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What are Healthy Relationships

What are Healthy Relationships

Helpful traits in a supportive partner  Engagement and availability: Responding to your partner and their needs and encouraging their progress and evolution. Hurtful Traits in relationships  Damaging presence: Behaviors such as meddling, restricting, intimidating and manipulating. What happens in healthy relationships? Growing and evolving as a person, becoming increasingly more comfortable in one’s own skin, addressing challenging

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Holidays and Relationships

Hidden among mistletoe and holiday cheer lies the stress of family dynamics, travel hassles, and extra spending that can test even the healthiest relationships. While couples benefit from regularly working on their relationship, strengthening communication, reciprocal support, and intimacy, and expressing their love, extra care during holiday seasons encapsulates the spirit of the season and

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Eroticism

Along with the joy, sadness, anger, grief, satisfaction and various other states that make our sense of being lies the often-neglected sense of eroticism. What is it? Simply put, it is the sense of aliveness and vitality, curiosity and interest, push and pull of the engagement in life. Eroticism is pleasure and pain, relief and

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Apologizing in Relationships

Apologizing in Relationships

What’s the big deal? Despite being a core tenant of any and all relationships, many struggle with giving and receiving apologies. At its core, an apology is a statement of remorse that acknowledges the harm caused and attempts to restore the respect lost as a result of an offense. This skill is an integral part

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Betrayal and Recovery

You’ve been duped. Perhaps your partner strayed from the relationship. Perhaps it was you who strayed. Either way, your romantic life is not progressing as you anticipated, and pulling the plug seems more appealing by the minute. After all, a breakup would help end the pain, heartbreak, and cuts that only seem to get deeper

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Relational Ambivalence & Radical Acceptancev

Relational Ambivalence & Radical Acceptance

“You are the love of my life.” “I can’t take this anymore.” These are not uncommon statements within one and the same relationship. We may find certain aspects of our partner very difficult to live with, and we may have traits that our partner finds difficult to live with. The term Relational Ambivalence refers to

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Why We Expect Too Much From Relationships

Why We Expect Too Much From Relationships

Do you expect your relationship to fulfill you in all ways, at all times? Sometimes when we expect too much from our relationship, the pressure can lead to collapse. The demands for perfection in relationships we put on ourselves and our romantic partners can be unrealistic. Once we find “our person,” it feels like we

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