After Greg’s post yesterday, I couldn’t resist passing this on:
The bonding behaviors that sustain romantic love are—get this—incredibly simple.
Think: eye contact, listening, spooning, and fixing a snack.
I know it sounds too easy, but here’s the scoop:
There are some curious aspects to bonding behaviors. First, in order to sustain the sparkle in a relationship these behaviors [...]

Today’s post is from Greg Hayes
My wife and I have been married now for just over 10-years, which I consider an accomplishment in this day and age.  There are rough patches, but that’s to be expected.  But I was gratified to hear that one of her new co-workers was amazed to learn that we’d been [...]

There’s only one way to put this: living with a spouse is in absolutely no way like living with a roommate.  A spouse (or partner or boy- or girlfriend) has so many more ways to be annoying while interfering with your personal space.  They can:
*Use up your closet space
*Interject their junk into every single room
*Insist [...]

Today’s post is courtesy of the lovely Angela C.  I’m a huge fan of incorporating service into everyday life, so I love her ideas here and hope you do as well.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”- Anne Frank
What does service mean to you? For [...]

It can be hard to explain downshifting and simplifying to friends and family.  A lot of conversations go something like this:
Friend: “So, do you wanna go an outrageously expensive and pretentious event tonight? I promise that everyone there will be trying to one up each other all night long and at least one person will [...]

I think just about every person in the world has had a toxic friend in their life at one point or another.  There’s no blueprint of toxicity and no warning signs to steer us clear of these folks. (That’s unfortunate…)  There are some common patterns that emerge in a toxic friendship:
An unequal expectation of how [...]

Whether we like it or not, days bleed into one another and weeks slip by quickly.  I hate the feeling of looking back on a month and thinking, “Wait…  Now what did I do again? Anything?”  One way to ease your mind that your days have been well spent is to focus less on checking [...]

There’s something to be said for slow and steady progress…   And there’s something to be said for strong, decisive, sweeping action. When it comes to bad, self-defeating habits, there’s no time like today to drop ‘em like they’re hot.  I’ve been more aware lately of the annoying conversational habits of other people.  Worse than [...]