The reason that many of us lose the spark starts with the nature of relationships themselves: They’re always changing. You’re not alone if you wake up one morning and find that the romance is gone in your relationship. One of the most common questions I [...]
There are ways to make sure that we have a love that lasts a lifetime. When it comes to love and relationships, we all want something that's going to last. But even though wanting to be happy is a basic human instinct, making sure that we get there is [...]
In some ways, our nonverbal communication is more powerful than our words. While verbal communication is imperative for any healthy relationship, physical body language is just as important. At the end of the day, it's not what you say, but how you say it. According to this YourTango panel of [...]
Every day, you want to make your partner feel like you're there for them. Whether you've been married for thirty years or three months, for many people there comes a time when their marriage is not as blissful as when it started. Often it looks like this: the honeymoon ends, [...]
After having spent years working with hundreds of couples, we know that couples counseling really works. We also know however that when they are considering couples therapy a great many people have concerns and questions they would like answered first. Therefore we would like to address [...]
Most people think about being engaged and getting married as a happy time, a time in which they finally get to settle down and be secure that they have found someone to love them. And in many ways it is, but there are aspects of the engagement stage [...]
Cultural differences affect the way we view fundamental relationship issues like communication, conflict, family roles and personal space. This video illustrates the profound differences between cultures using HBO's TV series "In Treatment". In Treatment was originally created in Israel and later reproduced in the United States. By comparing the small [...]
I want to share with you in this article a question I have been curious about for years: What makes a difference in people’s quality of life? And more than that, can we find something that actually affects multiple areas of our lives - our relationships, our career and the [...]
We all have certain issues or topics that really trigger us. Sometimes it's just our partner's tone of voice or the subtle (or not so subtle) way they look at us. When we get upset or angry we usually try to talk about it with our partner; we try to make [...]
Many people think that a good relationship has no conflict and that if they argue with their partner than there is something wrong with it, but in fact conflict is an important part of any relationship! Moreover, it’s unavoidable – since any two people have different backgrounds, opinions and preferences, [...]
I want to ask you a question: in your daily life, how much time you do you actually spend with your partner? Not just being around him / her but actually spending quality time with them, connecting with them? And now compare this to the amount of time you [...]
Have you ever had that “you don't really love me” conversation with your partner? It goes something like this: “You don't really love me.” “What do you mean? I just spent the whole weekend planning your birthday party!” “Yes, but you never said you loved me. And I barely saw [...]