Before emotional intimacy comes back to a relationship, the basics of love should be discussed. Was there true emotional connection to begin with, what do people really understand about emotions, and the most important question of all, what is love? Everyone experiences love differently and has various thermostats to gauge love. One might describe love as the affection … [Read more...] about How To Bring Emotional Intimacy Back to a Relationship After it Died
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How to Be Happy in a Marriage When Your Spouse Refuses to Give up Control
Married couples, not infrequently, are faced with this challenging dynamic, where one partner is controlling in the relationship and has an investment in keeping control. This could be over finances, lifestyle issues and even sex. With men, this can take the form of bullying their wives emotionally and worse case physically. For controlling women, the outcome is often control … [Read more...] about How to Be Happy in a Marriage When Your Spouse Refuses to Give up Control
How to Survive a Startup Marriage
When my wife and I moved to the Bay Area, we were immediately knee deep in the startup world. I founded my startup, RentLingo, in the last year of business school and my wife joined NatureBox as their first. In the past couple of years, we’ve learned how to adjust to the demands of startup life and how to make our marriage a priority. Overall, while there's some stress because … [Read more...] about How to Survive a Startup Marriage
Up From the Grave: Bringing Emotional Intimacy Back From the Dead
Yes, emotional intimacy can be resurrected. Even after it has seemingly died. Even for couples who describe high levels of connection and love, interpersonal bonds can erode and seemingly disappear. Usually the erosion happens slowly over time, like mountains carved out by unforgiving winds and storms that tirelessly batter their majestic peaks and slopes. At other times we see … [Read more...] about Up From the Grave: Bringing Emotional Intimacy Back From the Dead
The World’s Cutest Wrecking Ball: How Not to Let a Baby Ruin Your Marriage
A baby is a wrecking ball~the world’s cutest wrecking ball. I mean that figuratively, of course. But science across decades is clear: About two in three couples are permanently less happy once a child is born—with major increases in loneliness, fighting, and hostility. And they stay that way until the last child launches. The data scared me so much that as I went to … [Read more...] about The World’s Cutest Wrecking Ball: How Not to Let a Baby Ruin Your Marriage