Tag: relationships
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Your Pets, Your Relationship
Read more: Your Pets, Your RelationshipCan Pets Improve Your Relationship? PsychCentral article, summed up at the Well Blog this way: Do you greet each other with excitement, overlook each other’s flaws and easily forgive bad behavior? If it’s your pet, the answer is probably yes. But your spouse? Probably not.
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Study: Be Nice
Read more: Study: Be NiceNewsflash? Daily Appreciation Helps Romance. In study-ese: “Gratitude triggers a cascade of responses within the person who feels it in that very moment, changing the way the person views the generous benefactor, as well as motivations toward the benefactor. This is especially true when a person shows that they care about the partner’s needs and…
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Your Brain on Love
Read more: Your Brain on LoveA study shows scans of love-struck brains look the same in China as they do in the West. Regions of the brain related to addiction and even mental illness light up on the scan when a person sees a photo of his or her beloved…[New] scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same…
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Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)
Read more: Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)Couples’ lit spotlight: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by sex/relationship therapist, David Schnarch. The book samples actual sex therapy sessions to make its case. Don’t care to read 400 pages about how differentiation? Try the six-point plan linked from Schnarch’s website, posted here minus the explanations: Operate from the Best in Yourself. Sustain…
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Divorce Risk
Read more: Divorce RiskOn the NYT’s Well Blog, a collection of divorce articles and assessment tools. Plus news: Divorce rates have actually declined since peaking in the 1970s, and 10-year divorce rates have dropped dramatically with each generation.