to strengthen a struggling relationship, you must make it a top priority of your time and energy. choose to break habits that damage the relationship, especially when you feel frustrated and disappointed. the sooner you fully accept this as truth, the sooner you will begin to heal and grow together. when we are feeling hurt and disappointed, we have a tendency to turn our partner into the villain. but if your relationship is going to have a chance to turn …

do you and your partner feel like ships in the night? but that doesn’t mean it’s time to throw the towel in just yet. emotional intimacy is the foundation of all healthy relationships. it’s the sense of closeness and connection you feel with another person. at the beginning of a new relationship, there are all kinds of different feelings in the mix. it develops as we begin to share all the different parts of ourselves – and especially the parts …

to that end, here are six lessons we can learn about staying married through the good times and bad from the true stories featured in miller’s book. “it was precisely when i decided that divorce was not an option that my perspective changed,” one woman, married 50 years, recounted, after sharing that divorce had been her back-up plan from the beginning of her marriage:  i am convinced that if i hadn’t changed my attitude from one with a back- up …

i sat by my window and listened to “a case of you” on repeat. [breakups] can jeopardize one’s health.” this description rings true to me: after the breakup, i felt physically ill, exhausted, and devastated. i bought myself new bathing suits and went to the beach. i slept starfish on my bed and gave myself permission to take up all the space. if i saw a bar of chocolate i wanted at the grocery store? the practice of yoga became …

when you and your partner can’t seem to agree on a particular topic, whether it’s who does the chores or how you discipline your children, it can become a lasting point of contention in your relationship. oftentimes, disagreements bring partners’ vulnerabilities to the surface, perel said, and that can cause them to react in a defensive way that makes it nearly impossible to solve the issue at hand.

she gave the example of a couple who can’t agree on who …