Marriage
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When You Want Couples Therapy and Your Spouse Doesn't
One partner is ready to get help. The other is resistant, defensive, or flatly opposed. This specific standoff has more workable paths than it first appears.
Why Keeping Your Own Friendships Matters for Your Marriage
Making a spouse your entire social world feels romantic. Research on marital wellbeing suggests it often does the relationship more harm than good.
The Seven Year Itch: What the Research Actually Shows
The idea that marriages hit a crisis point around year seven is deeply embedded in pop culture. The actual data tells a more specific story.
The Four Communication Patterns That Predict Divorce
Decades of observing couples in a lab let one researcher predict divorce with striking accuracy, based on just a handful of conversation patterns.
The Parenthood Dip: Why Marital Satisfaction Drops After Kids
A well documented pattern in marriage research shows relationship satisfaction declining after the first child arrives. Here's what's actually driving it.
Sexless Marriage: What the Research Says Actually Helps
A significant drop or absence of sex in a marriage is more common than most couples realize, and rarely has a single, simple cause.
Why Money Fights in Marriage Are Rarely Really About Money
Financial disagreements are consistently one of the strongest predictors of divorce. What's actually underneath most of those arguments is more specific than budgets.
Why Long Marriages Feel Different Than New Relationships, and Why That's Not a Failure
The intense, consuming feeling of early romance almost always fades. Research on love suggests what replaces it is not a downgrade so much as a different thing entirely.
How to Actually Repair After a Bad Fight With Your Spouse
It's not whether a couple fights that predicts a marriage's future. It's what happens in the hour, day, or week after. Repair is a specific, learnable skill.
Is It Normal for Marriage to Get Harder Before It Gets Easier?
Most marriages hit a real rough patch, often years in, that has nothing to do with picking the wrong person. Here's what research says actually predicts whether it lasts.
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