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Making New Year's Relationship Resolutions With Your Partner

When we think about setting our sights on the new year, we often think about our personal, individualized goals. We want to lose weight, spend more time on our hobbies or with family, or achieve something new for the first time. These are fantastic New Year's resolutions that can act as a springboard for thinking about other areas of your life, like your relationship or marriage.

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What Exactly Is Love?

Valentine’s Day may have passed, but love is still in the air. And it has us thinking about what love truly is. However, there may never be a firm and fast answer that fits everyone’s perception. Not only does the definition of love evolve over time, but every human being understands and defines love differently. That’s why it’s important for couples to talk about what love looks like to them and how they most effectively experience it.

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How to be Giving Toward Your Partner

As the holidays approach, we often think about the kinds of things our partner likes and what we are planning to give them. Usually, it’s a physical object that we intend to wrap and put under the tree. But we don’t have to buy something for our partner or physically give them anything at all in order to be a giving partner. To give is to provide something, and more often than not, our partner needs us to provide them with more than gifts.

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Talking About Politics With Your Partner

With the 2020 Presidential Election just two weeks away, Americans are feeling tense, hopeful, angry, excited, betrayed, and plenty of other justifiable feelings. But what happens when our political alignment brings those feelings into our marriage or relationships?

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What Respect Looks Like In A Relationship

Respect. We hear the word a lot during arguments or in conversations with couples counselors, but it can be hard to envision what respect looks and feels like in a relationship. The nature of our relationships may vary, but all of them require some level of respect.

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