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Relationships
Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships
By Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.

 

Radical Acceptance: A Key to Feeling Like You Belong

So often the very thing that keeps people feeling alone and disconnected from the people around them is how they feel about themselves. For instance, they feel inadequate, too fat,

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Staying in the 50% of Marriages that Last

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

Even when people are sure of their love, the decision to enter into marriage is always a gamble — as is clear from

 

 

 

It’s Not Just Dogs: People Tend to Look Like Their Partners, Too

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

While “opposites attract” may be true in some ways, a recent study showed people may be ‘hard-wired’ to be attracted to

 

 

 

Premarital Sex — Why Wait?

As I review WebMD’s Relationships and Coping community each week, I am struck by the variety of struggles people have in their romantic relationships… and, not surprisingly, how

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Find Happiness Through Compassion

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships
At this time of year, the cold weather (for those of us in the cooler climates) forces people to huddle together. The result is sometimes a kind

 

 

 

Being Single on Valentine’s Day

Thanks to Mother Nature, much of the great outdoors in our country is covered in white. But thanks to the marketing gurus, all of the

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In an Affair?… Now What?

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

It started innocently enough. You connected on FaceBook with an old boyfriend or girlfriend (isn’t technology wonderful?) — or started

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Do Sisterly Chats Really Make People Happier?

To feel alone in the world is torture. Fortunately, this is a fate that people with at least one sister are less likely to feel — according to some studies that have looked at adolescent girls

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Rep. Giffords Shooting, Aggression and Video Game Violence

It was horrifying to hear the news of a gunman attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people (including a 9 year-old girl). As a psychologist, I have an

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Five Reasons to be Optimistic about Relationships and the New Year

With the news filled with the world’s woes, it’s sometimes hard to find things to be optimistic about. But our relationships in this modern world actually do offer some hope. So, in the

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