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8 Ways You're Unknowingly Sabotaging Your RelationshipThis might just save you thousands in couples therapy: Your partner is not always the problem. Sorry. You're welcome.
By Amy Shearn
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Mistake #6: Saying No to The Hangover 2In every woman's every weeknight, there are choices to be made, obligations to be ignored if one is to have any hope for leisure time. But while you can and probably should ignore the unchecked e-mail, the mismatched-socks mountain, the eerily tinted bathtub grout, it's just not good home economics to put your significant other on the Deal With Later list. Yes, it's easy to zone out on the iPad while intermittently asking, "Did you want to do something?" But it's just as easy to watch Ed Helms getting a tattoo on his face while snuggling with your partner. Even if it's not a movie on your To-Watch list. Even if it's a movie on your Never-Watch list. The point is not the movie. The point is the low-demand, high-reward cuddling-up-ness of it all. Related ResourcesKeep Reading
The Love Breakthrough That Could Save Your RelationshipOrdinary little annoyances are potentially ruinous for 80 percent of couples. Is there any way to stop the downward spiral?
A Couples Therapist Screws UpShe made big plans; her boyfriend made excuses. She pushed; he pulled away. But when Darby Saxbe trained to become a couples therapist, she learned to put down her weapons, lean in, and collaborate on a winning cease-fire.
The One Thing You Need to Do to Save Your MarriageRelationships aren't easy, even for relationship experts. Here's a new technique from the co-founders of Imago Relationship Therapy that can work for any couple.
The Most Useful Communication Technique of All TimeDarby Saxbe uncovers the single most important thing couples can say to each other.
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