Disagreements and debates are natural parts of human interaction. They allow us to share ideas, gain new perspectives, and feel validated. However, some people turn every conversation into a conflict, seeming to thrive on argumentation. Interacting with these individuals can […]
There was a time when I felt angry at the world—angry because I couldn’t understand why people didn’t think or act like I did. “Why wouldn’t they do what I would do in this situation?” I’d wonder. To me, it […]
It’s a common frustration in relationships—men who won’t open up and share their feelings. If you’re a woman, you may have pleaded for more emotional honesty or wondered why the man you care about seems distant. If you’re a man, […]
Growing up, we learn how to navigate relationships and understand our worth based on our early experiences, especially within our families and communities. Our interactions with family members, teachers, and peers shape our understanding of how we should be treated […]
In 1970 a psychologist named Dr.Gotmann and researcher Robert Leverson did a study on couples where they observed the way they dealt with conflict and then had them come back 9 years later to see how the relationship panned out. […]
Do you feel as if nothing ever goes your way and nothing you do is ever good enough? Maybe you feel like no one really shows you they care about you or you feel like you get taken advantage of […]
Codependency is when you did not feel validated, heard or your needs were not met as a child so the way you learned to cope with that was by helping, fixing, people-pleasing, and taking care of others to feel the […]
Emotional unavailability is when someone is not open to discussing their feelings or go deeper in some sort of way. They have a hard time emotionally connecting and they try to run from it. The reason why people become emotionally […]
Fear of abandonment is something a lot of us struggle with. We fear that someone close to us will leave and we will never experience those feelings again. Or we fear we won’t have our needs met outside of them. […]
Identifying what a healthy relationship looks like can be tough as a lot of us didn’t see healthy relationships growing up. Maybe we did not see what healthy communication looks like, what love is, or what it feels like to […]
