Single and Off the Fast Track: It’s not just working parents who step back to reclaim a life
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 24, 2012
Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time. But an even higher proportion of single women yearn for more free time, according to a 2011 More magazine survey of professional women over 34. Sherri Langburt, founder of SingleEditionMedia.com, a New York agency that runs
READ MORE“Social jet lag” is a problem for most of us, and it’s fueling the obesity epidemic, study suggests
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 15, 2012
According to a new study, published online in the May 10 issue of Current Biology, social jet lag is a syndrome caused by the mismatch between the body's biological clock and our actual sleep schedules. Researchers recommend people spend more time outdoors in daylight or sit by a window, or else their body clock will
READ MORETechnology and the Loss of Intimacy
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 8, 2012
Read on for some helpful tips on how you can regain intimacy with your partner after you've been spending all your quality time with your phone. Huffington Post, 5/4/2012
READ MOREMaking Progress Against Clutter
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 3, 2012
Jane Brody writes about not only decluttering the things in your life, but making room for real conversation and communication with the people who matter to you. The New York Times, 4/30/2012
READ MORE‘What Were You Thinking?’ For Couples, New Source of Online Friction
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- April 28, 2012
The rise of social media — where sharing private moments is encouraged, and provocative and confessional postings can help build a following — has created a new source of friction for couples: what is fair game for sharing with the world? If one half of a couple is not interested in broadcasting the details of
READ MOREWhat Cocktail Parties Teach Us
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- April 24, 2012
Melinda Beck looks at the "cocktail party effect," in which people are able to focus on one conversation while being aware of conversations going on around them. Researchers say we can train our brains to maximize this kind of awareness, although the brain is wired to focus on just one thing. Read on to find
READ MORENew View of Depression: An Ailment of the Entire Body
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- April 13, 2012
Scientists are increasingly finding that depression and other psychological disorders can be as much diseases of the body as of the mind. The Wall Street Journal, 4/9/2012
READ MOREWhen It’s Just Another Fight, and When It’s Over
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- April 9, 2012
Elizabeth Bernstein looks at how to know when your marriage or romantic relationship is over and what the signs are that a relationship is no longer worth fighting for. Wall Street Journal, 4/3/2012
READ MOREThe Brain on Love
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 29, 2012
"If you're in a committed relationship, holding your partner's hand is enough to subdue blood pressure, ease stress, improve health and lessen pain." Research is being done on what is described as the brand new field of interpersonal neurobiology– how the brain is affected every day by our relationships– starting first with our relationship with
READ MOREForging Social Connections for Longer Life
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 29, 2012
New York Times, 3/26/2012
READ MOREPlanning time can help your relationships
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 22, 2012
Do you realize that successful relationships require strategic planning? Taking time to review what's working or not working will accomplish two things. First, you can think of ways to improve productive relationships. Also, you can figure out boundaries to put in place regarding people who drive you crazy. Sacramento Bee, 3/19/2012
READ MORECouples Therapy for One: To Fix a Marriage, Some Go Alone
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 12, 2012
Most couples wait far too long to seek professional help when the marriage hits a rough patch, and a common scenario is one partner wants to go and the other does not. As a result, some couples therapists are adapting traditional couples-counseling techniques for use with one spouse only. The Wall Street Journal, 3/6/2012
READ MOREParents of teen who died texting and driving: ‘Kids think they’re invincible’
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 6, 2012
Clay and Shauna Sauer, the parents of teenager Taylor who died while texting and driving, are fighting to have laws instated to prevent similar accidents. TODAY, 3/5/2012
READ MORE5 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 5, 2012
March 8th marks the celebration of International Women’s Day. The holiday has political roots, having gotten its start as a Socialist event, but its focus has expanded since the first International Women’s Day in 1909. Today, it’s a day to take note of women’s economic, social, and political achievements, as well as a day for
READ MOREWhy We Pair Up With Our Emotional Opposites and Relationship Advice for Making It Work
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- February 22, 2012
The Wall Street Journal, 2/21/2012
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