A rebound relationship is what happens when you try to skip the line on grief. Here’s what’s actually happening in your nervous system, why that new person feels so intoxicating, and what you need to know before you build a life on a foundation made of anesthesia.
If you’re Googling “when to leave a relationship,” you’re probably not doing it casually. You’re
If you’re walking on eggshells in your relationship, your nervous system is running a survival program. Here’s what’s really happening, why you can’t stop, and what actually helps.
You can’t decide to stop loving someone any more than you can decide to stop being hungry. Attachment is biological, not cognitive. Here’s what a therapist with 16 years of experience wants you to know about why you can’t flip the switch, and what you can do instead.
Mixed signals in relationships are rarely about games or manipulation. After 16 years as a couples therapist, here’s what’s actually happening when your partner pulls close then pushes away.
Falling out of love feels like the end. But after 16 years of working with couples, I’ve learned that what most people call falling out of love is actually something else entirely. Here’s the clinical truth about what’s happening, and what to do about it.
The silent treatment in relationships is one of the most misunderstood patterns in couples therapy. After 16 years of working with couples, therapist Figs O’Sullivan explains the spectrum from self-protection to manipulation, why silence hurts so much, and how to break the cycle.
After 16 years of couples therapy, these are the real clinical signs a marriage may be beyond repair. Not a pop-psychology checklist. The biology of disconnection, the burnt-out pursuer, and when certainty kills a relationship.
The reason you can’t get over someone isn’t weakness. It’s biology. A therapist with 16 years of experience explains the neuroscience of attachment, why your body holds on after a breakup, and the somatic process of actually letting go.
Attachment theory is not a quiz or a label. It is a biological map of human survival that explains why you pursue, withdraw, or shut down in your closest relationships. A clinician’s guide to the sixty-year science of bonding.
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