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Relationship Problems Conflicts or Challenges
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- How Important Am I to You? You Have to Show Me.
- Make Important to You What is Important to Me
- How it Might be Possible to Win Back Trust
- Not Till Death Do Us Part: Our Attitudes About Marriage are Changing
- A Relationship Requires Two
- Wanting Someone Wo Doesn’t Want You
- Do I Wait Around for a Man Who Can’t Commit?
- Why do Relationships Turn Celibate?
- I Want a Baby. My Boyfriend Can’t Decide if he Wants One
- Should I Allow My Boyfriend to Experience Another Woman?
Improving Your Relationship
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- Make Important to You What is Important to Me
- Rules for Women in a Committed Relationship
- Quiz: How Good a Listener Are You?
- Husbandry 101: For Committed Men
- How to Ruin Your Relationship
- How to Strengthen Your Relationship
- An Alternative to the Cold Silent Treatment
- Choosing Peace Instead of Irritation
- Quiz: How Empathetic Are You?
- Couple’s Exercise in Feeling Closer and More Connected
Troubleshooting a relationship/Evaluating a Partner
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- Ignoring the Warning Signs Before the Crash
- What Can You Do if Your Boyfriend Wants to Break Up?
- How to Ruin Your Relationship
- Is It OK To Pressure My Boyfriend Into Proposing?
- You Get What You Permit in a Relationship
- Choosing A Mate After 50
- Choosing A Mate in the Second Half of Life
- Is Your Partner the Right One?
- Who is Right For You? Traits You Want an Intimate Partner to Have
- Discovering The Link to Your Hidden Issues
Improving Yourself
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- On How to Not Give Yourself Future Regrets
- Overcoming Insecurity
- Try Something New in Order to Reinvent Yourself
- Keeping Your Relationship Intact When You’re Going Through a Crisis
- Recovering From Loss is a Long, Challenging Process: Readers Write About Loss and Recovery
- Quiz: How Self-Conscious Are You?
- The Fudge Factor
- Dying With a Sense of Inner Peace and Contentment
- Reader Asks: Is it Possible to Revive a Dead Marriage?
- Finding Your Voice
Family Relationships/Parenting
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- I Want a Baby. My Boyfriend Can’t Decide if he Wants One
- Advice for Empty Nesters
- How Much Influence Should my Family Have Over Who I Marry?
- Do I Pay My Sister’s Rent, or Let Her Live On The Street?
- A Granddad Asks: How Can I Diffuse my Daughter-In-Laws Mistrust?
- When A Parent Alienates A Child From The Other Parent
Featured
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- How Important Am I to You? You Have to Show Me.
- How it Might be Possible to Win Back Trust
- Rules for Women in a Committed Relationship
- Husbandry 101: For Committed Men
- How to Strengthen Your Relationship
- Quiz: How Empathetic Are You?
- The Only Way to Affair-Proof Your Relationship
- Finding Your Voice
- How To Tell When He’s Not That Into You
- How to Destroy Your Relationship
Anger
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- Passing the “Do-You-Care-Test” After a Betrayal
- Depressed and angry children are made, not born
- What are your Hot-Button Issues?
- Defusing Anger
- Anger and Resentment is Related to Your Hurts
- How Do I Stop Pushing My Boyfriend Away?
- Hidden Issues Often Destroy Relationships
- Why Do All Our Trips Get Ruined?
- The Faces of Diversion and Distraction
- Personal Power Doesn’t Require Anger
Breaking Up, Closure, Loss and Grieving
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- Recovering From Loss is a Long, Challenging Process: Readers Write About Loss and Recovery
- How o Get Over Your Ex
- What Failed Relationships Teach Us
- What You Can Learn From a Relationship That Ends
- What Can You Learn From a Break-up?
- 50 Ways to Leave your Lover
- Wanting to Leave, But Afraid of Being Alone
- Healing From a Breakup
- Can This Relationship Be Saved?
- Do People Who Are Adopted Have Trouble Loving?
Commitment
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- Do I Wait Around for a Man Who Can’t Commit?
- Choosing Unavailable Men
- What Does My Boyfriend Need in Order to Make Up His Mind?
- Frustrated Man More Committed Than The Woman He’s Dating
- Choosing Unavailable Men
- I’m 21. Is it Too Soon to Think About Marriage?
- How Committed Are You – Truthfully?
- A Soul-Searching Look at Commitment
- Is There a Way I Can Get My Boyfriend to Commit to Me?
- What To Do If You’re The “Other” Woman
Communication
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- Quiz: How Good a Listener Are You?
