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	<title>Healing Together for Couples</title>
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	<description>A blog about couples improving their lives, by Suzanne Phillips and Dianne Kane.</description>
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		<title>Do Your Personality Traits Affect Your Relationship?</title>
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So in your relationship is it a matter of “opposites attract” or “birds of a feather”? The question of whether similar or dissimilar personality traits are a source of romantic attraction and marital satisfaction has been debated for years. There are those who propose a complementarity hypothesis claiming that partners may be more satisfied with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/03/do-your-personality-traits-affect-your-relationship/</link>
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		<title>Handling Couple Disagreements: Do You Really Need a ‘Ref’?</title>
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Last Thursday, the hour-long premiere of The Marriage Ref aired on national television, suggesting that what every couple needs is a “ref” to settle their disagreements. While most of us love the validation of being “right” and it may be that some couples, as those depicted on the show, really need someone to decide whether it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/03/handling-couple-disagreements-do-you-really-need-a-%e2%80%98ref%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>The Meaning of An Apology</title>
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On Tuesday, I blogged about different types of guilt and the impact that guilt can have on relationships. Today, we&#8217;re going to look at apologies and why they can be reparative:
Apology — The Expression of Guilt
In the interaction between partners there is a difference between feeling guilt and expressing guilt. In those cases where guilt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/03/the-meaning-of-an-apology/</link>
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		<title>The Impact of Guilt on Relationships</title>
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A week or so ago, I was about to pay for an egg sandwich and newspaper in the deli when the clerk—who knows what I do for a living—pointed to the picture of Tiger Woods on the cover. “So is he really feeling guilty or just trying to get his wife and everyone’s sympathy?”
“I don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/03/the-impact-of-guilt-on-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Envying Your Partner: Is that Allowed?</title>
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Most people view envy in a negative way. It has been defined as the feeling one has when another person has a superior quality, achievement or possession that you desire or wish for. Identified as “sin” in some faiths, it has been associated with a constellation of feelings including guilt, longing, inferiority, resentment, and even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/02/envying-your-partner-%e2%80%93-is-that-allowed/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Jealousy in Your Relationship</title>
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For as long as there have been men, women, and relationships, there has been jealousy—the fear of losing the person you love to a rival. Romance and literature throughout the ages have extolled jealousy as the sign of true love. “He that is not jealous, is not in love,” said St. Augustine.
They have also associated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/02/understanding-jealousy-in-your-relationship/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Sounds of Silence in Your Relationship</title>
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Silence can mean many things. It can mean yes, no, agreement or disagreement. It can imply contentment or dissatisfaction, safety or fear. It can be accompanied by the smile of approval or the scorn of judgment.  What do the sounds of silence mean between you and your partner?
As much as people are similar and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/02/understanding-the-sounds-of-silence-in-your-relationship/</link>
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		<title>How to Cope with Uncertain Loss or Death of a Loved One</title>
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Not knowing if your loved one is alive or dead absent or present, knowing or needing you is painfully traumatic.  It is the suffering faced when  soldiers are missing in action, thousands of bodies vanished after 9/11, a child is kidnapped, a partner is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and most recently, it is  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/01/how-to-cope-with-uncertain-loss-or-death-of-a-loved-one/</link>
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		<title>Love in Long-Distance Relationships</title>
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A long-distance relationship or LDR is typically an intimate relationship that takes place when the partners are separated by a considerable distance. No one is geographically undesirable anymore but many are geographically challenged with the goal of maintaining love at a distance.
There are 115,000 troops in Iraq with an anticipated 34,000 more to be sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/01/love-at-a-distance/</link>
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		<title>The Meaning of &#8216;No&#8217; In Relationships</title>
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While recently waiting on line in a crowded store, I overheard a bit of a friendly, flirty conversation between two young cashiers. The young man asked the young woman something. I couldn’t hear her answer, but I did hear his response back, 
“Does the way you just said “NO” really mean “YES?” 
Good question.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/healing-together/2010/01/the-meaning-of-no-in-relationships/</link>
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