Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
Infidelity is one of the most painful experiences a relationship can go through. When it happens, both people need ways to make sense of it...
Read Article →Sexual intimacy involves two kinds of vulnerability simultaneously: the physical vulnerability of being unclothed, literally exposed, and the emotional vulnerability of wanting to be desired...
Read Article →The fight that started over the dishes is never really about the dishes. Most couples know this, at least in retrospect. What’s harder to see...
Read Article →Intimacy is the project at the heart of most romantic relationships , the slow, mutual work of becoming known by another person and knowing them...
Read Article →Jealousy has a bad reputation, and understandably so. At its extreme, it becomes controlling, destructive, and dangerous. Even in milder forms it can be embarrassing...
Read Article →Most people encounter attachment styles as a list , four terms, four descriptions, maybe a short quiz with a result at the end. And while...
Read Article →Attachment theory gives us four patterns , four ways that people tend to organize their experience of closeness, dependence, and relational threat. These aren’t personality...
Read Article →For someone with avoidant attachment, the early stages of dating often feel genuinely fine. Interesting, even. There’s novelty, there’s no particular pressure, and the interaction...
Read Article →Dating is difficult for most people. It involves uncertainty, vulnerability, and the repeated experience of not knowing how things will turn out. For someone with...
Read Article →If you’ve ever been in a relationship where one person always seemed to need more closeness and the other always seemed to need more space...
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