In the news recently was a story about a Santa Monica therapist who used the oft-lamented activity of assembling IKEA furniture as a test to see how couples communicate. As everyone knows, shopping at IKEA can be just as maddening (and lead just as many disagreements). No more! As someone who has couple shopped at IKEA several times and hung onto my relationship and my sanity, here are my must-follow rules to get outta that big blue labyrinth without a breakup.
