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What is love? What is a love tank? And how can I keep my love tank full? A love tank is the part of us that represents our emotional need for love. This term was coined by Gary Chapman in The 5 Love Languages. Read on to learn more about love tanks and why keeping them full is so important.
Is it possible to accurately predict the success or failure of a marriage in just 3 minutes? Does each couple have a relationship DNA that can reveal the fate of their marriage to anyone who knows what to look for? Does Gottman’s love lab results tell you how best to make your relationship fluorish? John Gottman thinks so. Read on to learn about Gottman’s “love lab” and what your facial expressions say about your marriage.
Want to build stronger relationships with your spouse, partner, and loved ones? How does being present improve your relationships? Here we’ll discuss Eckhart Tolle’s best advice on relationships, and how to be present in a relationship. Being present impacts your inner state first and foremost. That affects your behavior and, inevitably, how you interact with people around you.
The “Power Distance Index” measures how hierarchical a country is and how its citizens value authority. In high-power distance index countries, employees are often afraid to express disagreement with managers, power in organizations is not equally distributed, and people in power hold special privileges.
Next, consider your current relationships. Overall, do they make you happy? Are your relationships positive, supportive, and helpful?
Here’s an exercise to help you answer these questions, and evaluate your current relationships. Make a list of every relationship — include every person with whom you interact regularly — in which you’re currently involved. Add two more columns and fill it them in as follows:
The best relationships continue to grow. But if you want them flourish, like a gardener you must apply attention, time, and effort.
More specifically, for a relationship to grow and improve, you must cultivate eight attributes: love, trust, honesty, caring, support, attentiveness, authenticity, and understanding.
Life is full of expectations, ones we have for ourselves and ones other people have for us. How do you respond to expectations? Do you fulfill them, or resist them? When, and why?
Gretchen Rubin has developed The Four Tendencies, a simple yet powerful personality test based on expectations. What are the Four Tendencies? What does it mean to be each tendency? We’ll explain it all here.
We all have arguments with our spouses and partners, husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. Fights are a natural part of relationships. But how do you have a healthy argument, and not a toxic one? Learn the secrets to having great arguments with your partner.
What is stonewalling in marriage? How does stonewalling happen by boyfriends, husbands, wives, and girlfriends?
Learn why stonewalling happens, examples, and how to deal with it.
Marital success isn’t determined by how often a couple sleeps together, or opinions on how to raise children, or how each person handles finances–it’s determined by the skill with which a couple discusses disagreements in those categories. Agreeing on how to disagree is the key to a successful marriage.