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All relationships, whether it’s dating or marriage, are bound to have rough patches. These are seasons of trials in our lives. Only one person could be experiencing a hard time but it doesn’t mean that the partner won’t be affected at all. The relationship survival, then, depends on the partners’ attitude and behavior towards the obstacles that they are facing.

How Can We Improve Our Relationship Survival Rate?

We are all survivors of mishaps that have happened in our lives. If we can survive our toughest personal challenges, we can definitely do more so with our partner. Two people are stronger than one. On that note, there are certain traits or characteristics that will help increase your chances of relationship survival: read more

Popcorn therapy is a kind of intervention for relationships and marriages where the main instrument is simply watching movies. And, it actually works! It might be puzzling hearing that watching movies and eating popcorn can fix a broken relationship but give it a chance. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

How Popcorn Therapy Works

A research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology reported that popcorn therapy has actually helped newlywed couples from materializing a divorce. The premise is that couples undergo a total of 15 hours of small-group intervention sessions where they were made to watch films from a specified list of romance flicks.

The films have intimate relationships in the major plot. After the movie, the couples were made to discuss the movie, following standard guide questions. The result was that among more than 100 couples who underwent the popcorn therapy, only 11% of them went to through divorce. This is compared to those who haven’t undergone the therapy, which registered at 24%.

Why Popcorn Therapy Works

You get to reflect and identify with the characters in the movies.

You are given examples of what you can do regarding these situations if you have a similar problem. You might also be able to anticipate your partner’s reactions based on the movie.

You get to analyze your relationship vis a vis the characters’ stories. Did the characters have a strong friendship as well as a support system? You get to see what’s lacking in yours based on what you have watched.

While the movie is scripted, we also know that the script was penned by writers who also experienced and were inspired by human emotions and relationships. So you get to see how the on-screen couple handles arguments as well differences of opinion.

The couple gets to see how the on-screen couple deals with a problem. They learn techniques on how to bring up an issue and how to find solutions to it. They might even find their exact problems being dealt with in the movie.

Movies are also great inspirations at how couples should handle hurt feelings.

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When everything seems to be going right in your relationship, you have to do whatever you can to prevent yourself from sabotaging everything. In most cases, however, we find this difficult to do because we all have baggage that we carry. Because of the weight and the effect of the baggage, we commit relationship self-sabotage.

Prevent Yourself From Committing Relationship Self-Sabotage

Relationship self-sabotage often happens when the couple, or one person in the relationship, is behaving in a way that will cause discord or fighting within the partnership. It sounds very dubious, but in most cases, the person (or people) doing the relationship sabotage isn’t even aware of it. So, the most obvious solution would be to practice awareness together with the following ways: read more