Relationships

Friendship Between Men and Women Often Involves Attraction
by Margarita Nahapetyan
It has been known for a long time that men and women can be good friends. But now, a new research claims that no matter what some may think, romantic feelings and attraction will always get in the way of the platonic relationship between male and female

Women More than Men Are Jealous of Attractive Colleagues
by Margarita Nahapetyan
Women in the workplace are more jealous and envious than men if the colleagues around them are attractive, finds a new international study. However, both men and women are equally jealous of co-workers who have strong social skills.

More Women Than Men Guilty of Eye Cheating
by Margarita Nahapetyan
According to a new poll by a leading online independent travel agency Sunshine, while vacationing with a partner, it is women and not men who are more likely to check out members of the opposite gender in a flirtatious or curious way.

Why Women In Red Are So Attractive For Men?
by Margarita Nahapetyan
Red has long been described as a color of passion, fire and danger with the image of the 'lady in red' being a symbol of sizzling attractiveness guaranteed to turn heads. However, new research on male behavior claims that the real reason why men are drawn

40% of American Women Never Married
by Margarita Nahapetyan
Nearly 40 percent of women under the age of 44 years have never been married, and fewer stay in their first marriage, found a recent government poll by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Many Women Don't Leave Abusive Partners Because of Pets
by Margarita Nahapetyan
One out of three women in abusive relationships delay leaving their violent partner for the fear that family pets would be hurt or even killed, a new groundbreaking survey from New Zealand has found.

Women May Choose Wrong Partners When On Contraceptive Pill
by Margarita Nahapetyan
According to the most recent lab experiments, a contraceptive pill might alter the way women feel about their partners. In particular, it was revealed that ladies who have been on the pill when starting a relationship may no longer be attracted

Women Prefer Men Without Beard
by Margarita Nahapetyan
It turns out that guys with beard seem to earn higher respect from other guys, but as to ladies, they find men with facial hair less attractive and prefer clean-shaven faces. That is a statement psychologists from New Zealand and Canada are doling out

Video Games Have Both Good and Bad Impact On Marriage
by Margarita Nahapetyan
Online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings and Guild Wars can have both positive and negative impact on real-life relationships and marital satisfaction, found scientists at Brigham Young University (BYU) in which they explored

Power of no for happy relationships and lasting love
by Frank Ra
What is taking up space and time and your life, without bringing any benefit to your relationships and to the people who matters for you? Say no to... stereotypes and unilateralism. Are men from Mars and women from Venus? No!

Some Women Prefer Overweight Men If They Are Rich
by Margarita Nahapetyan
It is not surprising to find that beautiful women do not mind fat men as long as they are rich, and now, a new study has discovered a formula for calculating how much more money a man needs to earn if he gains extra pounds to keep attracting the same type

Online Dating Criminals Steal Hearts And Cash
by Margarita Nahapetyan
More than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom may have fallen victim to online criminals who pose as romantic partners on different Internet dating sites, found a new study by online polling site YouGov.

Avoiding The Heartache Of Premature Intimacy
by Jim A. Talley
A loving relationship between a man and a woman can be the strongest unit of society, able to survive any problems, external or internal. Why, then, are many man-woman relationships so fragile that they disintegrate in the face of seemingly minor challeng

Sex and Food: How They Work Together
by Carla Wills-Brandon
Sex and food. Both are necessary for the continuation of our species. Both are very powerful and have the capacity to change the way we feel about our lives and the world around us. If used in an addictive manner, food and sex can distort our reality

The Recovery Movement
Beyond Codependency
by Melody Beattie
For years, we called chemical dependency and other disorders 'family diseases.' Now, we're believing our own words. At last, as Carla said, we have hope. Practical hope. The word codependency may label a problem, but to many of us it also labels

Smart Love; A Codependence Recovery Program
by Jody Hayes
During the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people across America have been exploring the painful reality of their addiction to love. Both men and women are reading psychologically oriented and personal-growth books on addictive love

Love Is a Choice; Recovery for Codependent Relationships
by Paul Meier, Frank Minirth, Robert Hemfelt
In its broadest sense, codependency can be defined as an addiction to people, behaviors, or things. Codependency is the fallacy of trying to control interior feelings by controlling people, things, and events on the outside.

Risk to Be Healed; The Heart of Personal and Relationship Growth
by Barry Vissell
'Let's take life easy now' Barry remarked as we received the first copies of our second book. Models of Love, from the printer . It had been quite a challenge to finish the book while both our children were small and being homeschooled.

Characteristics of Destructive Relationships
by Joy Miller
Our destructive relationship is like traveling through a long airtight grey tunnel interspersed with a few brilliant specks of bright light. Despite the knowledge that we can leave the tunnel at any time, we continue searching aimlessly for another speck

Love - The Compatible Ideal
Karmic Relationships
by Martin Schulman
One of the greatest mysteries of life is the experience of loving another person. For eons, people have tried to define and understand the depths of love's simplicity. We know the intimate love of one person to another. We experience a love for nature.

The Symptoms of Codependence
by Pia Mellody
An increasing number of people have recognized themselves in the symptoms described in the following pages. They have begun to desire to change, to clear up the distortions, and to be healed from the painful aftermath of experiencing childhood

Soulmates
by Barry Vissell, Steve Englund
Imagine being separated from your beloved for eighteen years! Sometimes in meditation I glimpse my life before coming to earth to incarnate in this body. As I feel this, Barry is always with me and I know we have been together in a deep and beautiful way

Toward a More Permanent Love
by Steve Englund, Edward E. Ford
Perhaps the strongest, most definitive drive of the human species is the drive toward love. It may also be the most multifaceted, the most talked- and written-about, and the least understood or fulfilled. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink,

How the Male and Female in Each of Us Affects Our Relationships
by John B. Sanford
Men are used to thinking of themselves only as men, and women think of themselves as women, but the psychological facts indicate that every human being is androgynous.

Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
Being aware of our boundaries and limits is useful in our relationships and recovery. In fact, this awareness is crucial to having healthy relationships and a successful recovery. A boundary or limit is how far we can go with comfort in a relationship.

Why Love Seems So Elusive
by Connell Cowan, Dr. Melvyn Kinder
For so many women today, men are confusing, even incomprehensible. They seem to operate according to a murky set of rules women have never quite learned.

The Power of Negative Thinking
Love Is Never Enough: How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
by Aaron T. Beck
When spouses' high expectations are thwarted, they are prone to jump to negative conclusions about the partner's state of mind and the state of the marriage. Relying on what amounts to mind reading, the disillusioned spouse jumps to damning conclusions

Some Women Choose A Diet Over Relationships
by Margarita Nahapetyan
A new survey by the weight loss company Atkins has discovered that more than fifty per cent of women think and worry much more about their appearance and dieting than they do about men and their relationships. After interviewing about 1300 female dieters

From Meeting to Marriage
Fine Romance: The Passage of Courtship from Meeting to Marriage
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
It starts with "Can I buy you a drink?" It can lead to "Let's buy a house." It's called courtship, and for most of us it's an emotional upheaval. This upheaval does not resemble in the least the romance you have been anticipating, the

Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know
by Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.
Men: The Final Frontier May you live in changing times. - Chinese curse Imagine for a moment that you've been chosen to be part of an expedition to another planet. All that's known about the planet is that it is inhabited by beings whose physical