Randi Gunther Ph.D.

9 Things Everyone Should Understand About Love

Do you know what love needs from you? Do you know how to keep it in your life? I want to give you a better understanding of what love requires for it to stick around.

Do you know what love needs from you? Do you know how to keep it in your life? I want to give you a better understanding of what love requires for it to stick around.

7 Words We Should Ban From Our Relationships

Any couple that wants to build a secure love must erase mean attacks from their verbal usage. Even occasional use will leave lasting negative impressions.

Any couple that wants to build a secure love must erase mean attacks from their verbal usage. Even occasional use will leave lasting negative impressions.

Why Suppressed Emotions Can Erupt in a Crisis

Buried feelings can erupt under pressure, and instead of behaving as one generally would, long-time negative feelings may lead them to lash out instead.

Buried feelings can erupt under pressure, and instead of behaving as one generally would, long-time negative feelings may lead them to lash out instead.

Too Busy for Love

There is a way that long-lasting and deep love relationships can develop that also allows for self-serving priorities to mesh with a full commitment to an intimate partner.

There is a way that long-lasting and deep love relationships can develop that also allows for self-serving priorities to mesh with a full commitment to an intimate partner.

Why Some Partners Seduce and Abandon

I have seen the most pain, disillusionment, and torture in those who have fallen in love with people who seduce, capture, and then leave without a trace.

I have seen the most pain, disillusionment, and torture in those who have fallen in love with people who seduce, capture, and then leave without a trace.

10 Troubling Signs of Dying Intimacy

Relationship intimacy is a haven of emotional security that committed partners share only with each other. This is how they can defend that space.

Relationship intimacy is a haven of emotional security that committed partners share only with each other. This is how they can defend that space.

Are You Afraid of Love?

8 common underlying fears that can keep someone from successfully creating a long-lasting romantic relationship.

8 common underlying fears that can keep someone from successfully creating a long-lasting romantic relationship.

When Is Couple’s Therapy the Right Choice?

No matter what brings a couple into therapy to try to heal the destruction they are facing, they are often exhausted.

No matter what brings a couple into therapy to try to heal the destruction they are facing, they are often exhausted.

Withholding: A Dangerous Saboteur of Love

That immobilization some feel under stress can become withholding behavior. Here's what can be done about it.

That immobilization some feel under stress can become withholding behavior. Here's what can be done about it.

Too Many Choices: Online Dating Overload

It is virtually only possible for any busy person to take the hours needed weekly to sort through all the online dating profiles with a full-time assistant.

It is virtually only possible for any busy person to take the hours needed weekly to sort through all the online dating profiles with a full-time assistant.