Engaging in quality time with your teen can help promote trust and strengthen your relationship. There are tons of fun activities you can do with each other if you want to to spend some time together.
Spending Time Together
It can be tricky to get your teen to agree to spend time with you, especially if they’re overwhelmed with school and extracurriculars. Teens also tend to prioritize their friendships, which is incompletely normal developmentally, but can put their relationship with their parent or parents on the back burner.
Planning on doing a fun activity together allows you to connect with your teen and enjoy each other’s company.
Check Out a Trampoline Park
Trampoline parks are really fun if you and your teen are both active and don’t mind acting a little silly. Trampoline parks are rooms covered wall to floor in trampolines letting you both bounce around and have a great time together.
Take an Impromptu Trip
Day trips are a great way to bond with your teen. Head somewhere where the drive is beautiful and you can stop at cool pit stops along the way. This can include a famous restaurant, bakery, or scenic lookout.
You can spend some time loosely planning out your trip together and enjoy the spontaneity.
Explore a National Park
National parks are great places to have picnics, take pictures, and spend time together hiking. If you don’t live close to one, you can plan on road tripping and spending the weekend there exploring and having a relaxing time together.
This can be a great way to get grounded, unwind, and really connect with your teen without all the distractions of the day to day grind.
Head to a Break Room
Break rooms are fun places to go if you both want to break the rules. Break rooms provide you with plenty of objects to smash, drop, and throw. This can be a great place to go and have fun destroying things together.
This can definitely make for a unique memory with your teen.
Build Something Together
If you want to embark on a more long term project with your teen, spend some time thinking about what you’d like to build or fix up together. This can include anything from a computer, to a complex puzzle, furniture, old car, or a bicycle.
Doing a project together offers plenty of bonding time, and helps you both work on your communication, problems solving skills, and teamwork.
Go Rock Climbing
If your teen enjoys doing something active, head to a rock climbing gym and spend some time together. Rock climbing is a great activity to do together because it reinforces teamwork and communication.
You can either spot each other, or climb side by side. Both ways encourage a joint effort.
Enjoy Horseback Riding
If your teen enjoys horses, spend an hour or so horseback riding together. Riding lessons and trail rides will vary in price depending on the stable, but there are plenty of options available. Spending time with horses promotes relaxation, connection, and emotional intelligence.
Doing this activity together is a fun way to let loose, enjoy a relaxed conversation with each other, and bond on a deeper level.
Try Paint Balling
If your teen is competitive, paint balling together can be a great way to team up and burn off some excess energy. Paint balling allows you to create a strategy together and work on nonverbal and verbal communication. These skills can translate well when you’re back at home.
If your teen is interested in giving back to the community, pick an organization that you both care about and find some time to work there together. Volunteering is a great mood booster and can be very grounding.
It offers an incredible opportunity to spend time together doing meaningful work.
Try a Cool Food Truck or New Restaurant
If you and your teen are adventurous when it comes to trying food, look up well rated food trucks or restaurants and plan a day where you can try them out. Food trucks will often send out notifications for their location and it’s fun to plan on finding them once they’ve announced where they’ll be stationed.
This gives you time to bond in the car ride over, and while you try out your meal.
Get a Visit From a Mobile Spa
If you and your teen want to spend a relaxing day in, have a mobile spa come to the house and spend some time getting pampered together. Mobile spas usually offer massages, facial treatments, and nail care.
Having an easy going day at home gives you the opportunity to chat and enjoy each other’s company while relaxing.
Enjoying Your Time Together
No matter what you end up doing with your teen, making an effort shows them that you love and care about them. Pick something that you’ll both enjoy and have a great time together.


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Jazmin Bean has released their brand new single “Favourite Toy”. The follow-up to “Piggie”, released earlier this year, “Favourite Toy” continues on the same theme as its predecessor, and talks about their experiences of toxic relationships, which they were unable to break.
“It looks back at my relationship with love and sex with a storytelling perspective, exploring the lengths you’ll go to when you’re conditioned from such a young age not to understand what love is. Unlike my older songwriting, this track juxtaposes sound, production and lyrics. It acknowledges the sadness I felt in my self-worth, but the song’s driving melody has an overall sense of hopefulness and catharsis.”


Bonding with your dog is fundamental to building a healthy relationship between you and them, and the world around them. Whether you have adopted a new dog that is a puppy, young adult or senior, lived with your dog for 10 years, or even if you are fostering a new dog, establishing a healthy bond with him/her will help ensure a meaningful relationship built on trust and rapport. What is your relationship like with your dog? Could it be better?
There are obvious reasons to bond with our dog, such as: they enrich our lives and give us unconditional love and companionship. There are also other reasons why bonding is important to our human-dog relationship as well, such as building recall and keeping our dog safe. But it might surprise you to know that our interactions with our furry companions also have a “measurable positive effect on our biochemistry.”
For more information on bonding with your dog:
Everyday is Game Day
2 Hints You Have an Awesome Relationship with Your Dog
Relationship Centered Training
11 Ways to Strengthen Your Bond With Your Dog
9 Ways to Improve your Relationship with your Dog
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In this podcast, Embodied Leadership, we go deeply into the question of reciprocity with horses. Susan has an inspiring enthusiasm for the human process of becoming aware, and how we can connect with horses from within ourselves. In the excerpt Susan is describing the way she absorbs the ease of being-ness from horses living in an environment that allows them to be horses.
Embodied Leadership with Susan Jackson
Susan shares her journey with horses from being a child, how she got involved in equine assisted learning and the question of considering horses for themselves. We discuss the difference in the relationship when we are responsible for a horse and how to give their needs more weight. Susan describes a transformative experience with her own horse Dusty.
Discussing the process of letting go of the need to control a horse, Susan describes her co-leadership approach, going deeper into the nature of reciprocity with horses and the influence of management and wisdom from the herd.
We talk about the value of letting horses be horses, discussing the universal energy of nature and how to engage with it. Susan shares her breakthroughs and where she is now in her journey.
I am the co-creator of Embodied Leadership, alongside the horses.
Together we hold space and facilitate opportunities for people to (re)connect with a deeper sense of wholeness and connection in everyday living. Of course there are ample layers for exploring here but at the end of the day that’s what we do.
I love seeing how these (re)connections to wholeness and self create more consistent experiences of Joy, Freedom, Peace, Ease, and Connection, among other things for someone in their day to day.
And, if they are a horse person, in their relationship with their horse.
One of the keystones of Embodied Leadership is the nurturing and tending of relationship both within and outside of ourselves and (re)developing a greater sense of leadership both within ones self and in partnership with others.
It’s pretty amazing how tending to our self-relationship and leadership naturally impacts our relationships and co-leadership with others beings with less effort, more ease, and more dignity and sovereignty for all involved.
At the heart of these keystones lives the ongoing development of presence which deepens both our clarity and connection with ourselves and with one another.
So whether you call yourself an equestrian and are looking to deepen roots in your already existing horse-human relationship, or if you do not identify as a “horse person” but desire to (re)connect with yourself from a place of abundance, grace, and authenticity I very much look forward to meeting you.
The horses and I love facilitating space for life-long relationship building and adding to and refining our current tool-kits of presence, awareness, and self leadership.Susan Jackson
Let’s Talk Herd podcasts are relaxed yet intelligent conversations about every dimension of holistic horsemanship. We are interested in learning from each other and sharing the unique ideas that are sparked by sharing personal discoveries. If you would like to be a guest contact Camille.
All perspectives are welcome.


