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In the Mood for Love:
Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Living vicariously through others’ love affairs helps us remember the feeling of being transported and to re-experience the wild emotions (and even madness) that love drives us to.

Marriage & Life Partners · Relationships & Dating

Valentine’s Day Relationship Tune-Up

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

While it may seem to be humming along, a good relationship needs care, maintenance and plenty of attention if it is going to survive the long haul.

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Is This Love?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The science of romance isn’t “romantic,” but focuses instead on practical issues. Research confirms that believing in soul mates—or destiny, “the idea that there is exactly one person you were absolutely put on this earth to find—can and probably will backfire.”

Emotional Health · Relationships & Dating

Domestic-Violence Dilemma

By Stacia Friedman

It was 3 a.m. I sat up in bed, momentarily disoriented. A man and a woman were shouting. The shouting was coming from the apartment of a young single woman who had recently moved into the unit above mine.

Emotional Health · Relationships & Dating

The Power of Domestic Violence: Why It’s Hard to Leave

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

There is the mistaken impression that domestic violence is limited to poor or uneducated families. This is an issue that cuts across all class and racial lines.

Relationships & Dating

The Benefits of Long-Term Marriage

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

While most would agree that sexuality is a key aspect of marital happiness, including sexual attraction, satisfaction, compatibility, and fidelity, a great many couples go through changes in one or more of these areas during the course of a long marriage.

Relationships & Dating

Single and Happy? More Women Are Saying Yes

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

No longer so driven by financial needs, libido, nor emotional need — having established close friendships and family ties — a woman is freer to choose a path according to her true wishes.

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Make February Relationship Rehab Month

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

February can be thought of as a month in which the celebration of Valentine’s Day might inspire us to reflect on and improve our relationships, romantic and otherwise.

Relationships & Dating

The Special Power of First Love

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Idealistic memories of first love are common. But they may be an impediment to future relationships, because they are not subject to later scrutiny.

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Trending Now: Women Across the Globe Getting Married . . . to Themselves

By Women's Voices For Change

Single women in Canada, Japan, and the United States are unabashedly taking self-love to the limit: They are marrying themselves.

Emotional Health · Relationships & Dating

Fighting Loneliness When Dementia Steals a Spouse

By Nancy Carlson

I got to the part that asked me to check the box for divorced, widowed, separated or never married. There was no place to indicate that I am married but my husband is dying.

Emotional Health · Relationships & Dating

Domestic Violence: Home Is Where the Hurt Is

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is sometimes hard to understand how women get trapped in violent relationships. It is even harder to understand the complexities the victim faces when trying to escape.

Emotional Health · Lifestyle · Relationships & Dating

‘Table for One’: Battle Cry of the Single Woman

By Stacia Friedman

When you're reuniting with childhood friends or meeting “eligible” men, there is always the underlying question: What is WRONG with you?

Marriage & Life Partners · Relationships & Dating

My Not-So-Funny Valentine

By Stacia Friedman

Without washing the tears off my face, I rushed back down to the street and jumped in a cab. I needn’t have bothered with the erotic lingerie. It came off too quickly for him to notice. Xavier and I drank Champagne and ate moo shu pork naked in bed. I looked at the clock. It was 2 a.m. Thank God. Valentine’s Day was over.

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Valentine’s Day: A Little Office Romance

By Alexandra MacAaron

Jim likes to joke that we never had a first date. I think we had something better. After all, how many ambitious career women in the 1980s get rescued by a bona fide knight in shining armor?

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