Oxytocin focuses our eyes — and our brains — on love. It could help troubled couples as well as autistic people
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Family MattersRelationships
Why We Nag. And Why We Shouldn’t
Nagging can wreck a relationship. So why is it so hard to just stop?
Family MattersMarriage
Argue Much? Conflict Levels in Marriage Don’t Change Over Time
If you squabble a lot with your sweetie, don’t think that things will improve after getting hitched. New research shows that conflict levels don’t vary much over the course of marriage. (The good news, conversely, is that if you …
The Spillover Effect: Beware the Explosive Teen
There’s only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent — and that’s being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they …
Family MattersFamily & Parenting
Relationships 101: Having a Supportive Mom Helps You Commit
Commitment can be a scary word. But if you want to teach your child how to love well, new research suggests being a supportive mom is key.
Family MattersParenting
Dad Helping with the Kids? Moms: Expect Conflict, Not Cooperation
We women talk a good game about wanting our partners to step up and parent alongside us — to change diapers, cut off crusts for pint-size picky eaters, handle the bedtime routine — but a new study has found that when dads do …