Help Your Friend
Oftentimes family members and friends are unaware of abuse that may be happening. Even if they are aware, they do not necessarily have the tools they need to intervene. We encourage anyone to call our hotline for tips and support. (Hotline # 1.800.339.5017) Remember, it may seem obvious to everyone outside the relationship that the victim should leave their abuser, but it can be very difficult for the victim to come to that decision. It is very important that you be non-judgemental and know that they should be in charge of their decisions whether they seem right or wrong to you!
Here are some quick tips:
- Talk to your friend and be non-judgmental when discussing the abuse.
- Listen to your friend and believe him/her.
- Let your friend know that violence under any circumstance is unacceptable.
- Express your understanding, care, concern and support.
- Point out your friend's strengths. He/she may not see his/her own abilities and gifts because of being blinded by the effects of the abuse.
- Encourage your friend to confide in a trusted adult. Offer to go with him/her for help.
- Talk to a trusted adult if you believe your friend's situation is getting worse.
- Help your friend by suggesting a counselor or an advisor you trust.
- Never put yourself in a dangerous situation with your friend's partner. Don't try to mediate or otherwise get involved directly.
- Call the police if you witness and assault.
Quick tips on things to AVOID:
- Don't be critical of your friend or his/her partner.
- Don't ask blaming questions such as: "What did you do to provoke him/her?"; "Why don't you just break up with your partner?"; "Why can't you handle him/her?"
- Don't pressure your friend into making quick decisions.
- Don't assume that he/she wants to break up with his/her partner, or that you know what's best for your friend.


Be Mine Love Hearts Bear
This cute and cuddly Love Hearts teddy bear would make the perfect gift for Valentines day but adorable at anytime to let the love of your life know how you feel
- Love Hearts teddy bear with soft pink coloured details
- Holding a pink pocket with a velcro closing (ideal for hiding a suprise extra gift)
- The front of the pouch has a traditional Love Hearts slogan 'Be Mine'
- Cute and delightful gift
- Approx height - 18 cms


1)My wife or husband is divorcing me.
2)My wife or husband has some body outside.
3)We no longer feel the sparks in our love.
4)We are quarrelling everyday.
5)I feel that my spouse does not care for me anymore.
6)I have tried almost everything to save my marriage, but it is not working.
7)How to save a marriage when the other woman is pregnant?
8)Is There Hope To Save A Marriage ?
9)How to win my wife back ?
10)How to win my husband back?
11)How can i save a doomed marriage?
12)How to save a marriage after infidelity?
13)Signs of a cheating husband and ways to keep a husband from cheating.
There may be more than 101 questions that you are searching for a hope to save a marriage... Let me tell you. You have come to the right place for A HOPE.
Do you know that Couples reunited everyday regardless of how serious was the situation? Do not worry :) You can be like ONE OF THEM.
If you are wondering if there is still hope to save your marriage even if you are the only one who is interested to save the marriage, let me tell you, " THERE IS STILL HOPE TO SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE
HOW CAN I SAVE MY MARRIAGE????
You had already tried hard to win back your husband or wife. However, it is still not working for you. What went wrong with the marriage and what should you do to mend a broken relationship? Here are some advice of a happy marriage.
Were you trying all these methods all the while?
- You tried to convince your spouse how much you love them and you also tried to prove them you can't live without them.
- You swear hard that you will change as long as they stay and forgive you.
- You call, text or find your spouse many times to beg for forgiveness.
- You apologized umpteen times for forgiveness even when you know it was not really your fault.
- You try to get them to see it wasn't really our fault.
Did you realize they just distant you and get more defensive no matter how hard you try?
How Can I Save My Marriage YOU CAN SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE if you are willing to change and put in effort.
There are still time to do things to make your husband want you back or even your wife if you really love them.
HOW TO WIN BACK EX?
Having no solutions to win back your ex? Do not be dejected, there are NO IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS when it comes to a relationship.
Before you go and win your spouse back, there is a thing that you have to do is to stay positive and confident. Well, it may sound easy for me to say that, but I am not kidding. I was once like a lost cow in a relationship and I have cried out my lungs for days when I feel that I am going to lose my partner, but eventually, I got my thoughts sorted it out and face it with a positive attitude.
Have some thoughts to what I have said today, your purpose is to save back this marriage, right? How are you going to plan and face your partner if you are not in your best positive form? No matter what, if you want to get back your wife or husband, you have to face them.
So, learn to forgive and forget the bad things that had happened in your marriage. Plan to see what better changes you can do to win back the mind, heart and soul of your love ones.
Keep your mind cool and go it slowly. If your spouse says he or she needs some space to think of the marriage, respect their decision. Forcing them will only push them further away.
A successful marriage is not built overnight. It takes days, months and years to build.
HOW TO SAVE MY MARRIAGE??


