Tag: relationships
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Couples Therapy
Read more: Couples TherapyAbout.com helpfully rounds up the wisdom about couples therapy in Does Couples Counseling Work? and Benefits of Marriage Counseling. There are people who stay in an unhappy marriage until the resentment builds and they feel they have no choice but to divorce. They don’t voice their unhappiness, they go with the flow hoping something will change…
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The Apology Gap
Read more: The Apology GapScientific American relays research that finds a reason that may explain why Women Apologize More Frequently Than Men: Researchers analyzed the number of self-reported offences and apologies made by 66 subjects over a 12-day period. And yes, they confirmed women consistently apologized more times than men did. But they also found that women report more offenses…
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The Out Crowd
Read more: The Out CrowdThe high price of trying to be accepted: Social Exclusion Drives Bad Choices (PsychCentral). A new study reveals people who feel excluded will go to any length to try to become part of a group. The desire to be accepted or be a member of an “in” group can include spending large sums of cash, eating…
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Thousands of Years of Monogamy
Read more: Thousands of Years of MonogamyThere’ve been only thousands years of monogamy, that is–since agriculture got underway–according to the newish book, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. When people started farming, say the authors, they started thinking about things like ownership and where babies come from. Monogamy followed–meaning that lifelong pairing doesn’t necessarily come naturally to us. Here’s Dan Savage…
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Better Sex Through…Trying
Read more: Better Sex Through…TryingA study posted at PsychCentral: Simple Methods Heighten Women’s Sexual Satisfaction New psychological research finds that many women with low sex drives reported greater sexual satisfaction after taking a placebo and participating in a clinical trial…Expectations to improve sex and a willingness to work on sexual problems appear to be key toward obtaining greater sexual…