark back in your relationship.

01.12.2024 30

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Trust Is a Decision, Not a Feeling

Why control and micromanaging don’t rebuild a relationship.

14.11.2024 10

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How to Raise Resilient Kids

Resiliency is learned, not innate. These 7 tips can help.

08.11.2024 20

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Factual vs. Emotionally Driven Couples: Are They Compatible?

27.10.2024 10

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Assertiveness: The Number One Key to Managing Relationships

Others can't read your mind, so you have to let them know what you need.

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Struggling to Solve a Problem? 6 Ways to Tackle It

What to do when you don't know what to do.

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A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy

Often, less is enough when it comes to talk therapy.

06.10.2024 100

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Frustrated With Your Parents? How to Upgrade the Relationship

You’re no longer a child: It’s time to let your parents know what you need.

28.09.2024 100

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Have a Hard Time Making Decisions? How to Be More Decisive

Life is about choosing: Time to clear out the obstacles.

21.09.2024 100

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How Do Rules Run Your Life?

Three types of rules: Are they working for you?

16.09.2024 100

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5 Reasons You're Battling Over Household Chores

Those arguments about household chores may really be about something else.

07.09.2024 100

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Relationships: 3 Coping Styles, 6 Dysfunctional Combinations

Our childhood ways of coping shape our adult relationships. Time to upgrade?

30.08.2024 100

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How to Talk to Your Therapist

Speak up. You’re the customer, don’t settle.

26.08.2024 100

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5 Most Common Causes of Divorces and Breakups

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Obsessing or Ruminating? Here’s How to Make It Stop

It's time to control your brain rather than allowing your brain to control you.

09.08.2024 100

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What If You Felt Your Life Works for You, Not Against You?

To stop being a victim, try a new perspective: See problems as lessons to learn.

01.08.2024 100

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Are You a Builder or Discoverer of Your Life?

Having different approaches to life can cause problems. Here's how to navigate.

27.07.2024 100

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7 Stages in the Death of a Relationship

Magical thinking, distraction, and not solving problems eventually catch up.

21.07.2024 100

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How to Deliver an Ultimatum

Making a demand? Have a concrete plan, and stick to your bottom lines.

13.07.2024 100

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Are You Sacrificing Too Much in Your Relationships?

Being a martyr can come with a cost.

06.07.2024 100

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Feeling Restless? Maybe You're Having a Developmental Crisis

Life crises are usually about making your external life match your internal one.

28.06.2024 100

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Stuck Solving a Problem? 3 Steps to Get Unstuck

Often our tough problem isn't really the problem itself, but our approach.

23.06.2024 100

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3 Ways to Manage Anxiety: What’s Yours?

19.06.2024 100

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What Money Problems Are Really About

Money problems are rarely what they seem—focus on the problem under the problem.

13.06.2024 100

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How Much Should You Tell Your Kids About Adult Problems?

07.06.2024 100

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How To Be Your Own Relationship Therapist: 7 Skills

Try looking at your problems and relationships through a different lens.

02.06.2024 60

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How to Work Together as a Team

Feeling like the other person has your back is key to feeling safe and close.

25.05.2024 100

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7 Reasons Why Relationships Fail

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Why Some of the Stories You Tell Yourself May Be Wrong

The explanations we create about our pasts often distort our present.

08.05.2024 100

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What "I Don't Feel Like It" Really Means: 6 Possibilities

01.05.2024 100

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The Key to Managing Relationships: Stop Destructive Patterns

The pattern is the enemy, not each other.

25.04.2024 100

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The Art of Compromise

Compromise is not about giving in.

19.04.2024 100

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8 Steps Towards Reshaping Your Life

Knowing why you fell is the key to getting back up.

12.04.2024 100

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Is Your Relationship Out of Balance? How to Get It Right

An unbalanced relationship leads to resentments. The key is working as a team.

29.03.2024 100

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Head vs. Heart: Decision-Making and Relationships

Each style has challenges and strengths; here’s how to meet in the middle.

23.03.2024 100

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6 Challenging Stages in a Couple’s Lifecycle

Unsolved problems don’t go away; they just accumulate.

16.03.2024 100

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Still Angry After All These Years? 4 Common Reasons

If you can’t release your anger, maybe it’s time to figure out why.

07.03.2024 100

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Are You Trapped in a Stale Relationship?

The problem could be a few arguments but no real connection.

01.03.2024 100

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5 Dangers and Opportunities for Second and Third Marriages

While challenging, these relationships offer opportunities for healing.

23.02.2024 100

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The 2 Most Common Relationship Problems

Conflict avoidance and anger are a common but deadly combination.

16.02.2024 30

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5 Stages in Your Relationship With Your Parents

You're always viewing your parent through changing lenses.

09.02.2024 100

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6 Most Important Things to Look for When You’re Dating

To find out if you’re compatible, you need to feel safe and be honest.

02.02.2024 100

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Time to Upgrade? 7 Questions to Assess the State of You

26.01.2024 60

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Why Patching Up Your Relationship Doesn’t Work

Crises are opportunities to make fundamental and needed changes.

19.01.2024 100

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When You're Not Who You Were: How To Start a New Chapter

8 steps toward reshaping your life.

16.01.2024 100

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Stop Building Your Life Around the Reactions of Others

The key to feeling good about yourself is focusing on what you can control.

09.01.2024 100

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5 Faces of Anxiety That You May Not Recognize

Anxiety shows up as more than just worry.

03.01.2024 100

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Want to Change How You Feel? Change What You Do.

If you keep doing the same things, you'll keep feeling the same way.

20.12.2023 100

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6 Keys to Successful Intimate Relationships

Be a team, be generous, be realistic, and be appreciative.

14.12.2023 100

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