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Penguins are lovers at heart.

15 Lessons Penguins Taught Me About Love

Our flightless friends have love all figured out.

As it turns out, penguins and humans have a whole lot in common. With that in mind, here are the top 15 lessons about love and life we learned from the penguins of Antarctica:

Is Your Secretive Partner Making You Jealous?

Is Your Secretive Partner Making You Jealous?

Communication help when you’re with a quiet or secretive partner.

Rarely does jealousy manifest out of thin air. Usually there are very real things going on in your relationship or life that trigger jealousy. These might be more intense because of something that happened in your past or maybe because of something going on now.

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Is your marriage at risk?

5 Marriage Mistakes That Lead To Divorce

Beware of the five traps that could end your marriage!

With over 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. ending in divorce, it's important to take a look at the marriage mistakes that can lead to divorce. While researching this subject for my book, "Secrets of Happy Couples," I asked happy couples what their "non-negotiables" in marriage are. One hundred couples responded about the dealbreakers in their marriages. Here is what I learned.

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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have been married for 30 years!

33 Of Hollywood's Most Successful Marriages

Plus: the seven secrets of their success!

We have conducted a thorough search to find out the success rates of celebrity marriages.

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Is your marriage in a danger zone?

The 3 Danger Zones In Every Marriage

Every marriage has three phases that correspond to the times couples typically get divorced.

Unfortunately, research shows that half of all marriages end in divorce with a spike in the divorce rate at the two-year, seven-year and twenty-year anniversary dates. What's happening within the relationship during these phases?

Happy Hubby

Happy Hubby

These snippets of conversations were a record of certain events in our lives

  This past Valentine’s Day, when my husband opened his present he started laughing uncontrollably and then he exclaimed,  “Oh Honey! This is the best present I’ve ever received!” I was totally unprepared for his reaction, but I felt pretty darned proud of myself. 

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Does your man do household chores?

When Men Do Chores, You Have Less Sex

New research suggests that maybe men shouldn't help out around the house after all.

What woman wouldn't want her husband's help with daily chores? After all, even if your husband thanks you and expresses gratitude for your housework, words only go so far. Plus, no one wants to feel taken for granted, and an overload of household chores can easily dampen the desire for romance.

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How do you prevent infidelity?

The Trick To Preventing Infidelity In Your Relationship

Are you ready to affair-proof your relationship?

When a marriage or any romantic relationship sours, an affair is a painful yet convenient way to escape. It's easy to blame the affair, blame the person the affair was with or basically blame everything except the real problem: that someone's needs were not being met, so that person found a way to have them met elsewhere.

How To Develop A "Happiness Habit" In Your Relationship

How To Develop A "Happiness Habit" In Your Relationship

Build a brain that can generate happiness in your relationship

As you may have noticed, happiness is not the mind’s priority. It is far more interested in survival and creating familiarity than it is in happiness. Happiness is something that we have to decide to experience and then learn what are the internal levers that act to become our personal happiness generators. Happiness is an inside job. Period. End of story. It is truly a state of mind, and it is our responsibility as adults to finally get this then learn how to create states of mind that generate more happiness.

Don't Take ANYTHING Personally

Don't Take ANYTHING Personally

Tips to help you avoid this common relationship trap!

Don't take ANYTHING at all personally.  This can be difficult advice to swallow.  Sure, when a complete stranger cuts you off in traffic while making rude hand gestures at you, it's pretty easy not to take it on. Most of us can chock a moment like that up to another person's bad day (or bad life) that has nothing whatsoever to do with us.  But, there are countless other occasions when it's far more difficult not to take personally what someone else says or does.