Articles on Relationships & Love
Book Review: Baffled By Love
Love is what everyone wants. And yet when those who are supposed to love us do just the opposite, the effects ripple throughout our lives, in both our relationships...
How to Talk to Someone Who Always Gets Defensive
Your loved one hurt your feelings or crossed a boundary. You’re trying to talk to them about it. But as soon as you start expressing yourself, they cross their...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship with Yourself Every Day
A healthy relationship with ourselves is multi-layered. It’s complicated. It consists of many, many parts—just like any relationship with anyone. And just like any relationship, there are important ingredients...
The Importance of Connection
I don’t suffer from depression, but I certainly have my moments of feeling down in the dumps. Sometimes it’s because I’m dealing with difficult issues, or life is just...
12 Simple Activities You Can Do to Start Building Self Esteem Today
Self-esteem is a popular topic these days, with even parenting guides encouraging parents to start young in encouraging their children’s self-esteem. It’s not hard to see why — people...
What Are the Signs that You’re in a Relationship with a Narcissist?
How do you know if you’re in a relationship with a narcissist? Do you find your partner expects a lot from you and nothing you do is good enough?...
New Survey on Sexting Shows Little Negative Consequences
Sexting is a singularly modern phenomenon. It’s safe to assume that our ancestors were not doing it because they didn’t have the technology it requires. The name sexting came...
How to Get People to Make Good Decisions
When we witness people in our lives headed down the wrong path — it’s a natural instinct to correct them, educate them about what’s wrong with what they’re doing,...
6 Steps to Being Authentic
Authenticity is the opposite of shame. It reveals our humanity and allows us to connect with others. Shame creates most all codependency symptoms — including hiding who we are, sacrificing...
The What and How of True Intimacy
Intimacy. People often confuse it with sex. But people can be sexual without being intimate. One night stands, friends with benefits, or sex without love are examples of purely...
Mindful Motoring: How Herbie the Love Bug Is Saving My Life
If you work in the mental health field for long enough, eventually you’ll hear the word “mindfulness” so often that, one day, you’ll be sitting in a treatment team...
How to Really Empathize with Someone
We tend to misunderstand empathy. We think empathizing with someone is consoling them. We think it’s helping them fix whatever problem they’re having. We think it’s giving advice. If...
When One Person Changes in a Relationship
We seek relationships for a variety of purposes — safety and security, love and intimacy, to satisfy physical, emotional and spiritual needs, to name a few — and it...
Book Review: What Love Is & What It Could Be
On the first page of What Love Is and What It Could Be, author Carrie Jenkins lets readers know that she is a philosopher and that she has both...
Understanding Anger Can Empower Women to Live Authentic Lives
Has anger ever taken the best of you? Have you ever regretted your reaction because you felt out of control? Did shame overwhelm you after these incidents? You are...