- An Alternative to the Cold Silent Treatment
- A Communication Exercise for Couples
- Periodic Repair Work is Required In A Relationship
- Couple’s Exercise in Feeling Closer and More Connected
- When Partner is Hostile, say “Talk to Me Like Someone You Love”
- Couples Communication
- Making a Behavior Change Request
- Couple’s Exercise: Working Through The Frustrations
- Couple’s Communication Exercise
Conflict Resolution
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- Woman Wants Child and Husband Doesn’t
- Resolving Hot-Button Conflicts
- Long Distance Obstacle
- Solving Relationship Problems Requires Compassion
- Making a Behavior Change Request
- Regaining a Relationship with Your Grown Children
- The Way Around Somebody’s Defenses
- Clearing The Air in Your Relationship
- Solving Seemingly Unsolvable Conflicts
- Personal Power Doesn’t Require Anger
Control / Power Struggles
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- Make Important to You What is Important to Me
- I Want a Baby. My Boyfriend Can’t Decide if he Wants One
- Power Grab Speaks of Bigger Issues
- Are You Controlling?
- Should I Live with Photos of Widower’s Departed Spouse?
- Do You Communicate with Intent to Control?
- You, Me and Us
- What Can Be Done About a Controlling and Bullying Husband?
- Sexual Politics and the Authentic Self
- Solving Relationship Problems Requires Compassion
Dating / Singles Issues
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- Betrayal May be Too Hard to Overcome
- Attracting a Woman Requires a Light-Hearted, Playful Spirit
- Should I Marry a Man I’m Not Attracted To?
- 41 and Never Dated – What Am I Doing Wrong?
- How Do I Deepen a Beginning Relationship?
- Why Aren’t Men Checking Me Out?
- Romancing The Stone
- Rules for Internet Dating
- Where Are All The Good Men?
- How Can I Recapture a Woman After I Jilted Her?
Defensiveness
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- Dealing With Someone’s Shame and Defensiveness
- The Faces of Diversion and Distraction
- Why Do Critical People Get Angry When They Are Criticized?
- How Do You Protect Yourself?
- Handling Criticism Better
- Having Sex When You’re Not in the Mood
- What’s Behind Your Need To Defend Yourself?
- Emotional Impulse Control is Key to Losing Defensiveness
- Substituting Power for Feeling Loved and Valued
- The Way Around Somebody’s Defenses
Depression
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- Keeping Your Relationship Intact When You’re Going Through a Crisis
- For Women With Low Libido, Sex is First a Decision, Not a Drive
- How Depression Effects Your Relationship
- How to Overcome Depression
- Quiz: Are You Depressed?
- To Not Feel So Depressed Lean How to “Pivot”
- What’s Draining You?
- Depression Effects Marriage
Disconnection
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- How Important Am I to You? You Have to Show Me.
- A Relationship Requires Two
- Do I Wait Around for a Man Who Can’t Commit?
- Reader Asks: Is it Possible to Revive a Dead Marriage?
- Reader Asks: What do I do When My Expectations of Marriage Are Not Being Filled?
- What Can I Do to Save My Marriage?
- How Do You Disconnect?
- Re-igniting the Spark in Your Relationship
- Withdrawal and Disconnection
- Woman Puzzled by Boyfriend’s Withdrawl
Emotionally Distant
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- Choosing Unavailable Men
- Reader Asks: How do I Let My Guard Down?
- Attracted to the Wrong Person
- Withdrawal and Disconnection
- Hot and Cold Behavior is Confusing
- What Makes a Person Emotionally Unavailable?
- Craving Intimacy – But Rejecting It When Offered
- Emotionally Unavailable People Typically Remain Unavailable
- Romancing The Stone
- I Don’t Know How to Trust People
Evaluating a Partner
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- Choosing A Mate After 50
- Choosing A Mate in the Second Half of Life
- Is Your Partner the Right One?
- Who is Right For You? Traits You Want an Intimate Partner to Have
- Defining Who is Right and Who is Wrong for You
- Interpreting Signals
- Is a 48 Year Old Never Married Bachelor a Wise Choice for Me?
- How To Tell When He’s Not That Into You
- Are You Strong Enough to be My Man?
- Settling for “Mr. Good Enough”
Family Estrangements
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- Improving Your Relationship With Your Grown Children
- A Granddad Asks: How Can I Diffuse my Daughter-In-Laws Mistrust?
- When Your Grown Kids Reject You
- Repairing a Relationship With Your Grown Son or Daughter
- Is There Anything We Can Do About Our Son Who Refuses Contact With Us?
- Mending The Family Estrangement
- Are You Estranged From Someone in Your Family?
Forgiving
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- Forgiving
- More Steps to Forgiveness
- Changing Narcissistic Behaviors
- Forgiving Your Parents and Making Peace With The Past
- Readers Respond to Advice on Forgiving Sexual Assualt
- Forgiveness Requires Letting Go Of Resentment
- More Steps to Forgiveness
- How to Forgive Husband’s Betrayal
- Making an Apology
- How Do I Let The Past Go?
