Helpful traits in a supportive partner  Engagement and availability: Responding to your partner and their needs and encouraging their progress and evolution. Hurtful Traits in relationships  Damaging presence: Behaviors such as meddling, restricting, intimidating and manipulating. What happens in healthy relationships? Growing and evolving as a person, becoming increasingly more comfortable in one’s own skin, addressing challenging

Hidden among mistletoe and holiday cheer lies the stress of family dynamics, travel hassles, and extra spending that can test even the healthiest relationships. While couples benefit from regularly working on their relationship, strengthening communication, reciprocal support, and intimacy, and expressing their love, extra care during holiday seasons encapsulates the spirit of the season and

Along with the joy, sadness, anger, grief, satisfaction and various other states that make our sense of being lies the often-neglected sense of eroticism. What is it? Simply put, it is the sense of aliveness and vitality, curiosity and interest, push and pull of the engagement in life. Eroticism is pleasure and pain, relief and

What’s the big deal? Despite being a core tenant of any and all relationships, many struggle with giving and receiving apologies. At its core, an apology is a statement of remorse that acknowledges the harm caused and attempts to restore the respect lost as a result of an offense. This skill is an integral part

You’ve been duped. Perhaps your partner strayed from the relationship. Perhaps it was you who strayed. Either way, your romantic life is not progressing as you anticipated, and pulling the plug seems more appealing by the minute. After all, a breakup would help end the pain, heartbreak, and cuts that only seem to get deeper

Love is a wonderful thing. But what if it’s not really that easy? What if you feel affection for multiple people? That’s a tricky predicament to be in. You might be feeling conflicted about which one to pick, especially if one of them is currently your partner. Can you be in love with 2 people?

“You are the love of my life.” “I can’t take this anymore.” These are not uncommon statements within one and the same relationship. We may find certain aspects of our partner very difficult to live with, and we may have traits that our partner finds difficult to live with. The term Relational Ambivalence refers to

Sexting refers to sexual messages over text. They may be implicit or explicit, written or photographs. They may be flirtatious and edgy or direct and sexual/erotic. They are intended as flirty play that may or may not lead to an in-person sexual encounter.   How would you handle it if you found explicit messages on

Do you expect your relationship to fulfill you in all ways, at all times? Sometimes when we expect too much from our relationship, the pressure can lead to collapse. The demands for perfection in relationships we put on ourselves and our romantic partners can be unrealistic. Once we find “our person,” it feels like we

Are you thinking about how to forgive a cheater person who cheated on you? Recovery after a betrayal can be one of the hardest things a relationship will navigate. A betrayed partner can feel there’s no way to get past the pain. For the long-term recovering, healing, forgiving, and reconnecting after an affair requires taking