Tag Archives: infidelity

The most common reasons people give for their divorce

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Infidelity is one of the leading causes of divorce; it nearly doubles the chance that a couple will get divorced. And even though we live in a sexually tolerant society, still more than 90% of Americans say infidelity is morally wrong. Statistics on infidelity  Although it is hard to do research on how common infidelity is, […]

How to Help Other People Change Their Habits

Three pointers on helping someone else change their habits. Having written a book on how to change your own habits, in interviews I was often asked: how can I change another person’s habits? Say I want my partner to stop cracking his knuckles or get my daughter to put down her mobile phone at meal times […]

MEDIA: Does Being Overweight put Your Relationship in Jeopardy

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Join my special guest and relationship guru Savannah Ellis and me on Baring It All with MVO Radio. Where we’re gonna share some shocking and revealing truths you will absolutely want to hear. Get ready to laugh, cry and hear the brutal honest truth and insights into this and more when it comes to your […]

MEDIA: Nailing difficult conversations

Nailing difficult conversations The Age, May 18, 2015 Small Business   Psychologist Savannah Ellis recommends writing down a plan of action before you start the discussion. Photo: Supplied You can put them off for as long as you like, but there’s no escaping difficult conversations. What scares us most is confrontation: how to bring it up, where […]

Watch a movie and talk: Can This Simple Exercise Help Save a Marriage?

The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long-term investigation to compare different types of early marriage intervention programs. The findings show that an inexpensive, fun, and relatively simple movie-and-talk approach can be just as effective as other more intensive therapist-led methods—reducing the divorce or separation rate from 24 to 11 percent after three years.

The power of compassion

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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~Dalai Lama What a wonderful world it would be if people could generate a little more compassion for each other. The power of compassion is stronger than empathy because it is about imagining the suffering of others at a deeper level; consequently it […]