Sex after 50 is frequently portrayed in a negative light, but this misconception couldn't be further from the truth. In reality, maintaining an active and healthy sex life as you age is not only achievable but also offers numerous health benefits for older couples. Indeed, sex over 50 can be just as pleasurable, if not more so, than in your younger years.
The health benefits of sex in old age are multifaceted and include improved cardiovascular health, better sleep, pain relief, and a stronger immune system. Regular intimacy can also contribute to better mental health by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, while increasing self-esteem and happiness.
Moreover, frequent sexual activity can help to maintain strong emotional bonds between partners, fostering a sense of connection and wellbeing that is invaluable in any stage of life.
Understanding Changing Sexual Dynamics
As couples age, it's natural for their sex lives to evolve. In the UK, nearly 50% of people aged 65 and over still engage in sexual activities, highlighting the prevalence of sex in later life. However, it's important to recognise that various factors can contribute to changes in sexual desire and function for individuals over 50.
Hormonal fluctuations, such as menopause in women and decreasing testosterone levels in men, can lead to changes in libido and sexual function. Additionally, health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis, can impact sexual performance and desire.
Medication side effects are another common reason for changes in sexual function, with medications for blood pressure, depression, and other conditions oftenimpacting libido.
Despite these challenges, couples can still enjoy a fulfilling sex life by acknowledging and adapting to these changes. Open communication, experimentation, and a focus on overall wellbeing can help couples maintain intimacy and enjoy the benefits of sex well into their golden years.
Debunking 5 Myths About Sex After 50
There are many misconceptions surrounding sex after 50 that can create unnecessary anxiety and confusion for older couples. Here are five common myths about sex in your 50s and beyond, debunked:
- Myth: Sex is only for the young.
Fact: Sexuality is an integral part of life, regardless of age. Many older adults continue to enjoy active and fulfilling sex lives, with emotional intimacy and trust often deepening over time, enhancing sexual experiences (1).
- Myth: Older people can't have satisfying sex.
Fact: While sexual function and desires may change with age, it's entirely possible to have a pleasurable and satisfying sex life in your 50s and beyond. Adapting to changes and focusing on emotional connection can help couples maintain a fulfilling intimate relationship (2).
- Myth: Erectile dysfunction is an inevitable part of ageing.
Fact: Although erectile dysfunction is more common in older men, it is not an unavoidable consequence of ageing. Many factors can contribute to erectile dysfunction, including underlying health conditions, medications, and lifestyle choices. Treatment options are available to help manage erectile dysfunction and support a healthy sex life (3).
- Myth: Postmenopausal women lose interest in sex.
Fact: While hormonal changes during menopause can impact a woman's libido and sexual function, many women continue to enjoy sex after menopause. Open communication, the use of lubricants, and exploring new avenues of intimacy can help postmenopausal women maintain a satisfying sex life (4).
- Myth: Older adults don't need to worry about sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Fact: STIs can affect individuals of any age, including those over 50. As a matter of fact, STI rates among older adults have been on the rise in recent years (5). Practising safe sex and getting regular check-ups are essential for maintaining sexual health in your 50s and beyond.
Tips for Better Sex After 50
As couples navigate the changes that come with age, there are several strategies to help ensure a fulfilling and healthy sex life. Here are some tips for better sex after 50:
- Communicate openly: Discussing sex and intimacy can be challenging for some couples, especially as they age. However, maintaining open lines of communication is vital for ensuring that both partners' needs and desires are met.
- Prioritise overall health: Maintaining good physical, mental, and emotional health can support a healthy libido and sexual function. Engage in regular exercise, eat a balanced diet, and manage stress to help promote sexual wellbeing.
- Be patient and adaptable: As sexual function and desires change, it's important to be patient and flexible in your approach to intimacy. Experiment with different positions, types of touch, and forms of sexual activity to find what works best for you and your partner.
- Consider lubricants and aids: Lubricants can help alleviate discomfort caused by vaginal dryness in women, while erectile dysfunction aids can support men who experience difficulty maintaining an erection.
- Seek professional guidance: If you're experiencing ongoing sexual health concerns, don't hesitate to consult a healthcare professional or sex therapist for guidance and support.
- Explore new avenues of intimacy: It's essential to keep the spark alive by exploring new avenues of intimacy. Trying new activities or experimenting with different forms of touch can help to maintain excitement and passion in your relationship. Sex toys, for example, can offer an exciting way to enhance pleasure and explore new sensations.
FAQs About Sex in Your 50s and Beyond
As you navigate sex in your 50s and beyond, you may have questions or concerns. Here are some frequently asked questions and their answers:
Q: Is it normal for libido to decrease as we age?
A: Yes, it's normal for sexual desire to fluctuate with age due to hormonal changes, health conditions, and life stressors. However, many people continue to enjoy active sex lives well into their golden years (6).
Q: Can sex after 50 still be pleasurable?
A: Absolutely! While sexual function and desires may change, sex can still be enjoyable and satisfying. Many couples find that emotional intimacy and trust deepen over time, enhancing their sexual experiences (7).
Q: Are there any health risks associated with sex after 50?
A: While there may be some health concerns related to sex as you age, such as a higher risk of STIs in older adults, practicing safe sex and maintaining good overall health can help mitigate these risks (8).
Q: How often should couples over 50 engage in sexual activity?
A: The frequency of sex after 50 varies from couple to couple and depends on individual preferences and health factors. It's essential to communicate openly with your partner to determine a frequency that works best for both of you (9).
In conclusion, maintaining sexual health and intimacy as you age is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding for couples over 50. By prioritising sexual health, adapting to changes in your sexual relationship, exploring new avenues of intimacy, and keeping the conversation going, you and your partner can continue to enjoy the many health benefits of sex and nurture a strong, loving connection well into your golden years.


