How do you stay married? By not getting divorced. That’s a joke I heard recently, and there’s a lot of truth to it. You make it to [...]

If you’re a habitual New Year’s resolution-maker, you’re probably familiar with how quickly they can fail. There’s no one holding you to your promise to keep your [...]

Communicating what you want and resolving conflicts is the only way to have a happy, healthy relationship that can support and enrich your life. You probably already [...]

When it comes to communication, quality is always more important than quantity. The couple that bickers all day may be communicating a lot, but they're certainly not [...]

Everyone has met a couple like this: She loves sushi; the smell of raw fish makes him nauseous. He loves horror films; she finds even mildly scary [...]

When you’re reactive, your feelings depend on external events outside your influence or control. Whether you have a good or bad day depends entirely on what happens [...]

Your relationship with others determines much of your happiness and success in life. How you get along with coworkers, bosses, family, friends, and romantic partners often depends [...]

“Healthy boundaries” is one of those therapy-tinged phrases that is often used and rarely understood. If you ever find yourself nodding along when a friend suggests you [...]

How you related to your mother when you were young has a profound impact on your adult relationships—and your relationship with yourself. Repairing your relationship with your [...]

You support one another during times of major change like marriage, divorce, and retirement; you comfort one another during times of loss; you help one another find [...]

Apologies have been in the news a lot lately — both genuine apologies and refusals to apologize. Every day, women and men come forward to name those [...]

Most of us have at least one passive-aggressive person in our life. Maybe it’s a mother who nitpicks and criticizes everything we do, or a co-worker who [...]

10 Things Not to Do On a First Date We go into the first date experience full of fear and excitement. Excited that maybe this [...]

Is it possible to fine-tune your intuition? Absolutely. Have you ever been on a date and thought "I have a funny feeling about this person"? [...]

ruining your relationship Learning to express anger in a healthy way will help couples resolve conflicts, instead of letting them simmer. Every Saturday night, Bill [...]

I read once about a sign Oprah Winfrey posts in her office: "Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space." I think it would [...]

Growing up most of us had two models for what adult romantic relationships should look like. One, we had our parents or caregivers––which for many of us [...]

Revenge is appealing. Someone hurts us and we're convinced that revenge will make us feel whole again. Just thinking about revenge can trigger positive emotions so going [...]

I believe that arguing is part of every healthy relationship. You and your partner won't agree one-hundred-percent of the time and sometimes one or both of you [...]