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How to Avoid Major Conflicts With Your Partner

When a conversation gets heated, it's important to "keep it warm" instead. In this post, I show you how.

When a conversation gets heated, it's important to "keep it warm" instead. In this post, I show you how.

What Tyes of People are Attracted to Edgy Partners?

Drawn to intensity? Discover the surprising reasons some are magnetically pulled to "edgy" partners. Uncover the hidden dynamics and your own susceptibility.

Drawn to intensity? Discover the surprising reasons some are magnetically pulled to "edgy" partners. Uncover the hidden dynamics and your own susceptibility.

Want Better Relationships? Start With the Circles of Support

If you're neurodivergent or healing from trauma or mental health challenges, this model can help you build balanced, fulfilling relationships—without burning out.

If you're neurodivergent or healing from trauma or mental health challenges, this model can help you build balanced, fulfilling relationships—without burning out.

The Power of Showing Up

Personal Perspective: Showing up with empathy and consistency builds connection, legacy, and lasting impact.

Personal Perspective: Showing up with empathy and consistency builds connection, legacy, and lasting impact.

Put on a Pedestal, Then Thrown Off: Life as a Wounded Healer

Projection, idealization, and emotional discard impact the wounded healer, but it is possible to stay grounded in truth and authenticity.

Projection, idealization, and emotional discard impact the wounded healer, but it is possible to stay grounded in truth and authenticity.

Do You Take Pleasure in Your Victimhood?

Do you feel repeatedly drawn into victimhood? You may have masochistic traits.

Do you feel repeatedly drawn into victimhood? You may have masochistic traits.

Before You Say 'I Love You,' Say This

Saying “I love you” is powerful, but saying something that makes your partner feel seen might matter even more.

Saying “I love you” is powerful, but saying something that makes your partner feel seen might matter even more.

What Envy Is: Admiration in Despair

We are often embarrassed and ashamed of our feelings of envy toward others, but envy can have both positive and negative effects on us.

We are often embarrassed and ashamed of our feelings of envy toward others, but envy can have both positive and negative effects on us.

2 Signs You're the Cinderella Roommate

Do you shoulder most of the chores in your household, despite your roommates being capable of doing them?

Do you shoulder most of the chores in your household, despite your roommates being capable of doing them?

The 4 Pillars of Community Belonging

Data reveals what drives community connection—and which groups feel left out. This research offers insights for building belonging in your own neighborhood.

Data reveals what drives community connection—and which groups feel left out. This research offers insights for building belonging in your own neighborhood.

Healthy Hearing Is an Often Overlooked Key to Aging Well

Hearing loss is often considered a normal part of aging, but addressing and maintaining hearing health is a critical part of aging well.

Hearing loss is often considered a normal part of aging, but addressing and maintaining hearing health is a critical part of aging well.

Is "A Wife Is Better Than a Dog" the Basis for a Good Marriage?

Considering marriage, Charles Darwin wrote that a wife is "better than a dog," and this was apparently enough of a reason to get married. Was he right?

Considering marriage, Charles Darwin wrote that a wife is "better than a dog," and this was apparently enough of a reason to get married. Was he right?

The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Strangulation Among Teens

Choking, or sexual strangulation, during sex is trending among teens and young adults, but few understand how dangerous and damaging it truly is.

Choking, or sexual strangulation, during sex is trending among teens and young adults, but few understand how dangerous and damaging it truly is.

How to Cultivate a Partner's Respect

Are you often the recipient of disrespect from your partner? If so, this can affect your well-being. Consider these seven steps toward cultivating respect.

Are you often the recipient of disrespect from your partner? If so, this can affect your well-being. Consider these seven steps toward cultivating respect.

2 Dangers of the Fear of Infidelity in Relationships

Jealousy, and the actions partners take in response to it, can destroy relationships. Here's why it needs to be managed.

Jealousy, and the actions partners take in response to it, can destroy relationships. Here's why it needs to be managed.

How to Disarm a Critical Partner in Seconds

If you're tired of being picked apart, this simple phrase can help you stay grounded, calm, and in control.

