Sentences with phrase «relationship than other couples»

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Some couples credit cheating with making their relationships better than ever, while others immediately broke things off.

Some of the more paranoid or lawsuit - fearing companies in the U.S. require office couples to sign a wavier or «love contract,» vowing that their relationship is consensual and neither will take legal action against their employer (or each other) should the love prove less than eternal.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

Couples often recognize one - up / one - down games more quickly in other relationships than in their own.

A couple that agrees to have sex with others has an entirely different relationship than couples that don't agree but experience non-monogamy anyway.

Making sure that men and women get a broad sexual and relationship education — rather than limiting sex ed to instructions for preventing unplanned pregnancy and other negative consequences — could help couples form more intimate bonds and feel more comfortable discussing sensitive topics, they add.

PASADENA, Calif., February 2, 2006 — eHarmony, the Internet's # 1 relationship service, today released results from The 2005 eHarmony Study of Marriage in America, which show that singles who were matched by eHarmony and later married are significantly happier than couples who met by any other means.

Society has become far more accepting than it was a long time ago The world has become tolerant of things which were despised once upon a time «Aim for healthy relationship In a good and healthy relationship, looks are not the only things that matter A couple with a good mutual understanding and who know each other intimately would have greater chances of success in their lives It is also not necessary that one must only look for someone whose looks are similar to that of theirs.

Online dating relationships move much quicker than standard relationships in some ways as a couple is able to explore each other's personalities more thoroughly and are less consumed with physical matters.

This sex site has more than 77 million frisky singles and couples to choose from — no matter if you want a one - night stand, NSA relationship, threesome, swinging relationship, or affair, among other encounters.

But it's not just married couples - a 2009 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that after studying 7,000 individuals over a period of a few years, those who were in relationships and moved in with their significant others were twice as likely to be overweight than their single peers.

John Abraham - Priya Runchal: Following John's break - up with Bipasha Basu, he got into a relationship with investment banker and financial consultant Priya Do you ever wonder whether you and your spouse have less sex than other couples or if your married sex life unhealthy?

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After appropriately analyzing the same, it was found that couples with a higher credit score are more likely to engage in a committed relationship than others.

The main factors that drive morale (your supervisor, peers, the work itself, communications, opportunities to advance and cross-departmental relationships) aren't different in shelters than any other workplace, but what's unique in shelters is the high stress coupled with passion, he says.

But why focus on a global mean that is known to have only a sluggish relationship to real human stress — especially over the sub-decadal time periods that are relevant to most human decision - making — rather than other indicators that are more tightly coupled and better canaries?

If you think about accommodation in terms of being in the service of the couple, rather than the other person, you can minimize any sense you may have of losing out, because if the relationship benefits, you benefit as well.

Some couples decide to get back together and experience their relationship as stronger than ever, some couples find that the separation process only escalated the amount of conflict in the relationship, and yet others experience the separation period as that of numbness, denial, or shock.

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There are couples that wish to have legally recognized relationships other than a marriage.

If a couple pays attention to warning signs in their marriage and seeks out third - party help quickly, they may find that couples therapy actually strengthens their relationship and they can move on from a rough patch happier and more in tune with each other than ever before.

Another thing that people come in for other than couples counseling and marriage counseling is sometimes people come in by themselves who are in a committed relationship because they want to have a deeper understanding of what's going on, perhaps learn strategies on their own.

I have assisted couples to work through even the most difficult challenges within relationships to create a richer, more enjoyable connection to each other than before thought possible.»

Dr. Gottman found that successful couples make five times more positive statements about each other and the relationship than they do negative statements.

The couple can do what securely attached partners and children can do in relationships: they can accept and articulate their attachment vulnerabilities; they can ask clearly for their needs to be met, rather than attack or withdraw; and they can take in another's love and comfort, and translate that love into a sense of confidence in themselves and in others.

Here's why: the kinds of constraints that begin to add up when a couple starts living together likely make it harder to end a cohabiting relationship than a dating (non-residential) relationship.5 Comingling finances, signing lease, and adopting pets are examples of these kinds of constraints and evidence suggests that the accumulation of them is associated with a lower likelihood of break - up.6 To learn about each other and how to manage difficult issues well, it might be best to do it in a way that doesn't make it harder to end the relationship.

