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How to Identify and Get Your Emotional Needs Met

How to Identify and Get Your Emotional Needs Met

Everyone has their own unique set of emotional needs, that are the product of your upbringing, your genetic predisposition, your identity, and other individual factors. Understanding our emotional needs empowers us

How to Make Repairs in Your Relationships

How to Make Repairs in Your Relationships

The healthiest relationships repair early and often and also have lots of strategies for how to repair. Since every relationship is different, finding the repair strategies that work for you

How to Stop Playing the Blame Game

How to Stop Playing the Blame Game

Learn to accept responsibility, to stop using blame as a scapegoat, lower your defenses, and begin to realize the starring role you play in your life.

Understanding Temperament

Understanding Temperament

Words. We all use them. We all listen to them. We all communicate with them.They’re helpful. They’re useful. They’re beneficial.But yet, they can wound, destroy, and wreck our lives.Do you

Happy vs. Unhappy Couples: The 5-to-1 Magic Ratio

Happy vs. Unhappy Couples: The 5-to-1 Magic Ratio

To understand the difference between happy and unhappy couples, John Gottman, a leader in couples research and therapy, began doing longitudinal studies of couples in the 1970s.  From his research,

1 Corinthians 13: How It Can Radically Help Your Relationships  (Without Needing to be a Christian)

1 Corinthians 13: How It Can Radically Help Your Relationships (Without Needing to be a Christian)

Most of us are familiar with 1 Corinthians 13.  It’s often recited at weddings and plastered on knick-knacks.  But what can it teach us about our relationships?  How can it

What is Negative Sentiment Override? And How Can It Affect My Relationship?

What is Negative Sentiment Override? And How Can It Affect My Relationship?

Negative feelings toward your partner can creep up on you as days, months, and years go by. This may be why couples, on average, are six years late to start

6 Conflict Skills to Master for Better Relationships

6 Conflict Skills to Master for Better Relationships

We all have conflicts.  It’s impossible to see eye-to-eye in every conversation and hold the same perspective with everyone we communicate with.  So how do we manage conflicts, minimize frustration,

7 Toxic Communication Patterns Impacting Your Relationship

7 Toxic Communication Patterns Impacting Your Relationship

Healthy communication leads to a healthy connection with others.  Likewise, unhealthy communication leads to an unhealthy connection.