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There may not be a magic formula for keeping love and commitment alive in a relationship, but there are a few factors that strengthen the ties, according to an article in the January edition of Psychology Today (which is now online).

The prehistoric notion of newborns as blobs of clay solely dependent on externals--people and events--to shape them into something roughly akin to human beings with their own distinctive set of characteristics and proclivities, good and bad, has essentially gone the way of the eight track.

Feeling blue? Don’t cry about it—that may just make you feel worse. Instead take the passive route to getting over a rough day or week or month: get a good sleep.

We want to be thinner, smarter, younger, richer — or so we think. But at the very bottom of the well of human desire lays our deepest desire: to be happy. The question that plagues us, however, is how?

Occasional bouts of rage may be impossible to avoid altogether, so the dilemma facing most of us is how to cope with our burning desire to tell the woman on the cell phone in the bus seat ahead of us to use her inside voice without losing our minds?