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We’re often inundated with relationship advice that rarely captures the complexity of what actually makes love work.As a couples counselor with a decade of experience working with couples and individuals trying to find and stay in love, I’ve found that one of the most underrated signs of a healthy and resilient relationship is a concept called “mutual influence.”Coined by married psychologists Drs. John and Julie Gottman, mutual influence means that you are willing to let your partner’s needs, vulnerabilities, and perspectives shape you, and even change something about your own behavior.This quality generally only comes into focus during moments of…

Arne Slot has vowed Liverpool will “fight on” despite enduring the club’s worst run of form for 72 years and admits he is considering making changes for Sunday’s game at West Ham.The Reds are in their worst run of form for 71 years after suffering a harrowing 4-1 defeat to PSV at Anfield in the Champions League – a ninth loss in 12 games across all competitions. Liverpool have lost three consecutive games in all competitions by a margin of three-plus goals for the first time since December 1953 and head to West Ham on Sunday, live on Sky Sports,…

Bill ConnellyNov 27, 2025, 08:55 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Eight goals in Paris. Seven in Piraeus. Five in Copenhagen and Liverpool. Four at the Emirates (and in Cyprus!). Wednesday’s Champions League action gave us 42 goals in nine matches, complementing a surprising but not particularly prolific Tuesday of action and providing something for everyone.Most of the sport’s heavyweights continue to cruise toward the knockout rounds, but there are bad moods at Manchester City and Barcelona, Liverpool are spiraling further, and we’ll go down…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada’s oil rich province of Alberta agreed Thursday to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country’s oil exports beyond the United States, in a move that has caused turmoil in Carney’s inner circle.The memorandum of understanding includes an adjustment of an oil tanker ban off parts of the British Columbia coast if a pipeline comes to fruition. Carney’s support for it led to the resignation Thursday of one of his cabinet ministers, Steven Guilbeault, a former environment minister and career environmentalist who…

Nov 27, 2025, 08:31 AM ETJoshua Kimmich has said that Paris Saint-Germain are the toughest team Bayern Munich have played this season despite the 3-1 Champions League defeat to Arsenal, claiming Mikel Arteta’s side “rely on set pieces” and “love to play long balls.”Bayern suffered their first loss of the season on Wednesday after goals from Jurriën Timber, Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli at the Emirates Stadium.But while Vincent Kompany’s men beat reigning champions PSG 2-1 earlier this month, Bayern and Germany midfielder Kimmich felt they offered more of a threat, and “more of a football game.””No, I don’t think…

“I see the ideal Manchester United midfielder as being able to do everything.” The words of former Old Trafford metronome, Paul Scholes. United’s midfield remains a problem. Ruben Amorim’s system continues to be drawn into question, a set-up with its frailties further scrutinised as a result of an insistence on leaving two players anchoring in the middle of the park. Whether it be personnel or instruction, United’s inability to consistently control games continues to cost them.In a test of Amorim’s system against 10-man Everton on Monday night, United had very few answers. Instead, Amorim’s rare unbeaten run of five matches…

Carly Xie looks over facial mask items at the Face Shop, which specializes in Korean cosmetics, in San Francisco, April 15, 2015.Avila Gonzalez | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers | Getty ImagesOn a recent Saturday at an Ulta Beauty store in midtown Manhattan, Denise McCarthy, a mother in her 40s, stood in front of a wall of tiny pastel bottles, tubes and compacts. Her phone buzzed — another TikTok from her 15-year-old daughter.”My kids text me the TikToks,” she told CNBC, scooping Korean lip tints and sunscreens into her basket, destined for Christmas stockings. “I don’t even know what…

Nov 27, 2025, 07:21 AM ETJamaica players Isaac Hayden and Amari’i Bell have voiced their unease at the prospect of Mason Greenwood joining the squad before the World Cup, claiming it would be a “farce” and not “fair.”Greenwood, who has one England cap, switched allegiances to Jamaica earlier this year and in August received his passport, opening the door for him to represent the nation of his grandparents.While the 24-year-old did not accept a call-up for World Cup qualifiers against Trinidad and Tobago and Bermuda in September and is keeping his international options open, Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Michael…

Nov 27, 2025, 07:16 AM ETNeymar is ready to play through pain to help Santos in their fight against relegation, sources have told ESPN.The Brazil forward sat out Monday’s 1-1 league draw at Internacional as a precaution after experiencing discomfort in his left knee in the clash with Mirassol on Nov. 19th.Sources have told ESPN Brasil that Neymar, 33, will likely require arthroscopic surgery at the end of the season to treat a meniscus injury in his left knee.Contrary to medical advice, Neymar trained on Wednesday with Santos and could be included in the squad for Friday’s league game against…

Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesWhen ChatGPT launched in 2022, Google was caught flatfooted, but the launch of Gemini 3 and the Ironwood AI chip this month has experts raving about Alphabet’s AI comeback. Google kicked off November by unveiling Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, or TPUs, that the company says lets customers “run and scale the largest, most data-intensive models in existence.” And last week, Google launched Gemini 3, its latest artificial intelligence model, saying it requires “less prompting” and provides smarter answers than its predecessors. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff captured the excitement around…