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If your summer plans involve sharing your vacation with another couple, or their entire family, a little advanced planning will help to ensure that your friendship remains intact, long after your plane lands or car comes to a stop. Here are 12 tips that will get you and your spouse off to a good start.

Talk money. Discuss how everything will be divided up before you start spending money on things like airline tickets or a new GPS device.

Newlyweds have just experienced one of the most memorable days of their lives, but now the honeymoon is over and it's time to take on their first real challenge as a married couple: moving into their new home together.

Moving can cause extreme stress to even the calmest of individuals—not exactly the way you want to start off a marriage. Keep the stress and chaos to a minimum with this helpful 3-step newlywed moving preparation checklist.

Few of us live with a spouse who is a mind reader. Consequently, two people with differing mindsets will express their strong opinions paving the way for change and compromise. However, when anger is always present during a "discussion," did you know that anger could signal sadness? It is important to recognize and understand the difference. Anger can choke off communication. In addition, anger can disguise a lack of personal empowerment. On the other hand, sadness can indicate that it is time to independently climb that slippery slope of self-esteem and assume responsibility for personal happiness.

Adults who score well on the American Heart Association’s (AHA) "Life’s Simple 7" checklist are less likely than others to develop heart failure, according to a new study.

The AHA checklist and calculator was developed to educate the public on lifestyle habits that can improve heart health and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. According to the new results, they may also reduce the risk of heart failure, a long-term condition in which the heart fails to pump enough blood to the rest of the body.

Packing a healthy lunchbox is simple when you include each MyPlate food group, including vegetables, fruits, proteins, whole grains and dairy. This approach will offer your child plenty of healthy choices at lunchtime and one that you can be confident with as a healthy alternative to normal school-serve lunches.

Researchers, during the 2006-2007 school year, studied 4,870 eighth-graders in 40 states and found schools that did not exceed the standard nutritional standards were two times more likely to be obese compared to those in schools where a healthy alternative was served. It was concluded that stricter national standards were effective in controlling weight gain in young children.