The Art of Connection

Learn the relational skills to improve your intimate relationship.

Learn the relational skills to improve your intimate relationship.

Letting Go of the Stigma of Addiction

Although addiction is widely recognized as an illness, it can cause deep-seated feelings of shame. Healing from shame can help families cope with an addicted loved one.

Although addiction is widely recognized as an illness, it can cause deep-seated feelings of shame. Healing from shame can help families cope with an addicted loved one.

Creating Opportunities for Men to Be More Involved With Their Children

A simple exercise to help balance gender roles in your family.

A simple exercise to help balance gender roles in your family.

Interdependence: The Key to Healthy Relationships

Contrasting independence, codependence, and interdependence, and highlighting interdependence as the healthiest state.

Contrasting independence, codependence, and interdependence, and highlighting interdependence as the healthiest state.

Why Some Partners Are So Triggered by Our Tears

How to navigate emotional vulnerability in a relationship.

How to navigate emotional vulnerability in a relationship.

Fighting the Need to Control in Close Relationships

Controlling behaviors do not need to ruin relationships. Learn to address the real issues and avoid the unpleasant process of compensating and becoming controlling yourself.

Controlling behaviors do not need to ruin relationships. Learn to address the real issues and avoid the unpleasant process of compensating and becoming controlling yourself.

What Men and Women Don’t Understand About Each Other

Much conflict in relationships is due to women not understanding that men are afraid of them and men not understanding that women are trying to connect.

Much conflict in relationships is due to women not understanding that men are afraid of them and men not understanding that women are trying to connect.

Could a Summer Fling Be Good for Your Mental Health?

It may depend on the quality of the sex, and if you're sober.

It may depend on the quality of the sex, and if you're sober.

The Mr. Nice Guy Syndrome and Adverse Childhood Experiences

The Mr. Nice Guy Syndrome is a curious mixture of appealing strengths, insecurities, and problematic behaviors rooted in adverse childhood experiences. Learn corrective strategies.

The Mr. Nice Guy Syndrome is a curious mixture of appealing strengths, insecurities, and problematic behaviors rooted in adverse childhood experiences. Learn corrective strategies.

Unpacking the Epidemic of Parental Estrangement

The epidemic of parental estrangement: The generation who is afraid of their children.

The epidemic of parental estrangement: The generation who is afraid of their children.

Defining Emotional Overdependency in Unhealthy Relationships

Exploring emotional helplessness in relationships.

Exploring emotional helplessness in relationships.

Are You Too Focused on Yourself, or Too Focused on Others?

These days, it isn't easy to find a balance between focusing on ourselves and focusing on others. Yet, working through this dialectic is key to healthy relationships.

These days, it isn't easy to find a balance between focusing on ourselves and focusing on others. Yet, working through this dialectic is key to healthy relationships.

What Is Maladaptive Perfectionism?

Perfectionism can negatively affect your well-being. Here's how to avoid that outcome.

Perfectionism can negatively affect your well-being. Here's how to avoid that outcome.

How to Recover From Narcissistic Parenting

How can you recover from narcissistic parenting? Explore 5 critical steps to recovery.

How can you recover from narcissistic parenting? Explore 5 critical steps to recovery.

20 Signs of a Toxic Relationship

10. You daydream about them being out of your life.

10. You daydream about them being out of your life.

How to Love on a Deeper Level

Vulnerability, conversation, and 5 kinds of intimacy.

Vulnerability, conversation, and 5 kinds of intimacy.

Fragile Masculinity and Hypermasculine Defenses

How men use hypermasculine defenses to protect a fragile sense of masculinity.

How men use hypermasculine defenses to protect a fragile sense of masculinity.

Early Childhood Origins of Men’s Fears of Women

Men's fears of women in intimate relationships may stem from their earliest relationships with their mothers.

Men's fears of women in intimate relationships may stem from their earliest relationships with their mothers.

Could There Be Life Left in a Marriage After Infidelity?

Considering patterns, motivations, and what would be lost.

Considering patterns, motivations, and what would be lost.

8 Signs of an Ex Who Can't Let Go

7. Childlike, dramatic public and private scenes.

7. Childlike, dramatic public and private scenes.

I Was a Repeat Offender at Giving Up My Power

A Personal Perspective: I unwittingly gave up my power—again and again. Here's how I got it back.

A Personal Perspective: I unwittingly gave up my power—again and again. Here's how I got it back.

Talking Effectively With Your Aging Parents

Many adults want close relationships with their parents, but without all the judgment and advice. Avoid setting yourself up in this way through these steps.

Many adults want close relationships with their parents, but without all the judgment and advice. Avoid setting yourself up in this way through these steps.

Accommodating Anxiety in Romantic Relationships

Do you want to support an anxious partner, but are you unintentionally encouraging their anxiety? Here's how to recognize the signs of anxiety accommodation and break the cycle.

Do you want to support an anxious partner, but are you unintentionally encouraging their anxiety? Here's how to recognize the signs of anxiety accommodation and break the cycle.

Revitalize Your Relationship by Getting Unstuck From Traditional Roles

Both men and women tend to see themselves trapped in this dance and dependent on their partner for release. However, either partner can unilaterally change the script at any time.

Both men and women tend to see themselves trapped in this dance and dependent on their partner for release. However, either partner can unilaterally change the script at any time.

Working on Autonomy and Mental Wellness

A healthy balance between autonomy and dependence can be difficult to achieve and varies for different people. Do you have a balance that works for you?

A healthy balance between autonomy and dependence can be difficult to achieve and varies for different people. Do you have a balance that works for you?

One-Sided Relationships

Are you always giving in to what others ask of you? Feeling taken advantage of? Learning when to give and when to say "no" is part of building a healthy relationship.

Are you always giving in to what others ask of you? Feeling taken advantage of? Learning when to give and when to say "no" is part of building a healthy relationship.

How to Say No and Feel Good About It

We can feel good about setting boundaries knowing that we're prioritizing our health and well-being and tending to our needs.

We can feel good about setting boundaries knowing that we're prioritizing our health and well-being and tending to our needs.

Why Men Can Get Defensive and Controlling in Arguments

New understandings can help couples break out of repetitive patterns of conflict in their relationships.

New understandings can help couples break out of repetitive patterns of conflict in their relationships.

The Emotional Complexity of Family Estrangement

When we choose estrangement in reaction to unhealthy relationship patterns, we also need to face the contradicting emotions that can emerge.

When we choose estrangement in reaction to unhealthy relationship patterns, we also need to face the contradicting emotions that can emerge.

Six Key Reasons to Avoid Feeling Needy and Dependent

If you can’t take care of your own needs, you’ll desperately depend on another to address them—and that almost guarantees that eventually the relationship will fail.

If you can’t take care of your own needs, you’ll desperately depend on another to address them—and that almost guarantees that eventually the relationship will fail.