How to handle criticism in relationships without flooding, shutting down, or lashing out. A therapist on the body-based shame response and what actually helps.
A forgotten birthday hurts because it answers “Are you there for me?” with a no. I explain when it matters, and the one line to say tonight.
A couples therapist on the real reasons to get married, what marriage actually is clinically, and the attachment work underneath the question.
Contact with an ex is not automatically a red flag. What matters is transparency, the place she holds in his life, and whether he turns toward you when it hurts.
Criticism in relationships isn’t a communication defect, it’s attachment protest. A therapist explains the loop and how to break it.
A couples therapist of 17 years explains how a couples journal can rebuild your bond, or quietly destroy it. The one difference that decides which.
A couples therapist’s real tumultuous relationship definition: not toxic love, but two attached nervous systems caught in a rupture-repair cycle.
He blocked you after a fight and you want to know why and whether he is gone. A couples therapist on the four reasons men block, what to do tonight, and how to tell a temporary block from a final one.
There is no right number of weeks before you say I love you. Say it when you can say it without needing an answer back, and when it describes something you have actually seen.
Learn how to deal with relationship stress by understanding the attachment loop beneath the fight. A therapist explains what’s really happening.
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This interview originally appeared in GGMG Magazine, the magazine of the Golden Gate Mothers Group.
