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7 Signs Your Relationship Needs Professional Help

Learn the signs that indicate your relationship may need professional help and how seeking guidance can strengthen your bond.
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Relationship Health Checklist for Couples

Regular check-ups on communication, trust, and intimacy can strengthen your relationship and foster deeper connections between partners.
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5 Signs of Resentment In Relationship and How to Fix It

Resentment rarely starts with a blow-up. It builds in the quiet moments, in the ones where you feel dismissed, misunderstood, or like you're carrying more than your share. Left unspoken, that weight can slowly shift the feel of a relationship. But when you notice the signs early and respond with care, there’s a real chance to soften the tension and find your way back to each other.
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Facing Relationship Conflict? Here's What to Do

Conflict is inevitable in any relationship, but it doesn’t have to create distance. From everyday disagreements to deeper emotional struggles, how you handle conflict can strengthen or weaken your bond. This guide explores the causes of relationship conflict, practical ways to resolve it, and how coaching can help break unhealthy patterns. With the right approach, conflict can bring you closer instead of pushing you apart.
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How Much Conflict is Normal in a Relationship?

How much conflict is normal in a relationship? Disagreements happen, but when do they become harmful? Learn the difference between healthy vs. unhealthy conflict, how to navigate disagreements, and practical tips for strengthening your bond through open communication.
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What Makes a Relationship Great?

What makes a relationship truly great? In a world filled with challenges, from busy schedules to everyday stress, thriving in a partnership requires effort, intention, and mutual support. This blog explores the foundational qualities of healthy relationships, such as trust, love, communication, respect, and commitment, and dives into actionable insights to help couples navigate common challenges like miscommunication, emotional disconnect, and boundary conflicts. With expert advice and practical tips, learn how to strengthen your connection, support each other’s growth, and create a bond that not only survives but thrives. Whether you’re in a new relationship or a long-term partnership, this article offers the tools to help your love grow deeper and stronger over time.
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How to Be Happy in a Relationship: 5 Tips for a Playful Relationship

Infusing play in your relationships is like breathing life into it - like breathing air into a deflated balloon, a good dose of play can revive any stale relationship. It’s no wonder that that Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play, compares play to oxygen - we don’t realize how important it is, until we don’t have it. Play activates the executive functioning in our brain in a way that invites vitality, curiosity, innovation, problem solving - plus it’s FUN.
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How to Maintain a Relationship: SIgns You Are Comfortable or Falling out of Love

Are you falling out of love or just becoming comfortable in your relationship? These are the signs and expert tips to know.
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High-Conflict Couple? Learn to Resolve Conflict in a Relationship

How do you know if you’re in a high-conflict relationship? These are the 5 signs that you are a high-conflict couple plus how to address the challenges.
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How to Set Boundaries in a Healthy Relationship

This is everything you need to know about setting healthy boundaries in a relationship including how to establish boundaries and maintain them.
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How to Communicate Better with your Partner​: Communication Tips for Couples

Are you having problems communicating with your partner? These are Ritual’s 10 expert tips to deal with a partner who won’t communicate.
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10 Relationship Tips for Couples: Building Emotional Intimacy

Learn how to build emotional intimacy in your relationship with tips from Ritual’s experts including how to ignite passion and strengthen your bond.
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5 Signs It’s Time For a Divorce and How to Avoid It

How do you know it's time to get a divorce? These are the 5 signs it's time for a divorce plus how to approach discussing divorce with your partner and how to avoid divorce.
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Tips from Relationship Experts: What to Do if Your Partner Won't Join Couples Coaching

This is what to do when your partner won’t consider joining couples therapy including expert tips and alternatives to couples therapy.
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Conflict Resolution Skills 101: A Guide to Conflict Resolution in Your Relationship

Healthy disagreements, amicable resolutions, and parenting discussions. This is everything you need to know about conflict resolution in your relationship.
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Signs of a Toxic Partner and How to Stop being One

There is so much information available about spotting a toxic partner. However, here’s how to know if you’re the toxic one in the relationship.
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Signs Your Relationship is in Trouble

How do you know when your relationship is in trouble? These are the 10 tell-tale signs from our experts.
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10 Tips for Getting The Most Out of Couples Therapy

How do you know if you’re getting the most out of your couples counseling, marriage counseling, or relationship guidance sessions? These are Ritual’s top 10 tips.
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Keys to a Healthy Relationship: Practicing Self Awareness

Self-awareness in a relationship is not always as easy as it may seem! Our experts have 10 tips to help you improve and practice self-awareness in your relationship.
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How to Improve Your Relationship by Understanding Your Attachment Style

Do you know your attachment style in a relationship? Identify yours and learn how it impacts relationships.
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How to Build a Strong Intimate Relationship: 9 Experts Tips

