Sentences with phrase «partners than the behavior»

Not exact matches

Same - sex marriages are no more a threat to the institution of marriage than heterosexual «open marriages» where both partners consent to mutual adulterous behavior.

Shelly's cover - up of the intimidating and demeaning behavior of Lopez and his staff is far worse than Clinton's dalliances with multiple willing partners.

«This new study was unusual in focusing upon the sexual and dating behavior of single parents rather than partnered parents of young children.»

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

She adds that it was «clear to me» that the male was engaging in caretaking of his dying partner, although she adds that some of his behaviors — such as emitting alarm calls and trying to mate with her — might have been signs of stress rather than compassion.

As their intimate partner, you know better than anyone the wounds, insecurities, and losses that lead to their unskillful behavior.

By taking your eyes off your partner's feelings and behavior and focusing on learning to love yourself — which means learning to be open, caring, accepting and connected with your own feelings rather than being reactive.

Neurotic people, for example, tend to interpret their partners» behavior more negatively than objective observers do, says Salvatore.

Since some people handle stress better than others, the way that this stress impacts your relationship primarily depends on your dating partner, but your behavior can also have an impact.

He plays Billy McBride, a man whose alcoholism is even worse than his haircut and his goatee, and who founded one of the most powerful law firms in the world only to be ousted from it because of his bad behavior and a spectacular fallout with his partner, Donald Cooperman (William Hurt).

Never reward inappropriate behaviors and make your Rottweilers partners rather than disciples: forget about the outdated alpha role!

We transfer in pets requiring specialized medical or behavior care from Colorado shelter partners, as well as healthy dogs from shelters in Oklahoma, Texas and surrounding states that have limited resources and more dogs than adopters.

Now more than ever it is crucial to study Chinese gamer behavior, build relationships with publishing partners, and invest in localization that reflects cultural understanding beyond the requirements for all games to include only Chinese text.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

Criticism can be as subtle as describing your partner's behaviors or words, rather than focusing on describing your own perspective or reality.

Preliminary results indicate that children who experienced either event had higher behavior problem scores than children in stable, single - partner families, and children who had experienced both events had the highest average levels of behavior problems.

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

Interpersonal relationships with romantic partners also can affect delinquent behavior, in some cases even more than relationships with parents.

Females who exhibit early - onset (by age seven) persistent offending are more likely than other girls to engage in antisocial behavior at age thirty - two.30 For example, 75 percent of these early - onset persistent female offenders had, by age thirty - two, engaged in one or more violent acts, including violence toward partners (44.8 percent) and children (41.7 percent).

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

The caregiver was coded as having been treated violently if she indicated that any of these behaviors was directed at her more than once or if her partner engaged in more than 1 type of specific violent behavior.

It's hard for couples to approach this any other way: even the diagnostic manuals used by physicians and therapists conceptualize sexual desire as eagerness for sexual behavior rather than desire for your partner.

In the future, Larson plans to study whether or not women actually change their behavior — treating less desirable partners differently than sexier guys, or even cheating on them — when fertile.

The use of these behaviors communicates that your commitment to «winning» is stronger than your commitment to your partner.

Rather than confronting the issues (which tend to accumulate) with our partner, we make evasive maneuvers such as tuning out, turning away, acting busy, or engaging in obsessive behaviors.»

In addition, persons with an anxious attachment style (i.e., people who fear being abandoned by their romantic partners) were more likely to label casual behaviors as cheating than those who are more secure.

This is a constructive strategy because I statements focus on how you feel, without blaming your partner, and behavior descriptions focus on a specific behavior your partner is engaging in rather than a character flaw.

Teenagers that have sex with a romantic partner engage in fewer delinquent behaviors than do teens that have sex outside of a relationship (i.e., «hooking up»).

Over decades, John has observed more than 3,000 couples longitudinally, discovering patterns of argument and subtle behaviors that can predict whether a couple would be happily partnered years later or unhappy or divorced.

For example, satisfied married couples coordinate, or mirror their body movements more during conflict discussions than dissatisfied couples.5 Another study found that when participants believed that they were interacting with someone from an out - group, they were more likely to synchronize their physical behaviors with them than an in - group member.4 If you are fighting with your partner and face the possibility of exclusion or rejection, you may unknowingly imitate him or her in order to feel closer to them.6

Research has long suggested that saying «I do» to a significant other is similar to saying «I do» to better health.1 Married people — especially married men — report better health and live longer than single people.2, 3 But marriage itself is not necessarily the reason for these differences; there are many explanations for the health benefits of marriage including increased social support, improved health behaviors by folks who are married, more positive attitudes about health by the married, as well as the benefits of having a partner to help provide health insurance.4, 5

1 Women are also more likely to judge how committed a partner is based on the way he or she kisses.1 Whereas some studies show that females desire kissing more than men, 2 others show that desire to engage in kissing behavior for men and women is the same.3

Do you spend more time second - guessing your partner's comments or reactions than examining your own behavior?

For example, on again - off again relationships tend to have greater conflict, less commitment, lower satisfaction, and fewer positive behaviors (e.g., validating each other's feelings) than noncyclical relationships.1 Partners involved in on again - off again relationships also report doing things that negatively impact the relationship, such as being less cooperative, polite, and patient with each other.

This clearly indicates the belief concerns the dyad as a whole, rather than the behavior of any specific partner.

Attacking your partner's personality, character or appearance — rather than talking about the behavior you don't like — is a zero - sum game.

This book demonstrates that intimate partner abuse by men is more than just a learned pattern of behavior — it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration.

Some therapists have interpreted conscious uncoupling to mean that couples confront their irreconcilable differences by taking responsibility for their own behavior rather than by blaming their partner for the demise of the relationship.

A person's attachment to addictive behaviors creates a competing attachment — an attachment to something other than one's partner.

In some cases, the addictive behaviors are sought out more often than — or instead of — their partner.

The Real Secrets of a Great Relationship Randi Gunther, author of When Love Stumbles: How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in your Relationship, a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor for more than four decades, gathered 14 core, and somewhat subtle, behaviors of couples whose relationships are deeply connected, and grow closer and more committed over time: Partners don't... Read more»

Couple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality: age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wedding.

Among all these couple premarital behaviors and dynamics, having a child or being pregnant together before marriage, knowing that one's partner had had sexual relations with someone else while dating, the respondent's perception that he / she was more committed than the partner prior to marriage, and having had a wedding were the strongest predictors of marital quality.

According to her, successful couples practice eight behaviors that keep the relationship centered on each other rather than outside partners:

Each partner must take back their personal power for effecting change in the relationship by being proactive in their behavior rather than reactive.

When you know the words and behaviors that make your partner feel seen, cared for and desired, you are feeding this foundation rather than taking it for granted.

Rather than telling you what to do or how to do it, Crucible Therapy uses your spontaneous sexual behavior as a window into yourself, your partner, and your relationship.

So - called emotional cheating, for instance — i.e. fantasizing about someone other than your partner while masturbating — is a completely healthy sexual behavior, says Schnarch.

Similarly, when spouses perceived their partners as being nicer than their actual behavior warranted, they maintained greater long - term satisfaction than spouses who did not idealize each other as much, according to research by Paul Miller, Sylvia Niehuis, and Ted Huston at the University of Texas, Austin.

If you have concerns about your partner's parenting behavior, talk about it in private rather than undermining the partner in front of the children.