Featured Blog Posts – March 2010 Archive (3)

Would You Drop Everything to Say "I Love You"

We hear it all the time. "My husband/wife is the most important thing to me in the world." The people at DropEverythingForLove.com put that notion to the test when they selected a group of people and challenged them to do just that, drop everything to tell their partner how much they love them. On the site you can watch various couples, unscripted, describe in… Continue

Added by hitched on March 10, 2010 at 4:43pm — No Comments

The Power of Touch

Touch is the first language that we learn says Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was commenting on an article in the NY Times discussing the power of touch through a series of studies recently conducted. For example, a study found that a sympathetic touch from a… Continue

Added by hitched on March 8, 2010 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Angry Husbands Produce Depressed Wives

A new study published in the Journal of Family Psychology says that angry, hostile behavior from husbands is significantly related to increases in wives' symptoms of depression. Not surprising, perhaps. However, the reverse is not true. Moreover, warm, positive behavior from husbands lessened the negative impact of their hostile behavior. In the study, which observed 416 married couples at home,… Continue

Added by hitched on March 1, 2010 at 4:15pm — No Comments