Getting Your Needs Met in Your Relationship
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Hidden Issues
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- Not Till Death Do Us Part: Our Attitudes About Marriage are Changing
- Wanting Someone Wo Doesn’t Want You
- The Only Way to Affair-Proof Your Relationship
- Quotes From Famous People on Love, Sex and Marriage
- Acting Helpless and In Need or Rescue Does Not Make For a Happy Relationship
- One Way to Screw Up Your Relationships With Men
- Money Arguments Reveal Powerful Underlying Issues
- What Our Intimate Relationships Teach Us
- Our Relationships Are Our Teachers
- Hidden Issues Often Destroy Relationships
How To Deepen A Relationship
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- Deepening the Connection in a New Relationship
- A Communication Exercise for Couples
- A Communication Exercise for Couples
- A Promising Relationship Deserves a Chance
- What Opens Us to Someone Else?
- Deepening A Relationship Takes Effort
- How to Deepen a Relationship
- How Does a Couple Deepen The Intimacy and Commitment Between Them?
Infidelity
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- Should I Allow My Boyfriend to Experience Another Woman?
- Passing the “Do-You-Care-Test” After a Betrayal
- Men Behaving Badly, and What You Can Do About It
- Are Men More Damanged by Infidelity Than Women?
- Husband Admits to Having Sex With Other Men! What Do I Do?
- Can I Love Two Men at The Same Time?
- Lack of Sex Leads Couple to the Brink
- Betrayal May be Too Hard to Overcome
- Can Someone Who Cheats Still Be in Love?
- Emotional Affairs
Inner Critic
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- Compassion For Self Requires Understanding of Inner Critic
- Hooked on Approval? Here’s How to Get Unhooked
- Why Am I So Critical of Others?
- Does “Inner Noise” Plague You?
- Criticism Can Carrode Your Relationship
- Quiz: How Critical Are You?
- Controlling Judgement of Yourself—and Others
- Do You Know Your Inner Critic?
Love
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- Love Isn’t Enough to Sustain a Relationship
- What Does “I Love You But I’m Not In Love With You” Mean?
- Quiz: How Comfortable Are You in Receiving Love?
- Do You Find Yourself Resistant to Love?
- Quiz: Is There Love and Respect in Your Relationship?
- How Intimate Do You Want to Be?
- Falling in Love Requires You Offering Your Heart
- Falling in Love Alone
- Self Love Requires Valuing Yourself
- How Do I Become Self Loving?
Making Peace with the Past
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- Do You Find Yourself Resistant to Love?
- Evaluating Your Feelings About Your Mother
- Looking at The Feelings I Have Toward My Mother
- Childhood Patterns Persist When Not Dealt With
- Carrying a Torch for Somebody from the Past
- Forgiving Your Parents and Making Peace With The Past
- How Childhood Impacts Intimacy in Adulthood
- Unlock Barriers to Giving and Receiving Love
- How Do I Let The Past Go?
- Making Peace With Your Parents
Men and Women: Gender Differences in Relationships
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- Should I Allow My Boyfriend to Experience Another Woman?
- Why Did Woman Reject Open-Hearted Man?
- What Gives Us Power Also Makes Us Feel Powerless
- Where Are All The Good Men?
- “Rules” For Women
- A Man’s Work Helps to Defines His Worth
- “Real Men” Can Be Hard To Relate To
- Why Men Are The Way They Are
- Should a Working Woman Also be Responsible for the Domestic Chores?
- Women’s Issues with Men
Money Issues
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- Money Arguments Reveal Powerful Underlying Issues
- Money Issues Can Be Resolved, but it Takes Hard Work
- Money Issues and Intimacy: An Inventory
- Is It Right For My Wife to Keep Almost All Her Inheritance For Herself?
- Is a 48 Year Old Never Married Bachelor a Wise Choice for Me?
- Resolving Money ConflictsResolving Money Conflicts Well
- Power Struggles Over Money Threaten Relationship
Narcissism
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- Narcissistic Parent Undercuts Desire to be Close
- Narcissistic Parents Can Damage Kids
- If You Feel Unlovable, Perhaps You Had a Narcissistic Parent
- Destructive narcissists make poor parents
- Changing Narcissistic Behaviors
- What Can You Do If You Love a Narcissist?
- Loving a Narcissist Leaves You Asking “What About Me?”
- You Can’t Have a Good Relationship Alone
- How Do I Spot a Narcissist?
Parenting
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- I Want a Baby. My Boyfriend Can’t Decide if he Wants One
- Advice for Empty Nesters
- How Much Influence Should my Family Have Over Who I Marry?
