After a Disaster: Tips for Healthy Adult Relationships
After a disaster, you may have a wide range of questions. While these questions can cause strong emotions and a sense of uncertainty, you must continue to take care of yourself and maintain healthy relationships with those around you.
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Am I Being Abused?
In a close relationship, it can be difficult to know whether you are being abused, especially if your partner says they love you.
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Anger Management
Anger is a normal human emotion that can bring about good as well as bad results.
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Be a Friendship Coach for Your Child
Children aren't born knowing how to cooperate, share, and communicate. These are learned skills.
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Building a Strong Relationship: Finding Time
An effective way to keep satisfaction in long-term relationships is to engage in original and exciting activities as a couple.
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Building Connections with Others
When you connect with others, you nurture your emotional and physical wellbeing.
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Building Skills That Enhance Friendships
Everyone brings special qualities friendships—qualities that make friendships richer and stronger.
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Care and Connection
Human beings are social creatures. Feeling like you're part of a community helps you thrive.
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Change the Pace: Strike Out on Your Own
Are you tired of spending time on the phone, calling friends or neighbors to see what's going on Friday or Saturday?
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Closeness in a Couple Relationship
It is well known that babies need affection and intimacy to be able to thrive. This need for physical and emotional closeness continues into adulthood and is necessary for individuals, as well as for relationships, to thrive.
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Connecting with Your Partner
This is a good time to reflect on your relationship and how to make it stronger. Strong couples share many of the same qualities.
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Cooking for One
If you're living alone, cooking for yourself can be a chore. Calling for take-out or substituting snack food for a meal can be tempting, but snacking instead of actually eating a well-balanced meal may eventually cause health problems.
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Coping with Feelings of Isolation and Alienation in Times of International Conflict
In times of international tension and armed conflict, people sometimes have a tendency to hold ordinary people to blame for the actions of their governments.
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Coping with Loneliness
Loneliness is an emotion that comes from a lack of social connection. Find resources below for people experiencing loneliness.
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Couples and COVID-19 Confinement
The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted every person's routine and introduced mandatory stay-at-home orders and quarantines.
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COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
Below are ideas to help you or someone you know in situations of domestic violence.
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Dealing with Caregiver Stress in a COVID-19 World
In a world with COVID-19, stresses in caring for family members can be magnified by new worries and gaps in the usual systems of support.
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Do Social Ties Affect Our Health?
Scientists are finding that people's links to others can have powerful effects on health.
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Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic violence is sometimes called intimate partner violence.
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Expand Your Circles: Prevent Isolation and Loneliness as You Age (Part 1)
As people age, circumstances in their lives often change.
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Expand Your Circles: Prevent Isolation and Loneliness as You Age (Part 2)
What steps can you take to stay connected and engaged?
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Families Taking Charge: Talking with Your Spouse
Issues related to finances, like issues related to sexuality, are often difficult ones for spouses to communicate effectively.
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Fixing a Fractured Friendship
You and your best friend seem to be seeing less of each other. When you do talk, you get on each other's nerves or argue about stupid things.
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Form Social Connections After Disaster
Having healthy connections with family, friends, and others is very helpful for people recovering after a disaster.
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Friendships and Social Connections (Part 1): Benefits
Friendships are the social connections that enrich your life with conversation, comfort, laughter, support, and encouragement.
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Friendships and Social Connections (Part 2): Making and Maintaining
Not all relationships are supportive, and not all friendships are healthy.
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Friendships and Your School-Age Child
Friendships in the early school years are an important part of a child's social and emotional development.
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Friendships for Young Adults
Friendships can be fantastic, but they also can be tough at times. The main thing to remember is that good friends support you, respect you, and like you for who you really are!
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Get Help in an Abusive Relationship
Find support, guidance, and help if you have been abused in any way.
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Getting a Restraining Order Against an Abusive Partner (Part 1)
If you are in an abusive relationship, you can take steps to protect yourself, such as getting a restraining order.
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Getting a Restraining Order Against an Abusive Partner (Part 2)
You can apply for a restraining (or protection) order at courthouses, domestic violence shelters, lawyers' offices, and some police stations.
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Grieving the Death of an LGBTQ+ Partner
Every person who is grieving the loss of a loved one deserves to have their feelings validated, their love for the deceased person recognized.
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Guidelines for Keeping Your Friendships Strong (Part 1)
If you don't like yourself, you will have a hard time reaching out to people who may become friends.
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Guidelines for Keeping Your Friendships Strong (Part 2)
Everyone loses a friend from time to time, but working to maintain your friendships can stop that.
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Healthy Relationships in Adolescence
During adolescence, young people learn how to form safe and healthy relationships with friends, parents, teachers and romantic partners.
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Healthy Social Media Habits
Technology has changed the way people interact with each other.
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Help End Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
Every person has the right to live their life safely and free of domestic and intimate partner violence.
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Helping Someone You Love Who Has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
When someone you love has PTSD, it doesn't just affect them. It can also affect you and the other people in their life.
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How to Help a Friend Who Is Being Abused
If you suspect that a friend or family member is being abused, you can take steps to help.
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Humor and Laughter Strengthens Relationships
Humor and laughter work to reduce stress, ease pain, and lift your mood.
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Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
Everyone is subject to an occasional case of the green-eyed monster. Regular feelings or expressions of jealousy, however, can be problematic.
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Leaving an Abusive Relationship (Part 1)
If you are in an unsafe, violent relationship, you might be thinking of leaving.
