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Criticism Is the Toxic Habit that Can Slowly Ruin Your Relationship

By Kelsey Borresen — 2019

Experts say this common communication issue can push couples apart.

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Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted

Couples can make love last, says psychotherapist and clinical social worker Marcia Naomi Berger. They just need to learn how.

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Marcia Naomi Berger
2014
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The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work

Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known.

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Eli J. Finkel
2019
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How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

Drs. Patricia Love and Steven Stosny have studied this all-too-familiar dynamic between men and women and have reached a truly shocking conclusion. Even with the best of intentions, talking about your relationship doesn’t bring you together, and it will eventually drive you apart.

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Patricia Love, Steven Stosny
2008
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond.

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Dr. Sue Johnson
2008
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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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Couples Talk: How to Build Emotional Intimacy in Your Relationship—Tips from a Marriage Therapist

What’s Anya Mind, lovers? One thing that I constantly get asked is, “How can I make my relationship better?” Once we dig more into it, it boils down to closeness and connection.

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2020
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Dr. Gary Chapman’s Best Relationship Advice | Oprah’s Lifeclass | Oprah Winfrey Network

Marriage and family life expert Dr. Gary Chapman answers questions from the Oprah’s Life Class audience-in the studio and on Twitter. Watch as he reveals his personal love language. Plus, what’s the best way to communicate with someone who has multiple love languages?

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Gary Chapman
2013
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3 Secrets to a Long-Lasting Happy Marriage | Stan Tatkin and Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin

Relationship experts and couple, Stan Tatkin PsyD, MFT and Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD reveal the three secrets to a long, happy marriage.

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Stan Tatkin
2019
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Criticism and Rejection