Relationships…Where would be without them?
When you think of the word relationship, what comes up for you? Family, friends, partners, colleagues or the ‘woulda’, ‘shoulda’, ‘coulda’ relationships.
Do past relationships swim into your mind when you think of this word? Do you laugh? Do you cry? Or do you get angry? How does that word really feel to you? Does the word make you feel squeamish, nervous, all lovey dovey or completely serene?
Yes, it’s true we can have great relationships with our family members, kids, parents and siblings. We can have great relationships with what we can call our ‘tribe’ aka our true circle of friends. We can have outstanding relationships with our partners, married, not married, intimate loved ones. Then there are the relationships at work. Do we look forward to going to work because of the relationships we have there?
What about the relationships we have with food, money or grief? You may be thinking, ‘what are you talking about’? But really, what kind of relationship do you have with food? Is food what we take for granted in our lives? Is food our motivation to good health? What do we expect from food?
What about money? How do we treat money? Yes, that is definitely an odd question, however, we really do have a relationship with money. How do we treat it? I heard a friend of mine say one time that she treated money like a prostitute. She had certain expectations from money that were to feed her, pay her bills upon demand. Think about that for a moment.
And what about our relationship with grief or loss? Do we hate the relationship of loss? Is it a give and take kind of relationship? Does grief just take and take and take from us? Or does the relationship provide for us? I mean what could grief possibly give us right?
Lastly, what does the relationship we have with ourselves offer? What kind of relationship do we have with ourselves? Do we have trust, do we actually embrace every square inch of ourselves?
Relationships of all kinds, as expressed above, really have taught us and can teach us about ourselves. They teach us what we love or what we really don’t love. Relationships teach us how we communicate, or how we really don’t. Most relationships with people or with what we use really can speak to the story of us and what we do in our lives.
I wonder if you looked around the room you are in right now, how many relationships you would see surround you. I, also, wonder how you feel about those memories, ‘stories’ or ‘pictures’ and how they play a part in how you live your life because of what you learned in your relationships. I wonder if you see a pattern in those relationships and with you.
Truest Reflections will be talking about Relationships this month and how we attach beliefs, stories and create pictures in our lives. Join us each Thursday in June on Facebook at 715pm.
Let the beauty of what you love be seen in you!


Is it true that you could have just enough love in you to love someone or not enough love in you to love multiple people? What if that one person is your wife, boyfriend or grandmother? What if that person is you? Is it true that some people have faces so much trauma in their lives that it’s hard for them to love, while others make it look so easy as if it comes natural? Does it come natural? Some days I wonder why Love exist and why some people seem to travel so safely through life rising on surface level relationships coasting from lane to lane hoping to never have to pay the toll and find the change in within. Yet, as I write this I do think that some relationships on a surface level do suck, like the one I have with a friend from college who I spent years with on the road. I don’t know the answer and neither do you but that’s supposed to be the fun of life once you “solve it” if and when it can be solve it.


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"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else."
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Whether you’ve been with your partner for decades or just a short while, self-care ideas for couples can act as the glue that reinforces your close bond. It’s so easy to get caught up in the chaos of everyday life that we sometimes lack the time and energy to spend quality time with our loved one. But incorporating some of the following self-care ideas for couples can help shift you back into alignment with each other.
So, keep reading if you want to get back to basics and be reminded of just how wonderful it feels to care for one another and the relationship you have as a couple.
Why Is Having Self-Care Ideas For Couples Important?
It’s so easy to say your relationship with each other is a priority, but between work, kids, and family obligations, it can be hard to actually put your money where your mouth is. Studies have shown that relationship satisfaction decreases as work obligations increase . So, how can we create a better balance between our professional obligations and our relationship with our partner? By reimagining self-care.
Personal self-care is a necessary practice if you want to show up for yourself and the people around you in a meaningful way. Taking the time to care for your needs before the wants of others is crucial if you want to prevent feeling burnt out and overly taxed. But what about your relationship with your partner or spouse? As the demands of life continue to pile on, it’s easy to forget how crucial it is to carve out quality time with each other. If you want a long-term sustainable relationship, it’s going to take more than just offering up whatever time and energy is left over from the rest of your day. That’s why the following self-care ideas for couples are so important: they are the threads that will keep your bond strong and secure through thick and thin.
7 Refreshing Self-Care Ideas For Couples
Whatever you feed will grow. To feel in sync and connected with your partner, it’s essential that you consciously and consistently carve out quality time to maintain your connection. Anyone can say their relationship is their priority but actually acting like it requires some foresight and preplanning. These seven self-care ideas for couples are great ways to keep you and your partner aligned and connected.
# 1 – Always Have A Project To Work On Together
Whether it’s building a new coffee table, creating a vegetable garden, or running a marathon together, projects with end goals are a surefire way to stay connected with your loved one. Having a shared hobby or project to work on strengthens your bond because it allows you to work as a team. Learning together, making mistakes, and laughing them off helps to create levity in your relationship – something that can easily disappear if you’re constantly tied up with other personal and professional obligations.
# 2 – Schedule Regular Date Nights
Whether you go out or stay in, regular date nights are important for shutting out the rest of the world so you can enjoy time with just the two of you. Date nights and other self-care ideas for couples don’t necessarily have to be fancy or expensive. Standing breakfast dates at the local diner every Sunday at 9 am or a monthly movie and dinner date where you each take turns picking the film and restaurant are relatively inexpensive and easy ways to keep having fun together.
