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Most fights don’t go wrong because of the substance. Relationship conflicts often escalate in the first few sentences, and in what happens once both people feel attacked. That holds whether the other person is your partner, your mother, or a brother you see twice a year. One comment lands wrong, your voice rises, and ten minutes later you’re arguing about something from 2019. Two approaches to couples therapy, the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy, offer practical

Nobody thinks about the bedroom set until someone is moving out. That's the point I made to AnnaMarie Houlis at Moneywise for her new piece on unmarried couples dividing their belongings after a breakup. Moneywise cites Census Bureau data showing the number of unmarried couples living together roughly tripled over two decades, to about 17 million. When those couples are separating, there are few legal rules to sort out who gets what. The story follows Adrian and Ella. Adrian