Relationships

• Has Your Marriage Been Attacked? Can Tragedy Trigger Divorce?

  We all know that couple. They are always bickering, never content – yet somehow it seems they will always be together. Then, out of the blue, one of the pair plays the divorce card, leaving all those involved wondering what knocked them off the fence and forced them to solve the “to be or not to be” mystery.

• Why The Next Few Months Could Be Partnership Peril

  The best way to avoid an obstacle in the road is to recognize it in advance. The reality is that it’s been a hard year and the coming months could be rocky riding for a relationship. Here are three potential partnership challenges and some ways to survive them.

• What Is Your Relationship Value?

  There are always going to be those days when it seems the world is focused completely on your partner—and not at all on you. Maybe he or she has a big meeting coming up at work, or maybe he or she has just come down with the flu. Whatever the reason, there may be those moments where you ask yourself, “Is this ever going to be about me?”

• The Equality Equation: Are You In An Equal Partnership?

  In the early stages of a relationship, the intense chemistry and mutual love of Chinese take-out while watching old movies may seem like more than enough. After you’ve gained that inevitable five pounds that comes with the transition from singledom to domesticity, you’ll certainly find that “making it last” isn’t as simple as pressing “play.”

• The Five Best Gifts to Give Your Family

  When we think of giving gifts, we usually think of things to buy for people. Yet if you think back on gifts you’ve been given, it might not be the material gifts you received that are foremost in your mind it might be the kind of gifts that deeply touched your heart and soul.

• How to Partner a Successful Relationship

  One day you’re passionately in love professing eternal pledges of togetherness and then a couple of years later your partner can’t do anything right and feels like a ball and chain you need to cut off. Everything your partner does begins to annoy you from banking to the bedroom.

• Rx for Healing Low Desire: Six Homework Assignments

  If you have experienced problems in becoming sexually excited, you can actually do a lot to help yourself to sexual arousal with the following program of action steps. If they do not help, it’s a sign that you may need sex therapy with a professional to make sex work for both of you.

• Why People Stay in Abusive Relationships

  Friends and relatives often ask themselves why someone would remain in an abusive relationship. It’s difficult to imagine, but there are many reasons to stay, and to the victim, they are all good reasons.