October 2013 Blog Posts (5)

Time and again the prevalent theme in initial sessions with couples is reactivity, anger, fighting, hopelessness, criticism and lots of pointing fingers. The partners appear to be enemies. The pain is palpable in the room. A real sad state of…

A new study from Queen’s University in Ontario, published in the journal Psychological Science, found that husbands and wives are able to hear the voice of their spouse better than the voice of someone unfamiliar--they're also better at tuning their spouse's voice out. A…

A new study tracking the marital status of more than 460,000 U.S. service members between 1999 and 2008 found that the likelihood of divorce increased with each passing month that a spouse was away at war. The research was done by the RAND Corp. and published in Journal of Population Economics. Sebastian Negrusa, an economist who co-authored the study…

Facebook has just released a new study connecting schools to marriage and found that 28% of college graduates on Facebook attended the same college and 15% went to the same high school. A couple interesting factors that drove the numbers were how large the school population was, how religious the school was, and the politics of the school. Facebook has…

Every Tuesday at 3:30pm PDT we will co-host a tweet chat with our wine club partner Touring & Tasting. Since this is likely a new concept for many people out there, we thought we'd offer a quick explanation. 

What is a tweet chat? A tweet chat is a live Twitter event, usually…