Connection

Learn how emotional and physical intimacy work together to strengthen relationships. Discover practical strategies for building deeper connection with your partner.

Establishing a shared parenting vision fosters alignment and strengthens co-parenting, guiding families through values, goals, and effective communication.

Discover 10 practical exercises that help couples improve communication, deepen intimacy, and strengthen trust in everyday life.

Learn effective strategies to enhance emotional connection in virtual therapy sessions and maintain intimacy between appointments.

Rebuilding trust after betrayal in marriage takes commitment, honesty, and clear communication from both partners. Learn essential steps to heal.

Enhance your relationship through active listening techniques that foster understanding, reduce conflict, and strengthen emotional bonds.

Explore how transparency fosters trust in relationships through honest communication, emotional intimacy, and accountability.

Learn how to effectively start couples therapy with clear goals, understanding patterns, and choosing the right support for your relationship.

Regular check-ups on communication, trust, and intimacy can strengthen your relationship and foster deeper connections between partners.

Couples can recover from burnout through relaxation techniques, open communication, and shared activities that rebuild intimacy and trust.

Learn how to identify and address power imbalances in relationships to foster mutual respect, trust, and emotional connection.

Every couple hits bumps in communication, but it’s often the quiet patterns like shutting down, snapping, or assuming the worst, that create the most distance. In this blog, we explore five of the most common communication traps couples fall into, from criticism and defensiveness to avoiding conflict altogether. More importantly, you’ll learn how to break these patterns with simple, effective shifts that foster connection, not disconnection.

Feeling physically distant from your partner? You’re not alone. Intimacy often fades during stress, conflict, or even everyday busyness—but it can be rebuilt. This guide walks you through why disconnection happens and how to gently reconnect through emotional closeness, playful moments, low-pressure touch, and honest conversations. Learn practical ways to move at your own pace and get support if needed.

Have you considered what not to say during your couples therapy session? Read these tips from our experts.

Getting great doesn’t happen overnight, and the same goes for relationships. It takes time and effort, and basically, a really good workout regime. Ask yourself how have you been approaching your relationships? Have you been a fan on the bleachers? Or are you out there bringing your A-game? Are you practicing, committing, and showing up how you want to be? Or is there somewhere that could use some more of your attention and focus?

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.

Learn how to build emotional intimacy in your relationship with tips from Ritual’s experts including how to ignite passion and strengthen your bond.

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.

Have you ever considered adding a relationship reboot to your list of resolutions? These are our expert tips for strengthening your relationship in 2024.

For those of us having a hard time unlocking forgiveness, empathy can be the key.

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.

Master communication skills for couples with the power of I-statements - express feelings clearly, build empathy, and strengthen your relationship.

How do you know if you need relationship help? These are the 10 signs you and your partner should speak with an expert.

Navigating differences in parenting styles between partners is a common challenge. Unique backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences come into play, leading to conflicts in raising children together. This crucial topic can cause even easygoing couples to feel serious distress. Let's explore effective strategies to cultivate a harmonious parenting dynamic.

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.

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.

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.

We’ve inherited so many things from our family which influence our core beliefs, behaviors, and our relationships - big time. But unlike our genes, becoming aware of our core beliefs and how they influence our behavior can help us reflect on whether they serve or limit us. And then we can choose to make a change.

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.