March 2018 - Close Companions

How stress affects your health

Articles, marriage advice, marriage help, relationship advice, relationship help, Stress by Priscilla Hunt

Stress: We’ve all felt it. Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating you to perform well at your piano recital or job interview. But often — like when you’re stuck in traffic — it’s a negative force. If you experience stress over a prolonged period of time, it could become chronic — unless you […]

Financial Goal Setting With Your Spouse

Articles, Communication, Finances, marriage advice, marriage help, relationship advice, relationship help by Priscilla Hunt

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Patty Moore of Working Mother Life. For many couples, money is a major source of tension within a relationship. In fact, in a 2017 survey, 49 percent of all respondents considered money to be the most critical and stressful factor in their relationship. Undoubtedly, problems with money can cause […]

TED Talk: Dare to Disagree

conflict, marriage advice, marriage help, relationship advice, relationship help, TED Talk, Video by Priscilla Hunt

Good relationships aren’t built on constantly agreeing with each other, as Heffernan, serial entrepreneur and “Beyond Measure” author, explains. Great research teams, relationships, and businesses allow people to deeply disagree, she says, but “the truth won’t set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to […]

TED Talk: The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship

Intimacy, marriage advice, marriage help, relationship advice, relationship help, Sex and Intimacy, TED Talk, Video by Priscilla Hunt

Esther Perel conducts research around the world on how couples can cultivate long-term sexual relationships. She says in her TED Talk that sustaining desire in a committed relationship comes down to reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship.

For the Love of Money: Couples and Finances

Articles, Communication, conflict, Finances, Growth, marriage advice, marriage help, marriage tips, Money, relationship advice, relationship help, relationship tips, Tips by Priscilla Hunt

By: Barry Steelman, AIF® If you do a simple search on the topic of relationships and finances, you’ll come across countless sobering statistics. For example, you’ll find that money is the primary reason for arguments between couples, with many couples averaging three arguments per month revolving around financial issues. You’ll also learn that 3 in 10 married […]

10 Little Things Connected Couples Do

Adventure, Articles, attitude, Boredom, Communication, Growth, Just for Fun, marriage advice, marriage tips, relationship advice, relationship tips, Tips by Priscilla Hunt

You agreed to stick it out through sickness and health and for richer or poorer, but marital vows don’t address the other big things that can untie your knot—boredom, feeling out of touch, or worse, platonic friendship instead of an in-love partnership. While honeymoon headiness will inevitably decline, that doesn’t mean your relationship has to take […]

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How stress affects your health

Financial Goal Setting With Your Spouse

TED Talk: Dare to Disagree

TED Talk: The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship

For the Love of Money: Couples and Finances

10 Little Things Connected Couples Do

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