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Communication and knowing your partner are important in successful, healthy relationships. Understand and communicate with others better with insight from a professional psychologist in this free video series on relationships.
There are 28 videos in this series:
Understanding interracial relationships means preparing for encounters with a partner's family and cultural background. Form a healthy interracial couple or learn to be sensitive to couples from diverse backgrounds with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Signs of manipulation in a relationship include not respecting boundaries, emotional coercion and threats. Learn warning signs of a manipulative partner and when to get and outside view with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Knowing why a relationship fails requires looking at individual circumstances, such as growing apart, dwindling passion and refusals to change. Learn why relationships fail and warning signs of incompatible partners with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Helping a depressed spouse often means staying physically active, being understanding, eating healthy and finding professional help. Support a depressed partner by getting educated with marriage advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Understanding infidelity in a relationship often starts with finding the underlying relational issues of which cheating is a symptom. Learn to come to terms with infidelity by addressing the underlying problem with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Discuss marriage with a guy by first finding out his general view on marriage before making things specifically about him. Talk with your boyfriend about marriage with the relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Knowing how to fight in a relationship without causing negative, emotionally draining effects is a productive skill. Learn how some couples use healthy fighting to come closer with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Knowing what to do when a husband loses interest takes asking re-evaluating questions and making time to reignite the relationship. Find reasons for your partner losing interest and passion with marriage advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Fixing a marriage starts with determining what is broken in the relationship and whether both of you are willing to work at reconciliation. Try mending a broken marriage by sticking with counseling and putting to work the marriage advice of a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Ending a friendship may require direct communication and an explanation, so try writing your feelings down and remaining kind. Get out of negative friendships by being upfront or by letting them just drift apart with the relationship advice of a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Keeping your wife from leaving requires an honest assessment of the marriage and finding out how both partners can stay happy and fulfilled. Keep your wife's heart and build a strong marriage with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on communication in marriage.
Getting back with your wife starts by being honest and opening communication to find out what went wrong. Win back your wife by becoming a happy, healthy person with the relationship advice of a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Ending a marriage requires clear, effective communication and a working relationship suitable to settle assets and decide on child custody. Get out of a marriage while staying calm and kind with separation advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Understanding friendships between men and women requires admitting Platonic relationships can exist in today's society. Build a strong relationship with someone of the opposite sex without all the sexual tension with the relationship advice of a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Understanding how men think starts with the basics: Men are generally visual, more single-minded than women and more objective, but each person is different. Figure out what makes a guy tick with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Women are attracted to men for many of the same reasons men are attracted to women, and each person is different. Understand how attraction is affected by where you are in life with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Understanding passive-aggressive men begins with knowing passive-aggressive behavior, which is using lack of action to gain desired results. Combat passive-aggressive partners and avoid being manipulated with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Men play games in relationships, but they play the same games women do. Understand the men who play games to manipulate and also the men who just don't know how else to communicate with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Understanding the male ego begins with seeing it as the result of positive male qualities: competitiveness, a bent to solve problems and the need to feel strong and useful. Deal with the male ego with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on understanding men.
The moods of men and women both depend more on the individuals than on their gender, and understanding starts with what kind of person he or she is. Throw out generalities and learn the moods of your man with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on understanding men.
Understanding what men are saying starts with learning to listen to men, which means focusing less on social situations. Hear what men are saying by taking things at face value and really listening with the relationship advice of a psychologist in this free video on understanding men.
Knowing ways to tell if a person is lying requires catching nonverbal cues in body language and speech patterns. Catch a liar by noting lack of eye contact, monotonous rambling and fake smiles with relationship advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Making a man commit takes being honest with who you are, making him feel loved and letting him maintain a personal life within the commitment. Build a commitment without taking away a man's sense of freedom after hearing the relationship advice of a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Barriers to effective communication can be overcome by listening generously and expressing yourself in clear, direct words. Knock down communication barriers such as not listening, being indirect and dishonesty with interpersonal communication advice from a psychologist in this free video.
Body language is important because people communicate extensively through nonverbal signals. Understand body language and how people communicate through hands, sitting posture, facial expressions and more with advice from a psychologist in this free video on interpersonal communication.
Effective communication skills are essential for building and maintaining successful relationships with family and coworkers. These skills are also key to managing new environments, people and situations. Interpersonal communication can be verbal or non-verbal, direct or passive and involves both one-to-many and one-to-one interactions. Most people trying to improve personal communication skills, however, do not do so for professional advancement or public speaking. We just want to understand those around us, get along better with the people we date, learn what makes the man or woman we love tick. Listening and figuring people out is a big part of communication and relationship success. In this free video series on communication and personal relationships, psychologist Reka Morvay teaches all about reading other people. Morvay offers tips on how to tell if someone is lying, tell-tale signs of manipulation in a relationship, why men and women play games, and how to fix a marriage. She gives clear advice from her years of education and experience in counseling in how to understand the male ego, how to talk to a guy about marriage, learning how a man thinks and more. Morvay even talks about body language, interracial couples, making a man commit and having healthy arguments.
Reka Morvay Reka Morvay is a Hungarian-American who received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley and Cornell University, respectively. Her area of specialization was the biological psychology of human sexual and reproductive behavior. Morvay also attended a three-year training program by the Hungarian Association of Cognitive and Behavior Therapy. She is a member of the Hungarian Doula Association and the Hungarian Breastfeeding Association. Morvay is currently working as a psychologist and a doula. She offers psychotherapy for adults, couples counseling, birth prep classes, doula services and breastfeeding support.dkdk
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