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PPhubbing: How This New Trend Can Ruin Your Relationship

Smartphones affect relationships, period. Their convenience and technology may bring a couple together initially, but they can ruin the relationship later, and PPhubbing is a prime example. Phubbing is phone snubbing, ignoring the person in front of you to use your smartphone. “Pphubbing” is phubbing your partner, and it could potentially destroy your relationship. Researchers […]

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Polyamorous Relationships: Can They Really Work?

Polyamory is not widely understood or accepted in our current society, but it has a history at least as long as monogamy. A polyamorous relationship is not the same thing as an open relationship. Polyamorous people want to commit to multiple-partner relationships, which may develop emotionally and include feelings of love. An open relationship includes

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How to Use the Holidays to Improve Your Relationship

Is it time to devote some attention to your relationship these holidays? The holidays are often a stressful time for people, but it’s easy to forget this once they arrive. If you’re in a relationship, you may find yourself getting frustrated with your partner for no particular reason, or you notice you’re fighting more than

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Relationships Are Hard, But Why? A TEDx Talk by Stan Tatkin

If you’ve been in a relationship, you probably know that relationships are hard. But did you know that what makes relationships hard has more to do with primitive reasons and your brain than how compatible you are? I’m a huge fan of the work of Stan Tatkin, not only because I’ve trained in his PACT approach to

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Are You Asking These Important Questions Before Getting Married?

  In the early part of your relationship, it’s easy to assume the person you love has the same values and ideals as you. This stage of a relationship is often called the honeymoon stage, and for good reason. It’s a time when you see your partner through rose-tinted glasses. You unconsciously ignore their faults,

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How This One Simple Tip Can Transform Your Relationship

I pinched myself at the start of this year when I realised I’ve been working with singles and couples with relationship issues for over 20 years. How time flies. When I started my studies in counselling and psychotherapy at the start of the new century, I really didn’t have any specific ideas about what kinds of clients

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The 34 Best Inspirational Relationship Quotes

Don’t you just love an inspirational quote when it deeply speaks to you and your situation? And those little gems of wisdom that can help get you back on track with your well-being. After providing relationship counselling for more than 20 years, I think I’ve come across every relationship quote that’s ever been said. So,

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Rethinking Infidelity…A Talk For Anyone Who Has Ever Loved

A TED Talk by Sex Therapist Esther Perel I have been a huge fan of Esther Perel ever since her groundbreaking book published in 2007 called Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence. She wowed audiences with her 2013 TEDSalon talk in New York called The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship, so it’s no

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