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The New Marriage - Part Three of Four
Harry Stack Sullivan, in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry , argues that human beings have a biological drive to develop and establish interpersonal relationships. In Biological Basis for Human Social Behavior , R.A. Hind suggests that a person’s “attachment style”—the way in which they relate to other human beings and form relationships with them—is developed mostly during childhood. The attachment style tends to persist into adulthood but is not fixed and can be modified either positively or negatively as the result of further interactions.
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Personality
In addition to socialization there are other factors that effect an individual and the relationship of these factors to the personality factor must be considered.
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Know Your Man: Grooming
Sometimes men find it terrific to stay all weekend at home in his PJs, without shaving, brushing teeth, combing hair, or showering. They will do this to de-stress and not to embarrass us. It is the time when they let go of his ordinary activities and roles and almost literally enter their caves.
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What is a Grownup Relationship? Making Sense of Normal Relationship Development
It can be scary to experience disillusionment, hurtfulness, and distance in a relationship, especially if it started out intensely romantic and passionate. This article provides perspective on how and why we can move from being so in-love to experiencing so much conflict, and offers hope for an ultimately healthy and rewarding relationship.
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Verbal Abuse is Never About You
Verbal abuse says far more about the abuser than it ever says about you. If you were to give that abuse a physical image, what would you choose? You can use that image to reject the power that verbal abuse exerted over you once and for all.
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Overcoming Shyness in Social Situations
Sometimes the concept of overcoming shyness puts too much pressure on an individual and they should instead focus on feeling at ease and confident in a variety of social settings. Although most teenagers do outgrow a sense of shyness, the vestiges of it sometimes prevail into adulthood.
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Hard Work is Bad Management - Vison is not Always the Best Answer
Nature never destroys anything, she simply builds a new one on top of the old one, greater in consciousness, less in number. In other words nature doesn’t make quantum leaps, she evolves by making things smarter and faster.
Business runs on cash. The currency of love in a business is cash. Love sustains a relationship, cash sustains a business. If you run out of love in a relationship, you run out of relationship. If you run out of cash in a business, you run out of business. Cash is king.
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Men: Winning The Woman Of Your Dreams
What makes for a happy relationship? What makes one couple have a successful relationship while another couple flounders? Is it just luck? Why do some men get the Woman Of Their Dreams while others get stuck with controlling women? Or, frigid women? Or, manipulative women?
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Tips For A Happy Relationship
There's no denying that maintaining a relationship is a lot of work. Almost fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce, and many wonder how people can maintain their relationships over their entire lives.
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Don't Wait To Tell People How Much They Mean To You
Un-communicated feelings mean squat! People don't know how you feel until you tell them how you feel. Over twenty years ago my best friend died of cancer. Randy was 41. He was successful, competent, always positive and loved and lived life to the fullest then he was gone.
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The Psychology of Long Distance Relationships
Why do long distance relationships seem to be more passionate than other types? Psychologists say that it is human nature to want what we can't have. Throw a little sexual desire into that mix and you have the kind of romantic and sexual angst that is the stuff of great romance and literature.
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Couples Relationship Assessment Quiz - Part 11: Conscious Wounds
Can you say that you do not have any emotional baggage? Do you know why certain behaviors or words hurt your feelings? Recognizing the emotional wounds - especially those that are unhealed – is the first step in identifying unmet needs in your relationship. Both partners have wounds and unmet needs. To Co-Create a Conscious Relationship you must learn to identify these wounds, see how they impact your relationship, and rectify the situation. This assessment begins the revealing and, at times, painful, experience of healing wounds.
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The Arguement Women Can't Win
Have you as a Woman every wondered why a disagreement suddenly seemed to turn into a fight. Here's what happens frequently when men and women disagree.
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The Receiving End Of Unfaithfulness
As it is ending a relationship is difficult. It is even harder for the person in the relationship who is giving all he/she has only to find out that their partner has been unfaithful. How do they handle it?
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Emotional Infidelity
Emotional affairs are those where emotional connection is achieved by two persons who have a relationship with someone else.
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