Active and constructive capitalization responses (i.e., those characterized by attentiveness, encouragement, and enthusiasm) are associated with more intimacy, higher marital satisfaction, 1 and a lower likelihood of breaking up.2 In fact, capitalization is more strongly associated with relationship well - being and stability than is providing support in the face of negative events.2 This finding suggests that how couple members support each other during the good times may be even more important than how they behave during the bad times.

In other words, the results of this study suggest that observing how couple members interact in a relationship - enhancing context can better indicate their relationship functioning than just observing how couples fight, which has important implications for relationship counseling.

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When both partners in a relationship thought the other had a good sense of humor, 67 percent less conflict was reported than in couples where neither thought the other had a good sense of humor.

That said, even among couples that do split the workload, chores tend to fall to one partner more than the other (in heterosexual relationships, usually the woman).

For example, research by John Gottman indicates that some couples attempt to avoid conflict at all costs, whereas others seem to thrive on constant conflict.2 It is important to note that neither of these couple types is «better» than the other and regardless of whether you fight a lot or a little, you can still have a very satisfying, long - lasting relationship.

The common thread in these statements is this couple's focus on «fixing» the other person rather than on taking specific actions to change their part in a relationship dynamic that is undesirable.

For example, when couples are «hostile» toward one another, there's a good chance that any recent wounds (even everyday cuts and abrasions) will take longer to heal than if partners maintain a more civil and responsive tone with one another during disagreements or other conversations.1 On the other hand, good relationships, and not just those we have with our romantic partners, generally benefit our overall health.

In fact, research on cohabitation suggests that a majority of couples enter cohabitation because of inertia (i.e., it just sort happens or seems like the next logical step) rather than with a purposeful decision.1 This raises an interesting question: do some people approach relationship decisions more actively and with more thoughtfulness than others?

Because long distance relationships are prone to so many ups and downs, you will run into differences and conflict points just like any other couples (maybe more than other couples).

But, couples who cohabit prior to marriage for practical reasons and plan to someday marry all along fare better (and in some respects may fare better than those that didn't cohabit), especially because these couples have had practice confronting and working through life and relationship stressors.5 For example, they've most likely experienced conflict and had an opportunity to see how they treat each other in such situations.6

For seriously committed couples in the early months of their relationship, it is hard to think of anything other than the big wedding.

Couples can feel safer with each other than in general, which ironically allows for worse behavior than would happen outside the relationship.

Since the program focuses on married rather than unmarried couples, the participants are particularly likely to be committed to each other and to the success of the relationship.

Not all her analyses use controls, but where she does, Kuperberg includes variables such as age at co-residence (or age at marriage, depending), education, race / ethnicity, family stability growing up, if one grew up religious or not, if one had previously cohabited with someone other than the mate (serial cohabitation), if the couple had moved in together while expecting a baby, and if there had been any birth prior to cohabiting (within the relationship or from a prior one).

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

The couples perceived greater similarity for leisure interests / activities, attitudes and beliefs, and personality than for the other types of similarity (e.g., background characteristics), at both times of the relationship.

All couples argue, and while some argue more than others, it's not the arguing that predicts relationship dissatisfaction or divorce, it's the way we argue.

That is a real shame, because long - distance relationships do work, and, according to research, couples in LDRs often have higher relationship satisfaction and better communication skills than other couples.

Becoming a new couple means establishing healthy boundaries around your relationship — while it's also important to maintain your individuality, married couples think differently than their single counterparts because they consider each other (and the relationship) rather than simply making decisions on a whim.

I've worked with several clients, both in couples and individual therapy, where one partner has very different political views than the other and it doesn't cause tension in the relationship.

As a psychologist and relationship therapist, I frequently hear stories of couples drifting apart; couples that were once close and seemed to share in the joys and adventures of life slowly started to look more like roommates with little in common other than an address.

The continual focus on things other than that primary relationship causes distance between couples.