Criticism, Avoidance, and Negativity: How They Destroy Love?
Do you let any of these three destroyers of love get in the way of your loving relationship?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Resilience Self-Help love Source Type: news

Grindr: An Unprotected Sex Finder?
Many Grindr users have unprotected anal sex increasing their risk for HIV.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Naveed Saleh, M.D., M.S. Tags: Health Media Relationships Sex AIDS anal intercourse anal sex gay men Grindr HIV homosexual men LGBT young men Source Type: news

Genuine Pride Does NOT Goeth Before the Fall
Pride is the opposite of shame (I feel rejected). We can’t get along without it as a part of love. Must we call it PRIDE to make the point?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Social Life ego pride self-esteem Source Type: news

Principia Amoris
What do you say when your partner says, “I am so angry with you right now!”? Your response will dictate the future of your relationship.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Book Brigade Tags: Relationships Resilience Self-Help couples couples therapy happy relationship logic mathematics newton newtonian physics relationship repair sir isaac newton unhappy marriages unhappy relationships Source Type: news

Holiday Sex, Romance, and Gratitude Enhance Intimacy
Researchers tell us the mean occurrence rate for experiencing orgasm during sex. But only we know for certain just how we can influence intimacy by embracing gratitude.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rita Watson, MPH Tags: Relationships Sex Stress Source Type: news

How Beauty Affects the Way You Treat Others
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... but what exactly do they behold?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gregory Ciotti Tags: Relationships Social Life Source Type: news

4 Myths About Online Dating
As online dating has become increasingly popular, information — and unfortunately misinformation — abounds. Let’s examine four common myths about online dating.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D. Tags: Memory Relationships Social Life deception demographics divorce internet dating lying marriage married matching matching algorithms online dating personality relationship satisfaction success Source Type: news

Were Men Snookered By The Sexual Revolution?
Did Hugh Hefner sell America a bum steer?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. R. Bruns, M.D. Tags: Relationships Sex alimony Bad boy Bob Guccione child custody crime divorce Dr. Helen Smith duke university Ellen Goodman fatherlessness feminism George Gilder girls HBO homosexuality hugh hefner Its On Us Lena Dunham Source Type: news

Humanistic And Positive Psychology
When positive psychology first arrived it distanced itself from humanistic psychology, but now over a decade later we can see that the pioneers of humanistic psychology had a similar vision and that these two disciplines have much to learn from each other.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen Joseph, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Self-Help Therapy 1954 aspirations fully functioning humanistic psychology John Shlien maslow mental health negative person-centered pionners posiitve positive psychology potentialities psychologic Source Type: news

The Good News About Being “In Transition”
Some people get tossed around by life changes that can affect them for weeks, months, or even years. Others may recover more quickly and use the crisis to prompt growth and the opening of new possibilities in their lives. These people are the ones who have cultivated the quality of resilience. read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Linda and Charlie Bloom, Tags: Gender Relationships Resilience Self-Help change children college death divorce financial lives married needs problems resilient school transition Source Type: news

Friendship: Missing The Way Things Were
A young woman from Sweden laments missing old friends from whom she’s drifted apart.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Self-Help Social Life change friends friendship advice neighborhood neighbors spontaneous friends Source Type: news

5 Ways to Handle Excuses from Those You Care About
People make excuses for all sorts of reasons, and although we’ve come to accept this as an ordinary fact of life, it doesn’t make it any easier to put up with ones from the people we love. These 5 tips will help reduce the likelihood that the person you love will use on one you.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Happiness Relationships Self-Help autonomous motivation cheating defense mechanisms excuse-making excuses fear of failure lying self-efficacy Source Type: news

Are you fed up with phony excuses?
People make excuses for all sorts of reasons, and although we’ve come to accept this as an ordinary fact of life, it doesn’t make it any easier to put up with ones that we know aren’t real. These 5 tips will help you make phony excuses less of a problem in your life and in the lives of people you care about.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Happiness Relationships Self-Help autonomous motivation cheating defense mechanisms excuse-making excuses fear of failure lying self-efficacy Source Type: news

My Mom Makes Me Lie About My Age
How to handle parent liesread more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barbara Greenberg, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Resilience adolescence adoption age daddybloggers dating daughters divorce family friends friendships high school lying marriage mommybloggers parenting parents single parenting stepfamily teenagers Source Type: news

When Is True Love True?
The desire for true love runs deep. read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Donna Flagg Tags: Happiness Relationships Self-Help Social Life Source Type: news