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February 14, 2018
There’s no avoiding it . . . heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, a sea of red and pink greeting cards, ads for diamond jewelry and tents of roses are assaulting us at every turn. To those newly in love, Valentine’s Day is a day full of sweetness and romance. For long-term, stable couples it’s usually a […]
February 13, 2015
No matter how you celebrate Valentine’s Day, be it at a trendy new restaurant or a home cooked meal, make Love Maps part of the evening. Love mapping is a phrase used in Gottman Method Couples Therapy that means asking open-ended questions to better know the internal world of your […]
December 3, 2014
In October we put on another Art and Science of LoveWeekend Workshop. It was our biggest workshop to date. As we reflected on the success of the workshop we realized there are many reasons we love this work. 1. We love seeing couples committed to working on their relationships. At this workshop […]
August 18, 2014
The recently published study of Facebook participants and how emotions can spread across social networks caused a big stir. The researchers called it “emotional contagion”, meaning that our moods are affected by our friend’s posts. That study is the tip of the iceberg on how social media affects us. As […]
July 2, 2014
This is Houston, say again, please. Houston, we have a problem . . . our marriage is failing and we need help . . . fast. Failure is not an option. Forgive my embellishment of these famous movie quotes from Tom Hanks and Ed Harris in Apollo 13, one of my all-time favorite movies. Having […]
February 7, 2014
We are just a few years short of the century anniversary of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. Much has changed for women in the last 100 years and that has spilled over into changes in relationship dynamics. For example, in the early 60s men were not […]