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A Degree in Intimacy
We need to earn a degree in intimacy before we are going to allow ourselves to have the fulfilling relationships we deeply desire. Only when we can like, love, and accept ourselves unconditionally, will we be able to let down our walls and allow ourselves to relate intimately with others.

Change Your Language, Change Your Relationship: How We Say Things Does Matter
Words and how we say them do matter, so it's very important to be careful how you speak to your partner and others. The misuse and carelessness of how you speak are two of the main issues that undermine and can eventually destroy a relationship. That doesn't mean you can't speak your mind; it just means you're being respectful and mindful of another person's feelings and vulnerabilities. It lets your partner know he's not a bad person, but you truly want him to hear you. When communicating, keep these four tips in mind.

The Most Important Argument You'll Ever Have in Your Relationship
The first argument is the most crucial argument you will ever have in your relationship, setting the stage for all arguments to follow. Minimizing the chaos, confusion, and stress in your relationships, therefore, is accomplished by understanding what you're really arguing about. Without knowing the importance of the first argument, couples struggle to understand their disagreements. The first argument is an important moment in the relationship that can ultimately bring clarity rather than confusion. With clarity, we can solve and deal with anything that occurs in our relationships. Understanding the value and importance of the first argument as a tool to self-knowledge can reduce stress in a relationship.

One Magic Strategy for your Relationship
Whether you are in a happy time with your partner right now or experiencing stress, there is one powerful, easy strategy you can use by yourself to create a more pleasant atmosphere in your home, almost instantly! At the same time, this new tactic will begin mending the chronic issues that recur between the two of you over and over. I call it a Loving Action, and, like all the Loving Actions taught by author Susan Page, it is based on universal spiritual principles, or Spiritual Partnership.

Getting Along Over the Holidays
The holidays are coming. That means gifts, parties, smiling faces, and mounting tensions. Let's be honest. Holidays are fun, but they can also be stressful. Here are a few tips to help keep those tensions from spilling over into your relationship.

Listen And Hear
Even though we like be listened to, most of us are not very good at listening. Be honest, often we are so caught up in what we want to say and how we feel that we stop hearing what others are saying to us. If you and your partner don't listen to each other, how do you learn about each other or make each other feel good about the relationship? There are skills to being a good listener: this article explains what these are.

How to Get a Man to Do Housework
How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women you've faced this question the hard way: in an argument with your husband. Here's a man's take on this troublesome issue.

The value of simple appreciation
One of the best ways to keep relationships positive, regardless of whether with friends, relatives or business associates or customers is to show appreciation. Going out of your way often to tell people how much you appreciate what they have done, regardless of how unimportant or little it might have been, puts you in the minority of the human race. Here are a few tips to consider.

How do you want to be loved?
Everyone is unique in their need for love or the expression of it. Most people who feel unloved in relationships feel unloved not because their partner is not loving toward them or doesn't love them, but because they are not loving them the way they need to be loved. Tim Connor explains.

Do I really know you?
There are millions of people raising strangers, married to strangers and working with strangers. They know little about the dreams, hopes, frustrations, fears, goals, likes and dislikes of these people. In this article, Tim Connor presents a few questions to consider about each of these three categories of people.