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

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

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.

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.

“Hi, are you highly sensitive and do you tend to over-react?” “Why, yes I am! What about you?”

Trap theory? It’s all about how we get stuck in situations we don’t want to be in.

My point is simple, but deep and rich: when you want to understand what is going wrong in a relationship, find the fears.

The 2020 movie Supernova is about love, unavoidable tragedy, and forgiveness. It’s also about a problem we will all face one way or another.

Just imagine: you and the person you’re going with are super smart and super-duper rich. And you have tons in common.

A new study just came out showing yet again that in our relationships social dominance—power!—causes pain and damage for our partners.

Let’s call them Al and Alice, and a nice normal couple they are. They get along pretty well, too. But they had an incident.