For your family’s health, consider a Spring Break staycation
Here are daily experiences you can enjoy with your children that encourage and promote family bonding and fun. Families that take time to play together stay together!
Keeping your relationship strong when life gets crazy
Your relationship is an anchor keeping you safe from the world’s insanity at times, so protecting it is a priority. Here are suggestions that can help you stabilize your relationship from outside stress.
Ask Mary Jo: Over-involved parents; Makeup-free first date
I am a high school teacher, and I want to know how I deal with parents who are so involved with their child’s education that they’re hindering their child’s ability to grow by making mistakes?
When your friend keeps complaining about their spouse
When your friend begins telling you only the negative aspects of their partner, it inevitably changes your perception of their spouse. It also impacts your personal friendship.
Ask Mary Jo: Date or a hangout? Getting my teen daughter to cooperate?
What’s the difference between dating and just hanging out?
Date or a hangout? How to get a teen to cooperate?
Psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini answers questions from a viewers.
What guys need from long-term relationships more than sex
Here are five aspects to a long-term relationship that have more influence in determining the relationship’s survival than sex.
Ask Mary Jo: Valentine's Day gift for male friend; Asking for something special
Valentine’s Day is next week, and I have a male friend. Can I buy him a gift? He does have a girlfriend.
5 ways to spark a tired relationship
Couples who have been together for a long time enjoy the security of each other, which is an important quality, but your relationship also needs energy, enthusiasm, and novelty.
Ask Mary Jo: Dating at 46; Keeping the spark from fading
How much space is too much space in the beginning when meeting someone new? Whenever I am talking to someone, there is a spark and then it fades away. How can I prevent this from happening?
Want to save your marriage? Re-adjust your expectations
Marriage experts agree that one of the major contributing factors to marital unhappiness is faulty expectations.
Ask Mary Jo: What to say on a first date; Communicating during a couple conflict
What should and shouldn’t I say on a first date? How do I communicate most effectively with my husband during a couple conflict?