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The Mental Divorce | Dr. John Gottman

By John Gottman — 2010

The ability to accept influence is critical for solving difficult problems in relationships. In this clip Dr. Gottman explains what happens when partners cannot accept influence from each other. Fortunately, there are ways to talk and build trust enough to learn how to do this.

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The Challenges Every Neurodiverse Woman Faces When Dating

Marianne Eloise knows what it is to be neurodiverse. Here, she unpacks the misconceptions that can make dating – and relationships – harder for autistic people

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Marianne Eloise
2021
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Gay Breakups Are Better, and Here’s Why

The LGBTQ community is known for its emphasis on tolerance, but one of our progressive dating phenomena is particularly worth praising and sharing. It’s quite common to become friends with exes.

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Jill Gutowitz
2018
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How to Survive (and Win) a Gay Breakup

Here’s a hot tip just for you: Breaking up with someone is not easy.

Article
Alim Kheraj
2017
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

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Haley Mlotek
2021
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What LGBTQ+ Relationships Can Teach Us About Love

A study published by the Open University has found that gay couples are likely to be happier in their relationships than their heterosexual counterparts and several reasons have been posed, from less gender stereotypes featuring in the relationship to a historical predisposition for inner...

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Jacqui Gabb
2021
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The Peculiar Mechanics of Gay Divorce

For gay couples, the promise of marriage is still so new and incomplete that the idea of matrimonial courts, equitable settlements, and all the rest barely registers. How do you process the undoing of a bond that until a moment ago in history you were not allowed to form?

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Jesse Green
2013
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From the Under 35 Project: “Meditation of Monogamy”

For us, monogamy seems to have become synonymous with settling. And settle is such a dirty word, isn’t it? It means that you are somehow compromising or denying yourself the chance to have everything.

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Kate Johnson
2013
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Handling the Unique Stressors of Divorce in the LGBT Community

A divorce experts weighs in on handling the specific stressors, bias, and a legacy that will take time to change.

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Storey Jones
2019
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Divorce and Breakup