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LIFE, UNEDITED: At Least I’m Still the Grillmaster
By Jill Metzler PattonOur senior food-and-nutrition editor contemplates her attempts to become a more confident cook.
Couples
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How to Boost Testosterone — Naturally
By Catherine GuthrieHere are 10 lifestyle-based ways to increase your testosterone levels.
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Decode Your Partner’s Love Language
By Anjula RazdanThis Valentine’s Day, learn how to communicate more deeply with your better half.
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Gene Testing and Family Planning
By Anjula RazdanCarrier testing can clue you in to potential gene mutations in future pregnancies. Is it right for you?
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A Labor of Love and Loss: Nora McInerny Purmort
By Heidi WachterWriter Nora McInerny Purmort’s raw and hilarious insights on love, loss, and grief have created a community of change-makers ready to help those in need.
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COMING CLEAN: When Your Family Planning Feels Like Everyone’s Business
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlA seemingly innocent personal question can have deeper implications. Here are some things to consider before you ask about babies, marriage, and more.
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Distant Relations
By John SpaydeMaintaining relationships with friends and loved ones who live far away can be challenging. But you can bridge the gap — and perhaps become closer than ever.
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Stuck in a Holding Pattern
By Jon SpaydeMaintaining a ho-hum relationship can be more stressful than making a healthy shift. Here’s how to break free of relationship inertia.
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Your Brain in Love
By Terri TrespicioThe science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.
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A Better Breakup
By Courtney HelgoeSenior editor Courtney Helgoe offers a little background on “conscious uncoupling.”
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COMING CLEAN: New Traditions
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlChanging holiday traditions is a touchy subject. Here’s how we broached the subject.
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The 5 Love Languages
By Jon SpaydeWe explore Gary Chapman’s best-selling book on the five ways most people “speak” love and show you how to connect more deeply with loved ones.
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The Truth About How To Have A Good Marriage: 5 Unconventional Lessons
By Sheila Viers5 unconventional lessons discovered over my 8 years of marriage.
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Love on a Cellular Level With Barbara Fredrickson (A Healthy Revolution Conference 2013)
By Experience Life StaffListen in as Experience Life senior editor Laine Bergeson discusses love with Dr. Barbara Fredrickson.
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The Art of Conversation Podcast (Audio)
By Experience Life StaffExperience Life senior editors discuss what they learned while researching meaningful face-to-face conversation.
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The Art of Conversation
By Laine Bergeson and Courtney HelgoeHow to improve face-to-face communication in a digital world.
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Unfair Arguments
By Jon SpaydePsychologist Richard Nicastro on how to avoid low blows and cheap shots and instead “fight fair.”
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The Same Old Argument
By Jon SpaydeDo you find yourself endlessly bickering with your partner about an issue that just won’t go away? Therapist and author Linda Carroll, MS, explains how to break out of the battle.
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Fun-Time Face-Offs
By Jon SpaydeSharing downtime with the one you love brings you closer together. But digging totally different activities can drive you apart. Here’s how to handle the stress of clashing leisure styles.
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7 Ways to Improve Your Relationship (Without Talking About It)
By Patricial Love EdD and Steven Stosny PhDEver notice that attempts to discuss your relationship with your partner often makes matters worse? Two experts explain why communication doesn’t always build connection — and which nonverbal strategies do.
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Criticism Bites
By Jon SpaydeFrom “helpful suggestions” to cutting comments, pointing out our partners’ shortcomings can have devastating effects — on them, and on our relationships.