Relationship Insight

Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days.

Forget About Feelings, Real Love Is A Deliberate Choice Whatever spontaneous storm may come our way I plan on loving my wife. If you truly love someone (and they truly love you), commit to that love and plan...

What if I’m a woman who never settles in? Exploring what can make settling down so unsettling.

5 Traits of a Good Relationship.

6 Things You Should Never Stop Asking For In Your Relationship Don't EVER stop asking for these things!Relationships should never ever be one-sided. There is no su…

To Stay Married, Embrace Change It’s unrealistic to expect your spouse to forever remain the same person you fell in love with.

Here are some highlights of the findings:

92% of men and 84% of women said that it was desirable or essential that their potential partner was good-looking.
80% of men and 58% of women said a slender body was desirable or essential.
74% of men and 97% of women wanted someone with a steady income.
47% of men and 69% of women said that a potential partner making a lot of money was important to them.

This Is What People Find Essential In A Long-Term Partner - PsyBlog Largest ever survey reveals what men and women are looking for in a long-term partner.

"We're afraid to open up and be vulnerable and say to someone: 'you know what, I adore you, I love you, I’m afraid you might leave me one day, and honestly I’m afraid period.'"

Why You Don’t Have the Balls to Be Happy. Happiness did not arrive when I fell in love, got married and walked down that isle. Happiness did not arrive along with my huge bonus checks and yuppy

Conscious love is not based on crazy chemistry, or constant fighting. There is no emotional abandonment, or constant push-pull of trying to connive, bribe, and convince someone else to give us what we need to feel loved.

Instead, we learn to grow. We stretch into better ways of expressing our needs, our hearts, and our feelings of abandonment, rejection, or fear.

Both parties begin to see how they create behaviors and outcomes by their own actions in the relationship.

The Reason You’re Attracted to Someone Isn’t Why You Think You see a woman or man across a crowded room and it feels as if a vortex of uncontrollable energy is pulling you toward them. You’ve met your “soul mate” and you feel it viscerally – your guts, your loins, your mind all explode with cupid’s phenylethylalamine-tipped arrows, as they graze your skin.…

The Longest Married Couple Shares Lessons Learned from 81 Years of Marriage After 81 years together, the Longest Married Couple shares their story and some final advice as they reach the final chapter of their beautiful life together.

The 5 Stages of Grieving A Relationship Breakups are hard but understanding these phases can help you fully heal and move on.

This is how we ‘want’ another person. Their presence should be an additional joy or blessing in our lives. Nevertheless, when their presence becomes a must or an addiction, our love transforms to neediness. When we are in need, we don’t enjoy the person. Rather, we enjoy what we take from them.

Are You in Love Or in Need? Here are six ways to find out and what you can do about it.