Relationships

Relationship Enhancement at the Workplace
by James Lucoff
When Dr. Bernard Guerney hit upon teachable skills that helped couples resolve conflict and enhance closeness in their relationships, it wasn

Relationship Enhancement for Individuals
by James Lucoff
We've presented a broad outline showing how Relationship Enhancement skills can help couples to enhance intimacy and resolve conflict. But what if only one person in the marriage has an interest in learning the skills? And how about single persons who are

Think INSIDE the Square to Keep Those Love Fires Burning
by Dorothy Thompson
I was sitting in my sanctuary in my back yard contemplating the world's mysteries and minding my own business when a fellow neighbor walked up to me and started a conversation. As he looked a little distressed, I invited him into my little spiritual oasis

The Stress Factory
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Of all the different age groups, the people who claim they are the least satisfied are those in the 31- to 40-year-old range. They are arguably under the greatest amount of pressure, as these are the critical years for building careers

Getting Love Right
Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (A Fireside/Parkside Recovery Book)
by Terence T. Gorski, M.A., N.C.A.C.
On a fundamental level, relationships represent a search for that wholeness, a search for completeness and the ability to feel as one with another human being. In many ways, this striving for unity with another person is a fool's game.

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'

Clearing a Space for Empathy
by James Lucoff
A few days ago my wife reminded me that I had procrastinated handling a particular responsibility and said she felt disrespected as a result. My response? Defensive rebuttal - this matter was not really all that important, I tried to explain.

Shaping Your Mate
by Bob Grant, L.P.C.
Some years ago, while building my counseling practice, I was constantly looking for the most effective strategies for my clients. The theories in Graduate School were very interesting, but I also yearned for the practical applications.

The Research
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
Practically everyone who has any experience with Personality Type finds it immediately applicable to their personal relationships. Whether we're presenting workshops on team building or effective parenting or training career professionals

Looking for the Positive
by James Lucoff
Marriage researcher John Gottman has made an intensive study of how people interact in their relationships. Not surprisingly, he found that in flourishing marriages the participants express more positive, appreciative comments toward one another than

Is There Room In Your Life For A Relationship - Achieving Balance

This issue was designed to help you to take a first step towards creating a balanced and fulfilling life. This of course involves both success in work and in your relationships. Hopefully you found the suggestions and questions useful as you examined your

The Battle of the Sexes
by Joseph Ghabi
During my personal experiences with some of my relationships, I realised an important factor that a couple in any relationship might experience. The same issue reached my conclusion whilst talking with the people I've dealt with during in some of my priva

Can I Say 'I Love You' Too Much?
Magic Words
by Howard Kaminsky, Alexandra Penney
Unless you have a compulsive disorder the answer to this Magic Word question is ABSOLUTELY NOT! Most of us find it easy to say 'Thank you.' We say it without a second thought to complete strangers in supermarkets, at ball games, on the street

Opening to Love
The New Intimacy: Discovering the Magic at the Heart of Your Differences
by Judith Sherven, Ph.D., James Sniechowski, Ph. D.
At the heart of the new intimacy is the capacity to consciously open yourself and take in more and more of who your partner truly is. That's much easier when what you want to take in is familiar, something you already know and like.

Maintaining 'Good Love' in a Long-Term Relationship
Heart of the Matter
by Linda Austin, M.D.
As challenging as it is to be aware of your rule book for starting a relationship, it's even more challenging to be aware of the gazillions of rules you unconsciously impose when your relationship becomes permanent.

This Valentine's Day, Give Your Relationship a Tune-Up
by EqualityinMarriage.org
The media seems to be brimming with messages of relationship doom. The new book by Paula Paul, Starter Marriages, is full of statistics stating that today's new marriages are often over before they start. Celebrity and high-profile divorces are

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.

Stop and Smell the Roses
by James Lucoff
In his best-seller Faster: The acceleration of just about everything, James Gleick confronts us with society

I want to have friends, a job, and a better relationship with my mother
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
how I can make the relationship with my mother work much better? I have no friends, no income whatsoever, no car of my own, my mother refuses to allow me to drive her car, and I have not one person that I can turn to. Please let me know what, if anything,

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.