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Laura Lifshitz, in a recent piece for YourTango, talked candidly about her divorce and the events leading up to it. She admits that she can be a “little loud” and outspoken, and that that created an issue between her and her ex. But while sharing these details, she also stumbled across some of the best […]

For the record, bullying your spouse doesn’t have any specific gender bias. Men can be just as harsh as women, but the issue certainly exists on both planes. It’s the female side that Dr. Karen Finn recently spoke to in her piece for YourTango. Specifically, Finn identified three “bullsh*t” ways that women bully their exes […]

Conventional thinking might dictate that if you come from the same economic background — as in, the one with which you were raised — you have a better chance of staying together as a couple. After all, your budgeting, saving, and spending habits are the same, so that means you should be able to steer […]

A Social Mobility Memo published April 9 by The Brookings Institution revealed that college-educated African-American women are less likely to marry well-educated men. In all, 49 percent married well-educated men compared to 84 percent of white women with similar educational backgrounds. The discrepancies, the study finds, are due to black women being less likely to […]

Passion is something that many feel should come naturally, and while that’s true to an extent, every relationship goes through its challenges, and without effort, the passion that was once there can die out. If you feel like your relationship has lost its spark, there are several things you can do to rekindle that flame. […]

Divorce is always hardest on the children, and it can be especially difficult if the kid is a teen because they’re already going through one of the most awkward and confusing times in their lives. While the teenage brain is still in development, the body is almost fully matured, and they’re having to deal with […]

There is one thing that separates successful couples from those destined for a breakup. It isn’t love, and it isn’t sex, but rather communication. How couples communicate will set the course for every other aspect of their relationship and ultimately determine whether the participants can stay together. If you’re wondering what it takes to communicate […]

When you get out of a bad marriage, you may want to rush back out onto the dating scene and get the ball rolling on the rest of your life. It is an exciting time where you get to redefine what you look for in a mate and feel all the same nervous jitters that […]

Being in a relationship is like being a writer. Because everyone can fall in love (or write complete sentences), then it must be easy. What that mindset does is create a world of self-professed experts, who know nothing in reality. As a result, you’re likely to hear all kinds of bad relationship advice, even from […]

If you want to take a wrecking ball to your relationship, have an affair. That’s the one action that can make trust almost impossible to rebuild, and when that breaks down, everything else starts to follow suit. It can be extremely hard getting your spouse back if you had an affair, but it is possible […]