# 3 – Bookend Your Days With Self-Care
An excellent way to create a daily self-care routine with your partner is to have morning and evening rituals that you both engage in. Creating self-care buffers at the beginning and end of each day is a great way to cultivate a sense of peace within your relationship as well as within each of you individually. Maybe you wake up together, go for a sunrise walk, and then make breakfast. Or maybe you go out on your porch, meditate, and then have a cup of coffee together. In the evenings, maybe you both do a relaxing yoga video before bed or give each other neck massages. Bookending your days with self-care is a great way to sneak some quality time into your hectic schedules.
# 4 – Take A Yoga Class Together
There are many popular self-care ideas for couples out there and this one is no exception. Taking a yoga class together is a great way to combine quality time with a huge dose of relaxation. There are even special partner yoga classes where you each hold and help each other in different positions. But you can choose to do any kind of yoga class, whatever fits with your abilities. Moving your bodies and relaxing your minds together is a great way to keep your relationship fresh and in sync.
# 5 – Plan An Adventure Together
Whether it’s a week at the beach or a weekend in a busy city, planning an adventure with your partner is another excellent self-care idea to try out together. Working towards any goal together is going to create a happy healthy bond but this especially rings true when that goal is a fun-filled vacation. Deciding where you want to go, how much you need to save, and what you want to do when you get there are all important steps of planning your adventure and help to create an exciting, team mentality that will bond you and your partner together.
# 6 – Start A “Book Club” With Each Other
Reading together and sharing ideas is a great way to intellectually bond with your loved one. Whether it’s a self-help book, a nonfiction memoir, or a bestselling novel, starting your own personal book club is a great way to share ideas and learn more about how your partner perceives the world. Reading with each other will help stimulate new conversations and help you gain new insights into your partner’s thought processes as well as your own.
# 7 – Write A Gratitude Journal With Your Partner
Happiness is a grateful heart. When you practice gratitude, you are training your brain to naturally recognize all the beauty that is constantly around you.
Gratitude is strongly linked with increased levels of happiness and overall well-being . It’s easy to feel grateful when things are going well but we tend to forget to find things to appreciate when life gets tough. This is especially true if this involves your relationship. But studies have shown that partners who regularly practice gratitude such as keeping a gratitude journal together have higher levels of positive feelings towards each other and also naturally engage in self-care ideas for couples .
Practicing Gratitude Together As A Form Of Couple Care
One of the most effective ways to practice gratitude is through journaling. The act of gratitude inspires people to be more generous, empathetic, and compassionate, making it one of the most important self-care ideas for couples there is. Starting a gratitude journal with your partner is a great way to create a concrete representation of why you love each other. Not only does it promote loving feelings between you in the moment, but it is also an incredibly handy tool to come back to during those moments of frustration when you are feeling less than cordial towards each other.
A great gratitude journal to start with your partner is A Year Of Grounding Gratitude. This 52-week journal can be printed out and written on or used digitally with editable text fields you can type your thoughts in. This journal is a great way to begin bookending your days with self-care and can be an uplifting and therapeutic way to start or end your day with your loved one. A great way to use it with your partner is to set a timer for five minutes and spend that time separately following the prompts in your digital or printed journal. When time is up, take turns reading your answers out loud to each other. Shared gratitude journaling can be useful to couples because it turns appreciation into a shared experience. Taking the time to share what you appreciate in each other helps both partners feel valued, respected, and loved.
Interested? Why not DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF THE GRATITUDE JOURNAL and start a gratitude-based self-care routine with your partner today?
The Bottom Line
Whether you’re newly partnered or have been together for decades, self-care ideas for couples are essential for maintaining the bond in any partnership. Even if you don’t have an excessive amount of time or money to spare, the goal is to prioritize your relationship in a way that feels easy and fun. Try some of these self-care ideas for couples for yourself and enjoy the love and laughter that comes with it.
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During kindergarten and primary school years, when everyone else made cards for mother’s day, I just doodled or made a card for my dad instead.
My mother died when I was just about four. My memories of her are limited to the photographs hung on my wall.
During Mother’s Day, when most people are reflecting on the relationships with their mothers, I am often thinking about what it means to be in that relationship—what it means to have a mother.
Sometimes when my eyes tend to make contact with that photograph/s, it’s really weird. I’m looking at a tall, slender figure, who is my mother.
In photographs before her wedding, I see her stylish side. In her wedding photos, she looks beautiful. In her photos where she holds a two-year-old me during my birthday, I can feel the warmth and love.
But every time I look at these photos, it’s very weird. Though she is my mother, I really don’t know her. She is still a stranger to me.
Back to reality, when I look around, my cousins and friends bonding, arguing and even fighting with their moms, I just to myself, “Well, this is what it must feel like.”
To be honest, I’m not sad, or ever felt sorry, for not having a mother. Maybe it’s because I never knew her, I never got to know what it feels to be with one. So you can’t really miss what you never had, right?
But deep down, I still think, and sometimes it really bugs me trying to think what it means to have this mother-son relationship.
While I have missed out on this amazing relationship, I have gained motherly love from my grandmother and my aunts. They’re my mother-like figures.
All these years, I’ve celebrated Mother’s Day with them. Though there is always a sense of that “someone” missing, someone for whom the day is dedicated to, it’s good to be amid so many others who I know wouldn’t hesitate adopting me and being my mother.
So I take this opportunity to thank them all. And to all the loving mothers, happy Mother’s Day.


