Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship on May 18th, 2012
Do you remember when you and your partner were getting to know each other?
I bet that, when you think back to those early times of your love, you remember what you did together: perhaps you both liked the same music and went to concerts together; or you liked the theater, and went to many plays; [...]
Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship on Dec 27th, 2011
In-love feelings are fueled by the new, the different and the exotic in a situation that is felt to be unpredictable and surprising.
Posted in communication on Dec 11th, 2011
Boundaries are affected by individuals’ life experiences, as well as by different cultures.
Posted in brain and mind, communication on Dec 6th, 2011
Internet affairs have become a new way of reaching out to people outside one’s marriage for companionship, love and sex. In this article we discuss the differences between these affairs and real time affairs.
Internet infidelity is an issue of endemic proportions not only for the sheer number of people involved in them, but also because [...]
Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship, marital affair on Dec 5th, 2011
Brain Chemistry and Affairs
Is there a correlation between the levels of some brain chemicals and vulnerability to extra marital infidelity? Research in this area indicates that, while physical tendencies may be changed by our ability to think and reach logical decisions, our brain chemistry can influence our behaviors and choices. Of these chemicals, three in [...]
Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship, marital affair on Dec 4th, 2011
Emotional disconnection and Infidelity
As we saw in the preceding blog on the psychological traits that make people more vulnerable to extra marital infidelity, it is the emotionally disconnection from their romantic partners – whether because one or both are insecurely attached, or because external circumstances weakened their emotional connection with one another – that makes [...]
Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship, stress management on Nov 20th, 2011
The most important gift to couples is that this situation allows time for reflecting and thinking about how they got to this point.
Posted in communication, love relationship, stress management on Nov 18th, 2011
And a perfect storm was exactly what hit many couples who, when the real estate market collapsed, felt trapped in their own homes.
Posted in communication, love relationship, stress management on Nov 17th, 2011
Couples throughout the world, when exposed to economic distress, show higher incidences of interpersonal conflict, depression, domestic violence and substance abuse.
Posted in communication, intimacy, love relationship on Nov 16th, 2011
What are the external factors that are contributing to increased rates of interpersonal conflicts for couples?
