Be Expanded In Marriage
Building a Marriage That Expands You Creates a Relationship That Will Last In a widely talked about article in the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope talks about relationships where each partner expands the other. {http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02parkerpope.html}. Caryl Rusbult, a researcher at Vrije University called it the “’Michelangelo effect,’ referring to the manner in which close partners […]
Honey Did I Get You
Most couples experience communication as rating highest on their challenge list of a happy marriage. Usually we experience ourselves as understanding the other very well. Thank you very much. In one research project however, partners were invited to make statements that could be interpreted in various ways depending on the intonation. So partners might say […]
Relationship Articles
BUILDING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO LAST A LIFETIME Explore the articles below to understand how Marriage Counseling can build your relationship. They are all written by Dr. Jim Walkup, a New York State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Learning to Communicate Better: The first thing people usually say at the beginning of marriage counseling is that they […]