Relationships Archives | The Unconventional Route

Host Better Dinner Parties With Friends With These 5 Steps

Move over Martha. Follow gathering guru Priya Parker’s counterintuitive advice for throwing memorable dinner parties with friends instead.

If you’re open to unconventional wedding ideas and activities, here’s some input based on the hits, misses, and mishaps from of ours.

The simple, 4-step W.A.R.T. Technique: Wait, Agree, Remind, and Thank is how to stop nagging and still get what you want.

How to actually change someone’s mind using proven psychological and negotiation techniques (and patience).

The trick to knowing how to win and argument is to be aware of our neanderthal-ian instincts and then do the opposite.

Basic massage tips and techniques we learned from an expert for how to give our partners surprisingly good massages.

How a simple, corny daily gratitude practice saved our struggling relationship in surprising ways and could possibly fix yours, too.

10 surprisingly simple and unique relationship hacks that have rescued our relationship, plus 9 top love life savers from around the web.