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How to Connect Romantically When You’re Stuck at Home
After a year of staying at home and quarantining due to COVID-19, many couples are getting restless. While the idea of staying in and doing nothing with your partner may have been exciting at first, the routine is starting to wear a little thin. Has the romance in your relationship plateaued? You aren’t the only one.
3 Keys to True Forgiveness & Real Reconciliation
If you live with depression, anxiety, or both, perhaps you know that some of your feelings stem from things that other people did to hurt you in the past. Maybe you can pinpoint abusive parents, bullies, or demanding teachers whose behaviors crushed your soul and terrorized you.
Relationship Dissatisfaction: 5 Ways You Can Beat It
Every relationship goes through highs and lows. No partnership is perfect. While these might sound like nothing more than uplifting, motivational sayings, there’s a lot of truth to them. But when your connection feels like it’s in a rut, it’s easy for relationship dissatisfaction to take hold.
When you cling to those feelings for too long, it can start to cause more problems between you and your partner.
How Exercising and Resting Your Mind Can Help You Cope With Stress
Is stress keeping you down, exhausted, anxious, or depressed? Research shows us that, to cope with stress, exercise might be the answer!
It is just as important to take care of your body as it is to take care of your mind, and studies repeatedly demonstrate the important links between physical fitness and mental health.
What Is Emotionally Focused Therapy and How Can It Help Your Relationship?
Relationships often need support to remain strong. That’s where Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) comes in.
When you are in a close relationship, you want to maintain your emotional connection while successfully managing conflict.
What is required to do these things? A deep attachment to your partner or loved one.
How Happy Couples Handle Disagreements: Tips for Conflict Management
Have you ever heard of a couple who claimed to never fight with each other? As if learning to handle disagreements was a step they were fortunate enough to skip?
You might wonder how a “no fighting” relationship is even possible. The truth is, it’s not!
Communication in Relationships: Stop Struggling to Talk to Your Partner!
Have you noticed lately that you are struggling to communicate with your partner? If you are finding it harder to talk about important problems or even the everyday struggles, you are not alone.
Good communication is the foundation of every relationship, yet, we sometimes struggle to have even basic conversations.
Dating Mistakes: 10 Missteps People Often Make
When you meet someone who you would like to know more about, whether that is through an online dating site or app, at an event, or through friends or family, the first date is more than just a time for you and the other person to learn a bit more about each other; it’s a time to make a wonderful first impression.
If you’ve been in the dating scene long, you’re painfully aware of the different types of first dates.
Why Including Meditation in Your Relationship Makes It Better
Most of us think of meditation as a solitary exercise, a quiet way to create inner calm and awareness. Of course, that is very true. Still, you may not have considered how the same soothing practice could help you foster a nurturing and accepting environment for your relationship as well. Over time, you may even find that meditation aids your relationship in surprising ways, expanding insight and intimacy between you your partner.
So, how does including meditation in your relationship improve the way you and your partner interact? Let’s consider four key areas:
Benefits of Premarital Counseling - Training and Tools to Do Your Best in Love
Many people cringe when they think about going to couples counseling. There’s a myth that you only go to couples therapy if something is wrong.
Nothing is further from the truth!
Premarital counseling can be an especially helpful tool for preventing problems in your relationship. Why wait until there’s an issue when you can keep issues small and manageable with therapy?
Keep the Spark Alive in Long-Term Relationships: 9 Tips for Initiating Sex
Early in your relationship, the thought that you might need tips for initiating sex were probably the furthest thing from your mind. There was a lot of sex and subsequently, a lot of talk about sex. Yet, over time, both the sex and the conversation surrounding it tend to slow down.
Realistically, it’s not surprising that lust cools and intimacy shifts as the relationship matures. But, if a couple is not communicating about their sex life, it can spell trouble.
Which Love Language is Your Partner's? Why It Matters That You Master It
According to author, Gary Chapman, there are five love languages for couples; five primary ways individuals demonstrate their love for one another.
Although his theory isn’t based on scientific research, it is backed by more than 30 years of anecdotal evidence from Chapman’s experience as a marriage and couples counselor.