When the lovin' has turned to cussin' it's time to take out the Big Secret... change...

The situation requires acceptance and forgiveness. Can you accept and forgive without dwelling on the idea that it is truly none of your business whether the other person will mend the hole that is now part of your heart?

Love, relationship and the laws of Nature. Why do they work? How do you apply them? How did they get discovered and why should we trust them. Melisa Wadsworth explores these questions and answers with Chris Walker.

Solving problems in relationships requires honesty, integrity and a downright simple understanding of where the answers are not...

There is a big difference between pain and suffering. Pain is when you cut your hand. You don’t worry about your hand if you know it will get better. Suffering is when you’re not sure that your hand will heal, and you worry about what is going to happen. In relationship, pain comes and goes, and this is normal. Suffering in relationship comes when you hold back love because you are worried about whether your relationship will survive the pain.

It is quite common for couples to get married because they have a baby on the way or because they want kids and historically it was common practice to have children soon after marriage. Unfortunately this kind of marriage scenario can lead to common marriage problems either early on in the relationship or once the children have grown up.

Intimacy in a relationship is the process of revealing yourself to the other person involved. Yet we spend most of our time and energy keeping our true selves from each other in a relationship. We need and want intimacy but choose to keep secrets. Being intimate means opening up all the closets of your mind, body, soul, and heart with another human being who is also imperfect just like you. To experience intimacy you must allow another person to know

Being in love can impair your judgment. When in a serious relationship, so much time, energy and love has been expended, it can be very difficult to be inwardly honest and face the reality of if the relationship is actually healthy and will withstand the test of time.

There you were, deeply involved in a relationship. It may have been stormy or you may have thought everything was running smoothly. Then it happened: Your significant other no longer wanted to be your significant other...

The lack of patienceis the cause of so much unhappiness and grief in this world, when all it requires is a little time on our part.

Each of us has some typical images in mind: an ideal man, an ideal mother, miss Perfection and so on. It doesn’t mean we try to make our fellow mates fit all these criteria. But cliches can help us understand what we want.

Unspoken expectations. These are the silent killers that tear down communication, destroy intimacy and leave our love lives unfulfilling. We all expect our partners to be psychic and know exactly what we want. Stop and think how silly this is.