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It’s up to you: do you want to say something momentarily gratifying or genuinely useful?
What we call “giving someone a piece of our mind” is really just a power move.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Apr 6, 20214 min read
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You think your partner’s just too powerful for you. Now what?
There are three kinds of power advantages a person can have, and each involves its own solutions.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Apr 3, 20214 min read
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A power move you can celebrate
Who’d’ve thunk it? Mira Kirshenbaum saying YAY! to a power move. Have I lost my mind?
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 20, 20214 min read
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Oh, the little power moves we make
Tom Brady Says He Tried to ‘Change the Subject’ When Wife Gisele Bündchen Brought Up His Retirement
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 9, 20214 min read
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Is your relationship being poisoned by power struggles?
“Yeah, we fight. Everybody fights. But ‘power struggles’? I don’t know. I don’t want to think we’re in that category.”
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 6, 20212 min read
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2 whole people = 1 whole relationship
If having a relationship were a game, how would you know your team won? What team? This doesn’t even compute for a lot of people.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 3, 20213 min read
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“How do I get you to do what I want you to do?”
Things happen when women want them to. The history of the world is the history of women’s courage.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 2, 20215 min read
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“How do I get you to do what I want you to do?”
As you already know, or feel, housework is a hotbed of power politics. Mostly, the struggle upward away from the jobs no one wants to do.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 27, 20215 min read
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Conflict! Distance!! Unmet needs!!!
Self-help books—unless they’re utterly incoherent—are all built around the same basic plan: Problem. Promise. Program.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 25, 20213 min read
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Do you want to go down the road to hell?
And when I say the road to hell, I’m talking about your relationship going down the road to hell.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 23, 20213 min read
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Should we blame our parents for the way we are now?
How much and in what way are our parents responsible for the problems we have in our marriage now?
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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Anatomy of a fight
There’s always a history of disempowerment. Jason’s a very successful executive in a job where many of the people he works with are women.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 6, 20215 min read
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6 Signs Power Problems Are Poisoning Your Relationship
What do power issues have to do with a relationship being in trouble? Everything!
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 28, 20215 min read
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