Archive for the ‘Relationship Advice’ Category

Relationship Problems Turn Green

With so many relationship problems in the world, we could do without a new one. But according to Leslie Kaufman writing in the New York Times saving the planet might mean ditching your relationship.

Is a new model for marriage emerging?

Tara Parker-Pope writing in the New York Times today notes that the very nature of marriage is shifting. That’s also a central theme from Dr. Harville Hendrix, Imago co-founder, who believes that the statistics of marriage breakdown simply indicate a shift to a new model of marriage, and a new role for marriage in society

Relationship help is the fast track to happiness

Weiner travelled to the world’s happiest places and told WorldHum that “Many countries around the world seem to grasp this notion that happiness is relational—that we derive much of our joy from our connections to other people

Relationship Quizzes go interactive with Imago

In these interactive Relationship Quizzes, instead of checking off boxes on a form, you get to talk with an Avatar, who sympathetically asks you about some of your past emotional experience, especially in the home where you grew up.

Marriage Counseling meets Michelangelo

The Michelangelo phenomenon views each of us like a block of marble, and inside is our ideal self, just waiting to be fully revealed. If you recall Michelangelo said that the sculpture already existed inside the marble, and his job was just to make it visible. Like Michelangelo, our partners can help shape us so that it is this ideal self that emerges in all its fullness and aliveness. That’s interesting to me because its another way of looking at the goals of Imago marriage counseling

Marriage Advice from France – take a mistress

The latest Marriage Advice from France is that infidelity may help your marriage. In Imago we love to consider all perspectives, so let’s take a moment to look at what France’s leading psychologist Maryse Vaillant is saying.

Science gives relationship help a boost

Science supports relationship help as a way to strengthen marriages

Marriage Advice for the happily married – New York Times

Marriage Advice, as Elizabeth Weil notes in the New York Times is usually sought out by people who feel they need relationship help.   Many marriage counselors wish that couples would come and see them well before things turn nasty.  John Gottman’s research shows that most us are prepared to put up with six years of anguish before [...]

Harville Hendrix featured in Divorce Magazine

Yes – there really is a magazine for everything.  Fortunately Divorce Magazine doesn’t just tell you how to get divorced, they show you how to avoid it too.  Hence their interview featuring Imago co-founder Harville Hendrix, PhD. You can read the whole article at http://www.divorcemag.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?template=article&article=relationships/harvillehendrix I liked his answer to the question “Is it ever [...]