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TALKING IT OUT

When US actor Jenny McCarthy first got together with husband Donnie Wahlberg, she insisted they have couples therapy so they could learn how to argue properly. McCarthy wanted to know what their fighting styles were. Did they both shut down when they were angry with each other, or did one of them need to talk it out? The tools they were given to fight constructively have since proved “priceless”, McCarthy recently told chat-show host Drew Barrymore.

It may sound like a very Hollywood conceit to spend time and money learning how to disagree, but the work of Nickola

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