Have you ever considered adding a relationship reboot to your list of resolutions? These are our expert tips for strengthening your relationship in 2024.
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Conflict Resolution in Relationships: Empathy and Forgiveness

For those of us having a hard time unlocking forgiveness, empathy can be the key.
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How to be a Better Partner in a Relationship Through Word Choice

The word “but” sneaks into many of our sentences, sending messages of dismissal and sabotaging our efforts at effective communication. You'd be surprised to know what word you can use instead to form a team with your partner, and change how you communicate around differences and fears.
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10 Red Flags in a Relationship You Shouldn't Ignore

Do you know the relationship warning signs? These are the obvious, and more subtle, relationship red flags that you should keep an eye out for over the holidays.
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Can a Relationship Work After Cheating? Ways to Rebuild Trust

Wondering if your relationship can survive cheating? Read these 6 tips for moving forward after infidelity.
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Communication Skills for Couples: The Power of I-Statements

Hurt feelings don’t have to turn into huge fights. This relationship hack saves so much heartache and makes sure you’ll be heard and understood like never before. Here’s how to harness the power of I-statements
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Do we Need Boundaries in a Stable Relationship?

Love is often seen as the absence of boundaries, but is that really what makes for a healthy relationship? Here we explore why boundaries are especially important for couples and how they can make your connection stronger.
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How to Let go of Resentment in a Relationship

Resentment, a potent yet silent force, has the ability to undermine the very core of a romantic relationship. It is crucial to identify the telltale signs of this emotion and take decisive action to address it. Read on for strategies of letting go and moving on stronger.
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Why Marriages Fall Apart [Successful Marriage Tips Included]

Marriage is a beautiful journey, but it's no secret that even the strongest bonds face turbulent times. Here, we uncover the hidden reasons behind failing relationships and arm you with actionable strategies to steer your marriage away from destruction and towards enduring happiness.
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Relationship Counseling: 10 Signs You Need It

How do you know if you need relationship help? These are the 10 signs you and your partner should speak with an expert.
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How to Discuss Issues Without Arguments in Relationships

Managing relationship conflicts can be tough, especially when arguments and unresolved issues accumulate. The strain of constant fighting is familiar to many couples. While not all problems have solutions, they don't have to severely strain your connection. Discover effective ways to address differences and change how you perceive conflicts.
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Resolutions to Build a Strong Relationship

Goodbye, larger-than-life unachievable goals. Looking for some simple ways to improve your relationship in the new year? Check out these five achievable resolution ideas and start 2023 right. This year, let's set ourselves up for success.
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10 Tips to Prepare For Your First Couples Counselling Session

Attending your first relationship guidance session can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to! Here are 10 tips to help you prepare for your first couples therapy/relationship guidance session.
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6 Unsexy Things to do in a Relationship for Better Sex

Much attention is given to sex in our relationship. So we often use sex as the relationship health barometer. Are we having it? Is it good? Are we having it enough? If I don’t want it, is that normal? Then we place values on the answers to these questions - determining and interpreting things about ourselves, our partner and our relationship - based on sex. But here’s the thing, the way we understand sex, is actually not personal.
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How to Keep a Relationship Strong and Happy Long Term

Routine, security, and stability are all virtues of a long term relationship. The down side of these wonderful gains can sometimes be dullness, numbness, and stagnation. B o r i n g. We believe that long term relationships can be absolutely thrilling, with endless possibilities, adventures, and excitement.
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Stop Avoiding Fights: Arguing Is Healthy in a Relationship

In our relationships we strive for “picture-perfect” balance, harmony. And so we avoid conflict - which, according to all the data and science, is actually our sweet spot for growth as a couple. We reject the notion that conflict is bad, and invite people to step in with curiosity, adaptability, and vulnerability instead.
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How to Have a Good Relationship That Doesn't Feel Like Work

Professionally, we strive for growth and opportunity. We read leadership books and listen to all the podcasts. We hire business coaches, and run side gigs galore. We want to climb the ladder, and we’re willing to learn, work overtime, dedicate our weekends, and prioritize work over our personal lives for the sake of our professional future. But, do we invest as much in our relational future?
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How Meeting Yourself Can Help You be Better in a Relationship

Have you ever shared a challenge with your partner and been met with a “don’t worry, you’re great.” While our partner may mean to support us or cheer us up, this response can often end up making us feel alone and unseen. Here’s a Ritual reframe on what actually happens in those moments, and how we can turn them into deeply intimate moments of growth, between you and your partner, and you and you.
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Healthy Relationship Tips: Celebrate the No

Saying no isn’t bad - it’s an important skill in every relationship Relationships require a lot from us, but they don’t require us to lose ourselves in them. How can we stay close to each other while still being true to ourselves? This is where people struggle most so often stuck in the belief that boundaries are meant to keep *the bad stuff* out, why do we need to put up boundaries with our loved ones? But we do. And here’s why.
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