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Leaving an Abusive Relationship (Part 2)
Leaving a relationship is not easy. You can get help dealing with all of these issues.
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Loneliness and Social Isolation: Tips for Staying Connected
Everyone needs social connections to survive and thrive.
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Maintaining Healthy Relationships
Below are a few tips that can aid in maintaining healthy relationships.
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Making New Friends
Sometimes, you just feel like branching out and meeting new people. Most people need different friends for different things.
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Online Dating Safety
Online dating is another outlet for meeting new people. You will want to use the same precautions and care you would in finding a date in the "real" word.
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Online Dating Scams
Millions of Americans use dating sites, social networking sites, and chat rooms to meet people, but scammers also use these sites to meet potential victims.
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Opening Up Appropriately
Different relationships call for different levels of self-disclosure.
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Overcoming Loneliness as an Adult
Loneliness is the distressing sensation of feeling alone and without meaningful human connections.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Relationships
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects not only the person who has experienced trauma; it can affect their spouse or partner and family as well.
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Practicing Mindful Communication
Mindful communication happens when you are truly present in the moment. It involves entering a conversation with curiosity, kindness, and compassion.
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Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse or aggression that occurs in a romantic relationship.
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Professional Networking 101
Whether you're a student, professional or entrepreneur, having a strong network can make a world of difference when it comes to achieving your goals.
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Promoting Respectful, Nonviolent Intimate Partner Relationships
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse that occurs between two people in a close relationship.
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Rape Prevention
Always trust your instincts if you are in a situation that does not feel safe and comfortable.
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Rebuilding Social Connections (After the Pandemic Ends)
As more people get vaccinated, the risk of serious illness from COVID-19 will go down, and in-person interactions will become safer.
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Responding to Microaggressions
Because they happen so often, it's not practical to respond to every microaggression. You need to pick your battles.
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Reviving Your Relationship
Lack of communication, fatigue, stress, and unspoken resentment can zap the zip out of any couple.
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Setting Boundaries for Healthy Relationships
Boundaries are the limits that separate you from other people and protect your personal and mental space.
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Simple Ideas for a Great First Date
So, you're planning a first date. It's exciting and scary at the same time. This article provides ideas on how to plan a great first date while keeping the butterflies to a minimum. Although, a few butterflies in the stomach may be a good thing.
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Single Parent Dating Cheat Sheet
In many ways, dating as a single parent is just like dating for anyone else. But in other ways—many other ways—it's completely different.
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Social Apps to Keep Connected in Quarantine
Social apps can help you keep connected while in quarantine.
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Social Wellness Toolkit
From the time you're born, your relationships help you learn to navigate the world. You learn how to interact with others.
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Stay Connected to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation
As people age, they often find themselves spending more time at home alone. This can affect your health and wellbeing.
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Summer Newlyweds: Think About Taxes
Newlyweds have a lot to think about, and taxes might not be on the list.
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Taking Charge by Networking
Building a network of experts in fields that interest you will allow you to do that and can help you take charge of your career.
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Talk with Your Teen About Healthy Relationships (Part 1)
Parents can play a big role in teaching kids about healthy relationships. Unfortunately, many teens have relationships that are unhealthy.
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Talk with Your Teen About Healthy Relationships (Part 2)
Dating violence is when one person in a romantic relationship is physically or emotionally harmful to the other person.
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Talk with Your Teen About Healthy Relationships (Part 3)
Talk with your kids to help them develop realistic and healthy expectations for relationships.
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Talking About Race at Work
Talking about race, especially with people of different races, can be difficult.
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Teen Dating
Dating relationships can be a fun and exciting part of your life. They can also be confusing, especially if dating is new to you. Learn about what makes a dating relationship healthy and safe.
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Teen Dating Violence
Teen dating violence is defined as physical, sexual, or psychological and emotional violence within a dating relationship, as well as stalking.
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Ten Little Things That Can Make a Big Difference in Your Marriage
A strong, supportive relationship is built from a couple's words and actions.
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The Dating Game Has Strict Rules at Work
Statistics show that nearly half of today's married couples met at work. But statistics don't tell us about office disruptions caused by relationships that didn't work out.
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The Real "Golden Girls": Living Single After 55
Who needs to retire with a husband when you can retire with your girlfriends? This is the case for Brook and Jenny of Ithaca, New York—both 59—and their friends, who are all single and have plans for retiring together.
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Tips for Divorced Parents
One out of every two marriages today will end in divorce, but it doesn't always have to result in tragedy. True, divorce can be extremely messy-more so when children are involved.
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Tips for Getting Along with a Roommate
This article offers you suggestions for getting along with a roommate.
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U.S. Naturalization Through Military Service
If you are serving or have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and are interested in becoming a U.S. citizen, you may be eligible to apply under special provisions.
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Understanding and Recognizing Bias in the Workplace
Bias is a preference or tendency that can be for or against a person, group, or thing when compared to another.
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Understanding Bias
Bias is generally described as the tendency to favor a thing, person, or group, compared with another, usually in a way that is thought to be unfair.
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Understanding Stress and Building Resilience
People experience stress as they adjust to a continually changing environment. Stress has physical and emotional effects.
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Understanding Teen Dating Violence
Dating violence is a type of intimate partner violence. It occurs between two people in a close relationship. The nature of dating violence can be physical, emotional, or sexual.
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When Domestic Violence Comes to Work
There's a particular kind of violence that demands workplace concern—violence in an employee's personal life that follows the employee into the workplace.
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