What is financial infidelity? The level or nature of financial infidelity varies from couple to couple and is partly relative to the couple’s financial situation. Generally, it involves spending, borrowing, or stashing away a significant sum of money without your partner’s knowledge. This is often done through credit cards, especially when the account information is
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Not all affairs are physical. But that doesn’t mean an emotional affair is any less serious because of a lack of sexual contact. Emotional affairs betray a partner’s trust and make it difficult to regain closeness and intimacy within your relationship. For some people, women especially, it can be even harder to recover from an
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There are many reasons why a couple may lose the passion in their relationship. These can vary from a natural cooling, over time, as the honeymoon phase ends; to complacency; to something as extreme as an affair. Whatever the reason, it is certainly possible to recover that spark of intimacy if the following steps are
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It may not be a surprise to find that the answer to this question is yes. If it weren’t possible, there would be no need to write about it (or it would prove to be a fairly short article). What may actually be surprising, however, is learning that the couple who stays together after an
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After a relationship argument is worked out, life can get back to normal, right? Sure, except sometimes for the nagging thoughts that sometimes persist even after peace has been made. These thoughts bother you, causing you to wonder how your partner could have done the things that sparked the argument in the first place, even
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A new study from Ohio State University shows that a person’s marriage will last longer depending on how many siblings they grew up with. This conclusion was arrived at from data on 57,061 adults collected from 1972 to 2012. Douglas Downey, who co-authored the study, explained to CBSNews.com that their findings showed that if a
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Psychology has been attempting to define love for decades and may not be any closer to a definitive answer, but, in the meantime, Robert Sternberg of the University of Wyoming has provided an interesting framework for ongoing discussion with his triangular theory of love. Not to be confused with a love triangle, the triangular theory
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The problem of parents not approving of their children’s partners is not a new one. These issues can come from something as small as the parents having a bad impression of the partner or genuinely not getting along with them, to cultural rifts from a child falling in love outside of their culture and the
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Many people who are busy feeling the devastation of a relationship ending ought to instead be questioning what it is exactly that they lost. It’s true that one of the most painful things in life might be loss, but the idea presented here by Dr. Lisa Firestone is that many people who suffer from loss
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It isn’t uncommon to encounter a person who believes that the only “right” way to live is the way that they themselves have chosen. Attitudes like this essentially boil down to a worldview that equates good living with living according to that person’s individual needs, which leads to a lot of judgment and criticism of
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