Talking Helps MarriageSaving Your Marriage: 8 Communication Tips to Help Keep Your Marriage Strong In “Talking Helps Marriage”, writer Gary Stern offers couples eight (8) communication tips for keeping marriages strong. He interviews Ackerman Institute faculty member Elana Katz on the power of showing caring, concern and empathy.

“Easy Come, Easy Go for Idealistic Heirs” In “Easy Come, Easy Go for Idealistic Heirs”, NY Times writer Abby Aguirre analyzes the ways that young heirs are dealing with their newfound wealth. She speaks to Ackerman Institute’s Judy Stern-Peck.

“FIELD NOTES: Headed for the Rocks, Grasping for a Life Buoy” In “FIELD NOTES: Headed for the Rocks, Grasping for a Life Buoy”, NY Times writer Lois Smith Brady speaks to Ackerman president, Lois Braverman, about when is it time to go to couples therapy.

“The Affairs of Men: the Trouble with Sex and Marriage” In “The Affairs of Men:the Trouble with Sex and Marriage”, NY Mag’s Philip Weiss examines the duality of men and women in their sexual encounters, starting with the story of Eliot Spitzer and looking more deeply at the habits and reason married men (and women)

In “Yes, Dear. Tonight Again.”, NY Times writer Ralph Gardner highlights two couples (the Mullers and the Browns) committed to daily sex –an erotic adventure to battle married ennui. Lois Braverman, president of the Ackerman Institute, cautioned against couples trying to keep up with the Mullers and Browns. “Some couples are totally satisfied with being

For Couples, the Gift of Conversation In “For Couples, the Gift of Conversation”, Hadas Goshen evaluates the benefits of couples therapy. She interviews Ackerman faculty member and director of Ackerman’s Gender and Family Project, Jean Malpas, on what couples therapy can be for a couple and ways couples can use therapy to benefit their relationship.

Cost of Living:The Conflict Came in the Mail New York Times writer, M.P. Dunleavey reports on the conflict that couples experience around money, particularly in difficult economic times. Ackerman Institute faculty member and director of Ackerman’s Money and Family Life Project, Judith Stern Peck and her book Money and Meaning are cited.

Lois Braverman, President of Ackerman Institute, analyzes ways to define infidelity in response to the Anthony Wiener sexting scandal.