Yes, Why Couples Fight is all about how to overcome conflicts in your relationship. But what if it’s simpler than that?

“Being friends” isn’t the key to anything in itself. “Being friends” is in fact just a proxy for some really good stuff. Like what?

Okay, so we’re not going to make a fetish over how many years a couple has been together. Good!

Something new here. Occasional quizzes to help you assess your relationship and figure out how to make things better.

Here we are, just having celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary. And some of you have joined in the celebration by saying, “Fuck you!”

Well, here we are, celebrating our 56th wedding anniversary by sharing our thoughts with you about how to have a long and happy marriage.

As I write this, next week will be our 56th anniversary.

We’ve been talking about how your past haunts your present as a couple. Now we get to the really hard part.

This time we want to talk about how you can recover when one of you has done something to hurt the other, damaging trust and intimacy.

We all carry this baggage around with us. The longer we’re married, the more of this baggage there is.

You can make sure you don’t fall out of love with one another. So how do you do that?

When people come to me in this last period I can only wish they’d come sooner. So what are the warning signs?

Whenever we need our partner to be there for us, we’re walking into their stress movie. We’re walking into just how stressed out they are.

Welcome to the second and last part of our posts on why we dare to say that Why Couples Fight is an important book.

We said somewhere that we thought Why Couples Fight was an important book. Well, it had to happen: a reader challenged us on that.

Here’s how breaking up is done these days.

Relationships aren’t like machines that work or don’t work, depending on how well designed they are.

You know me: I always have to be a-learning things from everywhere.

The article I want to talk about today is Unsuccessful marriages a high-risk factor for premature death among men.

Asking when a relationship is over is like asking when scrambled eggs are done. There’s no standard for “over-ness.”