I want a guy who brings me flowers when I least expect it. To bring me soup when I am sick…. AND opens my car door for me. Sadly…guys in our generation do not do this anymore.
Don’t be so available! It may be hard to accept, but the one who loves the least controls the relationship.


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Verified by Psychology Today. Love and Sex in the Digital Age. Bonnie has spent much of her adult life first living with and attempting to love a gay husband and then helping other women in the same mis- marriage situation. Who better to speak with about this than Bonnie Kaye? Our discussion was wide-ranging, beginning with her own marriage to a gay man and progressing to how she was able to move on post-marriage, eventually becoming a rock for other women in similar situations.
I only wish we could have found our current partners first, but then we wouldn't have had our wonderful children. It's unnecessary and derisive when "gas-lighting" works just as well. Something needs to change because as the author says, this is needless suffering - and it is the woman is the victim in this and the gay man is the wwomen. All the best E. Then, in typical fashion, Robert blamed me. In the Framingham study, marital happiness did not seem to influence the overall protective effect of marriage.
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All his cheating is with men. Prostate cancer is a particular concern for men. But a study found that the more educated a man's wife, the lower his risk for coronary artery disease and risk factors such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol, smoking, and lack of exercise. There was a maried of sexual promiscuity. For months, almost a year I have been trying to womeen sense of all this craziness that my boyfriend seems to think is normal.
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The s changed premarital sex. Prior to the sexual revolution, unmarried heterosexual sex partners ard to marry each other sometimes motivated by a shotgun pregnancy ; in more recent decades, first sex usually does not lead to marriage. Figure 1 shows how the odds of having only one lifetime sex partner have declined over the twentieth century for married Americans. The biggest declines occurred for people born between the s and the s, the latter of whom came of age during the sexual revolution of the s.
How have our marriages been affected? Survey respondents who tied the knot as virgins had the lowest divorce rates, but beyond that, the relationship between sexual biography and marital stability was less clear.
The current post extends this research by examining the relationship between premarital sex partners and marital happiness. Previous research indeed suggests a complex story between premarital sex partners and marital quality. Psychologists Galena K. Rhoades and Scott M. Multiple sex partners prior to marriage reduced marital quality for women, but not men. Rhoades and Stanley offer two explanations for this finding, one empirically demonstrable and one speculative.
Their data show that premarital sex sometimes leads to premarital fertility, and women but Unhappy married women spouses are gay men who have children from other relationships have lower-quality relationships. On the speculative side is their notion Irish domination having multiple partners increases awareness of spousal alternatives.
By implication, our marriages suffer when we make more comparisons. I look at almost 30 years of the General Social Survey, an annual or biennial survey dating back to Starting inrespondents were asked detailed questions about their sexual biographies. The median American woman born in the s has had three sex partners in her lifetime. The second, third, and fourth columns of Table 1 introduce a variety of covariates intended to account for the relationship between sexual history womem marital happiness.
The third column adds two measures of socioeconomic status, education and inflation-adjusted family income. The fourth column contains two measures of religiosity, denomination and frequent church attendance. None of these variables has an appreciable effect on the relationship between sexual background and marital Mattress genie twin. As for women, men who report only one sexual partner in their lifetime are more likely to report very happy marriages.
The happiness penalty for additional partners is modest, only a few percentage points. Adjusting for differences in marital history, socioeconomic status, and religion make little Unhapoy. This figure makes clear that the difference between having one and Unhappy married women spouses are gay than one, lifetime sex partner is most consequential in predicting marital quality.
That is the trend for women too, with two exceptions: female respondents with four partners or partners have significantly lower odds of very happy marriages compared to those with two partners. They are likely different from their fellows in ways that predict both premarital sexual behavior and marital happiness. Perhaps genetics can explain the relationship between sexual biographies and marital happiness. Any of these explanations woken possible, but none can be identified with these data.
One thing missing from the foregoing results is any direct consideration of whether marriage age affects the association between multiple sexual partners and marital happiness.
Other things being equal, older respondents have had more time to Unhappy married women spouses are gay extensive sexual histories. To determine whether marriage age is affecting the results, I reran my analysis just womeen the GSS years that include data on both age at marriage and sexual history For purposes of comparison, I also ran the analysis without marriage age to determine the extent to which it could explain the relationship between sexual history and marital happiness.
For both men and women, the baseline models in Table 3 include all the independent variables listed in Tables 1 and 2. Overall, Table 3 suggests that adding marriage age to the analysis makes essentially no difference, so it cannot explain the relationship between sexual background and marital quality. The data show that people with 21 or more partners lifetime are almost twice as likely to be aomen married as are people with fewer partners: 5.
Some caveats. First, data on sexual partners are likely Rubbing her mound to errors of boastfulness, shame, Unhappy married women spouses are gay memory consider, for instance, the married respondents claiming zero lifetime sex partners. Second, data on sex partners and marital happiness are measured at the same point in time. Spousrs, a measure of marital Ury bleach with two or three categories is obviously a blunt psychometric instrument.
As I suggested earlier in discussing the relationship between marital happiness and divorce, a lot more factors into whether a marriage is good. Finally, there are obvious reasons to expect sample selection bias to affect the results. So, the people most at risk of being in unhappy marriages by virtue of their complicated sexual histories may no longer be represented in the sample of people reporting on the happiness of their marriages. This bias would minimize the effects of premarital promiscuity on marital quality.
Consider how the difference in marital happiness based on lifetime sex spousse stacks up against differences based on several of the usual social and demographic suspects. This is larger than the five-percentage-point difference associated with a four-year college degree, eomen than the six-point difference that comes with attending religious services several times a month or more, and larger than the boost that comes with having an income above the national median.
Nicholas H. Bradford Wilcox Oxford University Press, My analysis ignores sexual orientation. Partners can be of either sex; same-sex marriages are included in the tally of marital satisfaction. There are too few gay and lesbian marriages to permit separate analysis. Seven percent of married women and 9 percent of married men claimed zero lifetime Abigail clancy thong partners.
Presumably, these respondents misinterpreted the survey question as inquiring about former sex partners. These respondents are treated as having had one sex partner. These results are based on regression standardization of logistic regression results. The data are Unhappy married women spouses are gay to make the sample nationally representative. Standard errors are adjusted for the weight scheme and design effects. The ensuing results were nonsensical. These analyses are based on men and women, and are similar to those reported in Table 1, and contain all of the covariates in the full models.
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Dec 20, · But that's not your best bet: "Staying in a seriously unhappy marriage can have long-term effects on our mental and emotional health," says Carrie Cole, a couples therapist and Master Certified Author: Redbook. "Homosexuality is such a hush-hush thing in India that a woman thinks if she tells anyone about her husband's sexual orientation, she will become an object of ridicule," rues Anjali Gopalan of Naz Foundation, a non-government organisation (NGO) that works on sexual health. "There is hardly any social support for women married to gay men in India.". As anyone who's been married for a while will tell you, marriage is not always easy. Sometimes life can lead us on different paths than our spouses, and we find that slowly our marriages are losing their value to us. Being in an unhappy marriage can take its toll on a woman. She often wonders how it .
Unhappy married women spouses are gay. When a straight woman marries a gay man, what does she experience?
About the Author. I understand people try things. The 'F" word with 2 'G's in it was being used as an insult to other teenagers I wanted to have something to offer my children. I''m not sure what same sex experiences he has had. Her calling it "gay-lighting" instead of "gas-lighting" strikes me as vaguely homophobic. Which makes it even harder for me to turn and leave him when I know how lost he is. Although sometimes I don't feel as strong as you paint me. It's time to let it go. Had no clue where to start. People do not care if you are gay, straight, bi or any of the other labels. Back Psychology Today. Sign me up. We are finding that talking and then talking some more has helped.
You've had your suspicions. Maybe your normal sexual appetite is considered by your mate to be excessive, or your spouse doesn't want to have anything to do with you sexually and acts repulsed by sexual activity.
Imagine suspecting your husband is cheating on you, only to find out that the person he has been seeking late night dalliances with is not a woman but actually a man. You might be shocked and surprised, but this has happened to more women than you think. Your husband might not have realized how strong his feelings for other men were until after you were married. Or he might have been trying to quell these emotions by marrying into a straight relationship. It is also possible that he deeply cares for you and decided to marry you despite his big secret.


