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3 Tips to Avoid Fighting with Your Partner Over Household Chores

2018

A new study by Harvard Business School says that 25% of people who get divorced cite “housework disagreements” as the primary reason they split up! So we spoke with Daniel Carlson, a professor of consumer and family studies, who showed us how to negotiate those chores and avoid fighting.

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Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship

Many couples begin marital counseling with Dr. David Schnarch with their sex lives in shambles, wondering what’s wrong with them, and considering divorce. One partner will complain that the other doesn’t desire him, the other complains that she’s married to a sex maniac.

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Dr. David Schnarch
2020
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The Joy of Intimacy: A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality, and Marriage

We all crave intimacy. It’s essential to our emotional and spiritual health, and without it we don’t feel whole. Yet today our culture faces an intimacy crisis. Many of us, even when we’re in a committed relationship, still feel painfully alone.

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Manis Friedman, Ricardo Adler (contributor)
2018
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The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

We all yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it badly, but we often run from it. At some deep level we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are afraid to go there. Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets.

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Matthew Kelly
2015
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The Real Problem with Sexual Withholding in a Marriage

The problem with sexual withholding in a marriage has far less to do with actually having or not having sex and much more to do with misunderstanding.

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Suzanne Phillips
2015
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7 Ways to Emotionally Connect with Your Partner

If we want more depth and intimacy and joy in our relationships, we're going to have to develop more emotional connection with our partners, our friends, our family, our co-workers. It's that simple and that challenging.

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Robert Augstus Masters
2020
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In Search of Erotic Intelligence

Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight ’50s. Why?

Article
Esther Perel
2003
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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are “too sensitive”? Do you struggle to respect a less-sensitive partner? Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its wounds? Statistics show that 50 percent of what determines...

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Elaine N. Aron
2001
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