Every year, I sit down with pen in hand to jot down some thoughts on how to strengthen my marriage in the coming year. Call them relationship resolutions, if you…...

Fixing our relationship just seems so hard… Maybe it would just be easier to find someone who has the qualities I want in an intimate relationship… It’s probably not going…...

To narcissists, relationships are transactional, like buying and selling. The goal is to get what you want at the lowest price. It’s a self-centered, business mindset. Emotions don’t intrude. In…...

Finding how you give, receive and communicate love will enable you and your spouse to love better and stronger. In his bestseller, The 5 Love Languages, author Gary Chapman writes: At…...

One of the questions that we often receive from our readers is: What are the deal-breakers in relationships, and what’s the best way to deal with them? “Deal-breakers” are those…...

Intimacy can mean different things to different people. It is a word that has numerous meanings and interpretations. The meaning I am going to be looking at here is closeness.…...

When we’re unhappy with something, a common response is to complain about it: That was such a long day. The weather is so dreary. Traffic was horrible. Even though we…...

Valentine’s Day creates a lot of expectations that are often unrealized. It’s fraught with landmines whether you’re in or out of a relationship, and the grass isn’t always greener. Is…...

If the three magic words in real estate are location, location, location, then the three magic words in relationships are communication, communication, communication. But just as some locations are more…...

This month of May, my husband Barry and I will both turn seventy. For half of our lives, we have been writing these articles once a month, 35 years of…...