- Narcissistic Parents Can Damage Kids
- When Your Grown Kids Reject You
- Repairing a Relationship With Your Grown Son or Daughter
- What Can I Do to Save My Marriage?
- Should I Live with Photos of Widower’s Departed Spouse?
- Is There Anything We Can Do About Our Son Who Refuses Contact With Us?
- Father’s Critical Parenting Style May be Hurting His Children
Rejection
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- A Relationship Requires Two
- Can I Stop My Wife From Rejecting Me?
- Betrayal May be Too Hard to Overcome
- When Somebody Leaves But Fails To Tell You
- My Boyfriend’s Rejection is Confusing
- How Do I Get My Boyfriend Back?
- Why Are Men Not Romantically Interested in Me?
- Why Did Woman Reject Open-Hearted Man?
- Quiz: How Resilient Are You?
- Rejections
Romance
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- Romance Requires You to Walk Your Talk
- The Essence of Romance
- Suggestions for a More Romantic Relationship–Part 2
- Suggestions For A More Romantic Relationship
- A Grown-Ups Guide to Romance
- Romancing Your Valentine: A Collection of Romantic Gestures
- Sexual “Secrets” Every Woman Should Know–Part 2
- “Secrets” Every Woman Should Know–Part 1
- Relationship Report Card
- What a Relationship Requires of Us
Romantic Intelligence
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- Make Important to You What is Important to Me
- Rules for Women in a Committed Relationship
- Husbandry 101: For Committed Men
- How to Ruin Your Relationship
- How to Strengthen Your Relationship
- Quiz: How Empathetic Are You?
- How to be More Romantically Intelligent
- The Basics of Romantic Intelligence
- Emotional Impulse Control is the Key to Being More Romantically Intelligent
- Emotional Impulse Control is Key to Losing Defensiveness
Sabotaging a Relationship
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- Building A Case Against Your Partner
- Why Our Relationships Grow Sour
- Acting Helpless and In Need or Rescue Does Not Make For a Happy Relationship
- One Way to Screw Up Your Relationships With Men
- Quiz: Are You Sabotaging Your Relationships?
- Attracted to the Wrong Person
- Seven Deadly Relationship Sins
- Lying Boyfriend Should be Dumped!
- Carrying a Torch for Somebody from the Past
- Withdrawal and Disconnection
Self Esteem
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- Quiz: How Self-Conscious Are You?
- How Do I Create a Good Relationship When I’ve Never Had One Before?
- Reader Says, “Women Want Too Much From Men”
- Quiz: How Much Do You Trust Yourself?
- What’s Right With You? Part 2
- What’s Right With You? Part 1
- Agreements With Self Lead to Higher Self-Esteem
- Woman’s Insecurities Are Threatening Her Relationship
- Compassion For Self Requires Understanding of Inner Critic
- Why Aren’t Men Checking Me Out?
Sex / Sexual Issues
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- Why do Relationships Turn Celibate?
- Does Commitment Lead to Feelings of Monotony?
- Women’s Loss of Libido May Have a Solution
- Woman Sexually Unfulfilled and Full of Tension
- Is My Boyfriend Bisexual?
- How to Jump Start Your Love Life
- There May Be a Solution for Women’s Loss of Libido
- What Has Caused My Wife’s Loss of Sexual Desire?
- For Women With Low Libido, Sex is First a Decision, Not a Drive
- The Sexually Starved Woman
Traits of Happy Relationships
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- How to Strengthen Your Relationship
- The Power of 5%
- You, Me and Us
- Solving Relationship Problems Requires Compassion
- Romance Requires You to Walk Your Talk
- The Essence of Romance
- 18 Ways to Have a Great New Year
- Creating a Conscious Relationship
- Making it Safe to be in a Relationship With You
- Spiritual Intimacy Requires a Deep Connection
Troubleshooting Your Relationship
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- Ignoring the Warning Signs Before the Crash
- What Can You Do if Your Boyfriend Wants to Break Up?
- How to Ruin Your Relationship
- You Get What You Permit in a Relationship
- Defining Who is Right and Who is Wrong for You
- Defining Who is Right and Who is Wrong for You
- Discovering The Link to Your Hidden Issues
- You, Me and Us
- Depression Effects Marriage
- Why Our Relationships Grow Sour
Trust and Betrayal
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- How it Might be Possible to Win Back Trust
- Repairing a Breach of Trust
- Quiz: Do You Have a Hard Time Trusting People?
- Trust and Betrayal
- Exploring Your Trust Issues
- Lying Boyfriend Should be Dumped!
- Betrayal May be Too Hard to Overcome
- Long Distance Obstacle
- Emotional Affairs
- When Trust is a Relationship Issue
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