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‘Us’ and ‘We-ness’
Professor Scott Stanley, a social scientist at the University of Denver, studies the nature of commitment in intimate relationships. He claims that there seems to be a fundamental human drive to seek and be in a relationship that has this quality of "us" So, what does...
FMY Annual Report 2023
LIFE THRU A LENS: Did you see the Northern Lights?
Last week there was a lot of excitement at the arrival of the Northern Lights across York. Did you see them? If not, I’m sure you’ve seen people’s photos of them?Well, I did see them (not boasting, just saying…). What I saw was a bright, white shaft of shifting cloud...
LET’S CHERISH OUR RELATIONSHIPS
‘In our go-go-go world, it’s easy to forget to nurture the things that nurture us the most: our relationships with others. But it’s worth making the effort, as the longest in-depth happiness study has revealed that this is the essential ingredient for living a...
“YOU TOTALLY SMASHED IT”!!
You totally smashed it! I visited a couple recently who reached out to our ‘Reconnect’ couples mentoring service when they were at crisis. They were battling health problems and facing significant family issues that were out of their control. They felt like they were...
REVIEW OF OUR FIRST TIME OUT FOR COUPLES EVENT
For some years now at Family Matters York, we have been offering our Reconnect couples' mentoring service, helping couples to work on basic relationship skills. More recently, we have been looking at ways that we can make our relationship courses accessible to a wider...
