Posted: Print Article Nicole Lavonne Smith is a great friend of mine. In fact, our kids are great friends. One day, when I was over at her place, we were discussing how exhausting it is to fight with your spouse. She confessed to me that she and her fiancé use something called "talk breaks."
SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com Anyone who's been married a long time will tell you: If you want to keep the peace in your marriage, it's better to be happy than right. In other words, keeping mum on the stuff the bugs you can go a long way w...
Posted: Print Article 1. You know what your partner needs to feel loved -- even if those needs are different than yours. When it comes to finding "The One" -- that one special person and relationship that will last a lifetime -- the conventional wisdom is simply, "When you know, you know."
How happy are you with the life you've created? Are you working a job you hate or building a career that resonates? If you haven't dealt with your own happiness all by yourself, stop reading now. If, however, you know what you want, this is for you....
Infographics to me are amazing. A new and interesting way of digesting information in a fun format. Sometimes you don't want to read a long blog post which is why I occasionally post an interesting infographic which I think you will enjoy. This one certainly caught my attention: The science behind a happy relationship.
Where are you in your relationships right now? Are you happy? Unhappy? Are you looking for someone? Have you been with someone for a long time? Wherever you are, here are some universal ideas that can help you create greater love, connection and joy in your relationships: 1. Practice Positive Projection.
When it comes down to it, planning your big day is not just about your "vision". For most couples, it is about making your vision come to life in a way that doesn't pull too hard on your purse strings. This can be a challenging task for most couples to conquer.
Darlings, if there's one thing I know in this life, it's that you must invest in your relationships every single day. Not a day goes by that I don't sit back and marvel at how lucky I am to have found Shelly. Our lives are filled with several types of relationships.
Posted: Print Article After her husband died, I watched my 80-year-old next door neighbor live out halfhearted days in quiet sobs. During one of my visits to her home, she confessed that she spent equal parts of her marriage frustrated as she did happy.
Family involvement: As close as you may be with your family, remember that you are the one in charge of your relationship and its status. Even if your younger siblings are planning weddings and choosing kids' names, don't let their timetable pressure you to commit to a relationship just to keep up pace.
CHARLIE: At its best, psychotherapy creates a warm and understanding relationship through which we face ourselves and our feelings honestly in a way that allows us to heal from past wounds and accept ourselves as we are. It is the therapist's very being, rather than her philosophy or orientation, that promotes this process.
Posted: And you thought the wise Jack Donaghy was just a character he played. You don't have to tell Alec Baldwin that relationships are tough; he's been there. Now in his new web series, "Alec Baldwin's Love Ride," Baldwin takes what he's learned and passes that knowledge onto younger, less experienced couples, whether they asked for it or not.
Posted: Print Article Felisha and Don, a couple from just outside Detroit, have been married for 13 years and are in the midst of a relationship crisis. Their past mistakes -- including Felisha's cold behavior and Don's emotional affair with a woman he met online -- have created distance and resentment in their marriage, and neither one is sure how to move forward.
Has he entered his third decade of life without a solitary long-term relationship? Or are things only so-so in bed? "Eek. Red flag!" Okay, not so fast. Having a checklist of classic deal breakers may not be your best strategy for ultimately winding up with a winner.
Reader Distance Makes The Heart Confused writes, I am a single mom of four girls who range in age from 5-18. I am twice divorced and am currently In a long distance relationship with a great guy. We have been together for a year and a half and he has two children.
I was in a coffee shop the other day and I overheard two women talking about their respective relationships. One was exasperated and losing patience. She couldn't understand why her boyfriend needed to hear her say that she loved him so much.
Oh hi! B and I really weren't expecting anyone other than ourselves in our relationship, but make yourself at home, I guess. This is the Trophy Case of Previous Fights and Unresolved Issues.
Posted: Print Article As we get older there are certain things we shouldn't tolerate in a relationship. Our lives are complicated enough; filled with careers, family, friends, our plates are full to overflowing. Add a new relationship to the mix and you have one more issue with which you have to deal.
When assessing benchmarks for success and relationship deal breakers, it is important to discern the true elements that make up the ideal package versus what is superficial. The visions that we conjure up of a Prince Charming or "perfect" woman may end up being quite different than the person we fall in love with.
For some people, perhaps, having an open marriage is a concession. Perhaps cheating comes to mind; you imagine that after infidelity, a couple has made a new vision of their marriage. These are marriages that "make- do" after the scar tissue has healed.
This is the third part of the interfaith relationships segment. The first part is interfaith relationships/marriages explained giving you all the details of what being in this relationship means. The second part begins to answer some of the questions that arise with being in an interfaith relationship, for instance - so what if we're not the same religion?
Whether or not you share each others' passions or life ambitions, when you truly care about someone you want to see them succeed and be happy in whatever they love. This means standing beside them, not in their way, when they dedicate effort towards pursuing a goal.
Posted: Print Article Scientists spend a lot of time figuring out what makes people happy, especially when it comes to love and relationships. Keep in touch! Check out HuffPost Weddings on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Thanks to the folks at Happify -- a website dedicated to the science of happiness -- all that wonderful scientific mumbo-jumbo has been distilled into an infographic.
We all look at life from our own point of view. It's human nature. But if you want a successful relationship, you need to try seeing yourself through your partner's eyes. Think about one very important question: How much fun are you to live with? That may sound silly, but I'm not kidding.
If someone were to write the story of the summer I met Christopher, I would dismiss it as cliché. As under-funded graduate students, we had both taken temporary jobs at a summer school in Rhode Island. Our makeshift office was set up in a dormitory perched on the shore of Mount Hope Bay.
Depending on who you are, talking about money with a partner may be taboo, acceptable, or somewhere in between. In many cultures and families, it is not okay to talk about money. In others, it's fine to speak openly about it.
Posted: 1. He's not your usual type. We all have those non-negotiable standards when it comes to relationships -- habits, qualities, characteristics, details and so on -- that we will simply not stand for. However, it's important reevaluate these from time to time in order to make sure you're not automatically ruling out someone who could totally be husband material.
Posted: Print Article If your relationship is struggling, depression may be the culprit. A resounding body of research has shown how closely depression is related to relationships in a cyclical fashion: Depression affects the quality of your relationships, and the features of your relationship can affect your level of depression (1, 2, 3).
Some lousy relationships we just can't quit. And often we don't know where our partner begins and we end, which can create pain and chaos. If our partner criticizes or walls himself off or lies or cheats or mopes or is just generally shitastic we often think it's our fault.
When I first met my husband, I tried to ignore him, even though he fascinated me. We met at a dinner party; I thought my friends were trying to match-make us and being the mature and sophisticated woman I am, I avoided him for the entire evening....
1. Create a safe environment where you can trust and share openly without fear. How many of us have learned how to build loving relationships? Where did we learn? At home? At school? There is an art and science to building strong relationships.
It's the month of love and whether we are in a romantic relationship or not, tending to and cultivating the most important relationship in our lives -- the one we have with ourselves -- is what brings us true happiness and is the foundation from which we create beautiful relationships with others.
A few days ago, I happened upon a person asking a question that gets asked very often in non-monogamous or polyamorous groups: What is the one thing you need to make a poly relationship work? Of course, everyone had varying answers. You need good communication. Trust. Love. Oh, and my favourite: self-worth.
