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Jack Ito PhD
Member since 24th June 2008
Occupation: Relationship Coach
Jack Ito PhD is a licensed psychologist and relationship coach. He is a member of the International Coach Federation and has more than 14 years of clinical experience rescuing failing marriages and teaching relationship skills. Sign up for the GREAT RELATIONSHIPS NEWSLETTER. Download his FREE RELATIONSHIP PLANNING GUIDE and Sign up to receive a FREE COACHING SESSION.

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If you put an egg in the microwave, and try to cook it, what will happen? It will explode, of course. The interior of the egg expands rapidly while the shell expands only a little. The result is a very messy microwave oven. A person who makes this mis...
What is an attractive man or woman? Is it someone who has beautiful skin, a nice body, or a fascinating mind? Those things are great to be sure, but helpful as they may be for meeting someone, they will not have any power for keeping someone. That's ri...
Your relationship is going from bad to worse. The things that you have tried are not helping. Your partner shows no evidence of changing for the better. You need help and you need it fast, but you are not sure where to turn. Get the facts and follow t...
True love is not to be found at a certain place, at a certain age, or with a certain person. True love is something that is under our control on the giving end, while at the receiving end we must risk everything for the chance of true love. True love ...
Is there such a thing as giving too much? How can we decide what to do and not do for our partner? If you feel like you are always giving and not receiving, you may be giving too much. That sacrificial love of yours may actually be doing more harm than...
When I was working on my degree in clinical psychology, I lived in a small apartment with paper thin walls in Vista, California. The neighbors who lived on the west side of my apartment were a young couple in their twenties. To say that their relation...
Are you wondering what happened to those loving feelings? You are still spending time with your partner, still doing things together, still sexually active, but just don't feel the intensity of love and passion that you used to. What happened to it? Di...
You are having problems with your marriage and nothing you have tried seems to work. What is your next step? Should you start looking through the phone book for a divorce lawyer? Do you work on getting your partner to go to marriage counseling with you...
There are two times that people put the most effort into a relationship--at the beginning, and at the end. At the beginning, we want so much to spend time together that we will make time to do whatever it takes. At the end of a relationship, we spend a ...
You don't need to have any kind of preparation whatsoever in order to find a partner. But, in order to find a great partner, you need to have even more preparation than you would to find a great job. The successes in our life don't happen by accident or w...
If your partner is distant, cold, and rejecting, how could working on the relationship by yourself possibly make a difference? In this real life example from a relationship coach, we can see one way it could. Many people have either wounds from the pa...
Are you tired of starting new relationships, getting emotionally attached, getting hurt, and breaking up? Would you like to find a better way without resigning yourself to staying single? Despite our best intentions and efforts, things sometimes just ...
If you are like many women who seem to experience the same problems with men from relationship to relationship, you are probably wondering if all men are the same. You have probably heard many times that "all men want the same thing." Some women even co...
Is it an overstatement to say that most people recognize that there are changes they need to make in their lives and their relationships? Why then, do so many people put off making those changes, sometimes indefinitely, while maintaining an existence that...
Have you ever been frustrated in your relationship because your husband got upset and emotionally shut down? Maybe you were misunderstood or spoke out at a time when you didn't have good control of your own emotions. The more this pattern repeats, the m...