If you're tired of being picked apart, this simple phrase can help you stay grounded, calm, and in control.

How to Overcome an Obsession With a Partner’s Past

Addressing retroactive jealousy is about restoring a sense of safety, self-worth, and connection within a relationship. Here's how.

Addressing retroactive jealousy is about restoring a sense of safety, self-worth, and connection within a relationship. Here's how.

Don't Follow the Golden Rule

It makes sense to treat your partner the way you want to be treated, but they might respond better to you treating them the way they want to be treated.

It makes sense to treat your partner the way you want to be treated, but they might respond better to you treating them the way they want to be treated.

What to Say to Your Child When They Graduate From College

Graduation is a big milestone for students and their families. The right personalized message from parents can leave a lasting, positive impact.

Graduation is a big milestone for students and their families. The right personalized message from parents can leave a lasting, positive impact.

How to Find Love in Your Life

Personal Perspective: If we turn to the great love stories from literature, we can learn that love comes from both our memories and our imagination.

Personal Perspective: If we turn to the great love stories from literature, we can learn that love comes from both our memories and our imagination.

How to Stay Centered in a World That Feels Unbearable

Acceptance is the precursor of change. It's seeing the challenges of the world as they are and then acting toward yourself and others to create the world as you want it to be.

Acceptance is the precursor of change. It's seeing the challenges of the world as they are and then acting toward yourself and others to create the world as you want it to be.

How Carrying Past Wounds Is Sabotaging Your Relationship

Holding on to past wounds doesn’t keep you safe; it keeps you from experiencing love, trust, and connection.

Holding on to past wounds doesn’t keep you safe; it keeps you from experiencing love, trust, and connection.

How One Sentence Changed My Life—and Could Change Yours, Too

A Personal Perspective: A single sentence shifted how I viewed others, making me a kinder, more forgiving person, not just towards them but towards myself.

A Personal Perspective: A single sentence shifted how I viewed others, making me a kinder, more forgiving person, not just towards them but towards myself.

What Adolescents Can Learn From a First-Love Relationship

"First love" is a very intense attachment where each party emotionally invests themselves more romantically than ever before, so there is much complexity to understand and manage.

"First love" is a very intense attachment where each party emotionally invests themselves more romantically than ever before, so there is much complexity to understand and manage.

Artificial Intimacy and Empathy: Does Authenticity Matter?

New research shows that people find AI responses more compassionate and understanding than responses by human crisis experts. Does authenticity matter anymore?

New research shows that people find AI responses more compassionate and understanding than responses by human crisis experts. Does authenticity matter anymore?

Navigating the Murky Waters of Situationships

Stuck in a “more than friends, less than a relationship” zone? Learn what situationships are, why they happen, and how to navigate them with clarity, courage, and care.

Stuck in a “more than friends, less than a relationship” zone? Learn what situationships are, why they happen, and how to navigate them with clarity, courage, and care.

"Let Them" Doesn’t Mean "Forgive Them"

Mel Robbins says, "Let Them," but does that mean you must also forgive them? Discover how accepting is not the same as forgiving.

Mel Robbins says, "Let Them," but does that mean you must also forgive them? Discover how accepting is not the same as forgiving.

Rethinking Relationships: The Emergent Love Model

Love doesn’t just happen—it emerges. Explore the Emergent Love Model and its 6 essential ingredients for building intentional, lasting, and thriving relationships.

Love doesn’t just happen—it emerges. Explore the Emergent Love Model and its 6 essential ingredients for building intentional, lasting, and thriving relationships.

9 Basic Elements in the Chemistry of Romantic Attraction

Romantic attraction is notoriously difficult to translate into objective terms. A new study of couples in love suggests 9 elements that could provide a start.

Romantic attraction is notoriously difficult to translate into objective terms. A new study of couples in love suggests 9 elements that could provide a start.

Overcoming Trauma at the Table

It would be impossible to understand our ancestors' trauma intellectually... but we can support cross-generational healing through the simple dignity of gathering at the table.

It would be impossible to understand our ancestors' trauma intellectually... but we can support cross-generational healing through the simple dignity of gathering at the table.