Relationships

Much of the stress of daily life is caused by incompletion in relationships. There are many stressful aspects of leaving things incomplete, but the most stress occurs around significant emotional communications that are left unfinished. Many of us have people in our lives with whom we have big incompletions on the emotional level:  secrets, debts, ... read more

Learning how to be honest in close relationships is an art that takes a great deal of focused attention. We've often thought how strange it is that so few of us get any training in communication during our school years. Compared to the amount of time we spend learning addition, multiplication, grammar and such, most ... read more

Thanks for all the positive comments and thoughtful posts inspired by our earlier Top Ten list. We’ve been working on a second list, on our way to what will ultimately become The Top 100 Relationship Movies Of All Time. 11. High Fidelity This droll comedy features John Cusack, one of our favorite actors, and the remarkable Danish ... read more

We receive about a thousand emails a month from people who are looking for answers to various relationship questions. Most of them break down into four main categories: money, sex, communication, parenting. A minority of the questions range over other issues such as commitment, recovering from a break-up and other specific concerns. A recent email ... read more

These are challenging times for parents. In our own lifespan we’ve known or been around three different types of parenting challenges. For our grandparents, the challenges were of the most basic kind: getting enough to eat and trying to keep children alive. My grandparents lost one child at birth, at a time when nearly all ... read more