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Considering an Affair?
Thinking seriously about having an affair can bring stormy weather into a smooth sailing loving relationship, and having one more often than not shipwrecks the love boat. If affairs do so much harm, why are they so popular? Here are seven reasons that they are so alluring.
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What to Do When Your Partner Has Become Your Enemy
The healthiest relationships are the ones where both people can be right and have the opportunity to express their feelings and be heard. Learn more from Argument/Affairs Expert and Therapist Sharon M. Rivkin.
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Getting Back In So You Can Finally Stay Out
One of the hardest things to do is to leave a relationship. A more difficult undertaking is staying out. Learn more from Argument/Affairs Expert and Therapist Sharon M. Rivkin.
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Love is Like Money . . . Are You Investing?
Relationships are like bank accounts. If you keep pulling money out without making deposits you will go bankrupt. What does the balance sheet of your love life look like? Learn more from Jackie Black, Ph.D.
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Honor and Respect Your Partner's Feelings as if They Are Your Own
Feelings are as normal as hunger and fatigue. When we dismiss, diminish, ridicule, criticize, mock, belittle, disparage or demean anyone's feelings we are acting in the most disrespectful and unloving way. Next time your Honey (or anyone in your life, for that matter) expresses a feeling, consider hearing the feeling as a sacred offering.
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10 Secrets to Keep Your Relationship Working Happily Ever After
Do you have what it takes to make a long-term relationship work? After 23 years in a successful third (!!?) marriage, Maia Berens has learned 10 Secrets to Keep Your Relationship Working Happily Ever After. Each secret requires certain attributes and strategies to fulfill them. Learn more from Maia Berens, including additional details about Secret #1 - Deciding who's most important - him or you?
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You've Got a Friend: How to Help a Friend in Need
You have a friend in crisis. The most common reaction to such situations is for you to call to express your feelings and ask what you can do to help. However, it's difficult for people in crisis to ask for help or be specific with their needs. What can you do? Author Susan LaScala shares some wonderful suggestions.
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Five Things You Need to Know When Your Parents Retire
Parenting is a full time effort, but sometimes it's your own parents who need attention-especially when they are getting ready to retire. As a culture, we do a lousy job of helping people with this transition. At best, we encourage them to be sure they have enough money. But that's just the price of admission. To retire well, there are a whole lot more important things to consider. Here are five of them.
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Affairs: The Ultimate Challenge
An affair is one of the most difficult challenges a couple can face. It is a powerful catalyst that can either end the relationship or take it to a greater level of intimacy. An extreme symptom of a relationship that has been in trouble for some time, affairs do not happen out of the blue. In the flood of doubts and questions, here are some guidelines to help you decide if you should stay with or leave your cheating partner by Sharon M. Rivkin, MA, MFT.
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Staying Committed and Keeping that Spark Alive
In your demanding world filled with multiple priorities, responsibilities and distractions, everything and everyone else seems to be more important than attending to your most intimate and special relationship. Here are a few simple suggestions to get your own personal creativity going to keep that spark alive!
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Everybody Loves Raymond But Hates His Parents
While most of us cringe whenever Raymond's mother, Marie, manipulates everyone with guilt, we don't realize that Raymond is the one who allows her to have such a destructive effect on his marriage. If you are married to a "Raymond," then here are five things you can do to gain his loyalty.
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How Loved Ones Can Help in a Medical Crisis
When dealing with a serious medical problem, you have to realize that your condition is going to have an impact on everyone around you and that it will be toughest on the one you love. Learn how to work together from Steven Hefferon, CMT, PTA.
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Changing Friendships in Midlife: How Exercise can Clarify Confusion
When you reach age forty, your needs for companionship may change drastically from when you were younger. You may require more honesty and dependability or you may be uncertain about what you need in a friend. Exercising while focusing on your friendship issues can help you clarify confusion that you are experiencing.
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Coping With a Difficult Former Spouse as You Co-Parent
Consider that this co-parenting situation with your former spouse is a spiritual test. The immediate goal is to resolve the current issue, but the ultimate goal is to walk away from any interaction no matter how unpleasant with a greater connection to your soul. Author Michele Germain explains how.
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Fighting Fair: Three Rules to Keep in Mind
Shakespeare's oft-quoted line, "All's fair in love and war," may be true, but it shouldn't be interpreted as license to do whatever we feel like-at least not if having a happy marriage is our goal. If you want to be happily wed, you will need to establish and follow some basic ground rules for resolving your differences. We might call this Fighting Fair.
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One Magic Strategy for Your Relationship
Whether you are in a happy time with your partner right now or experiencing stress, there is one powerful, easy strategy you can use by yourself to create a more pleasant atmosphere in your home, almost instantly! Learn more from author Susan Page.
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Moving Mom and Dad
Helping your parents move from the home they have lived in for many years is difficult. Making this transition is not easy, but it can be manageable if you keep these things in mind.
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Strategies to Cope with Anger After Divorce
Unresolved and misdirected anger can keep the heart closed, the body tense and the mind chaotic. Spiritually you can feel lost and become disconnected from your deepest self - your soul. Therefore, it is critical to understand and work with your anger in an appropriate way allowing your body, heart and mind to be in an open peaceful state.
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Help Make It STOP! Surviving Domestic Violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Battering is a way for one person in a relationship to establish control over another person. It can occur within every socio-economic group and knows no boundaries. The types of abuse can vary from emotional/mental abuse to physical/financial abuse. The types of abuse are varied, but the affects are the same. The victim is de-humanized, their self-esteem is shattered, and are typically scared into in-action. Learn what you can do to stop the abuse NOW!
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Maintaining a Healthy and Loving Relationship
Most of us want to fall in love, be in love and stay in love and magically live happily ever after. But fulfilling relationships do not happen automatically and they don't happen when the relationship is driven by a need rather than caring. If the relationship is going to grow we must give it our time and attention. Author Michele Germain explains how to build and maintain a healthy and loving relationship.
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Surviving A Dysfunctional Family: Ten Ways to Make Peace With the Past and Create a New Future
Surviving a dysfunctional family doesn't necessarily mean getting along better with your relatives. The most important thing is dedication to trying new things and learning from your experience. Change doesn't happen overnight; it comes little by little, more and more, deepening your ability to love, create, and make a difference personally and in society. So how do you go about doing this? Here are ten ways to spark change in your life and relationships.
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Why Do People Lie?
Lying is always a form of control. Some people are pathological liars, having learned that they get a rush from manipulating others with lies. But most people lie when they are afraid of the consequences of telling the truth. Learn more from Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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The Dating Scene - Signs of a Promising Relationship
Learn some of the red flags as well as some of the signs of a promising relationship from Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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Opening Up to Love After Being Hurt by Natasha Munson
You can open yourself up to love, but know that love must be reciprocal. You will love him and he will love you. You will not need each other, but you will want each other. Love is not needy. Love is not possessive. Love is something that makes your life better and makes you feel happy.
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The Ten Commandments of Family Harmony by Mark Sichel, LCSW
Family feuds can cause depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, sadness, confusion, and rage. No one wants to live like that! Here are some simple rules for turning family feuds into family fun.
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Pregnancy and Parenting at StorkNet
If you're looking for information on pregnancy and parenting, StorkNet has a wealth of information including a week by week guide to pregnancy.
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Domestic Violence Discussion with Jennifer Bowles, MSW, LCSW
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Married Romance
The newest site in the StorkNet Family Network! Visit Married Romance designed to help you build friendship and intimacy through the trials of life.
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