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If communication with your partner often turns into arguments or shutdowns, the issue may not be what you are talking about, but how you are starting the conversation. Learn how “soft startups,” a Gottman-based communication tool, can help couples reduce defensiveness, stay emotionally open, and improve understanding in difficult conversations.

All couples fight, but what matters most is how they repair. Learn how to reconnect and find your way back to each other after conflict.

If you and your partner keep having the same fight over and over again? It's not about you , and it's not about them . In couples therapy, we look at it differently: It’s not me versus you . It’s me and you versus our cycle. I'm Kalie, a licensed marriage and family therapist who works with couples. One of the biggest shifts I see in therapy happens when partners stop seeing each other as the enemy and start seeing the cycle they are stuck in. Dr. Sue Johnson, founder of Emo

Grief shows up in many forms beyond death, including relationship loss, career changes, health challenges, and lost futures. Learn how to recognize and validate non-death grief.