Sentences with phrase «when couples»

(She confesses to a weakness for matchmaking: «I love it when couples meet at yoga class!»)

When couples do pack on the pounds, she adds, it may be a symptom of conflict, not slacking off.

I see that these patterns can change when couples commit to learning a new way of relating sexually that women enjoy.

The truth is that when couples drop expectations about sex and adopt a new approach — one that makes both parties» genuine fulfillment a prerequisite rather than a bonus — women's genuine fulfillment (which includes much more than having orgasms)-- it supports deeper intimacy and can make a woman's libido more active than it ever was before.

Nelson says this is when couples begin to fall in love and exchange sincere «I love you's.»

Researchers found that the percentage of male babies decreased to about 49 % when couples opted for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (when the sperm is injected directly into the egg) and the fertilized embryo was transferred to the womb in the cleavage stage, after just two or three days.

Living Apart Together is exactly what it sounds like, when couples decide to maintain separate homes while remaining committed to each other.

Conversely, when couples like these had lower standards, they tended to be happier in their marriages.

Its too bad, because when couples act as a team in learning about ADHD, they tend to speed through the learning curve — with fewer bumps and bruises, too.

Ambiguity exists about what step - relationships mean even when couples are together; these ties become even more ambiguous when the relationships dissolve, Ganong said.

«Nine months after the birth of their first child, when couples are questioned for the second time in the study, they are starting to settle into a new pattern of how they will divide the work,» Kamp Dush said.

After crunching the numbers, they've found that when couples split, they use more land, more energy, and even more water than before.

Gender again becomes the biggest predictor of who will do what around the house when couples are in their forties.

The study found that three months after the birth of their first child, on days when couples were not working, men were most often relaxing while women did housework or child care.

The Leopoldina, Germany's national academy of sciences, has published a report strongly recommending that preimplantation genetic diagnosis of early embryos be allowed by law when couples know they carry genes that could cause a serious incurable disease if passed on to their children.

Zinc has also been found to boost IVF success when couples in treatment took supplements.

Susan Klock, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital who studies disclosure issues and counsels couples, said that when couples are exploring assisted reproduction, half of them think they will tell the child about his or her origins and half think that they will not.

Years ago when couples found themselves in an unhappy, even unhealthy marriage they usually remained married «for the sake of the children.»

Unfortunately, when couples compete against one another for the «parent of the year» award, everyone loses.

But here's the rub: Big problems emerge when couples make other kinds of long term commitments that do bind them legally — like buying property together or worse, having children together — without having protections in place.

When couples use these processes, it can often be easier to keep the emotional part of parenting present in the discussions and move away from the rigidity of the numbers.

When couples recognize this cycle, then learn to replace it with more marriage - affirming patterns, the results are breathtaking.

Even when couples break up (or have never lived together) a non resident father is likely to be more involved than a separated father was thirty years ago (Hetherington & Kelly, 2002), and many of these fathers spend a substantial time parenting alone.

Here's what research indicates: When couples have matched expectations, they have happier, more fulfilling marriages.

When couples reach for the law, they are told that they are expected to agree a solution ensuring the children see plenty of both parents.

When couples divorce at such an advanced age, grandchildren are likely to be impacted, as well as adult children.

Usually divorce happens when couples feel they can no longer live together due to fighting and anger, or because the love they had when they married has changed.

It already happens, somewhat, when couples divorce and split physical custody.

But there's a danger in putting all your friendships in one parenting friends egg basket, however; some will inevitably divorce, and then there's the awkwardness that occurs when couples feel they have to pick sides or worry about mate poaching (yes, a real thing) or that they'll be next in divorce roulette.

Getting back to those expectations, Viken and others point out that when couples decide to marry, their goals are often the same — buy a house, start a family, etc..

Yet we balk at the idea of consensual non-monogamy — when couples decide for themselves to have an open marriage, be polyamorous, swing, etc. — and consider it to be abnormal.

Sometimes he is too selfless for his own good (like against Minnesota last Wednesday) but when he couples that selflessness with aggression and looks to score (like against Portland) he can be unstoppable.

While Valentine's Day is traditionally known as the time of year when couples swoon over each other, it's really just a holiday about love.

When couples turn to their physicians because of difficulties in achieving conception, often one of the first things asked of them is that the man engage, through self - arousal, in an act which is a constitutive element of the language of total, exclusive, direct, ecstatic, faithful committed love for his wife — in the depersonalised context of a clinic closet, to provide a sample for diagnosis.

This happens when the family isgenerously open to new lives, and when couples maintain an attitude of openness and service to life, even if, for serious reasons and in respect for the moral law, they choose to avoid a new birth for the time being or indefinitely» (no. 97; emphasis added).

Negative cycles of mutual deprivation happen less frequently when couples learn to give and receive more affirming strokes and thus to initiate cycles of mutual nurture.

When couples achieve mutual understanding that goes beyond understanding about the person, to understanding the person in his being, they do so through what is essentially a spiritual experience.

When couples have tried unsuccessfully to communicate, over a long period of time, they often begin to use words mainly to con - fuse and attack, rather than to attempt to transmit meanings.

There are times in most marriages when couples regress, or take a detour or a side road that turns out to be a dead end.

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.

«The good news is that when couples do finally get round to making a solid commitment it is far more likely to last than twenty years ago.»

The U.S. has holidays like Valentine's Day and Christmas when couples are expected to exchange gifts, but China's Singles» Day proves even...

When couples have very different ideas about what they want to achieve financially, there's potential for butting heads.

When the couple divorced a few years later, Sall found himself in debt again.

These bulbs use at least two - thirds less energy than regular lighting, and when coupled with timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they aren't needed, will significantly reduce your office's carbon footprint.

When the couple got back to California, after waiting two months for all the belts to be made, they spent another three months driving up and down the coast and living in Woodman's 1974 VW bus, stopping at street fairs and concerts to sell the belts.

That could allow the company to play a much bigger role in the European market, particularly when coupled with the company's existing cross-border expertise.

And when coupled with features borrowed from social media, it fosters engagement and community that is the end goal of most internal comms programs.»

«When a couple feels like they are in this together, it supports both members of the team.

«It's the most effective form of «advertising» there is, and when coupled with a solid content strategy, no TV or Facebook ad buy can even compare.»