Why Don’t We All Cheat On Our Partners? The Importance Of Executive Control

You’re an attractive person in a loving, committed, happy relationship. Still, there is temptation at every turn. At the grocery store, the cute person at check-out smiles at you with a raised eyebrow. Later, walking down the street you help an attractive person pick up something they dropped, and strike up a conversation. This person [...]

Men Talk Candidly About Love On New Website

For the average man, the subject of love is something akin to choosing a wedding theme, making homemade Valentine’s Day cards or enduring prostate exams. Most men would rather be stabbed in the eye with a fork than have to examine their feelings on the subject of amour, or so conventional wisdom holds. But a [...]

Timing Is Significant When Saying “I Love You”

Women, being from Venus, have a reputation for being the first to spring “I love you” in romantic relationships. But men actually are more likely to utter those three loaded little words first, and men admit thinking about confessing love six weeks earlier than their female partners, according to an article to be published in [...]

10 Ways To Deal With A Difficult Conversation With Your Partner

The only way to appropriately handle conflict is to actually deal with it. Most people avoid difficult conversations with loved ones because it makes them feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately, if you avoid dealing with a troublesome situation, you’re actually prolonging the agony and may be creating some resentment. Here are my top ten tips for easing [...]

Want A Happy Marriage? Wash Up, Talk Less, Put Out More Often

Herewith, four somewhat regressive, not very romantic, yet extremely effective lessons from economics for a happy marriage with long-term prospects:

Wash up: Do the dishes because you just might be better at them, and faster, and less likely than your spouse is to leave them out overnight. You might think a 50/50 marriage is the [...]

Does Revenge Make You Feel Better?

Recently, an editor at PT asked me to dig up some good juicy stories about revenge. Most of the ones I found dealt with how the scorned practiced retribution against their (ex) lovers’ bodily appendages à la Lorena Bobbit.

Reading about these unique crimes of passion got me thinking about my own style of revenge, which [...]