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Small Acts, Big Love
The Wall Street Journal: Chris Kline doesn’t like to tell his wife of 17 years, Tara, that he loves her. He prefers to show her—by loading her favorite songs on her phone and warming up
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Love is in the mind, not in the heart
The Washington Post: Nearly 400 years after William Shakespeare asked, “What is love?,” brain imaging studies are allowing scientists to give at least a partial answer. As our calendars get closer to Feb. 14, a
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7-minute essay slows the loathe in marriages
Today: Could a little homework help save your marriage? Researchers in Chicago think so. They found that couples who spent just seven minutes every few months writing short essays about their recent fights reported being
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Dear Valentine, I Hate It When You …
The New York Times: HAVE you decided what to get for your valentine this year? You could try something classic, like chocolates. Or something blingy, like earrings. Or sexy, like lingerie. New research suggests that
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21 Minutes to Marital Satisfaction
Marital satisfaction generally declines over time, but a brief writing intervention that helps spouses adopt a more objective outlook on marital conflict could help prevent couples from losing that loving feeling.
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There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science)
The Atlantic: In her new book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, the psychologist Barbara Fredrickson offers a radically new conception of love. Fredrickson, a leading researcher