Being Excluded by Others: A Real Pain in the Brain

When and how is our need for love and connection denied? If you’ve been reading our blog, you know there are many ways to do this to each other, and many ways to heal. In the interpersonal relationship field, we are always doing this dance of … [Read more...]

How To Replace Abusive Behavior with Positive Love

Annie's husband was often abusive to her. Usually, he would get upset if she wasn’t paying him her complete attention. A week before today, she was finishing dictating her daily report for work in the phone, when he began to scream at her for not … [Read more...]

Teach Your Brain to Accept Healthy Love

Why are we attracted to other people? It’s a question for the ages, isn’t it? Usually, at the heart of the matter, we feel that our attraction to others is just something we can’t explain and can’t control. But something we’ve been talking about here … [Read more...]

Can There be Boundaries to Love?

Communication within relationships can be tough, especially if you bring insecurities and trust issues with you. It can be hard to know where your comfort zone is in terms of humility, intimacy, privacy, honesty and boundaries. But a great … [Read more...]

Feeling Another Person’s Feelings Is The Magic Glue for Love

We’ve all heard those old sayings, “Actions speak louder than words” and “Reading someone else’s body language.” But what do they really mean? How can we see those ideas as real satisfaction indicators within relationships? All humans are social … [Read more...]