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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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It DOESN’T have to be this way
What’s the obstacle in the way of making a love-saving revolution in your relationship? There are only two obstacles, really.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Mar 13, 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?”
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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The ultimate secret for bringing back love
It’s so simple. You and your partner just sit down and write down the 7 things that make you feel loved.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 12, 20214 min read
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The affection you’ve been looking for
Why Couples Fight isn’t really about fighting or power. It’s about love. And the hope of love. And how to keep love alive.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 8, 20213 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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Imagine having a car that repaired itself!
What if you can’t solve the problem of not being able to solve your problems? Cars can’t even solve their own problems. If your car...
Mira Kirshenbaum
Feb 4, 20213 min read
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What power moves have to do with you
Here’s something else that makes Why Couples Fight a revolutionary book.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 30, 20213 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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Welcome to the relationship revolution
If you’re reading this on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, then THIS is the day. What day?
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 26, 20213 min read
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There’s unfairness, and there’s pandemic unfairness
Most of us try to manage a kind of almost-good-enough balance in our relationships. And then this freaking pandemic descends...
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 23, 20213 min read
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The eight core experiences of love
Why is it so easy for us to lose our shit in our relationships? We just want to love and be loved!
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 20, 20214 min read
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The one thing money can’t buy
Let me tell you about some of the billionaires I’ve worked with, plus another thing that’s utterly new about Why Couples Fight.
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 18, 20214 min read
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“What’s new about your new book?”
People often ask, especially since there are so many relationship books out there, what do you have to say that’s new?
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 15, 20213 min read
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How to disagree with your partner?
This post is an article we just did in request for a piece on “disagree with your partner.” As you see, we disagree with the very premise..
Mira Kirshenbaum
Jan 13, 20213 min read
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