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After a relationship argument is worked out, life can get back to normal, right? Sure, except sometimes for the nagging thoughts that sometimes persist even after peace has been made. These thoughts bother you, causing you to wonder how your partner could have done the things that sparked the argument in the first place, even

A new study from Ohio State University shows that a person’s marriage will last longer depending on how many siblings they grew up with. This conclusion was arrived at from data on 57,061 adults collected from 1972 to 2012. Douglas Downey, who co-authored the study, explained to CBSNews.com that their findings showed that if a

Psychology has been attempting to define love for decades and may not be any closer to a definitive answer, but, in the meantime, Robert Sternberg of the University of Wyoming has provided an interesting framework for ongoing discussion with his triangular theory of love. Not to be confused with a love triangle, the triangular theory

The problem of parents not approving of their children’s partners is not a new one. These issues can come from something as small as the parents having a bad impression of the partner or genuinely not getting along with them, to cultural rifts from a child falling in love outside of their culture and the

Many people who are busy feeling the devastation of a relationship ending ought to instead be questioning what it is exactly that they lost. It’s true that one of the most painful things in life might be loss, but the idea presented here by Dr. Lisa Firestone is that many people who suffer from loss

It isn’t uncommon to encounter a person who believes that the only “right” way to live is the way that they themselves have chosen. Attitudes like this essentially boil down to a worldview that equates good living with living according to that person’s individual needs, which leads to a lot of judgment and criticism of

Adultery is an act that can devastate a marriage. A marriage can survive the blow, however, with dedication and commitment from the erring spouse, as well as the support of the other. It may be much better to avoid adultery all together. Before we go there, it may be good to create a working concept

The relationship analogy is that human relationships develop like an average person does. Like human birth, the birth of a relationship consists mainly of an electric connection with energetic, emotional, and physical aspects for both participants. Like human development then, relationship development may reach the same impasses. For example, a main impasse in early infancy

Stan Tatkin has created a courtship analogy using rockets. It has three stages, beginning at the rocket booster and moving up to the tip, in which the courtship is on its way to a mature and loving relationship. The booster phase is the drug phase, where both partners are high on dopamine, noradrenaline, oxytocin, vasopressin,