Relationship Red Flags: How To Deal With Toxic Dynamics
Every relationship and every couple is different. Each one has unique characteristics that help shape their connection. When these styles are honored, it often results in a healthy bond that fulfills both partners. That said, relationship red flags exist. You and your...
Relationship Red Flags: How To Deal With Toxic Dynamics
Every relationship and every couple is different. Each one has unique characteristics that help shape their connection. When these styles are honored, it often results in a healthy bond that fulfills both partners. That said, relationship red flags exist. You and your...
Understanding and Responding to Other People’s Emotions
In this digital era of ours, we can communicate with more people than ever before. Things move more widely and quickly now, but that doesn’t mean these connections are founded on empathy and understanding. You see, whether in the Middle Ages or the Space Age, humans...
How Does Polyamory Work?
These days, a casual scroll through any social media platform will almost always expose you to content related to polyamory. Sure, non-monogamy doesn’t align with much of our accepted norms but it’s not illegal to try other options. Polyamory is one such option and...
Open Relationships: How to Navigate Challenges
It’s one of society’s best-kept secrets that a bare minimum of 5 percent of couples are non-monogamous. In fact, due to secrecy, that number almost certainly much higher. After all, how many folks talk openly about open relationships? Such choices come in a wide range...
Unhelpful Ways You Might Be Handling Conflict
Even though conflict is unavoidable, so many of us are unprepared. Sure, we’re prepared to get defensive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, or close-minded. But those are unhelpful ways to deal with strife and disagreement. A far more productive way to manage the...
Understanding and Overcoming Codependency in Families
In the past, the word codependency was primarily associated with the dynamics related to someone with an addiction or substance use issue. Eventually, this complex set of behaviors has been identified in a much wider range of scenarios. It’s not just romantic...
Anxious Attachment Style and Its Impact on Relationships
It should come as no surprise to anyone that how infants and toddlers are treated will influence those children as they grow into adulthood. In a nutshell, attachment theory is designed to identify connections between an adult’s current behavior and how their...