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| Discover What Your Marriage Is Missing: Your Relationship Check-up Is Long Overdue
No one can deny the benefit of preventive medicine. First of
all, it's often easier to prevent an illness than it is to cure it--that's why
you go in for your annual physical (or why you should). And we all can agree
that feeling healthy... ( added 11 hours 5 minutes ago.) |
| How to Deepen Intimacy through the Power of Empathic Listening
"I hate having to
compete with the TV or computer for my husband's attention. He used to be such
a wonderful listener. I feel like I'm not important enough to him
anymore." ~Jennifer
"It's really
frustrating. I'll tell my girlfriend... ( added 12 days 10 hours ago.) |
| Men and Intimacy: 5 Myths about Men, Love and Intimacy When it comes to love, men often get a bad rap. "You only hear about the guys who are abusive or cheat, but how about the tons of men who are faithful and kind?" ~John "I've been married for over twenty years. I know I'm not perfect, but I can... ( added 19 days 14 hours ago.) |
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| Relationship Advice: Stop the Negativity and Build a Better Relationship
New love seems to cradle
and carry couples for a time--magnifying all that is good about your partner and
your future together. We now know that relationships go through a series of
phases over the years--some that can challenge the very... ( added 22 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Marriage Alert! Can Your Relationship Survive The Financial Crisis? When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves . ~Victor Frankl
You don't need me to tell you about the dire state of the American economy and the reverberations being felt around the world. While... ( added 50 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Marriage Slumps, Relation- ship Ruts and Other Painful Realities About Love
Warning : the contents of this article may upset you. In fact, I strongly recommend that you close this page. If you're like most people, you have a child-like naïveté about romance. I don't want to spoil that. Sure, you were able to handle the... ( added 68 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Emotional Affair: Have You Entered a Danger Zone? You don't wake up one day
and decide to have an affair. You're more likely to gradually enter into the
arena of emotional infidelity-and many couples are surprised to discover that
this slippery slope begins long before a physical affair is... ( added 81 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Intimacy 101: Is this Intimacy or Dependency?
Couples often seek
marriage counseling because of difficulties with intimacy. Why are so many
couples struggling with intimacy? In order to fully connect with your
spouse/partner, you need to share the deepest parts of yourself... ( added 84 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Marriage Problems: Are Power Struggles Destroying Your Relationship?
In the past you were
single
and you could make decisions without having to check in
with anyone.
Your favorite color was red and you liked small, fast cars
(as in Cherry Red Sports Car, beloved even though you wrenched your... ( added 97 days 9 hours ago.) |
| Are Your Friends Hurting Your Relationship?
You exist within a web of relationships. For instance, if
your friend is going through tough times, you may find yourself feeling an
emotional heaviness throughout the day, thinking and worrying about your friend.
As this colors your mood... ( added 109 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Passionate Sex: How To Overcome Boredom In the Bedroom Q: I love my husband, but somewhere along the line we've become more like friends than lovers. We had an amazing sex life early in our relationship but now we're lucky if we have sex once a month, and when we do it's pretty unremarkable. I really... ( added 114 days 6 hours ago.) |
| The Dance of Intimacy: 5 Key Steps for a Closer Relationship
A loving connection is the bedrock of a committed
relationship-all couples are trying to find ways to remain emotionally close to
one another as they navigate the complexities of life. When people feel deeply
connected to their partners... ( added 120 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Relationship Basics: Have Your Forgotten the Fundamentals of a Healthy Relationship?
You often hear
struggling athletes say that they have to "go back to basics." After
years of repetition, it's easy to lose sight of the fundamentals they need to
stay on top of their game. Often they
need an outsider's perspective (i.e.... ( added 132 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Relationship Alert: Discover How This Common Habit Can Ruin Your Relationship
There are times when
it's helpful to use compare and contrast thinking. For example, fifth-grade
Social Studies. Remember when Mrs. Dogoody assigned the paper: "Compare
and Contrast Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek Civilizations"? (I do;... ( added 132 days 14 hours ago.) |
| I've Fallen Out of Like With You
By the time we reach our teen years, our own special talents
become apparent. Mine was getting dumped. That's right, when it came to getting
my heart broken, I excelled. I held my high school's record for "shortest time
going out" and... ( added 161 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Build a Better Relationship - Use Your Emotions to Deepen Intimacy Whether or not you consider yourself an "emotional" person, there's no doubt about it: emotions play a central role in your relationship and in building a deeper level of intimacy. When you share your feelings, you communicate directly about your... ( added 170 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Relationship First Aid: How to Heal a Fear of Intimacy Intimacy is a lot like trying to get warm on a cold winter night. You wrap yourself up in your favorite blankets and settle in for sleep, but at some point overnight you may feel too warm and constrained by the blankets. So you disentangle... ( added 174 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Intimacy 101: Uncover the Hidden Rules That Run Your Relationship No matter how we might resist them at times, we can't deny the presence of rules in society. From traffic lights to ticket sales, rules help us avoid chaos and establish routines that allow us to cope as a society. But beyond the macrocosm, rules... ( added 204 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Relationship Help: How the Latest Research Can Transform Your Relationship Think back to the time when your love was new, when you had just fallen in love: How did you know you were in love? Maybe you couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't concentrate on work or chores or anything that didn't involve your love object.... ( added 232 days 13 hours ago.) |
| A Simple Formula to Keep Love and intimacy Alive I bet if I asked you what you had for breakfast this morning, you'd have a concrete answer. (Even if the answer is "Black coffee" or "Didn't have time.") But how about if I ask you to recall something arguably more important than a single morning... ( added 240 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Sex, Lies and Secrets: Is Secrecy Destroying Your Marriage?
After the story broke that New York governor Eliot Spitzer was having sex with prostitutes, relationship experts popped up on every news channel, dispensing theories about Mr. Spitzer's behavior. Opinions about why a married man (and one with a... ( added 251 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Marriage Lessons: A Golden-Anniversary Couple Share their Wisdom No matter how well your relationship is humming along right now, there's room for the advice of relationship mentors. Couples who have been together for many years (and who have been relatively happy, despite the inevitable rough patches) have... ( added 265 days 6 hours ago.) |
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| Healthy Marriage, Healthy Self: Build a Stronger Connection through Self-intimacy
Intimacy is all about connection--the feeling that you and your partner are kindred spirits. The hallmark of a healthy marriage or relationship is feeling close and attuned to your partner, but maintaining this connection isn't always easy.... ( added 265 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Build a Better Marriage: 5 Paths to Deeper Intimacy The struggle to keep intimacy alive is one of the most important relationship challenges you'll ever face. And you're not alone... "I love my husband, but lately I feel a distance between us. It's not the way it used to be" ~Joan (married for... ( added 268 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Tell Me No Lies: 7 Reasons Why You Might Lie to Your Partner In the workshops I conduct for couples, I often ask if anyone has ever lied to their partner (the couples respond anonymously). Usually more than half (sometimes as many as 90%) admit to having lied to their spouse or partner at some point. More... ( added 288 days 12 hours ago.) |
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