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Marrakech weddings are always different. The idea was to propose something pretty intimate with really close friends and family. That represented 45 guests ! Not so few !
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Day after also brought some surprises. Let’s go for a quadbike ride in the desert, and there…in the middle of nowhere…guests see some strange scenography far away and coming close realize that a special mint tea and Moroccan pastries break has been created only for them, in the middle of nowhere, at the Taj Villa wedding Secret Spot. That was the final touch of what will stay as “Tamara’s masterpiece” in the history of Marrakech weddings.
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……call your best friend. grab two red solo cups and your ipad or tablet. pull up the movie Pitch Perfect on youtube and teach yourselves the song “CUPS!” enjoy every mess up, every success. give it your best try. be silly. have fun with it. spend time together. cherish the time. be present with one another. make a memory. share in laughter, share in ease, share in connection.
sometimes loving another really means loving yourself
love every second of your day


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While most couples need their relationships to last forever, the reality is that they will never become perfect. Even if you and your partner are the excellent couple, you and your husband https://boomfasports.com/real-truth-marriage-regalities-in-asian-europe/ will have different views and thinking on most subject areas. As a result, your relationship will likely have some disagreements. While this can be a source of anxiety, you should learn to manage your differences in a proper way. To take care of marriage happy and healthy, follow these guidelines to avoid divorce.
The moment in an debate, don’t make an effort to win. You don’t have to get the point. If you want to stop arguments, you should end arguing more than everything. Some fights happen to be worth letting go of, while others are not really worth the energy. You may also use the own wits to support your spouse when necessary. For example , you can get your spouse a tub of ice cream. Make sure to dedicate some good time together and put the cell phone aside.
Should you have managed to prevent fighting, you may still have a wholesome marriage when you are more understanding. Remember, just about every couple has different anger causes. As you figure out your spouse’s demands, try to be sensitive to theirs. At the time you feel your partner is not listening to you, try to be sensitive. If she or he looks irritated, ask her or him what he or she loves or dislikes. brides-blooms.com If you done this stuff, your relationship will surely previous.
A nutritious relationship is built on daily connection. Therefore spending time along with your spouse. This means sharing your day, having a laugh, or just writing things. The thing is to make this a routine rather than chore. Make an attempt to find small ways to meet up with your partner every day. When you do this, your spouse will certainly feel appreciated and content. This will help the marriage to be strong and vibrant. Yet , you should prevent comparing your relationship with somebody else’s because this pair of are not the same.
You can also make your relationship by examining your partner’s body language. While you might be more innovative than your partner, you may be amazed to learn that your partner is not as creative as you think. Whether you are hitched or solitary, try to find methods to be innovative and choose a marriage more interesting. Having fun with your spouse could make you feel closer to each other. If the spouse can be not sense appreciated, you may give them a great gift of their choice.
When you are dating, try to find small strategies to show your appreciate to one another. For instance, you could buy a particular ice-cream cone for your spouse. You http://ocw.sookmyung.ac.kr/?p=15115 can also let them have a small surprise or a massage. By doing these, you can transform your life relationship and feel good about it. The gestures you give will make your spouse truly feel happy and appreciate you. If your partner has been complaining about anything, it will be great to make a observe of it and bring it with their attention.


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UK 2015. 82 min. Cert 15.
Robert Kenner is a lonely man looking for love. Today, if he can actually get his boss to give him some time off, he is going on his first date for 6 years. Oh, and he is also the world’s only SuperHero. Featuring Brett Goldstein & Catherine Tate.


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29 Dec Happy Holidays!!
At this beautiful time of year, I especially want to let you all know how very dear you are to me. From My Family to yours….I wish for you the most precious gifts of the season….Love, Joy, Peace and Happiness
And Thank You for gracing my life with your love and support all year!


Maryann (born in 2011) is an energetic, charismatic, and outgoing child. She enjoys being creative and draws her own comics. Maryann likes to be outdoors and loves animals. Her favorite classes are science and art. When she grows up, she wants to be a children’s author. She describes herself as weird, playful, and someone who sticks up for others. Her favorite movie is Jurassic World, and her favorite food is fruit salad. Maryann wants a family with no males in the household and people who will support her desire to maintain relationships with her siblings. Maryann says she can bring a lot of love and faith to a family.
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Love makes us all do crazy things. We’ve heard it before, and yet we choose to be incapacitated over it. The way we feel, our lives revolving around someone so wonderful, beautiful, and innocent of all wrongs our minds can’t picture anything wrong about them. The two of us, the two of whoever comes to mind is something beautiful. Love is simply beautiful. There really is no other way to describe the feeling.
Sure, there are a million words to describe how love really makes us feel, but in the end it’s beautiful and a lot of times we choose to be in it than out of it. But, finding someone that is the key isn’t it. So, many of my friends when we go back to church without a hand to hold, or a pretty face to introduce are always questioned about the non-existance of well…the one. “Joseph, so good to see you, are you dating?”
“Joseph, you look great, but you know what would look better? A cute girl on your side?”
“Well, are you not looking? Surely, there is one out there right now.”
I get those questions a lot. But, why does love always have to be shared so exclusively and limited? The thought that love can only exist, and that a person can only be whole when walking side by side is foreign to me. Don’t mistake me, I hope to marry one day, find that girl who will handle my humor and bad eating habits, but now love is all around.
I find I love a lot more when I’m single. I know what you’re thinking… Wow, Joseph, keep this PG. But, really, I love more freely when I’m single. When I’m not committed exclusively to one person, there’s more to love. When I’m driving down the road when I’m usually not rushing to see one specific person, and I’m free to stop to help someone. When a conversation with a friend needs to last longer, and there’s no date to worry about being late to. It’s easier to love.
I watched the Spectacular Now yesterday, and I must say it was moving. A high school relationship between a popular guy and an unknown girl; the girl starting her first relationship, the guy picking up a rebound from his last. Their love is so easy to poke at, the first feelings of love, as an onlooker you can’t help but shake your head as you know all too well how this will end. But, really while their relationship is key to the plot, conflict, it’s all about living in the now. As Sutter, the guy, puts it so well, “This right here, is beautiful, this is the youngest we are ever going to be, this is our time. Live in the NOW.” The now, the time that we are all experiencing together with all too different emotions and thoughts, but we are all hoping for one thing, love. You see, love is simply beautiful. It gives us the power to move on from the past, hope for the future, and to live in the now. The now is here, where love is needed from everyone around you. Whether romantically, friendly, brotherly, you name it, love is needed all around. Don’t get me wrong, romantic love, between two people is amazing, but don’t limit love exclusively to that. In the Spectacular Now, love is learned simply by being present, realizing we can’t change the past, and can’t write our future’s in pen. So, when love comes, well live in the now. Be love wherever you go, and find someone loving as boldly as you. Yes, love is beautiful and when shared between the right two people it’s a force that in the moment cannot be stopped, it’s spectacular. I’ll just let Robert Fulgam finish this out,
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”


