How to Save Your Relationship

The Love Breakthrough That Could Save Your Relationship

By Brent Atkinson, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Ordinary little annoyances are potentially ruinous for 80 percent of couples. Is there any way to stop the downward spiral?

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