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An important aspect of any relationship is to feel safe, secure, and respected. Emotional validation is key to ensuring that relationships are healthy and happy and remain that way.
Your partner is standing right in front of you, but you feel like they're not even in the same room as you. Instead, they feel like they're miles and miles away.
Do you think you might be a co-dependent parent?
It is one thing to be an involved parent. It is a totally different matter to smother or inappropriately enable your child.
While it is normal to experience anxiety every once in a while, its interference in your daily life is cause for action. A helpful coping trick is called "The 3-3-3 Rule."
What does it mean when your partner arranges for all of your time to be spent with them and bristles when you want time with others? Well, then they could be making your choices as a way of controlling you. That's possessive behavior.
Are you living with a deep sense of distraction, heightened stress, brain fog, lack of motivation, or relationship trouble? Cutting down anxious, internal noise to become self-aware is essential for living a full and happy life.
All in all, though you may think that you know what is best for the person you love. Yet, caretaking inevitably becomes manipulative over time. Are you so invested in their problems that you use "advice" to control and drive your interactions?
The holidays may not feel like they did before. Acknowledge that could be like this for a while. Think of this holiday season as a new start, without any expectations. Allowing the season and your response to it to be what they are can ease a great deal of anxiety.
It is wonderful to feel able to talk about anything with your romantic partner. Whether something good or bad happens, knowing you can lean on each other is crucial. A lack of communication can lead to trouble, resentment, and unwanted changes in the relationship. Here are five ways to deepen communication with your partner and stay close as a couple.
Everyone’s familiar with the tunnel vision that comes with falling in love. The honeymoon phase takes over, and suddenly…
If you’ve been feeling low and on edge for over two weeks, there could be other underlying symptoms going on that deserve your attention.
Communication is a difficult part of human life. It can be uncomfortable, frustrating and awkward. But communication is an essential part of life…
Like many people, you may have been excited to see the previous year come to an end. Last year brought so much…
The terms codependency and narcissism get thrown around a lot, even when people don’t necessarily understand what they really mean.
Therapists and researchers have made many gains in understanding mental illnesses in the last century. The mental health community has come a very long way from the early days of insane asylums and electroshock.
When you’re thick in the middle of living with an anxiety disorder, hope may seem utterly impossible. Perhaps you’ve endured so many failures and disappointments due to anxiety’s presence in your life that you can’t even imagine what hope would look like.
Few things are as contentious in American life as politics. Therapists and relationship researchers have found that the politics of the last four to five years have made this even more so. Sometimes couples are as deeply divided as the nation.
For better or worse, money management can be a tricky topic to navigate as a couple. Both of you bring your own financial habits and expectations with you. Chances are good that these are not identical!
Exhaustion, it seems, is part and parcel of today’s world. Numerous responsibilities, distractions, and stressors pile up. Work, household chores, raising children, incessant stimulation from…
There’s been a great deal of talk about isolation (and social distancing) in the last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. And many people have experienced loneliness as a result of this isolation.
If you’ve ever felt like it’s impossible to separate who you really are from the noisy chatter in your head, you’re not alone. For better or worse, most of us live with an interior soundtrack that likes to tell us all kinds of things.
Finding the balance between selfishness and selflessness in relationships can be tricky. Of course, you wonder, why would you want to be selfish?
Last year threw so much at everyone that stress has become the new norm. While stress has always been a part of life, the changes and uncertainty of 2020 has brought a new type of stress.
The idea of self-care has become a very popular one in recent years. Moms, especially, tend to be encouraged to practice self-care as a way to manage the multiple demands they face from parenting, work, chores, and so much more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown everyone into a new world. While it’s had many effects on you, doubtless one of the largest impacts you’ve seen has been on the state of your relationships.
How do you and your partner handle arguments? Have you been able to reach a place of civility and mutual understanding when you have big disagreements?
When you think of self-esteem, what comes to mind? Where do you think you fall along the spectrum of self-esteem? Your emotions may run the gamut when you think of this aspect of your life.
Watching a family member or dear friend caught in the snares of an addiction is never easy. You hate to see them struggling. The possible consequences of their addiction weigh heavily on you…
As a whole, we don’t like to live with uncertainty. It might be fun for small things, like wondering what surprises we might get for a birthday. But chances are, we had a have a hard time tolerating…
The COVID pandemic has brought about many paradoxical changes in our lives. Perhaps the chief of these involves our most intimate relationships. You’re probably spending more time than ever with your spouse or partner.