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“Is This All There Is?”

4 ways for couples to resist the lament of the COVID era. It’s like a mid-life crisis, except that it is happening to adults of all ages,...

Three Destructive Dynamics to Recognize in Your Marriage

There are a number of dynamics that are incompatible with a viable and loving marriage or long-term relationship. They are relationship...

The Best Predictors for Successful Relationships

Charlie: A recent landmark study that explores the question of what it is that makes relationships successful was recently published in...

Gratitude Helps Strengthen How We Make Others Feel

A guiding principle for a life worth living is in how we make others feel. In the age of the internet and mobile apps, the chance to make...

Living Apart Together in a Pandemic

How a pre-COVID long-distance romance keeps love alive during the quarantine There’s a stretch of Highway 17 that runs from Hardeeville...

Being a Mirror of Goodness

The medicine for our hurting world is love, and our loving becomes deeply healing when we see and reflect back the innate goodness of...

The #1 Thing to Do to Set Yourself Up for a Better Year

learn to avoid discomfort of all kinds from a very young age and the evading gets perpetuated as we grow into adulthood. As far back as...

How Pleasure May Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolution

New year’s resolutions often meet their fate in the first few weeks of the new year. We make these promises with the intention of...

Your reasons for using Tinder shape your dating experience

Are you using an online app to find potential partners? Why? Are you looking for love? Hoping to have fun? Or maybe you don’t want to...

If You Are Treated Badly, Don't React Badly

There's been mistreatment or injustice - now what? The Practice: If you are treated badly, don't react badly. Why? It’s easy to treat...

Is My Partner Bored by Me?

They're not bored by you, but they are probably bored by the parts of your stories that they're paying attention to. I can't count the...

Is It Naïve to Believe in Love?

Love plays a central role in our lives, e.g., the love for our partner, our children, friends, pets, others, as well as for ourselves. In...

Will Wearing Masks Affect Children’s Emotional Development?

Let me be clear, during a public health crisis wearing a mask does a lot of good for my own health, my neighbour’s health, and our...

Is Someone Avoiding You? This Might Be Why

Do you have someone in your life either personally or professionally who seems to intentionally avoid you, deliberately cuts...

Technology, Communication, and Our Misconceptions

When you want to reach out to people, how do you do it? Before the pandemic, you could meet in person with individuals who lived nearby;...

Half of Men in the U.S. Who Marry for First Time Are Over 30

This month, December 2020, the U. S. Census Bureau reported a historic marker. For the first time, the median age at which men marry for...

How Much Are You Willing to Sacrifice for Your Relationship?

Every couple experiences times in life when sacrifice becomes necessary. Your partner becomes swamped at work, and so you’ve got to pick...

5 “Mixed Signals” From Your Date That Are in Fact Signals

There is a lot of talk of “mixed signals” from singles while they are dating. I've talked about this with friends and I have talked...

10 Words That Could Transform Your Relationship

Scene: Harry is in the kitchen fixing himself a drink. Pricilla comes home, kicks off her shoes, plops down on a chair, and says, “Phew;...

How to Be Happy with What You Have

So picture this: You go into the mailroom at work and there's an envelope from the president of your company. Of course, you rush to your...

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