COLUMBUS, Ohio – A tendency for one or both spouses to avoid or withdraw from tough conversations could set up married couples for emotional distress, bad feelings about their relationship, chronic ...

How we communicate with others is integral to how satisfying and successful relationships with those others are. People in long-term romantic relationships know this to be the case, but research has ...

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Your brain’s job is to keep you alive in an uncertain world filled with saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and snakes. It does its best to scan the immediate future for these potential traps and ...