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13Dec

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Long-Distance Cross-Culture Relationships

Lindsey and Juo met while Lindsey was studying abroad at Ewah Woman's University in Seoul, South Korea back in 2015. She was there to study for a full year when out of nowhere Juo sent her a message on Instagram. Lindsey was hesitant at first but decided it would be a great way to make a friend in Korea. After a few times of casual friend dates, Juo asked Lindsey to be his girlfriend on his birthday in November or 2015. Since Lindsey returned to the US in June 2016, they have been in a long-distance relationship with Lindsey living in Florida and Juo living in South Korea. They get to see each other every 4 months for 2 months at a time. Giving their full effort in the relationship and using the distance to make their hearts grow fonder. Lindsey and Juo will both graduate from college this...

The Importance Of Differentiating Between Love And Infatuation In Relationships

13Dec

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The Importance Of Differentiating Between Love And Infatuation In Relationships

In one of the local dailies, there's a popular segment where people usually seek advice on relationships or matters of the heart and is a must read for many couples. I usually read it to get an insight on what really happens behind closed doors of many relationships and I must confess marriage as an institution is slowly crumbling before our eyes. Recently there was one lady who gave her age as 21 years whose story caught my attention bugging me into writing this article, she was lamenting about a situation that had befallen her and was seeking advice on what to do. She had fallen in love with a married man who was also her boss, and at first she thought it was lust but as days passed it matured to love. Now the gist was that her love interest was transferred to another work station which ...

Relationships: Are There Four People In Every Relationship?

13Dec

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Relationships: Are There Four People In Every Relationship?

There are people out there that are in an open relationship and then there are people out there that aren't. When it comes to a relationship that is monogamous, it could be said that there will only be two people involved. Unlike the other type of relationship, each person will only need to think about one other person. If they were not in this type of relationship, they would both have far more people to think about. A Very Different Dynamic Each person would have an attachment to the other and they would both have an attachment to other people. Due to what is going on, a lot of their time could be spent on this area of their life. Conversely, both of them might not have a strong emotional connection to each other or to the other people in their life. Thus, while both of them will sha...

13Dec

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How Colleges Are Supporting Students Leaving Abusive Relationships

Relationship violence threatens not only students’ physical safety and emotional well-being, but also their academic prospects. Some campuses are finding solutions to help keep survivors in school. Ana Blanco looked up from her hospital bed at the police officer. Her legs were bandaged, and they stung with pain. She tried to focus on what he was saying. Did she want to file a restraining order against her husband? Blanco had just told the officer how, on the way home from her college psychology class, her husband had ordered her out of the truck and then begun driving away as she tried to remove her school bag. She had been dragged about 20 feet, broken her toe and torn the skin from her legs. “You could have died,” Blanco remembers the officer saying. Blanco recovered from her injurie...

Could Human-Machine Relationships Go Mainstream? — Sex, Love And Companionship With AI

13Dec

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Could Human-Machine Relationships Go Mainstream? — Sex, Love And Companionship With AI

Sex, love and companionship … with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream. There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app. Not so anymore. Online dating is so mainstream that you’re an outlier if you haven’t met your partner on Tinder, Grindr or Hinge. We bring up online dating to show just how quickly conventions around romance can change. With rapid advances in AI technology over the past few years, these norms may well evolve to include sex, love and friendships with AI-equipped machines. In our research, we look at how people use technology to form and maintain relationships. But we also look at how people bond with machi...

Relationship Stress Is Contagious – During The Holidays And Beyond Here’s What You Can Do To Support Your Partner And Boost Your Own Health

14Dec

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Relationship Stress Is Contagious – During The Holidays And Beyond Here’s What You Can Do To Support Your Partner And Boost Your Own Health

With the flurry of shopping, spending money and traveling to see family, stress can feel inevitable during the holidays. You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress can spread around, particularly to your loved ones. As a social-health psychologist, I have developed a model on how partners and their stress influence each other’s psychological and biological health. Through that and my other research, I’ve learned that the quality of intimate relationships is crucial to people’s health. Here’s just a sample: Relationship stress can alter the immune, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. A study of newlyweds found levels of stress hormones were higher when couples were hostile d...

13Dec

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With No Strings Attached Relationships

No stringed attached relationship is about casual relationships with no commitment. Friends with benefits never work. A no stringed attached relationship is about sex, not friendship. In fact, as long as you're single, you're allowed to date anybody other than your hookup friends. If you start investing energy with someone at one point in your life will befuddle the lines of your relationship. The relationship is just plain sex and that's it, so keep it that way. So as to remain unattached, you have to keep things on a need-to-know premise. Try not to talk about your days, contemplation, inclinations, or any personal subtleties of your lives. After you're finished with the deed, don't stay nearby. There are no sleepovers here. He just needs to fulfill you physically, not inwardly, so keep...

What To Know About These Ethical Non-Monogamy Often Misunderstood Relationships

13May

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What To Know About These Ethical Non-Monogamy Often Misunderstood Relationships

Ethical non-monogamy: what to know about these often misunderstood relationships. Imagine Sarah and John have been in a monogamous relationship for five years. Although they love each other, Sarah, who is bisexual, has recently started feeling an attraction to her coworker, Andrea. This has led to several sexual encounters, leaving Sarah feeling guilty. However, she has not talked to John about her feelings or experiences with Andrea. No matter how much you love your partner, it’s common to feel attracted to someone outside of a relationship. Some couples may even want sexual encounters with other people. It can be difficult to navigate these feelings, especially when they conflict with the commitment and promises made in the relationship. While the sex between Sarah and Andrea was cons...

Asexuals — How They Navigate Romantic Relationships

13Dec

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Asexuals — How They Navigate Romantic Relationships

How asexuals navigate romantic relationships. Though an estimated 1% of people identify as asexual – a sexual orientation most commonly defined as lacking sexual attraction – asexual people remain relatively invisible and are rarely researched. For these reasons, they’re frequently subjected to discrimination and stereotyping. For example, it’s often assumed that all people who are asexual are also “aromantic” – that they aren’t interested in being in romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, and there is a wide range in how the members of this group experience sexuality and romance. In a recently published study that I conducted with several Michigan State faculty members and other research asso...

Have You Found ‘The One’? How Mindsets About Destiny Affect Our Romantic Relationships

13Dec

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Have You Found ‘The One’? How Mindsets About Destiny Affect Our Romantic Relationships

If you listen to any number of love songs, dating “experts”, or plunge head first into a romance novel, you’re likely to think it’s in our destiny to find that special someone – your soul-mate. But how do you know if you’ve found “the one”? Will the birds sing? Will you see fireworks or a shooting star? And for those who are yet to find “the one”, should you keep searching, or is it a misguided quest? Research into the science of relationships spanning the last two decades shows maintaining a “destiny” mindset – that we are all meant to find that ideal person who completes us in every way – can be problematic for our love lives. Destiny mindsets affect how we evaluate romantic partners, as well as how we maintain lasting relationships. For some, this mindset can even include a mental ...