Marriage

Couple cooking together in the kitchen

Fight

Couples need to fight. And when I say fight, I don’t mean yelling, screaming, and name-calling. In fact, I really don’t mean any of those things. When I say fight, I mean engage. Couples need to engage about the differences in their relationship. My parents called it “having a discussion.” My siblings and I used […]

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Couple cooking together in the kitchen

Fight Less

Right away, I need to insert a caveat. Couples need to fight. Click here for a post that is specifically about that topic. In this particular section of the world wide web, however, we’re going to stay focused on couples who fight more than they actually need to. Is this you?  If so, take heart,

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Older couple leaning on each other

Conscientiousness versus… Not So Much

We are born with many personality traits. Psychologists talk about the “Big 5” personality traits which exist in just about every study on personality. These 5 traits include openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Personality theorists insist that we are born with some level of these 5 traits. In general, these personality traits remain pretty

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