Tag: couples
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Online Marriage Checkup
Read more: Online Marriage CheckupStudies have couples checking in annually about their marriages, online. “You don’t wait to see the dentist until something hurts — you go for checkups on a regular basis…If people were to bring their marriages in for a checkup on an annual basis, would that provide the same sort of benefit that a physical health…
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Why Couples Fight
Read more: Why Couples FightYou probably have a pretty good idea why you fight as a couple. But here’s a study to tell you all about it. [The study] identified the first type of underlying concern as perceived threat, which involves a perception that one’s partner is being hostile, critical, blaming or controlling. The second type of concern is…
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A Little Book on the Human Shadow
Read more: A Little Book on the Human ShadowSomething to consider reading: A Little Book on the Human Shadow, by Robert Bly. You may know Bly as the author of men’s movement tome, Iron John. He’s also a poet, public speaker, and engaged reader of lots of psych lit–particularly Carl Jung, Alice Miller, and Marie Louise von Franz. Shadow reproduces a series of readings…
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Testosterone v. Trust
Read more: Testosterone v. TrustNYT: She doesn’t trust you? Blame the testosterone. Researchers…gave young women a dose of the hormone in the form of a drop of liquid placed under the tongue, then asked them to judge the trustworthiness of a series of men’s faces shown in photographs. The women were significantly less inclined to trust a face when…