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Parents in Denial When It Comes to Child Costs
Discovery News: New research suggests that people may exaggerate the perks of being parents to rationalize the financial costs of raising children. Two studies, featured in the journal Psychological Science, measured more than 140 parents’
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Does Your Partner Hold Grudges? Blame It on His Mother
TIME: All couples fight, and how you recover from a tiff has a lot to do with the health of your relationship. It also has a lot to do with Mom: those partners who are
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Secret to a happy marriage? Delusion.
The Boston Globe: We’ve all seen those mismatched couples — where the husband is 10 times better looking than the wife. Or where she’s an absolute sweetheart, and he’s a total jerk. What does she
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Mate Idealization Makes for Happy Early Marriage
They say that love is blind. And that’s probably for the best. Because a new study shows that people who greatly idealize their spouses have the happiest marriages. For the first few years, anyway. The
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Mate Idealization Makes for Happy Early Marriage
Scientific American: They say that love is blind. And that’s probably for the best. Because a new study shows that people who greatly idealize their spouses have the happiest marriages. For the first few years
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Put your partner on a pedestal? You might have a happier marriage
The Globe and Mail: You’re perfect, honey. People who idealize their romantic partners are happier in the long run than those who see them as they really are, according to a new study being published
