Relationships

Love Hormone Oxytocin Improves Stressful Relationships
by eNotAlone.com
Relationships are hard work and most of the people probably think at some point that communicating in a positive way with the other half when discussing stressful issues, such as home finances, for example, is an impossible thing to do.

Marital Satisfaction Depends On Perception
by eNotAlone.com
A new Northwestern University study suggests that dating couples who include marriage in their future plans will experience higher relationship satisfaction if they believe that a partner will always be there to support them after they tie the knot.

Economic Crisis Affects Our Health
by eNotAlone.com
There is nothing else but economy that preoccupies the minds of Americans at present times of economic stress and recession. The negative statistics on unemployment, tanking investments, housing costs and consumer confidence keep coming and coming

Romantic Love Can Last Forever
by eNotAlone.com
Romance does not necessarily have to fade away in the long-term relationships and transform into a friendship-type love, according to a new study. Romantic love can last a lifetime and lead to even happier, stronger and healthier relationships.

Guys Prefer Non-Drinking Ladies
by eNotAlone.com
Very often young ladies in college may be drinking in excess to impress or charm the counterparts of the opposite sex. However, the new study suggests that college guys actually are not quite impressed when women become their drinking buddies.

Dealing With Jealousy
by eNotAlone.com
Jealousy is one of the most destabilizing of all emotions. It can be defined as a person's fears and anxieties around attention that they think is being given to or received by the one who is dear and important to them.

Brunettes VS Blondes
by eNotAlone.com
Hair coloring is the latest fashion trend, and today more and more people start coloring their hair to look different and new. Some believe that a hair color can add some shine, meaning and fun to their hairstyle, while for others it is just the easiest

Romance At Work: Yes Or No?
by eNotAlone.com
Despite the fact that many companies nowadays have policies forbidding relationships between their co-workers, numerous affairs start in the workplace. The main reason could be that the employees spend a lot of time working side by side, and friendships

Virtual Dating And Love
by eNotAlone.com
With the popularization of personal computers and Internet services all over the world, a growing number of people become more and more involved in on-line love affairs and even on-line marriages.

Secrets Of A Happy Marriage
by eNotAlone.com
To maintain a happy marriage is far more complicated than most couples realize. Marital researchers have found that couples who help each other cope with stressful situations outside the marriage have much stronger, healthier and happier relationships

Maintaining A Strong Relationship
by eNotAlone.com
Every relationship is unique, complex and multi-dimensional, and every person has his own way of understanding and feeling if a relationship is or is not right for him. Most of us want to fall in love, be in love and stay in love forever.

Thursday
The Honeymoon's Over; True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce
by Andrea Chapin, Sally Wofford-Girand
Isabel Rose saw red flags before her marriage, but everyone thought she'd made perfect match. Ann Hood's relationship with her husband had the usual bumps, until the tragic death of her young daughter forged their bond for life.

Part One
Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
by Timothy S. Lane, M. Div., D. Min., Paul D. Tripp
We had just moved to a new home and we were far from being settled. Life on every side seemed complicated and chaotic. Our schedule seemed ridiculously demanding. Our children ranged in ages from two to eleven and they all seemed out of sorts.

Assessing the Relationship Mess
Minds in Distress: The Clash of Evolution, Human Conditioning, and Culture in America
by Edward E. Loewe Ph.D.
Love and romance are here to stay. They are a lately evolved aspect of the instinctual human responses that promote mating, especially in the western world. And, they are adaptive for continuing the existence of the human species into a future

Love in Ruins
Minds in Distress: The Clash of Evolution, Human Conditioning, and Culture in America
by Edward E. Loewe Ph.D.
Romantic love is an aspect of the human condition which has shown itself to be both a source of jubilation and of pain. Its hallmark is in many ways unpredictability. Love shows no reliability whatsoever in terms of when it will appear in one's life

Completely Incomplete
Undressed; The Naked Truth about Love, Sex, and Dating
by Jason Illian
In a world where we don't know whether we're dating, courting, hanging out, living together, or just having sex, Jason Illian exposes the naked truth about relationships. There is magnificent middle ground between 'kissing dating good-bye'

The Missing Ingredient: What Relationships Really Need
Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships
by Greg Baer, M.D.
Relationships fail all around us every day - between spouses, lovers, siblings, friends, and co-workers, among others. But despite an abundance of self-assured finger-pointing, the people involved rarely have any idea what actually went wrong.

The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love
Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love and Fulfilling Relationships
by Greg Baer, M.D.
Like most of us, I was told as a child that if I did all the right things - set my goals high, worked hard, and followed the rules along the way - I would accomplish great things. And it was further implied that, as a result, I would grow up to be happy.

A Case of Mistaken Identity, Part 2
No Less Than Greatness
by Mary Manin Morrissey
How easily we are lured into a false identity. You know those times you tell people, 'I'm just not myself today'? With Michael, I felt 'not myself'all the time.

A Case of Mistaken Identity
No Less Than Greatness
by Mary Manin Morrissey
At first, I was reluctant to show Michael my engagement ring. This eleven-year-old kid with a snarl on his face where a smile should have been, my future husband's son, didn't care for me particularly.