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Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth.
Except, of course, it doesn’t work out that way for most people. The majority of marriages fail, either ending in divorce and separation or devolving into bitterness and dysfunction. Of all the people who get married, only three in ten remain in healthy, happy marriages. Social scientists first started studying marriages by observing them in action in the 1970s in response to a crisis: Married couples were divorcing at unprecedented rates. Worried about the impact these divorces would have on the children of the broken marriages, psychologists decided to cast their scientific net on couples, bringing them into the lab to observe them and determine what the ingredients of a healthy, lasting relationship were. Was each unhappy family unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy claimed, or did the miserable marriages all share something toxic in common?
Psychologist John Gottman began gathering his most critical findings in 1986, when he set up “The Love Lab” with his colleague Robert Levenson at the University of Washington. Gottman and Levenson brought newlyweds into the lab and watched them interact with each other. With a team of researchers, they hooked the couples up to electrodes and asked the couples to speak about their relationship, like how they met, a major conflict they were facing together, and a positive memory they had. As they spoke, the electrodes measured the subjects’ blood flow, heart rates, and how much they sweat they produced. Then the researchers sent the couples home and followed up with them six years later to see if they were still together.
From the data they gathered, Gottman separated the couples into two major groups: the masters and the disasters. The masters were still happily together after six years. The disasters had either broken up or were chronically unhappy in their marriages. When the researchers analyzed the data they gathered on the couples, they saw clear differences between the masters and disasters. The disasters looked calm during the interviews, but their physiology, measured by the electrodes, told a different story. Their heart rates were quick, their sweat glands were active, and their blood flow was fast. Following thousands of couples longitudinally, Gottman found that the more physiologically active the couples were in the lab, the quicker their relationships deteriorated over time.
But what does physiology have to do with anything? The problem was that the disasters showed all the signs of arousal—of being in fight-or-flight mode—in their relationships. Having a conversation sitting next to their spouse was, to their bodies, like facing off with a saber-toothed tiger. Even when they were talking about pleasant or mundane facets of their relationships, they were prepared to attack and be attacked. This sent their heart rates soaring and made them more aggressive toward each other. For example, each member of a couple could be talking about how their days had gone, and a highly aroused husband might say to his wife, “Why don’t you start talking about your day. It won’t take you very long.”
The masters, by contrast, showed low physiological arousal. They felt calm and connected together, which translated into warm and affectionate behavior, even when they fought. It’s not that the masters had, by default, a better physiological make-up than the disasters; it’s that masters had created a climate of trust and intimacy that made both of them more emotionally and thus physically comfortable.
Gottman wanted to know more about how the masters created that culture of love and intimacy, and how the disasters squashed it. In a follow-up study in 1990, he designed a lab on the University of Washington campus to look like a beautiful bed and breakfast retreat. He invited 130 newlywed couples to spend the day at this retreat and watched them as they did what couples normally do on vacation: cook, clean, listen to music, eat, chat, and hang out. And Gottman made a critical discovery in this study—one that gets at the heart of why some relationships thrive while others languish.
Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, “Look at that beautiful bird outside!” He’s not just commenting on the bird here: he’s requesting a response from his wife—a sign of interest or support—hoping they’ll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.
The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either “turning toward” or “turning away” from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.
People who turned toward their partners in the study responded by engaging the bidder, showing interest and support in the bid. Those who didn’t—those who turned away—would not respond or respond minimally and continue doing whatever they were doing, like watching TV or reading the paper. Sometimes they would respond with overt hostility, saying something like, “Stop interrupting me, I’m reading.”
These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow up had “turn-toward bids” 33 percent of the time. Only three in ten of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had “turn-toward bids” 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of ten, they were meeting their partner’s emotional needs.
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By observing these types of interactions, Gottman can predict with up to 94 percent certainty whether couples—straight or gay, rich or poor, childless or not—will be broken up, together and unhappy, or together and happy several years later. Much of it comes down to the spirit couples bring to the relationship. Do they bring kindness and generosity; or contempt, criticism, and hostility?
“There’s a habit of mind that the masters have,” Gottman explained in an interview, “which is this: they are scanning social environment for things they can appreciate and say thank you for. They are building this culture of respect and appreciation very purposefully. Disasters are scanning the social environment for partners’ mistakes.”
“It’s not just scanning environment,” chimed in Julie Gottman. “It’s scanning the partner for what the partner is doing right or scanning him for what he’s doing wrong and criticizing versus respecting him and expressing appreciation.”
Contempt, they have found, is the number one factor that tears couples apart. People who are focused on criticizing their partners miss a whopping 50 percent of positive things their partners are doing and they see negativity when it’s not there. People who give their partner the cold shoulder—deliberately ignoring the partner or responding minimally—damage the relationship by making their partner feel worthless and invisible, as if they’re not there, not valued. And people who treat their partners with contempt and criticize them not only kill the love in the relationship, but they also kill their partner’s ability to fight off viruses and cancers. Being mean is the death knell of relationships.
Kindness, on the other hand, glues couples together. Research independent from theirs has shown that kindness (along with emotional stability) is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage. Kindness makes each partner feel cared for, understood, and validated—feel loved. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,” says Shakespeare’s Juliet. “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” That’s how kindness works too: there’s a great deal of evidence showing the more someone receives or witnesses kindness, the more they will be kind themselves, which leads to upward spirals of love and generosity in a relationship.
There are two ways to think about kindness. You can think about it as a fixed trait: either you have it or you don’t. Or you could think of kindness as a muscle. In some people, that muscle is naturally stronger than in others, but it can grow stronger in everyone with exercise. Masters tend to think about kindness as a muscle. They know that they have to exercise it to keep it in shape. They know, in other words, that a good relationship requires sustained hard work.
Neglect creates distance between partners and breeds resentment in the one who is being ignored. The hardest time to practice kindness is, of course, during a fight—but this is also the most important time to be kind. Letting contempt and aggression spiral out of control during a conflict can inflict irrevocable damage on a relationship.
“Kindness doesn’t mean that we don’t express our anger,” Julie Gottman explained, “but the kindness informs how we choose to express the anger. You can throw spears at your partner. Or you can explain why you’re hurt and angry, and that’s the kinder path.”
John Gottman elaborated on those spears: “Disasters will say things differently in a fight. Disasters will say ‘You’re late. What’s wrong with you? You’re just like your mom.’ Masters will say ‘I feel bad for picking on you about your lateness, and I know it’s not your fault, but it’s really annoying that you’re late again.’”
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For the hundreds of thousands of couples getting married this month—and for the millions of couples currently together, married or not—the lesson from the research is clear: If you want to have a stable, healthy relationship, exercise kindness early and often. Continue reading


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Monday, February 14, 2011
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