Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
You replay the conversation you had three days ago, trying to figure out if you said something wrong. You run through every possible outcome of...
Read Article →Something should be registering , grief, or joy, or concern, or love , and instead there’s nothing. Just a flat, muted quality to experience that...
Read Article →You’re in pain, and the people who care about you are right there , and somehow, you find a way to create distance. You say...
Read Article →There’s something uniquely disorienting about emotional emptiness. It’s not sadness exactly , sadness at least feels like something. Emptiness is more like a hollow space...
Read Article →You ended the last relationship because of the same things that drove you crazy in the one before it. Or you’re in a long-term relationship...
Read Article →A lot of people treat their relationships the way they treat their cars: ignore them until something breaks, then deal with the crisis. The car...
Read Article →Think about a conversation you’ve been wanting to have with your partner but haven’t. Not because you don’t know what you want to say ,...
Read Article →There’s a version of relationship advice that says couples who fight are in trouble. That a good relationship is a peaceful one. That if you...
Read Article →Two people argue about something that doesn’t matter – whose turn it was to call the plumber, something like that – and then one of...
Read Article →The fight is over , or it’s ended, anyway. Nobody won. You’re both in separate rooms, or in the same room with a silence that...
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