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Homework Assignment: Learn To Trust Yourself

Ellie Lisitsa

Trusting our partners is not the same thing as giving up all control.

How To Remove Fairytale Logic From Your Sound Relationship House

Ellie Lisitsa

Fairytale stories give us faulty logic about relationships. It's not about finding purpose in someone else. It's about loving yourself.

Creating A Culture of Appreciation

The Gottman Institute

Follow this exercise to learn how to appreciate one another.

The Importance Of Integrity

Nate Bagley

Integrity is the true source of deep love, adventure, and even self-confidence.

Homework Assignment: The Gottman Island Survival Game

Ellie Lisitsa

Many couples fail to make headway on solvable problems because they don't know how to compromise. To learn compromise, you must accept influence.

Imagination and Surprisology

Ellie Lisitsa

Tania Luna shares her experience of immigrating to the United States from Ukraine as a little girl.

Homework Assignment: Have A Bit Of Fun

The Gottman Institute

Taking joy and laughter seriously

Humor: How To Be Mindful

Ellie Lisitsa

Mindlessness is often the result of carelessness, not malice.

Using Humor to Build Relationships

Ellie Lisitsa

Humor is pretty complicated, and if we want to use it in a way that builds and maintains healthy, loving, and strong connections, we must be mindful.

Homework Assignment: Humor

Ellie Lisitsa

We begin today's Weekend Homework Assignment with a short history of humor! Read it for context on our exploration of its role in human relationships, and to gain a deeper understanding not only of our approach to humor, but of your own.

More on Humor and Being Human

Ellie Lisitsa

Since the dawn of the Digital Age, humans have been puzzling over their electronic devices and asking themselves basic questions, like:

Homework Assignment: Spring Cleaning Part II

Ellie Lisitsa

In today’s Weekend Homework Assignment, we continue our discussion of spring cleaning your marriage by offering our own practical advice that you can try with your partner this weekend!