Stronger at the Broken Places

How challenges can strengthen your relationship

Linda and Charlie Bloom

Myth: You Can’t Love Someone Until You Love Yourself

There is a kernel of truth in the notion that to be eligible for a deeply loving relationship, you must love yourself.

The Myth of Unconditional Love

Some people have a mistaken understanding of unconditional love...

Ordinary Heroes

During the pandemic, we have a heightened awareness of those who are keeping the country going in the midst of challenging circumstances.

Personal Disarmament

The inability to handle the differences around common issues like money, work, children, in-laws, and how we spend our leisure time, takes relationships down...

Personal Disarmament

There comes a time when the pain of the power struggle becomes so exhausting and unpleasant that we are motivated to find another way.

The Best Predictors of Successful Relationships

A recent landmark study explores the question of what makes relationships successful.

The Last of the Dragons

The taming of a great partnership.

How to Spot Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a set of manipulative tactics composed of deceit, intimidation, criticizing, judging, guilt-tripping, bullying, and withholding.

The Ultimate Component of Attraction

Yes, it is true that people from a similar class and religious background tend to have more successful marriages and relationships.

A Brief History of Marriage, From the Stone Age to the New Age

Couplehood has been the primary social structure of our species, giving rise to larger structures of family, community, society, and culture.

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

Occasionally, there is a crisis in our lives when things are flipped upside-down, offering a big chance to make major changes.

Living in Integrity

If I had to choose one word to capture the essence of Zack and Shira's story, it would have to be “integrity.”

Daily Practice Is Not Too Much

We often refer to the art of co-creating a great relationship as a spiritual practice.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Marsha’s husband Larry was somewhat of a bully. When he didn’t get his way, he would often become critical and judgmental of Marsha, insisting that she comply with his demands...

10 Words That Could Transform Your Relationship

Moving through an impasse as a couple is possible if you can say these 10 words.

Complementarity and Polarities

People with complementary personalities can provide a missing link for each other. In theory, it sounds like this arrangement should work just fine.

Two Dangerous Words

When someone says the words “we’re done” in the midst of a painful argument, they are suffering so much that they attempt to draw a boundary to leave the painful discussion.

Go Away; I’m Introverting

If you’re partnered with an introvert, it can be challenging when they take the solitude time that they need.

Healing a Broken Heart

There are three major ways that hearts get broken: abandonment, inconsistent attachment, and rejection...

A Different Brand of Heroism Taken From Love and Awakening

One of the great secrets of men, secret in the sense that we rarely admit it among ourselves, is that we are afraid of women.

A Formerly Commitment-Phobic Man

Some of the common factors that keep people stuck in commitment phobia are...

Love Is an Action That Shows Our Devotion

This is a story from a busy couple who both have careers and are in the process of raising two girls.

Are You Afraid to Love?

Intimacy in a loving relationship not only feels good, but it’s good for you, too.

Our Relationships Are a Sacred Teaching Ground

If we can hold our relationships as a sacred teaching ground, where everything can be utilized as an opportunity to grow, our lives take on a more vital path.

Why Is Marriage Going Out of Vogue?

Many people nowadays consider marriage an obsolete institution. Here are a few of the explanations people offer to explain their orientation.

Relationship as a Path to Authenticity: Support Each Other

Meaningful ways that we support each other to become authentic.

Relationship as a Path to Authenticity

One big advantage of marriage is the opportunity to become one's authentic self.

Not on Speaking Terms?

There are times when a relationship is so broken down; when those involved have been so hurt by the other, that they withdraw into silence to protect themselves...

Good Will Invites Connection

We define goodwill as a stance in which one embodies a desire to enhance the well-being of another.

Tina Turner Was Once a Battered Wife

Tina Turner is known as The Queen of Rock and Roll, a legend in the music industry. But her success has been hard-won.

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