Tag: relationships
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Modern Love
Read more: Modern LoveDiane Johnson looks dating and marriage in a NYRB review. It used to be that on a date, the boy would pay for a Pepsi and the movie; that was it. Lori Gottlieb, in Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, estimates the cost to today’s woman of four months of dating, counting…
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A Vote for Marriage Counseling
Read more: A Vote for Marriage CounselingFrom WebMD: Is Your Marriage Toxic? Give it time. Don’t expect the walls of resentment to come down right away. Rivkin suggests allowing at least three months to see if working with a therapist or using the advice from a relationship book is helping your marriage. Change may come slowly. But don’t be afraid of…
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The Undivorced
Read more: The UndivorcedThe NYT identifies a trend: Permanently separated, but not divorced. Technically, the two are married. They file joint tax returns; she’s covered by his insurance. But they see each other just several times a year. “Since separating we get along better than we ever have,” he said. “It’s kind of nice.”
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The Art and Science of Influence
Read more: The Art and Science of InfluencePsyBlog posts the latest on how to win friends and influence people. The art and science of persuasion is often discussed as though changing people’s minds is about using the right arguments, the right tone of voice or the right negotiation tactic. But effective influence and persuasion isn’t just about patter, body language or other…
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Friends for Life
Read more: Friends for LifeNYT: A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life Social relationships are just as important to health as other common risk factors like smoking, lack of exercise or obesity, new research shows…The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking…