Love, Chocolate, and Dangerous Things

It’s St. Valentine’s day again, right? and you are wondering where the love excitement in your life is? It’s just here! We know the basics, right? When you fall in love, there are certain chemicals in your brain that make all your perspectives shift … [Read more...]

Skills for Managing Relationship Conflict

According to the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, the number one predecessor of divorce is avoiding conflict. Strong relationships are more immune to divorce because the couple handles conflict in a healthy, constructive … [Read more...]

How to Stop Your Partner’s Intimidation

In our previous post, we discussed how to recognize whether or not you are being intimidated (or intimidating others!). Now, we will discuss the steps that should be taken to stop this behavior. There are many steps you can take to stop allowing … [Read more...]

A Loving Partner Never Intimidates You

Intimidation can happen to everyone in all walks of life, and it can occur in any age group. Being intimidated by someone is a form of being bullied or emotionally abused, and we can see it happening everywhere: in school, the workplace by co-workers … [Read more...]

Couple disputes are a shield against intimacy

Intimacy refers to the degree in which you need emotional closeness with your partner. It can be terrifying to really reflect on the emotional needs for dependency we humans have, and how do we satisfy or frustrate those needs...If it is true that we … [Read more...]