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Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity, answers a question from Ask YourTango, where readers go to seek out advice on love and relationships. In this segment, Esther helps out a woman who has a bad habit of starting fights with her husband. How unhealthy is this, she asks, and is there a right way to fight? (Hint: Yes, there totally is.) 9 Things To Say During A Fight
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4 ways to prevent an argument from spiraling out of control.
Ever found yourself circumventing a conversation you know you need to have with your partner? Or maybe you've rehearsed precisely what you want to say only to have it fall on deaf ears, or worse, defensive ears!
Every relationship encounters its share of tough issues. An unexpected change in circumstances, or feelings of dissatisfaction, or a desire for change, for example, may trigger an issue. How you view them depends on a number of factors including your stage of life and your ability to effectively manage the issues that arise in your relationship. Excelle: Quiz: Are You Ready To Get Married?
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Is she the next Jennifer Aniston?
Uma Thurman called off her engagement to billionaire Arpad Busson about two months ago, according to Us Weekly, but a source says the two are still friends. Uma and Arki, as friends call him, got engaged in June of last year and were rumored to be planning an April wedding, but we guess now it’s back to Us and OK!'s sad spinster page for Uma. Hmm. Maybe she'd like to date John Mayer.
After divorcing Ethan Hawke, her husband of six years, in 2004, Uma dated hotelier Andre Balazs for two years, and then began … Read More
Mid-marriage makeovers are on the rise; what to seek and avoid in a relationship renovation.
Recently it's become trendy for ambitious couples to enroll in "preventative" marriage therapy, attempting to amp up a relationship gone routine or to keep a mildly troubled one from going off the rails. Writer Elizabeth Weil's recent essay for the New York Times examines how a perfectly functional, more or less peaceful union can be improved and deepened, as much as the two partners are willing to dedicate themselves to the project. But warning: an endeavor as complicated as marriage cannot just be "solved." As Weil's wary husband Dan points out "if you're going to poke around the bushes, … Read More
How to interpret the writing on the wall: Four tell-tale signs that he's going to break up with you.
Getting dumped sucks… there's no doubt about it. There aren't many things more heart-wrenching than finding out that the person you love thinks he will be better off without you. But this news can really make your guts fall on the floor when it comes completely out of left field.
If an "out-of-the-blue breakup" has happened to you in the past, I don't have to remind you of how much it hurts. But the good news is that I can show you how to make sure it never happens again. You see, the tell-tale signs of an inevitable breakup will … Read More
From makeup sex to the silent treatment, couples have diverse spat-solving techniques.
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Perez Hilton gets the scoop and winds up in Twitter war with Ashlee.
There may be trouble in eyeliner paradise. Perez Hilton reported on Monday that Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and hubby Pete Wentz got into a huge, public fight after Ashlee downed one too many drinks at the one-year anniversary party of Wentz's Chicago bar, Angels and Kings.
According to the gossip hound's "multiple" eyewitnesses, a belligerent Simpson-Wentz went over to the booth where her husband was DJing, said he was acting "horrible" and yelled at him to leave. The two began to make a scene and left their own party early. Read: 9 Things To Say During A … Read More
How to artfully cool off that heated argument.
Are you a pirate when it comes to fighting? As in, do you brazenly charge in with accusations, a smattering of profanity and hope to crudely beat your point across? That is a bad way, grasshopper. Read: Love & Anger: How to Fight Right
Gretchen Rubin, Huffington Post blogger and author of The Happiness Project (forthcoming), recently compiled a list of 23 phrases that can help couples turn a verbal brawl back down to a constructive fight. Here are YourTango's top picks from that list and why we think they work so well.
"You don't … Read More
