These resources for people who are struggling and want to make an immediate and positive change in their lives or in their relationship.

Ideally, you should use them in addition to individual therapy or marriage counseling. The tools here are intended to help stabilize your problems and relationship between now and when you begin working with a therapist.

Free Screening Questionnaires and Self-Test

• Addiction Questionnaire
  
• Codependency Questionnaire
  
• Anger in Relationships Questionnaire
  
• Commitment Questionnaire
  
• Communication Questionnaire
  
• Conflict Resolution Questionnaire
  
• Trust Questionnaire
  
• Intimacy Questionnaire
  
• Romance Questionnaire
  
• Sex Questionnaire
  
• Anxiety Screening Questionnaire
  
• Depression Screening Questionnaire
  
• Self-Tests: Relationships
  
• Self-Tests: Personality
  

Articles on Mental Health, Wellness, and Relationships

• Antipsychotic Drugs Increase Heart Risks
• Is OCD Genetic?
• How Depression Differs in Men
• Why Women More Likely To Be Depressed
• Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder: The Nature of Manic Depression
• Signs and Symptoms of Sleep Disorders
• Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Shrink Your Brain
• How Medical Conditions Affect Your Mood
• Increase Energy and Vitality
• Gratitude and Self-Esteem
• Middle-Aged Single People Are At Higher Dementia Risk
• Understanding Delusional Disorder
• Antipsychotics Increase Death Risk in Alzheimer's Patients
• How Medications Affect Your Mood
• Feeling Tired All the Time May Be More Than Depression
• ADHD and Associated Disorders
• GLBT Identity Awareness and Acceptance
• Alternative Therapies for Depression and Anxiety
• The Pitfalls of Dating After Divorce
• Getting Through the Loss of a Pet
• Signs and Symptoms of Sleep Disorders
• Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Schizophrenia
• Is It Mad Cow or Is It Alzheimer's?
• Research on the Effectiveness of Antidepressants
• How ADHD Strains Relationships
  
• How To Stop Arguing
  
• Couples Counseling Can Improve All Your Relationships
  
• Keeping Your Love Alive
  
• 10 Habits of Happy Couples
  
• How to Have a Successful Relationship
  
• Couples Counseling With GLBT Relationships
  
• Couples Counseling and the Codependent
  
• Communicating with Respect
• Strategies for Counseling Couples with Addiction
  
• Is It Love or Stalking?
  
• Agree to Disagree: The Winning Defense
  
• Communicating Without Anger
  
• Accepting Your Partner
  
• Trouble With Commitment
  

Information on Relationship Problems

• Relationship Repair
  
• Divorce Prevention
  
• Affair Recovery
  
• Difficulty with Intimacy
  
• Couples Communication
  
• Conflict Management
  
• Anger in Relationships
  
• Rekindling Romance and Passion
  
• Power Struggles
  
• Trust Issues
  
• Premarital Counseling
  
• Military Couples
  
• Executive Couples
  
• GLBT Couples Counseling
  
• Couples in Recovery From Addiction
  
• Couples with Psychiatric Disorders
  

Other Useful Links for Relationship Advice

• Dr. Randi Fredricks' Relation Tips Blog
  
• 15 Steps to Surviving an Affair
  
• How to Survive Your Husband's Affair
  
• Signs Your Husband Is Having Affair
  
• How To Tell If Your Spouse Is Cheating
  
• The Most Important Argument You'll Ever Have in Your Relationships
  
• Six Ways to Stay Focused on What You Really Want in Your Relationships
  
• You’ve Gotta Get Back in to Get Back Out: Leaving a Relationship Is Hard To Do
• Change Your Language, Change Your Relationship: How We Say Things Does Matter
• Breakups and Moving On
• Relationships: Check Up or Check Out
• What Do You Want From Me Anyway?
• Self-Test: How Do You Deal With Conflict?
• Self-Test: How Satisfied Are You With Your Relationship?
• Marriage Counseling Statistics
• Marriage Counseling Success Rates - UCLA Study
• Questions To Ask A Marriage Therapist
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Relationship Self-Help Books

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
  
• Communication Miracles for Couples: Easy and Effective Tools to Create More Love and Less Conflict
  
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
  
• Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last
  
• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
  
• Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
  
• Power of Two: Secrets to a Strong & Loving Marriage
  
• The Power of Two Workbook
  
• Surviving An Affair
  
• His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
  
• Getting Past the Affair: A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move On -- Together or Apart
  
• Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
  
• Emotional Infidelity: How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage and 10 Other Secrets to a Great Relationship
  
• Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours
  
• Love Is Never Enough: How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
  
• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition
  
• Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide
  
• The Verbally Abusive Man, Can He Change?: A Woman's Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go
  
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond
  
• Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You
  
• The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
  
• The New Male Sexuality
  
• Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope
  
• The Dance of Connection
  
• The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work
  
• How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
  
• Passionate Marriage
  
• How We Choose To Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People-Their Secrets, Their Stories
• Fearless Living: Live Without Fear, Love Without Regret
• The Fresh Start Divorce Recovery Workbook: A Step-by-Step Program for Those Who Are Divorced or Separated