perhaps you and your partner are using unhealthy communication that over time, have begun to erode the quality of your relationship. when this happens we need to communicate to our partner what our concerns are and what we hope can be done about them. how you can tell the difference is whether you are addressing the whole person in your complaint or a specific behavior they are doing that upsets you. contempt is despising and carries a total lack of …

in her turn, monica withdrew and gave scott the cold shoulder. it is a natural response to the failure of others to meet one’s needs for love, respect, and praise. this anger can then encompass the sadness and the anger from the past, causing a person to overreact to the present situation and making it more difficult to resolve. less obvious is the harm anger does to the angry person himself. forgiveness is the most effective way to reduce and …

(1)  to investigate the complex relationship between marriage and health, this review scrutinizes recent research, focusing on studies that use rigorous statistical methods to examine whether marriage is a cause of these better health outcomes. for this reason, the evidence on the effects of marriage on physical health is more limited and somewhat more speculative than evidence on the effects of marriage on other health outcomes examined in this review. recent research suggests that marriage has significant effects on the …

there is no such thing as a perfect person, a perfect family, or a perfect marriage. a marriage is going to have its ups and downs. there are going to be days and times that are going to come when there are problems in the marriage. in other words, what do you do about problems that never get resolved? problems are created in many ways. one way is when one of the partners experience an unpleasant emotion during a situation. …

promise-making is a way of generating moral obligations – if i promise to pick you up at the airport, then i have taken on a moral obligation to do so. thus, promising to do something the doing of which one cannot control does not result in a new moral obligation. and although the clarity of wedding vows is not universal, many couples carefully construct the wording of their vows, spending a long time talking through what they are and are …