Sublime

If we always have to be right, for example, there is no room in the relationship to be happy.

Again, we must constantly remind ourselves: In a true partnership, both partners view it as their responsibility to ensure the other’s emotional well-being.

The quality of our love relationships is also a big factor in how mentally and emotionally healthy we are.

Most often, the couples I see in my practice live in a community of two.

deep emotional content of relationships,

Emotional intelligence has become widely recognized as an important predictor of a child’s success later in life. The more in touch with feelings and the better able a child is to understand and get along with others, the sunnier that child’s future, whatever his or her academic IQ. The same is true for spouses. The more emotionally intelligent a c

compared with the couples who remained happily married, those who ended up unhappy or divorced had secreted 34 percent higher levels of adrenaline while arguing as newlyweds. These researchers also found that another stress hormone, ACTH, was twice as high in the newlywed wives who ended up in troubled marriages or divorced ten years later compared

who were experiencing a serious downswing in their relationship,