I am still retreating anytime his voice starts to raise up or he starts to argue with me. It still throws me into apologizing ...

One of the clichés of pop psychology is that anger is the most complex emotion. Actually, anger isn't that complicated. Although we've developed convoluted ways of thinking about it, it's really a ...

It's a strategy for dealing with conflict in a marriage that works in the short run but is disastrous for the marriage in the long run. I am referring to the tendency for one spouse to avoid conflict ...

Most marriages end in a whimper, not a bang. The final rupture is not caused by too much anger or abuse or infidelity. Rather, most marriages die a slow, agonizing death from too little compassion.

"That night, that fight, was the last time I saw him as the man that I would spend the rest of my life with.” ...

Every other day, we wake up to some sad news of domestic violence, where a man kills his wife or fatally wounds her. We saw the chap in Makueni who beat the daylights out of a young woman. The judge ...

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been together for 13 years and married for 10. We’ve always had what I believed was a stable, loving relationship. In all that time, we’ve only had a handful of ...

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.” — Frank Herbert A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.” — Bible ...

DEAR ANNIE: My husband and I have been together for 13 years and married for 10. We’ve always had what I believed was a stable, loving relationship. In all that time, we’ve only had a handful of ...